Gary J. Samuels papers

Gary J. Samuels (born 1944) is a mycologist and authority on the taxonomy of the Hypocrealean fungi. He was born in Grove City, PA and obtained his B.Sc. (1966) in botany at the Pennsylvania State University and M.A. (1968) and Ph.D. (1971) in biology at Columbia University. During his graduate education he held a fellowship at the New York Botanical Garden. He studied under Clark T. Rogerson and completed a dissertation on the taxonomy of the genus Nectriopsis. In 1973 Dr. Samuels joined the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Plant Diseases Division and continued his studies of the Hypocreales. He became a Research Associate of the NYBG in 1985. Dr. Samuels has conducted extensive fieldwork in South America and New Zealand and has compiled An Annotated Index to the Mycological Writings of Franz Petrak. He is currently employed as a research botanist by the USDA Agriculture Research Service (Systematic Botanical and Mycological Laboratory) in Beltsville, Maryland where he has conducted research on the Hypocrea schweinitzii complex, phylogenetic analysis of ascomycetes, and the genus Trichoderma as a biological control agent.