Contributed Presentations   (and poster presentations)*

Binder M., Bresinsky A. & Besl H. (1997). Agaricales oder Boletales? Molekularbiologische Befunde zur Zuordnung einiger umstrittener Taxa. Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mykologie und Lichenologie, Regensburg, Germany.

Binder M. (1998). Unerwartete Verwandschaftsbeziehungen von Boletaceen (Boletales) zu gasteroiden Pilzen. Meeting of the Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft, Bremen, Germany.

Binder M., Besl H. & Bresinsky A. (1999). rDNA sequence data and chemotaxonomical analyses on the generic concept of Leccinum (Boletales). Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mykologie und Lichenologie, Tübingen, Germany.

*Krüger D., Kreisel H., Binder M. & Fischer M. (1999). Phylogenetic reconstruction of Lycoperdaceae, Mycenastraceae, and Geastraceae. Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mykologie und Lichenologie, Tübingen, Germany.

Binder M. & Hibbett D.S. (2000). Phylogenetic relationships of the marine gasteromycete Nia vibrissa. Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America, Burlington, VT.

Hibbett D.S. & Binder M. (2001). Evolution of corticioid basidiomycetes: Exploring the roles of elaboration and reduction in fungal morphological evolution. Joint Meeting of the Mycological Society of America and American Phytopathological Society, Salt Lake City, UT.

Binder M. & Hibbett D.S. (2001). Evolutionary switches between brown rotting saprophytes and ectomycorrhizal symbionts in the Boletales. Joint Meeting of the Mycological Society of America and American Phytopathological Society, Salt Lake City, UT.

Vilgalys R., Moncalvo J.-M., Johnson J., Redhead S., Hibbett D.S. & Binder M. (2002). The diversification of mushrooms and their relatives. Assembling the tree of life. American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY.

*Wang Z., Binder M., Lim Y.W. & Hibbett D.S. (2002). Phylogeny and biogeography of the cauliflower fungus Sparassis and other brown-rot basidiomycetes inferred from rDNA and RNA polymerase gene sequences. International Mycological Congress IMC7, Oslo, Norway.

Thorn R.G., Binder M. & Hibbett D.S. (2002). Phylogenetic relationships in homobasidiomycetes. International Mycological Congress IMC7, Oslo, Norway.

Hibbett D.S. & Binder M. (2002). Trends in morphological evolution in homobasidiomycetes. International Mycological Congress IMC7, Oslo, Norway.

*Goranova G., Binder M. & Hibbett D.S. (2003). Molecular phylogenetics indicate that the corticioid genus Dendrothele is highly polyphyletic. Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America, Asilomar, CA.

*Wang Z., Binder M. & Hibbett D.S. (2003). Sparsitubus, an unusual cyphelloid-like polypore from China, is the sister group of the Ganodermataceae. Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America, Asilomar, CA.

Binder M., Hibbett D.S. & Farnham W.F. (2003). Phylogenetic relationships of the marine phyco-parasite Mycaureola dilseae (Agaricales). Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America, Asilomar, CA.

Matheny P.B., Ammirati J.F., Aoki T., Baroni T.J., Binder M., Celio G., Crane P., de Nitis M., Dentinger B., Froslev T., Ge Z.W., Halling R., Hosaka K., Hughes K.W., Kerrigan R.W., Kropp B.R., Langer E., Matsuura K., McLaughlin D.J., Nilsson R.H., Nishida H., Padamsee M., Petersen R., Piepenbring M., Slot J., Vauras J., Vellinga E.C., Wang Z., Wilson A., Yang Z.L. & Hibbett D.S. (2004). Progress towards assembling the Tree of Life for the Basidiomycota. Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America, Asheville, NC.

Lutzoni F., Kauff F., Cox C.J., McLaughlin D., Celio G., Dentinger B., Padamsee M., Hibbett D.S., James T., Baloch E., Grube M., Reeb V., Hofstetter V., Schoch C., Arnold E.A., Spatafora J., Sung G.-H., Hambleton S., Miadlikowska J., Lücking R., Shoemaker R., O’Donnell K., Binder M., Crockett M., Diederich P., Ertz D., Gueidan C., Hall B., Hansen K., Harris R.C., Hosaka K., Johnson D., Lim Y.-W., Liu Y., Lumbsch T., Matheny P.B., Nishida H., Pfister D., Rogers J., Rossman A., Schmitt I., Sipman H., Stone J., Sugiyama J., Yahr R. & Vilgalys R. (2004). Where are we in assembling the fungal tree of life, classifying the fungi, and understanding the evolution of their subcellular traits? Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America, Asheville, NC, and 5th IAL Symposium in Tartu, Estonia.

Bodensteiner P., Binder M., Moncalvo J.-M., Agerer R. & Hibbett D.S. (2004). Phylogenetic diversity of cyphelloid forms in the euagarics clade. Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America, Asheville, NC.

Binder M., Hibbett D.S., Larsson K.-H., Larsson E., Langer E. & Langer G. (2004). The phylogenetic distribution of resupinate forms in the homobasidiomycetes. Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America, Asheville, NC.

