Joseph Heitman

• 2001      Plenary Lecture, Asilomar Fungal Genetics meeting
• 2007      Plenary Lecture, International Yeast meeting, Melbourne, Australia
• 2007      Keynote Lecture, Drexel University College of Medicine, Graduate program in Microbiology                       and Immunology research symposium
• 2009      Division F Lecture, American Society of Microbiology General Meeting
• 2009      Keynote Lecture, Third FEBS Human Fungal Pathogens Course, La Colle sur Loup, France
• 2010      Foundation Lecture, British Society for Medical Mycology, Exeter, UK
• 2010      Plenary Lecture, 9th International Mycological Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland
• 2011      Keynote Lecture, 14th Annual Bay Area Microbial Pathogenesis Symposium, UCSF
• 2011      Keynote Lecture, 8th International Conference on Cryptococcus and Cryptococcosis,                              Charleston, SC
• 2011      Karling Lecture, Mycological Society of America, Fairbanks, Alaska
• 2011      Keynote Lecture, Molecular Biology of Fungi 10 meeting, Marburg, Germany
• 2012      Plenary Lecture, 13th International Congress on Yeasts, Madison, Wisconsin
• 2013      Plenary Lecture, Asilomar Fungal Genetics meeting
• 2013      Plenary Lecture, Korean Microbiology Society meeting
• 2014      Plenary Lecture, 12th European Conference on Fungal Genetics, Seville, Spain
• 2014      Keynote Lecture, 12th International Conference on Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary                  Genetics of Infectious Diseases (MEEGID), Bangkok, Thailand
• 2014      Plenary Lecture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany, Matt                                Meselson Seminar Series on the Evolution of Sex; Evolution of Sexual Reproduction
• 2015      Plenary Speaker, ISHAM international meeting, Melbourne, Australia
• 2017      Max Delbrück Lecture, German Genetics Society Meeting, Bochum, Germany
• 2019      Gene E. Michaels Honorary Mycology Lecture, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Talks

• MSGERC 2016 Biennial Meeting: Keynote Speaker

Featured Alumni:

• Andy Alspaugh
• Yong-Sun Bahn
• Jill Blankenship
• Ying-Lien Chen
• Robert C. Davidson
• James Fraser
• Christina Hull
• Alex Idnurm
• Lukasz Kozubowski
• Soo Chan Lee
• Xiaorong Lin
• Michael C. Lorenz
• Kirsten Nielsen
• Audrey Odom
• Felicia Walton Pagliuca
• Xuewen Pan
• Jennifer Reedy
• Julian Rutherford
• Wei-Chiang Shen
• Ping Wang
• Chaoyang Xue

Post-doctoral Fellows and Senior Research Associates:

• Clara M. Alarcon
• J. Andrew Alspaugh
• Miguel Arevalo-Rodriguez
• Yong-Sun Bahn
• Marianela Rodriguez Carres
• Ying-Lien Chen
• Wai Ling Eve Chow
• Maria Cristina Cruz
• Cletus D’Souza
• Marisol deJesus-Berrios
• Weihua Fan
• Francis Yufeng Fang
• Marianna Feretzaki
• Deborah Fox
• James Fraser
• Ci Fu
• Jenifer Gorlach
• Toshiaki Harashima
• Julie Hicks
• Yen-Ping Hsueh
• Christina Hull
• Giuseppe Ianiri
• Alex Idnurm
• Joanne Kingsbury
• Kaihei Kojima
• Lukasz Kozubowski
• Peter Kraus
• Klaus Lengeler
• Wenjun Li
• Xiao Li
• Xiaorong Lin
• Banu Metin
• Tracey D.E. Moore
• Min Ni
• Connie B. Nichols
• Kirsten Nielsen
• Heesoo Park – Assistant Professor, Kyungpook National University – South Korea
• Sujal Phadke
• Julian Rutherford
• Maria Sambade
• Annika Sanfridson
• Klaas Schotanus
• Camile Semighini Grubor
• Wei-Chiang Shen
• Deborah Springer
• Rey L.A. Sia
• Priya Uppuluri
• Silvia Calo Varela
• Rajesh Velagapudi
• Ping Wang
• Xuying Wang
• Changli Yue
• Chaoyang Xue
• Dahai Zhu

