Joost A. Stalpers

Curriculum vitae

Date of birth June 5, 1947

Citizenship Dutch

Education

• University R.U. Utrecht Biology 1972 Subjects: Plant ecology, electron microscopy, mycology.
• PhD 1978 titled Identification of wood-inhabiting Aphyllophorales in pure culture (SIM 16: 1-248)

Professional career

• Since 1972 employed by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science (Amsterdam) at the Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures. Currently Head of the Collection Department.

Current responsibilities

• Maintenance of 60.000 microbial strains
• MycoBank, the depository of nomenclatural novelties
• Index Fungorum
• Research interest: wood-inhabiting basidiomycetes

Projects (recent and current)

• EmbaRC (EU project, production of Code of Conduct on biosecurity; search for new genes for taxonomy and identification)
• GBRCN (Global Biological Resource Collections Network, initiated by OECD)
• MOSAICS (EU project, interpretation and implementation of the CBD)
• Digitizing the Dutch Biodiversity Collections (NWO-groot, coordinator)
• Eurocat (EU project, catalogue of life)

Membership, offices

• Dutch representative in the OECD (Organization of Economic Development and Cooperation, Working Party on Biotechnology, task forces Biological Resource Centres and Biosecurity)
• Board Member of WFCC (World Federation of Culture Collections, Committee on Networking and interoperability)
• Board member of ECCO (European Culture Collections Organization, collection officer)
• Board member of NL-BIF (Dutch node of GBIF)
• Vice chairman of the Dutch Mycological Society, secretary of its Scientific Council
• Member of the American Mycological Society

Books

• JULICH, W. & J.A. STALPERS, 1980 - The resupinate non-poroid Aphyllophorales of the temperate northern hemisphere. North Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 335 pp.
• KIRK, P.M., P.F. CANNON, J.C. DAVID & J.A. STALPERS 2001 - Ainsworth and Bisby’s Dictionary of the Fungi, ed. 9 - CABI publishing, Wallingford, 624 pp.
• KIRK, P.M., CANNON, P.F., MINTER, D.W. & STALPERS, J.A. 2008 – Dictionary of the Fungi, ed. 10. CABI Europe, 771 pp.

Articles (selected)