Matheny P.B., Hibbett D.S., Ammirati J.F., Aoki T., Baroni T.J., Binder M., Celio G., Crane P., de Nitis M., Dentinger B., Frøslev T., Ge Z.-W., Halling R., Hosaka K., Hughes K.W., Kerrigan R.W., Kropp B.R., Langer E., Matsuura K., McLaughlin D.J., Nilsson R.H., Nishida H., Padamsee M., Petersen R., Piepenbring M., Slot J., Vauras J., Vellinga E.C., Wang Z., Wilson A. & Yang Z.-L. (2005). Progress towards assembling the Tree of Life for the Basidiomycota. Joint Meeting of the Mycological Society of America and Mycological Society of Japan in Hilo, HI.

Wang Z., *Binder M., Hibbett D.S., Schoch C.L. & Spatafora J.W. (2005). Phylogenetic relationships of the Helotiales inferred from three rDNA regions. Joint Meeting of the Mycological Society of America and Mycological Society of Japan in Hilo, HI.

Wang Z., *Binder M. & Hibbett D.S. (2005). Characterizing atp6 in multilocus phylogenetics of polyporoid homobasidiomycetes. Joint Meeting of the Mycological Society of America and the Mycological Society of Japan in Hilo, HI.

*Binder M., Bodensteiner P., Wang Z. & Hibbett D.S. (2005). Phylogenetic relationships of cyphelloid and aquatic homobasidiomycetes. Joint Meeting of the Mycological Society of America and Mycological Society of Japan in Hilo, HI.

Binder M. & Hibbett D.S. 2006. Molecular systematics and biological diversification of Boletales. Fifth Deep Hypha Research Coordination Network Meeting in Baton Rouge, LA.

*Wilson A., Binder M. & Hibbett D.S. 2006. Ecology and evolution of Calostoma. Eighth International Mycological Congress (IMC8), Cairns, Australia.

Bodensteiner P., Binder M., Agerer R. & Hibbett D.S. (2006). Phylogenetic relationships and evolution of cyphelloid homobasidiomycetes. International Congress of the German Mycological Society (DGfM), Tübingen, Germany.

Eberhardt U., Taylor A.F.S, Both E.E., Douhan G. & Binder, M. (2006). Delimitation and biogeography of species in the Xerocomus subtomentosus-complex. International Congress of the German Mycological Society (DGfM), Tübingen, Germany.

Binder M., Matheny P.B., Larsson K.-H., Larsson E. & Hibbett D.S. (2007). New perspectives on the early evolution of Agaricomycetidae. Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America, Baton Rouge, LA.

Neves M.-A., Binder M. & Halling R.E. (2007). Phylloporus revisited: a new story from the gilled bolete. Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America, Baton Rouge, LA.

Binder M. (2008). New perspectives on the early evolution of Boletales and Agaricomycetidae (Basidiomycota). Clark University, Biology Department (self-invited departmental seminar).

Wilson A.W., Binder M. & Hibbett D.S. (2008). Does gasteromycetation in the Agaricomycetes represent an evolutionary dead-end or a key innovation? A study with emphasis on the Sclerodermatineae. Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America, State College, PA.

Osmundson T.W., Halling R.E. & Binder M. (2008). Systematics of Tylopilus (Boletaceae): Biogeographic and evolutionary insights. Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America, State College, PA.

Binder M., Hibbett D.S. & Fitzjohn R. (2009). Key innovations and evolutionary trends in mushroom-forming fungi estimated with BiSSE. Evolution 2009, joint annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB), and the American Society of Naturalists (ASN). University of Idaho, Moscow, ID.

*Vellinga E.C., Blanchard E.P., Binder M. & Bruns T.D. (2009). Paxillus in North America. Joint Meeting of the Mycological Society of America and the Botanical Society of America, Snowbird, UT.

Wilson A.W., Binder M. & Hibbett D.S. (2009). Diversity and evolution of ectomycorrhizal host associations in Sclerodermatineae (Boletales, Basidiomycota). Joint Meeting of the Mycological Society of America and the Botanical Society of America, Snowbird, UT.

*Floudas D., Binder M., Hibbett D.S., Eastwood D. & Watkinson S. (2010). A comparative genomic study among various gene families related to the wood degradation biochemistry, using seven Basidiomycete genomes. 9th International Mycological Congress (IMC9), Edinburgh, Scotland.

Binder M., Floudas D. & Hibbett S. (2011). Reconstructing the evolutionary diversification of wood decay mechanisms in Agaricomycetes using comparative phylogenomics. Symposium: Diversification of Fungi, Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America, Fairbanks, AK.

Padamsee M.*, Binder M.*, Kumar A.T.K., Riley R., Boyd A., Calvo A., Furukawa K., Hesse C., Hohmann S., James T., LaButti K., Lapidus A., Lindquist E., Lucas S., Miller K., Shantappa S., Hibbett D.S., Spatafora J.W., Grigoriev I.V., McLaughlin D. J. & Aime M. C. (2011). The Wallemia sebi genome: small in size but reveals clues to surviving an osmotically challenging environment. Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America, Fairbanks, AK.

Floudas D.*, Binder M. & Hibbett D.S. (2011). Parallel losses of cellulose binding modules (CBM’s) in carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZy’s) in brown rot Agaricomycotina inferred from genome sequences. Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America, Fairbanks, AK.