People Connected to the Hibbett Lab
Laszlo Nagy
Bio: I did my PhD at the University of Szeged, Hungary, where I was working on the evolutionary significance of autodigestion in the mushroom family Psathyrellaceae. I used phylogenetic comparative methods to understand why these fungi synthesize autodigestive enzymes and what environment they are adapted to. In parallel I performed taxonomic revisions of several groups of coprinoid fungi, including Coprinellus, Parasola and section Lanatuli in Coprinopsis.
Research Interests
I have a general interest in evolution, but most delighted by phenotypic evolutionary innovations, their effects on species diversification and adaptation capabilities. I worked on how explosive radiations can be treated in phylogenetic analyses and how to model the build-up of phenotypic diversity using discrete characters. I am also interested in the theory of phylogenetic methods and have some basic skills in programming. Previously I worked on taxonomy and systematics of several groups in the Agaricales.
Selected Publications:
Tóth A, Hausknecht A, Krisai-Greilhuber I, Vágvölgyi Cs, Papp T, Nagy GL. 2013 An iterative alignment strategy helps eliminating guide tree bias from alignment and phylogeny of the mushroom family Bolbitiaceae. Plos One, accepted [pdf – coming soon]
Nagy GL, Desjardin D, Vágvölgyi Cs, Papp T. 2013. A phylogenetic species concept identifies multiple species within morphologically discerned taxa of sections Lanatuli and Atramentarii of the genus Coprinopsis. Mycologia, in press.
Nagy GL, Vágvölgyi Cs, Papp T. 2013. A multi-gene phylogeny and morphological evolution of the Psathyrellaceae (Agaricales): dealing with uncertainties of prior choice in Bayesian inference. Mycological Progress, in press
Morin E, Kohler A, Baker AR, Foulongne-Oriol M, Lombard V, Nagy GL, Ohm RA, Patyshakuliyeva A, Brun A, Aerts AL, Bailey AM, Billette C, Coutinho PM, Deakin G, Doddapaneni H, Floudas D, Grimwood J, Hildén K, Kües U, LaButti KM, Lapidus A, Lindquist EA, Lucas SM, Murat C, Riley RW, Salamov AA, Schmutz J, Subramanian V, Wösten HAB, Xu J, Eastwood DC, Foster GD, Sonnenberg ASM, Cullen D, de Vries RP, Lundell T, Hibbett DS, Henrissat B, Burton KS, Kerrigan RW, Challen MP, Grigoriev IV, Martina F. (2012) Genome sequence of the button mushroom Agaricus bisporus reveals mechanisms governing adaptation to a humic-rich ecological niche. Proc Natl Acad Sci U. S. A. In press.
Nagy GL, Kocsubé S, Csanádi Z, Kovács GM, Petkovits T, Vágvölgyi Cs, Papp T. 2012 Re-Mind the gap! Insertion-Deletion Data reveal neglected phylogenetic potential of the fungal internal trabscribed spacer. Plos One 7(11): e49794. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0049794
Floudas D, Binder M, Riley R, Barry K, Blanchette RA, Henrissat B, Martínez AT, Otillar R, Spatafora JW, Yadav JS, Aerts A, Benoit I, Boyd A, Carlson A, Copeland A, Coutinho PM, de Vries RP, Ferreira P, Findley K, Foster B, Gaskell J, Glotzer D, Górecki P, Heitman J, Hesse C, Hori C, Igarashi K, Jurgens JA, Kallen N, Kersten P, Kohler A, Kües U, Kumar TK, Kuo A, LaButti K, Larrondo LF, Lindquist E, Ling A, Lombard V, Lucas S, Lundell T, Martin R, McLaughlin DJ, Morgenstern I, Morin E, Murat C, Nagy GL, Nolan M, Ohm RA, Patyshakuliyeva A, Rokas A, Ruiz-Dueñas FJ, Sabat G, Salamov A, Samejima M, Schmutz J, Slot JC, St John F, Stenlid J, Sun H, Sun S, Syed K, Tsang A, Wiebenga A, Young D, Pisabarro A, Eastwood DC, Martin F, Cullen D, Grigoriev IV, Hibbett DS (2012). Paleozoic origin of enymatic lignin decomposition reconstructed using 31 fungal genomes. Science 336: 1715-19.
