Education

• Post-doctoral experience, University of Michigan
• Ph.D., University of Tennessee
• M.S., University of Tennessee
• B.A., Rutgers University

Research & Academic Interests

• Fungal genomics
• Flowering plant phylogenetics/systematics
• Fungal endophyte biology

Publications

• Rahnama M, B. Wang, J. Dostart, O. Novikova, D. Yackzan, A. Yackzan, H. Bruss, M. Baker, H. Jacob, X. Zhang, A. Lamb, A. Stewart, M. Heist, J. Hoover, P. Calie, L. Chen, J. Liu and M.L. Farman. 2021. Telomere roles in fungal genome evolution and adaptation. Front. Genet. 12:676751. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2021.676751
• Ellison, A.M., C.C. Davis, P.J. Calie, and R.F.C. Naczi. 2014. Pitcher plants (Sarracenia) provide a 21st-century perspective on interspecific and infraspecific ranks: a modest proposal for appropriate recognition and use. Systematic Botany 39: 939-949. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1600/036364414X681473
• Schardl, C.L., S. Florea, J. Pan, P. Nagabhyru, S. Bec, P.J. Calie. 2013. The epichloae: alkaloid diversity and roles in symbiosis with grasses. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 16: 480-488.
• Christopher L. Schardl, Carolyn A. Young, Uljana Hesse, Stefan G. Amyotte, Kalina Andreeva , Patrick J. Calie , Damien J. Fleetwood , David C. Haws , Neil Moore, Birgitt Oeser , Daniel G. Panaccione , Kathryn K. Schweri, Christine R. Voisey, Mark L. Farman, Jerzy W. Jaromczyk, Bruce A. Roe, Donal M. O’Sullivan, Barry Scott, Paul Tudzynski, Zhiqiang An, Elissaveta G. Arnaoudova, Charles T. Bullock, Nikki D. Charlton, Li Chen, Murray Cox, Randy D. Dinkins, Simona Florea, Anthony E. Glenn, Anna Gordon, Ulrich Güldener, Daniel R. Harris, Walter Hollin, Jolanta Jaromczyk, Richard D. Johnson, Anar K. Khan, Eckhard Leistner, Adrian Leuchtmann, Chunjie Li, JinGe Liu, Jinze Liu, Miao Liu, Wade Mace, Caroline Machado, Padmaja Nagabhyru, Juan Pan, Jan Schmid, Koya Sugawara, Ulrike Steiner, Johanna E. Takach, Eiji Tanaka, Jennifer S. Webb, Ella V. Wilson, Jennifer Wiseman, Ruriko Yoshida, Zheng Zeng. 2013. Plant-symbiotic fungi as chemical engineers: Multi-genome analysis of the Clavicipitaceae reveals dynamics of alkaloid loci. PLoS Genetics 9: e1003323.
• Ellison, A.M., C.C. Davis, P.J. Calie, and R.F.C. Naczi. 2014. Pitcher plants (Sarracenia) provide a 21st-century perspective on interspecific and infraspecific ranks: a modest proposal for appropriate recognition and use. Systematic Botany 39: 939-949. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1600/036364414X681473
• Ellison, A.M., Butler, E.B., Hicks, E.J., Naczi, R.F.C., Calie, P.J., Bell. C.D., and Davis, C.C. 2012. Phylogeny of the carnivorous plant family Sarraceniaceae. PLoS One 7: e39291.

Associations, Affiliations & Work History

• Botanical Society of America
• Genetics Society of America
• American Society of Plant Biologists

• Visiting Scholar, University of Kentucky

Awards & Accolades

• EKU Critical Reading and Critical Thinking Teacher Award, 2021
• EKU Critical Thinking Teacher of the Year Award, 2012
• EKU Distinguished Educational Leader, 2007, 2008