Ingeborg Bjorvand Engh

PhD mycology, Senior advisor Computational Life Science initiative

Contact info

Department of Informatics
University of Oslo
P.O. Box 1080 Blindern
N-0316 Oslo, Norway

Phone: +47 22 85 79 66

Email: ingebbj at bio.uio.no

Publications

Carlsen T, Engh IB, DeCock C, Rajchenberg M, Kauserud H (2010). Multiple cryptic species with divergent substrate affinities in the Serpula himantioides species complex. Fungal Biology, In press, Corrected proof, Available online 23 October 2010.

Engh IB, Skrede I, Saetre G-P, Kauserud H (2010). Frequency-dependent selection leads to high variability in a mating type linked region in the dry rot fungus Serpula lacrymans. BMC Genetics 11:64.

Engh IB, Carlsen T, Kauserud H, Högberg N, Sætre G-P, Doi S: Two invasive populations of the dry rot fungus Serpula lacrymans show divergent population genetic structures. Molecular Ecology 2010, 19:706-715.

Kauserud H, Svegården IB, Sætre G-P, Knudsen H, Stensrud Ø, Schmidt O, Doi S, Sugiyama T, Högberg N: Asian origin and rapid global spread of the destructive dry rot fungus Serpula lacrymans. Molecular Ecology 2007, 16:3350-3360.

Kauserud H, Svegården IB, Decock C, Hallenberg N: Hybridization among cryptic species of the cellar fungus Coniophora puteana (Basidiomycota). Molecular Ecology 2007, 16:389-399.

Stensrud Ø, Schumacher T, Shalchian-Tabrizi K, Svegården IB, Kauserud H: Accelerated nrDNA evolution and profound AT bias in the medicinal fungus Cordyceps sinensis. Mycological Research 2007, 111(4):409-415.

Högberg N, Svegården IB, Kauserud H: Isolation and characterization of 15 polymorphic microsatellite markers for the devastating dry rot  fungus, Serpula lacrymans. Molecular Ecology Notes 2006, 6:1022-1024.

Mycological research interests

My research interests are phylogeography and population genetics of the dry rot fungus Serpula lacrymans, and speciation and phylogenetics in the family Serpulaceae.