Graduate Students:

• Robert Bastidas
• Robert Blake Billmyre
• Jill Blankenship
• Edmond Byrnes
• Zanetta Chang
• Namjin Chung
• N. Shane Cutler
• Robert C. Davidson
• Kara Dolinski
• Marianna Feretzaki
• Keisha Findley
• Charles Hemenway
• Yen-Ping Hsueh
• Michael C. Lorenz
• Chiatogu Onyewu
• Jennifer Reedy
• Cecelia Shertz
• Xuewen Pan
• Andrew Passer

Rotating Graduate Students:

• Samantha Bowen
• “Lisa” Jang Eun Cho
• Jonathan Henzel
• Michael Hoy
• Woonjung Hur
• Jay Jawahar
• Jon Kastan
• Megan Kelly
• Helen Lai 
• Casey Perley
• Jordan Powers
• Shelby Priest
• Mark Roundtree
• Kayla Sylvester
• Laura Simone
• Yitong Xu
• Jessie Uehling
• Katelyn Walzer
• Felicia Williams
• Chi Fang Wu
• Marnus de Plooy

Sabbatical Visitors:

• Aylin Antes
• Jan Fassler
• Alvaro Fonseca
• Marcio Jose Fonseca
• Carol Newlon
• Shen Q. Pan
• Jean Ristaino
• Rosa Ruiz-Vazquez
• Santiago Torres-Martinez
• Yong-Sun Bahn

Visiting Graduate Students and Scholars

• Himeshi Samarasinghe – Xu Lab – McMaster University
• Emmanuel Nnandi
• Vikas Yadav – JNCASR, Bangalore India
• Goh Pei Zhen Joleen – Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
• Kyung-Tae Lee – Yonsei University, South Korea
• Megan Truong – The University of Sydney, Australia
• Jae-Hyung Jin – Yonsei University, South Korea
• Carlos Perez Arques – University of Spain
• Maribel Navarro – University of Spain
• Jin Young Kim – Yonsei University
• Cecilia Miccoli –  Università degli Studi del Molise

Laboratory Research Analysts:

• Cristl Arndt
• Sheri Frank
• Marie Josee-Boily
• Zareen Kapadia
• Shelly Clancey

Technicians:

• Tamara Breuder
• Lora Cavallo
• Keri Forrester
• Robyn Hicks
• J. Gray Kimbrough
• Alisha Holtzhausen
• Yonathan Lewit
• Eric Lim
• Scott Muir
• Ryan Subaran
• James (J.R.) Young
• Emily Wenink

Medical Students:

• Brandy Allen
• Emily Eads
• Brian Griffith
• Jesse Nussbaum
• Read Pukkila-Worley
• Sunil Sudarshan
• Michael Waugh
• Laura Young McGirt

Undergraduate Students:

• Eanas Aboobakar
• Gloria Adedoyin
• Iyanna Atwell
• Julio Ayala
• Patrick Bardill
• Kasey Carroll
• Lydia Chen
• Gabriel Dagotto
• Sabrina Darwiche
• Lisa DeObaldia
• Stephen Fuller
• Isaac George
• Lisa Goetz
• Catharine Kappauf
• Taeyup Kim
• Gray Kimbrough
• Sam Lee
• Virginia “Ginny” Lehman
• Alicia Li
• Charles Li
• Eric Lim
• Jackie Lin
• Christopher Martin
• Nishka Mittal
• Matthew McLanahan
• Audrey Odom
• Baldeep Singh Pabla
• Sweta Patel
• Vikram Ponnusamy
• Indu Ramesh
• Poorav Rohatgi
• Beth Rosenberg
• Nachi Shamaprasad
• Torin Thielhelm
• Charlie Veronee
• Felicia Walton Pagliuca
• Julie Yang
• Laura Young McGirt
• Scott Youngblood
• June Zhang
• Nicholas Donadio
• Aaliyah Davy
• Simeon Holmes

High School Interns:

• Maggie Price