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Romina Gazis Olivas

PhD candidate, University of Maryland

M.S. Student, Environmental Sciences
Texas Christian University, 2007
Research Scientist
Andes to Amazon Botany Program

B.S., Biological Sciences, Ricardo Palma University, Lima, Peru, 2003

Romina was one of the first M.S. students to participate in the new graduate research and education program between TCU and BRIT. Romina continued her long-term studies of the diversity and ecology of mushrooms and entomopathenogenic (entomophagous) fungi along an elevational gradient in the Andes-Amazon region of southeastern Peru. She began her M.S. program in the TCU Environmental Sciences program in August 2004 after finishing her B.S. in Biology. For her biology thesis she conducted a three-month monitoring and inventory study of the fungi of the Los Amigos Biological Station and Conservation Area. She completed her thesis in June 2004. Results of her undergraduate work have led to one scientific manuscript about the entomopathenogenic fungi of Los Amigos, with new records for Peru, that will be published this year. She has a preliminary Guide to the Macrofungi of Los Amigos that she will continue to develop during her field studies at Los Amigos in 2005-2006. She is also contributing data and images for the mycological component of the project database.

After graduating from TCU, Romina began an intensive internship at the Chicago Field Museum. She is currently enrolled in a PhD program on fungi at the University of Maryland.

E-mail: rominagazis@hotmail.com

Publications:

Gazis, R. 2007. An Annotated Checklist of the Xylariaceae of Madre de Dios, Peru.

Gazis, R. 2007. The Macromycete Diversity of the Los Amigos Biological Station, Madre
de Dios, Peru: A Preliminary Report. Biotropica or Mycologia.

Gazis, R. 2007. Pleasing Fungus Beetles (Coleoptera: Erotylidae) from the Peruvian
Amazon.

Gazis, R. 2007. Entomopathenogenic Fungi (Clavicipitaceae) from the Los Amigos
Biological Station, Madre de Dios, Peru.

Gomez, L. and R. Gazis. 2006. Dos Gastromycetes (Basidiomycotina, Fungi) del Peru. Brenesia 65:71.

Recent Presentations:

May 2007 - Inventory and Monitoring of Macrofungal Diversity In the Amazon Region of Southeastern Peru. TCU, Ft. Worth, TX

Aug 2006 - MACROMYCETES DIVERSITY FROM THE PERUVIAN AMAZON - Preliminary inventory from the Biological Station "Los Amigos" Madre de Dios, Peru. MSA/APS/CPS Joint Meeting, Québec City, Québec, Canada.

April 2006 - Differentiating fungal species within the family Xylariaceae (Ascomycotina: Fungi) from the Peruvian Amazon, Texas Microscopy conference, Fort worth, Texas (Winner for Graduate Category).

April 2005 - Adkins Proposal, TCU, Fort Worth, Texas Brown Bag, BRIT, Fort Worth, Texas