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Curriculum Vitae (updated March, 2025)

Peer-Reviewed Scholarship

2025
15. Dirks AC, Methven AS, Miller AN, Orozco-Quime M, Maurice S, Bonito G, Wyk J, Ahrendt S, Kuo A, Andreopoulos W, Riley R, Lipzen A, Chovatia M, Savage E, Barry K, Grigoriev I, Bradshaw A, Martin F, Arnold A, James TY. 2025. Phylogenomic insights into the taxonomy, ecology, and mating systems of the lorchel family Discinaceae (Pezizales, Ascomycota). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 25:108286. DOI PDF  
14. Miller AN, Dirks AC, Van Vooren N, Methven AS. 2025. Studies in Gyromitra III: the Gyromitra brunnea lineage including G. japonica sp. nov. Mycological Progress 24:9. DOI PDF 
2024
13. Ghobad-Nejhad M, Langer E, Dirks AC, Dai YC. 2024. Steccherinum fragrans Ghobad-Nejhad & Langer, sp. nov. in Crous et al. 2024. Fungal Planet description sheets: 1697–1780. Fungal Systematics and Evolution 14:325–577. PDF
12. Vohra V, Dirks AC, Bonito G, James TY, Carroll DK. 2024. A 19-year longitudinal assessment of gyromitrin-containing (Gyromitra spp.) mushroom poisonings in Michigan. Toxicon 247:107825. DOI PDF
11. Lagrange E, Loriot M-A, Chaudhary NK, Schultz P, Dirks AC, Guissart C, James TY, Vernoux JP, Camu W, Tripathi A, Spencer PS. 2024. Corrected speciation and gyromitrin content of false morels linked to ALS patients with mostly slow-acetylator phenotypes. eNeurologicalSci 35:100502. PDF
10. Dirks AC, Beug MW, Methven AS, Miller AN, James TY. 2024. Gyromitra persicula sp. nov. (Discinaceae, Pezizales), a novel discoid Gyromitra from Northwestern North America. Phytotaxa 644:49–55. PDF
2023
9. ​Seto K, Simmons DR, Quandt CA, Frenken T, Dirks AC, Clemons RA, McKindles KM, McKay RML, James TY. 2023. A combined microscopy and single-cell sequencing approach reveals the ecology, morphology, and phylogeny of uncultured lineages of zoosporic fungi. mBio e01313-23. DOI PDF
8. Dirks AC. 2023. Phaeotremella dejopia sp. nov. In Lebeuf et al. 2023. ​Fungal Systematics and Evolution: FUSE 9. Sydowia 75:313–377. DOI PDF
7. Dirks AC, Mohamed OG, Schultz PJ, Miller AN, Tripathi A, James TY. 2023. Not all bad: gyromitrin has a limited distribution in the false morels as determined by a new ultra high-performance liquid chromatography method. Mycologia 115(1):1–15. DOI PDF
2022
6. Diederich P, Sulistyo BP, Haelewaters D, Dirks AC, Lawrey JD. 2022. Class Agaricomycetes, order Atheliales. In Diederich P, Millanes AM, Wedin M, Lawrey JD (Eds.), Flora of Lichenicolous Fungi, Volume 1: Basidiomycota (pp. 41–46). PDF
5. Miller AN, Dirks AC, Filippova N, Popov E, Methven AS. 2022. Studies in Gyromitra II: cryptic speciation in the Gyromitra gigas species complex; rediscovery of G. ussuriensis and G. americanigigas sp. nov. Mycological Progress 21(9):1–13. DOI PDF
2020
4. Dirks AC, Jackson RD. 2020. Community structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in soils of switchgrass harvested for bioenergy. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 86:e00880-20. DOI PDF 
3. Dirks AC, Russell SD. 2020. DNA barcoding of macrofungi from the 2018 Smith Foray: new fungal records for Wisconsin and the United States of America. The Great Lakes Botanist 59(3–4):191–201. PDF
2019
2. Dirks AC, Haelewaters D. 2019. Phylogeny of Sphaerosporium lignatile. In Song et al. 2019. Fungal Systematics and Evolution: FUSE 5. Sydowia Dec:141–245. DOI PDF
2018
1. Haelewaters D, Dirks AC, Kappler LA, Mitchell JK, Quijada L, Vandegrift R, Buyck B, Pfister DH. 2018. A preliminary checklist of fungi at the Boston Harbor Islands. Northeastern Naturalist 25(Special Issue 9):45. PDF

Popular Literature

Dirks AC. 2018. Lincoff's nightmare: the spread of the golden oyster (Pleurotus citrinopileatus). Wisconsin Mycological Society Newsletter 35(3), 9-10. PDF
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