Schoch CL, Seifert KA, Huhndorf S, Robert V, Spouge JL, Levesque CA, Chen W, Bolchacova E, Voigt K, Crous PW, Miller AN, Wingfield MJ, Aime MC, An KD, Bai FY, Barreto RW, Begerow D, Bergeron MJ, Blackwell M, Boekhout T, Bogale M, Boonyuen N, Burgaz AR, Buyck B, Cai L, Cai Q, Cardinali G, Chaverri P, Coppins BJ, Crespo A, Cubas P, Cummings C, Damm U, de Beer ZW, de Hoog GS, Del-Prado R, Dentinger B, Diéguez-Uribeondo J, Divakar PK, Douglas B, Dueñas M, Duong TA, Eberhardt U, Edwards JE, Elshahed MS, Fliegerova K, Furtado M, García MA, Ge ZW, Griffith GW, Griffiths K, Groenewald JZ, Groenewald M, Grube M, Gryzenhout M, Guo LD, Hagen F, Hambleton S, Hamelin RC, Hansen K, Harrold P, Heller G, Herrera C, Hirayama K, Hirooka Y, Ho HM, Hoffmann K, Hofstetter V, Högnabba F, Hollingsworth PM, Hong SB, Hosaka K, Houbraken J, Hughes K, Huhtinen S, Hyde KD, James T, Johnson EM, Johnson JE, Johnston PR, Jones EB, Kelly LJ, Kirk PM, Knapp DG, Kõljalg U, Kovács GM, Kurtzman CP, Landvik S, Leavitt SD, Liggenstoffer AS, Liimatainen K, Lombard L, Luangsa-Ard JJ, Lumbsch HT, Maganti H, Maharachchikumbura SS, Martin MP, May TW, McTaggart AR, Methven AS, Meyer W, Moncalvo JM, Mongkolsamrit S, Nagy LG, Nilsson RH, Niskanen T, Nyilasi I, Okada G, Okane I, Olariaga I, Otte J, Papp T, Park D, Petkovits T, Pino-Bodas R, Quaedvlieg W, Raja HA, Redecker D, Rintoul TL, Ruibal C, Sarmiento-Ramírez JM, Schmitt I, Schüßler A, Shearer C, Sotome K, Stefani FO, Stenroos S, Stielow B, Stockinger H, Suetrong S, Suh SO, Sung GH, Suzuki M, Tanaka K, Tedersoo L, Telleria MT, Tretter E, Untereiner WA, Urbina H, Vágvölgyi C, Vialle A, Vu TD, Walther G, Wang QM, Wang Y, Weir BS, Weiß M, White MM, Xu J, Yahr R, Yang ZL, Yurkov A, Zamora JC, Zhang N, Zhuang WY, Schindel D. (2012) Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 109:6241-6.
Nagy GL, Házi J, Szappanos B, Kocsubé S, Bálint B, Rákhely G, Vágvölgyi Cs, Papp T. (2012) The Evolution of Defense Mechanisms Correlate with the Explosive Diversification of Autodigesting Coprinellus Mushrooms (Agaricales, Fungi). Systematic Biology, 61: 595-607.
Nagy GL, Házi J, Vágvölgyi Cs, Papp T. (2012) Phylogeny and Species Delimitation in the Genus Coprinellus with Special Emphasis on the Haired Species. Mycologia 104: 254-275.
Petkovits T, Nagy GL, Hoffmann K, Wagner L, Nyilasi I, Griebel T, Schnabelrauch D, Vogel H, Voigt K, Vágvölgyi Cs, Papp T. (2011) Data Partitions, Bayesian Analysis and Phylogeny of the Zygomycetous Fungal Family Mortierellaceae, Inferred from Nuclear Ribosomal DNA Sequences. Plos One, 6(11): e27507. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0027507
Nagy GL, Petkovits T, Kovács GM, Vágvölgyi Cs, Papp T. Where is the unseen fungal diversity hidden? A study of Mortierella reveals a large contribution of reference collections to the identification of fungal environmental sequences. New Phytologist 191, 2011, 789-794.
Házi J, Nagy GL, Vágvölgyi Cs, Papp T. (2011) Coprinellus radicellus, a new species with northern distribution. Mycol Progress. 10:363-371.
Nagy GL., Walther G., Vágvölgyi Cs., Papp T. (2011) Understanding the Evolutionary Processes of Fungal Fruiting Bodies: Correlated Evolution and Divergence Times in the Psathyrellaceae. – Systematic Biology, 60:303-317.
Nagy GL., Urban A., Örstadius L., Larsson E., Papp T., Vágvölgyi Cs. (2010) The evolution of autodigestion in the mushroom family Psathyrellaceae (Agaricales) inferred from Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian methods – Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 57(3):1037-48.
Nagy GL, Vágvölgyi Cs., Papp T. (2010): Type studies and nomenclatural revisions in Parasola (Psathyrellaceae) and related taxa - Mycotaxon 112:103-114.
Nagy GL, Kocsubé S., Papp T., Vágvölgyi Cs. (2009): Phylogeny and character evolution of the coprinoid mushroom genus Parasola as inferred from LSU and ITS nrDNA sequence data – Persoonia 22:28-37. [pdf]
Send Laszlo an email at LNagy@clarku.edu