People Connected to the Hibbett Lab
Jason Slot
Jason, without Argonauts, at the Parthenon, 2006
Bio: Jason received his PhD in 2008 and left for a post-doc with Antonis Rokas at Vanderbilt http://people.vanderbilt.edu/~antonis.rokas/. Before fully devoting his life to mushrooms, Jason taught high school science for three years, was a technician in a lipids lab at 
Boston University, designed exhibits at the Boston Museum of Science, drove a taxi and randomly stumbled around the planet.
Research interests: Nitrogen transport in the evolution and succession of mycorrhizal basidiomycetes.
Publications:
Slot, J.C., Hibbett D.S. (2007) Horizontal Transfer of a Nitrate Assimilation Gene Cluster and Ecological Transitions in Fungi: A Phylogenetic Study. PLoS ONE 2(10): e1097 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001097. pdf www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0001097
Slot, J.C., K.N. Hallstrom, P.B. Matheny, and D.S. Hibbett. 2007. Diversification of NRT2 and the origin of its fungal homolog. Molecular Biology and Evolution 24(8): 1731-1743. pdf
Matheny, P. B., Wang Z., Binder M., Curtis, J. M., Lim, Y. W., Nilsson, H. R., Hughes, K. W., Hofstetter, V., Ammirati, J. F., Schoch, C., Langer, E., Langer, G., McLaughlin, D. J., Wilson, A. W., Frøslev, T., Ge, Z. W., Kerrigan, R. W., Slot, J. C., Yang, Z. L., Baroni, T. J., Fischer, M., Hosaka, K., Matsuura, K., Seidl, M. T., Vauras, J., and Hibbett, D. S. (2007). Contributions of rpb2 and tef1 to the phylogeny of mushrooms and allies (Basidiomycota, Fungi). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution: in press.
Matheny, P. B., Curtis, J. M., Hoffstetter, V., Aime, M. C., Moncalvo, J. M., Ge, Z. W., Yang, Z. L., Slot, J. C., Ammirati, J. F., Baroni, T. J., Bougher, N. L., Hughes, K. W., Lodge, D. J., Kerrigan, R. W., Seidl, M. T., Aanen, D. K., DeNitis, M., Daniele, G. M., Desjardin, D. E., Kropp, B. R., Norvell, L. L., Parker, A., Vellinga, E. C., Vilgalys, R., and Hibbett, D. S. (2006). Major clades of Agaricales: a multi-locus phylogenetic overview. Mycologia 98: in press.
James, T. Y., Kauff, F., Schoch, C., Matheny, P. B., Hofstetter, V., Cox, C., Celio, G., Gueidan, C., Fraker, E., Miadlikowska, J., Lumbsch, H. T., Rauhut, A., Reeb, V., Arnold, A. E., Amtoft, A., Stajich, J. E., Hosaka, K., Sung, G. H., Johnson, D., O'Rourke, B., Crockett, M., Binder, M., Curtis, J. M., Slot, J. C., Wang, Z., Wilson, A. W., Schüßler, A., Longcore, J. E., O'Donnell, K., Mozley-Standridge, S., Porter, D., Letcher, P. M., Powell, M. J., Taylor, J. W., White, M. M., Griffith, G. W., Davies, D. R., Humber, R. A., Morton, J. B., Sugiyama, J., Rossman, A. Y., Rogers, J. D., Pfister, D. H., Hewitt, D., Hansen, K., Hambleton, S., Shoemaker, R. A., Kohlmeyer, J., Volkmann-Kohlmeyer, B., Spotts, R. A., Serdani, M., Crous, P. W., Hughes, K. W., Matsuura, K., Langer, E., Langer, G., Untereiner, W. A., Lücking, R., Büdel, B., Geiser, D. M., Aptroot, A., Diederich, P., Schmitt, I., Schultz, M., Yahr, R.,Hibbett, D., Lutzoni, F., McLaughlin, D., Spatafora, J., and Vilgalys, R. (2006). Reconstructing the early evolution of the fungi using a six gene phylogeny. Nature 443: 818-822.
Yang, Z.L., P.B. Matheny, Z.W. Ge, J.C. Slot, D.S. Hibbett. 2005. New Asian species of the genus Anamika (euagarics, hebelomatoid clade) based on morphology and ribosomal DNA sequences. Mycol. Res., 109(11): 1259-1267.