• STALPERS, J.A., 1974 - Revision of the genus Oedocephalum (Fungi imperfecti). Proc. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wet., Amsterdam, Ser. C, 77: 383-401.
• STALPERS, J.A., 1974 - Spiniger, a new genus for imperfect states of Basidiomycetes. Proc. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wet., Amsterdam, Ser. C, 77: 402-407.
• SCHIPPER, M.A.A., R.A. SAMSON & J.A. STALPERS, 1975 - Zygospore ornamentation in the genera Mucor and Zygorhynchus. Persoonia 8: 321-328.
• STALPERS, J.A., 1975 - Notes on Sporotrichum I. On the segregate genus Alytosporium. Revue Mycol. 39: 97-101.
• A.J. van der, R.A. SAMSON, J.A. STALPERS & A.C.M. WEIJMAN, 1975 - Some Oomycetes and Zygomycetes with asexual reproductive structures. Persoonia 9: 85-93.
• STALPERS, J.A., 1976 - Notes on Mycoacia I. Persoonia 9: 145-148.
• EVANS, H.C., J.A. STALPERS, R.A. SAMSON & G.L. BENNY, 1978 - On the taxonomy of Monilia roreri, an important pathogen of Theobroma cacao in South America. Can. J. Bot. 56: 2528-2532.
• STALPERS, J.A., 1978 - Identification of wood-inhabiting Aphyllophorales in pure culture. Stud. Mycol. 16: 1-248.
• SAMSON, R.A., J.A. STALPERS & W. VERKERKE, 1979 - A simplified technique to prepare fungal specimens for scanning electron microscopy. Cytobios 24: 7-11.
• STALPERS, J.A., 1979 - Heterobasidion (Fomes) annosum and the Bondarzewiaceae. Taxon 28: 414-417.
• JULICH, W. & J.A. STALPERS, 1980 - The resupinate non-poroid Aphyllophorales of the temperate northern hemisphere. North Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 335 pp.
• SCHIPPER, M.A.A. & J.A. STALPERS, 1980 - Various aspects of the mating type system in Mucorales. Persoonia 11: 53-63.
• STALPERS, J.A. & M.A.A. SCHIPPER, 1980 - Comparison of zygospore ornamentation in intra- and interspecific matings in some related species of Mucor and Backusella. Persoonia 11: 39-52.
• STALPERS, J.A. & A. van ZAAYEN, 1981 - Scanning electron microscopy of basidospores of Agaricus bitorquis and of healthy and virus-infected Agaricus bisporus. Mushroom Science 11: 449-454.
• HJORTSTAM, K. & J.A. STALPERS, 1982 - Notes on Corticiaceae (Basidiomycetes) XI. Boidinia, a new genus segregated from Gloeocystidiellum. Mycotaxon 14: 75-81.
• STALPERS, J.A. & W. LOERAKKER, 1982 - Laetisaria and Limonomyces species (Corticiaceae) causing pink diseases in turf grasses. Can. J. Bot. 60: 529-537.
• STALPERS, J.A. & A. van ZAAYEN, 1982 - Raster- elektronenmikroskopie van champignonspores. Champignoncultuur 26: 496-499.
• LEEUW, G.T.N., M. FROSCH, R.A. SAMSON & J.A. STALPERS, 1983 - Scanning electron microscopy of Rickettsia-like organisms in latent rosette-diseased Beta vulgaris. Z. PflKrankh. PflSchutz 90: 409-414.
• SAMSON, R.A., J.A. STALPERS & A.C.M. WEIJMAN, 1983 - On the taxonomy of the entomogenous fungus Filobasidiella arachnophila. Ant. Leeuwenh. 49: 447-456.
• SCHIPPER, M.A.A. & J.A. STALPERS, 1983 - Spore ornamentation and species concept in Syncephalastrum. Persoonia 12: 81-85.
• STALPERS, J.A. & IJ. VLUG - Confistulina, the anamorph of Fistulina hepatica. Can. J. Bot. 61: 1660-1666.
• SCHIPPER, M.A.A. & J.A. STALPERS, 1984 - A revision of the Rhizopus. 2. The Rh. microsporus-group. Stud. Mycol. 25: 20-34.
• STALPERS, J.A., 1984 - A revision of the genus Sporotrichum. Stud. Mycol. 24: 1-105.
• STALPERS, J.A., 1985 - Type studies of the species of Corticium described by G.H. Cunningham. N. Z. J. Bot. 23: 301-310.
