PAPERS
POSITIONS
EDUCATION
RECENT FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS, AND HONORS
POSTERS
 | Cowden, C.C. In press. Game theory, evolutionary stable strategies and the | |
| evolution of biological interactions. Nature Education Knowledge. | ||
| Shefferson, R.P., C.C. Cowden, M.K. McCormick, T. Yukawa, Y. Ogura- | |
| Tsujita, and T. Hashimoto. 2010. Evolution of host breadth in broad interactions: mycorrhizal specificity in East Asian and North American rattlesnake plantains (Goodyera spp.) and their fungal hosts. Molecular Ecology 19:3008-3017. | ||
| Cowden, C.C. and C.J. Peterson. 2009. A multi-mutualist simulation: | |
| applying biological market models to diverse mycorrhizal communities. Ecological Modelling 220: 1522-1533. |
POSITIONS
| Post-doctoral research associate. University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, | |
| USA, 2009-. |
EDUCATION
| Ph.D. Plant Biology, University of Georgia, 2008 | |
| M.S. Biology, University of Central Florida, 2002 | |
| B.S. Biology, The College of William and Mary, 2000 |
RECENT FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS, AND HONORS
| Outstanding Teaching Assistant, University of Georgia, 2004. | |
| UGA Plant Biology Small Grant, University of Georgia, 2004. | |
| Outstanding Graduate Student, University of Central Florida, 2001. |
POSTERS
| Kartzinel, T.R., W.D. Bunch, C.C. Cowden, D.W. Trapnell, and R.P. | |
| Shefferson. 2011. Diverse suites of mycorrhizal fungi vary among populations of the Neotropical lady's slipper orchid, Phragmipedium longifolium. 96th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Austin, Texas, USA. | ||
| Cowden, C.C., S. Willis, and R.P. Shefferson. 2010. Mycorrhizal species | |
| dominate the soil-fungal community in Estonian oil shale-ash hills. 95th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. |
Copyright 2012 Richard P. Shefferson. All rights reserved.
Dr. Charles C. Cowden
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
I joined the Shefferson lab in the spring of 2009. My primary focus is on
ectomycorrhizal fungi and modeling the role of partner choice in maintaining
diverse fungal symbiont communities. I utilize a combination of computer based
modeling, greenhouse/field experimentation, and DNA techniques in my research.
For my dissertation, I developed a economics-based symbiont simulation model,
and now I am perfoming experiments to test the predictions of that model. I am
also interested in the evolutionary history of host specificity in mycorrhizal
relationships, developing models of group selection, as well as the ecological and
evolutionary roles of common mycorrhizal networks. I also work with terrestrial
orchids and their fungal symbionts.
I joined the Shefferson lab in the spring of 2009. My primary focus is on
ectomycorrhizal fungi and modeling the role of partner choice in maintaining
diverse fungal symbiont communities. I utilize a combination of computer based
modeling, greenhouse/field experimentation, and DNA techniques in my research.
For my dissertation, I developed a economics-based symbiont simulation model,
and now I am perfoming experiments to test the predictions of that model. I am
also interested in the evolutionary history of host specificity in mycorrhizal
relationships, developing models of group selection, as well as the ecological and
evolutionary roles of common mycorrhizal networks. I also work with terrestrial
orchids and their fungal symbionts.
