Rachel Adams

Work Address: Department of Plant and Microbial Biology 321 Koshland Hall University of California Berkeley California 94720-3102 (510) 643-5483 (510) 642-4995 fax email: adamsri@berkeley.edu

Rachel joined the Taylor lab in February of 2004 as a Staff Research Associate. In August 2005, Rachel left the lab and pursued a PhD in Biology at Stanford, which she received in March 2011. Rachel returned to Berkeley in March 2011 and is currently a post doctoral fellow in the Bruns and Taylor labs. [view] Rachel's CV.

Publications:

• RI Adams, M Miletto, SE Lindow, JW Taylor, TD Bruns. 2014. Airborne Bacterial Communities in Residences: Similarities and Differences with Fungi. PloS one 9(3): e91283
  
  
• EN Broadbent, AMA Zambrano, GP Asner, M Soriano, CB Field. 2014. Integrating Stand and Soil Properties to Understand Foliar Nutrient Dynamics during Forest Succession Following Slash-and-Burn Agriculture in the Bolivian Amazon. PloS one 9(2): e86042
  
  
• RI Adams, M Miletto, JW Taylor, TD Bruns. 2013 The Diversity and Distribution of Fungi on Residential Surfaces. PloS one 8(11): e78866
  
  
• RI Adams, AS Amend, JW Taylor, TD Bruns. 2013. A unique signal distorts the perception of species richness and composition in high-throughput sequencing surveys of microbial communities: a case study of fungi in indoor dust. Microbial ecology 66(4): 735-741.
  
  
• Rachel I. Adams, Marzia Miletto, John W. Taylor and Thomas D. Bruns. 2013. Dispersal in microbes: fungi in indoor air are dominated by outdoor air and show dispersal limitation at short distances. The ISME Journal doi:10.1038/ismej.2013.28.
  
  
• Adams, R. I. and E. A. Hadly. 2013. Genetic diversity within vertebrate species is greater at lower latitudes. Evolutionary Ecology 27:133-143.
  
  
• EG Pringle, RI Adams, E Broadbent, PE Busby, CI Donatti, EL Kurten. 2011. Distinct Leaf‐trait Syndromes of Evergreen and Deciduous Trees in a Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest. Biotropica 43(3): 299-308.
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• Adams, R. I., S. Goldberry, T. G. Whitham, M. S. Zinkgraf, and R. Dirzo. 2011. Hybridization among dominant tree species correlates positively with understory plant diversity. American Journal of Botany 98:1623-1632.
  
  
• Adams, R. I. and M. Vellend. 2011. Species diversity of grasses promotes genotypic diversity of clover populations in simulated communities. Oikos 120:1584-1594.
  
  
• Pringle, E. G., R. I. Adams, E. Broadbent, P. E. Busby, C. I. Donatti, E. L. Kurten, K. Renton, and R. Dirzo. 2011. Distinct leaf-trait syndromes of evergreen and deciduous trees in a seasonally dry tropical forest. Biotropica 43:299-308.
  
  
• Adams, R. I. and Hadly, E. A. 2010. High levels of gene flow in the California vole (Microtus californicus) are consistent across spatial scales. Western North American Naturalist 70(3): 296-311.
  
  
• Pringle, A., Adams, R. I., Cross, H. B. and Bruns, T. D. 2009. The ectomycorrhizal fungus Amanita phalloides was introduced and is expanding its range on the west coast of North America. Molecular Ecology 18(5): 817-833.
  
  
• Adams, R. I., H. E. Hallen, and A. Pringle. 2006. Using the incomplete genome of the ectomycorrhizal fungus Amanita bisporigera to identify molecular polymorphisms in the related Amanita phalloides. Molecular Ecology Notes 6:218-220.
  
  
• David J. Jacobson, Jeremy R. Dettman, Rachel I. Adams, Cornelia Boesl, Shahana Sultana, Till Roenneberg, Martha Merrow, Margarida Duarte, Isabel Marques, Alexandra Ushakova, Patrícia Carneiro, Arnaldo Videira, Laura Navarro-Sampedro, María Olmedo, Luis M. Corrochano and John W. Taylor. 2006. New findings of Neurospora in Europe and comparisons of diversity in temperate climates on continental scales. Mycologia 98(4): 550-559.
  
  
• Aa, E., Townsend, J. P., Adams, R. I., Nielsen, K. M., Taylor, J. W. 2006. Population structure and gene evolution in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. FEMS Yeast Research 6(5): 702-715.
  
  
• Adams, R. I., K. M. Brown, and M. B. Hamilton. 2004. The impact of microsatellite electromorph size homoplasy on multilocus population structure estimates in a tropical tree (Corythophora alta) and an anadromous fish (Morone saxatilis). Molecular Ecology 13:2579-2588.

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