• STALPERS, J.A, A. DE HOOG & IJ. VLUG, 1986 - Improvement of the straw technique for the preservation of fungi in liquid nitrogen. Mycologia 79: 82-89.
• MARVANOVA, L. & J.A. STALPERS, 1987 - The genus Taeniospora and its teleomorphs. Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 89: 489-498.
• STALPERS, J.A., 1987 - Pleomorphy in Holobasidiomycetes. In J. Sugiyama (ed.): Pleomorphic fungi: the diversity and its taxonomic implications, p. 201-220. 1987.
• GAMS, W., G.L. HENNEBERT, J.A. STALPERS, D. JANSSENS, M.A.A. SCHIPPER, J. SMITH, D. YARROW & D.J. HAWKSWORTH, 1988 - Structuring strain data for storage and retrieval of information on fungi and yeasts in MINE, the Micronial Information Network Europe. J. gen. Micro­ biol. 134: 1667-1689.
• STALPERS, J.A., 1988 - Auriculariopsis and the Schizophyllales. Persoonia 13: 495-504.
• BOEKHOUT, T., C.A.N. van OORSCHOT, J.A. STALPERS, W.H. BATENBURG-van der VEGTE & A.C.M.WEIJMAN, 1989 - The taxonomic position of Chrysosporium xerophilum and septal morphology in Chrysosporium, Sporotrichum and Disporotrichum. Stud. Mycol. 31: 29-39.
• GAMS, W., J.A. STALPERS, G.J. STEGEHUIS & J. SMITH, 1990 - Computerization of strain data in the Microbial Information Network Europe (MINE). Sydowia 42: 218-230.
• STALPERS, J.A., M. KRACHT, D. JANSSENS, J. DE LEY, J. VAN DER TOORN, J. SMITH, D. CLAUS & H. HIPPE, 1990 - Structuring strain data for storage and retrieval of information on Bacteria in MINE, the Microbial Information Network Europe. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 13: 92-103.
• STALPERS, J.A., 1991 - Albatrellus and the Hericiaceae. Persoonia 14: 537-541.
• STALPERS, J.A. & P.K. BUCHANAN, 1991 - Type studies of the species of Pellicularia and Peniophora described by G.H. Cunningham. N. Z. J. Bot. 29: 331-340.
• STALPERS, J.A., K.A. SEIFERT & R.A. SAMSON, 1990 - A revision of the genera Antromycopsis, Sclerostilbum and Tilachlidiopsis (Hyphomycetes). Can. J. Bot. 69: 6-15.
• TAN, C.S., INGEN, C.W. van & J.A. STALPERS, 1991 - Freeze-drying of fungal hyphae and stability of the product. In: Genetics and breeding of Agaricus, (ed. L.J.L.D. van Griensven), pp. 25-30. Pudoc, Wageningen.
• TAN, C.S., STALPERS, J.A. & INGEN, C.W. van, 1991 - Freeze-drying of fungal hyphae. Mycologia 83: 654-657.
• HOOG, G.S. DE, C.S. TAN, J.A. STALPERS & G. STEGEHUIS, 1992 - The spectrum of opportunistic fungi present in the CBS culture collection. Mycoses 35: 209-214
• REIJNDERS, A.F.M. & J.A. STALPERS, 1992 - The development of the hymenophoral trama in the Aphyllophorales and the Agaricales. Stud. Mycol. 34: 1-109
• STALPERS, J.A., 1993 - The aphyllophoraceous fungi I. Keys to the species of the Thelephorales. Stud. Mycol. 35: 1-168.
• AHLERT, B., K.H. BÖHM, P. HOFFMANN, W. MEINHOF, E. SCHLÖSSER & J.A. STALPERS, 1994 - Sichere Biotechnologie, Eingruppierung biologischer Agenzien: Pilze. Merkblatt der Berufsgenossenschaft der chemischen Industrie B 007, 53 pp.
• ANDERSEN, T.F., & J.A. STALPERS, 1994 - A check-list of Rhizoctonia epithets. Mycotaxon 51: 437-457.
• GAMS, W. & J.A. STALPERS, 1994 - Has the prehistoric ice-man contributed to the preservation of living fungal spores? FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 120: 9-10.
• TAN, C.S., IJ.A. VLUG, J.A. STALPERS & C.W. VAN INGEN, 1994 - Microscopical observations on the influence of the cooling rate during freeze-drying. Mycologia 86: 281-289.
