Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae

                                                      GREGORY S. GILBERT

University of California, Santa Cruz                    Tel: (831) 459-5002
Environmental Studies Department                     FAX: (831) 459-4015      
439 Interdisciplinary Sciences Building               email: ggilbert@ucsc.edu   
Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA                                                          

Professional positions
Professor, Environmental Studies Department, UC Santa Cruz (Jul 2006 - present)
Research Associate, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá (Jan 1997 - present)
Associate Professor, Environmental Studies Department, UC Santa Cruz (Jul 2001 - Jun 2006)
Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Department, UC Santa Cruz (Jan 2000 - Jun 2000)
Assistant Professor and Forest Pathologist, Department ESPM, UC Berkeley (Jul 1996 -Dec 1999).
Research Affiliate-Biologist, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama (Dec 1995 - Jul 1996).
Research Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Utah (Jul 1993 - Jun 1996).

Education
Postdoctoral fellow, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá (Oct 1991 - Dec 1995)
        (advisors S.P. Hubbell, R. Foster, S.J. Wright).
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991 Plant Pathology; Soil Science minor;
        (advisors J.Parke and J. Handelsman) Dissertation: Effects of the introduction of Bacillus cereus UW85n1
        on communities of bacteria on roots.
M.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988 (Plant Pathology; major professor Jennifer Parke)
B.S. SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, 1985 (Envir. & Forest Biology)
Tropical Ecosystems Course, Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica , 1989
SeaMester Program in Coastal Ecology, Long Island University, 1984

Research interests
Disease ecology; Tropical ecology and conservation; Microbial & plant community ecology; Invasion biology; Phytosanitary regulation

Current teaching
Ecology and Society (Fall quarter)
Tropical Ecology and Conservation (Spring quarter, even years).
Plant Disease Ecology (Spring quarter, odd years)
Interdisciplinary Research in Environmental Studies (Spring quarter, odd years)
Tropical Ecology, Agriculture, and Development seminar (Spring quarters)

Current Ph.D Students
Barbara Ayala - Plant diseases in biodiversity and conservation of tropical forests (2001-)
Justin Cummings - Climate change and biological invasions (2007-) (Co-advised with Ingrid Parker)
Suzanne Langridge - Interactions between riparian forests and agricultural areas in central California (2002-) (Co-advised with Dan Doak)
Daniella Schweizer - Restoration ecology (2006-) (Co-advised with Karen Holl)

Previous Graduate Students and Postdocs
Yuri Springer - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCSC - Coevolutionary dynamics in rust disease on serpentine endemic plants (PhD 2006)
                      (Co-advised with Mark Carr)
Doug Plante - Pest impacts on invasive eucalypts in California (MSc 2005, UCSC)
Enith Rojas - Diversity, abundance, and specificity of microfungi associated with leaves of three species of mangrove
                 (M. Eng., Aug 2000, Technological University of Panama)
Ariadna Bethancourt - A method for study of the diversity of endophytic fungi associated with tree species
                  in a tropical forest (M.Sc., Aug 2000, Technological University of Panamá)
Matteo Garbelotto - Fungal population structure (Postdoctoral Fellow, 1997-1999, UC Berkeley)
Lisa Infante - Complex Interactions: Exploring the Role of Soilborne Plant Pathogens in Tropical Seedling Communities. (M.Sc. Dec 1999, UC Berkeley)

Current Service
Co-director, Center for Tropical Research in Ecology, Agriculture, and Development (CenTREAD) 2002-
Editorial Board, Ecology and Ecological Monographs (2004-)
Board of Directors, Vice-Chair for Research, Organization for Tropical Studies (2004-)
Graduate Committee, Chair (UC Santa Cruz, Environmental Studies) (2003-05, 2006-)
Conservation Committee, Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (2004-)

Memberships in Honorary Societies
Gamma Sigma Delta (Agriculture); Sigma Xi (Science); Xi Sigma Pi (Forestry)

Membership or Activities in Professional Associations
Ecological Society of America; Society for Conservation Biology; Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation;
Mycological Society of America; Americal Phytopathological Society; AAAS

Recent and Select Grants and Awards
National Science Foundation. Collaborative Research: distance-and phylogeny-dependent pathogen transmission in forest communities. G. S. Gilbert and C. O. Webb DEB-0515520); collaborative with K.A. Garrett (Kansas State; DEB-0516046). (2005-2008)

Pacific Rim Research Program. A Biological Basis for Quarantine: Host Ranges of Emergent Plant Pathogens and the Conservation of Pacific Rim Rain Forests. (2005-2006)

UC-MEXUS Plant diseases as ecological drivers in plant community diversity: the importance of local climatic conditions (with G. García-Guzman and B. Ayala) (2004-2005)

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. A comparison of tropical leaf-surface fungi at canopy-crane sites in Panama and Australia. (with D.R. Reynolds, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) (2001-2002)

Spread of Porroca Disease of Coconut Palm in the Republic of Panama, Private donor (collaborative with Ingrid Parker, UCSC), 1999-present.

National Science Foundation. Collaborative Research: The role of plant-pathogen interactions in explaining and constraining weed invasions: testing theories of biotic resistance and the natural enemies hypothesis (collaborative proposal with Ingrid Parker, UCSC), 1998-2001. DEB-9806517