• TAN, C.S., C.W. VAN INGEN, H. TALSMA, J.C. VAN MILTENBURG, C.L. STEFFENSEN, IJ.A. VLUG & J.A. STALPERS. 1995 - Freeze-drying of fungi: influence of composition and glass transition temperature of the protectant. Cryobiology 32: 60-67.
• OTT, R.J., S. PÜRRO, E. TRUSCHEIT, S. ADELMANN, A. CHIPPEAUX, C. COLLINS, O. DOBLHOFF-DIER, E.GÜNTHER, A. LEPRINCE, W. PÜRINGER, B. SKROBANEK & J.A. STALPERS. 1995 - Sicherer Umgang mit biologischen Agenzien I. Grundlagen: Methoden, Anwendungen, Sicherheitsaspekte. ISSA Prevention Series no. 2016, 126 pp.
• OTT, R.J., S. PÜRRO, E. TRUSCHEIT, S. ADELMANN, A. CHIPPEAUX, C. COLLINS, O. DOBLHOFF-DIER, E.GÜNTHER, C. LE BâCLE, A. LEPRINCE, W. PÜRINGER, B. SKROBANEK & J.A. STALPERS. 1996 - Maîtrise du risque dans l'emploi des agents biologiques. Biotechnologies, génie génétique. I: Principes: méthodes, applications, problèmes de sécurité. Comité international de l’AISS pour la prévention des risques professionels dans líndustrie chimique, 121 pp.
• SAMSON, R.A., J.A. STALPERS, D. VAN DER MEI & A.H. STOUTHAMER (eds). 1996 Culture collections to improve the quality of life. Proceedings of ICCC-VIII, Veldhoven, the Netherlands. CBS/WFCC, 504 pp.
• STALPERS, J.A., 1996 - The aphyllophoraceous fungi II. Keys to the species of the Hericiales. Stud. Mycol. 40: 1-183.
• STALPERS, J.A. & T.F. ANDERSEN. 1996 - A synopsis of the taxonomy of teleomorphs connected with Rhizoctonia s.l. in Sneh, Jabaji-Hare, Neat & Dijst - Rhizoctonia species: taxonomy, molecular biology, ecology, pathology and control, p. 49-63. Kluwer, Dordrecht.
• OTT, R.J., S. PÜRRO, E. TRUSCHEIT, S. ADELMANN, A. CHIPPEAUX, C. COLLINS, O. DOBLHOFF-DIER, E.GÜNTHER, A. LEPRINCE, W. PÜRINGER, B. SKROBANEK & J.A. STALPERS. 1997 - Control of risks in work with biological agents. Biotechnologie, genetic engineering. I. Principles: methods, applications, safety considerations. International section of the ISSA for the prevention of occupational risks in the chemical industry, 121 pp.
• TAN, C.S. & J.A. STALPERS. 1997 - Vitrification of fungi. In: Cimerman, A. & N. Gunde-Cimerman (eds), Biodiversity. International biodiversity seminar ECCO XIV meeting. National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia, pp. 189-193.
• MÜLLER, W.H., J.A. STALPERS, A.C. VAN AELST, TH.P. VAN DER KRIFT & T. BOEKHOUT. 1998 - Field emission gun-scanning electron microscopy of septal pore caps of selected species in the Rhizoctonia s.l. complex - Mycologia 90: 170-179.
• STALPERS, J.A. 1998 - On the genera Sarcodontia, Radulodon and Pseudolagarobasidium. Folia crypt. Estonica 33: 133-138.
• STALPERS, J.A., T.F. ANDERSEN & W.GAMS. 1998 - Two proposals to conserve the names Rhizoctonia and R. solani (Hyphomycetes). Taxon 47: 725-726.
• TAN, C.S., C.W. VAN INGEN, C. VAN DEN BERG & J.A. STALPERS. 1998 - Long-term preservation of Fungi, Cryoletters, Suppl. 1: 15-22.
• GÜNTHER, E., B. SKROBANEK, S. ADELMANN, A. CHIPPEAUX, C. COLLINS, O. DOBLHOFF-DIER, C. LE BACLE, A. LEPRINCE, R.J. OTT, W. PÜRINGER, S. PÜRRO & J.A. STALPERS, M. THOINET & E. TRUSCHEIT. 1999 - Sicherer Umgang mit biologischen Agenzien III. Arbeiten in der Produktion. ISSA Prevention Series no. 2039, 80 pp.
• GÜNTHER, E., B. SKROBANEK, S. ADELMANN, A. CHIPPEAUX, C. COLLINS, O. DOBLHOFF-DIER, C. LE BACLE, A. LEPRINCE, R.J. OTT, W. PÜRINGER, S. PÜRRO & J.A. STALPERS, M. THOINET & E. TRUSCHEIT. 1999 - Maîtrise du risque dans l’emploi des agent biologiques - Biotechnologies, génie génétique III. Travail dans les installations de production.Comité international de l’AISS pour la prévention des risques professionels dans l’industrie 2039, 80 pp.
• ADELMANN, S, A. CHIPPEAUX, C. COLLINS, O. DOBLHOFF-DIER, D. VON HOERSCHELMANN, C. LE BACLE, A. LEPRINCE, W. PÜRINGER, J.A. STALPERS, E. GÜNTHER, R.J. OTT, S. PÜRRO, B. SKROBANEK, M. THOINET & E. TRUSCHEIT. 2000 - Maîtrise du risque dans l’emploi des agent biologiques - Biotechnologies, génie génétique II. Travail dans les laboratoires. Comité international de l’AISS pour la prévention des risques professionels dans l’industrie, 106 pp.
• ADELMANN, S, A. CHIPPEAUX, C. COLLINS, O. DOBLHOFF-DIER, D. VON HOERSCHELMANN, C. LE BACLE, A. LEPRINCE, W. PÜRINGER, J.A. STALPERS, E. GÜNTHER, R.J. OTT, S. PÜRRO, B. SKROBANEK, M. THOINET & E. TRUSCHEIT. 2000  - Control of risks in work with biological agents. Biotechnologie, genetic engineering. II. Laboratory Work. International section of the ISSA for the prevention of occupational risks in the chemical industry, 102 pp.
• MÜLLER, W.H., J.A. STALPERS, A.C. VAN AELST, M.D.M. de JONG, TH.P. VAN DER KRIFT & T. BOEKHOUT. 2000 - The taxonomic position of the genera Asterodon, Asterostroma and Coltricia inferred from the septal pore cap ultrastructure compared to some selected species belonging to the Hymenochaetaceae - Mycol. Res. 104: 1485-1491.
• STALPERS, J.A. 2000 - The genus Ptychogaster. Karstenia 40: 167-181.
• JORGENSEN, P.M., RYMAN, S., GAMS, W. & STALPERS, J.A. 2001 - Proposal to conserve the name Coprinus Pers. (Basidiomycota) with a conserved type
• SCHIPPER, M.A.A. & J.A. STALPERS. 2002 - Mucorales. In Howard (ed), Pathogenic fungi in humans and animals, ed. 2: 67-125. Marcel Dekker, New York, 790 pp.
• BOEKHOUT, T., J.A. STALPERS, S.J.W. VERDUIJN,J. RADEMAKER & M.A. NOORDELOOS 2002 – Experimental taxonomic studies in Psilocybe sect. Psilocybe - Mycol. Res.106(11): 1251-1261.
• CROUS, P.W., GAMS, W, STALPERS, J.A., ROBERT, V. & STEGEHUIS. 2004. MycoBank: an online initiative to launch mycology into the 21st century. Studies in Mycology 50: 19–22
• SUMMERBELL RC, LÉVESQUE CA, SEIFERT KA, BOVERS M, FELL JW, DIAZ MR, BOEKHOUT T, DE HOOG GS, STALPERS J, CROUS PW (2005). Microcoding: the second step in DNA barcoding. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B. 360(1462): 1897–1903.
• DECOCK, C. & STALPERS, J.A. 2006 - Proposal to conserve the name Perenniporia Murrill against Physisporus with a conserved type. Taxon 55: 227
• DECOCK, C. & STALPERS, J.A. 2006 - Studies in Perenniporia. Notes on Perenniporia, P. medulla-panis and distinction between the latter and other European taxa with a resupinate basidiocarp. Taxon 55: 759-778.
• ROBERT, V, STALPERS, J.,  BOEKHOUT, T. & TAN, S.H. 2006 – Yeast biodiversity and culture collections. In Rosa, C. & Pétér, G. (ed.) Biodiversity and Ecophysiology of yeasts. Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, 579 pp.
• LIOU, G-Y, CHEN, S.R. WEI, Y-H; LEE, F-L; FU, H-M; YUAN, G-F & STALPERS, J.A. 2006 - Polyphasic approach to the taxonomy of the Rhizopus stolonifer group. Mycol. Res. 111(2): 196-203.
• HIBBETT, David S., Manfred BINDER, Joseph F. BISCHOFF, Meredith BLACKWELL, Paul F. CANNON, Ove ERIKSSON, Sabine HUHNDORF, Timothy JAMES, Paul M. KIRK, Robert LÜCKING, Thorsten LUMBSCH, François LUTZONI, P. Brandon MATHENY, David J. MCLAUGHLIN, Martha J. POWELL, Scott REDHEAD, Conrad L. SCHOCH, Joseph W. SPATAFORA, Joost A. STALPERS, Rytas VILGALYS, M. Catherine AIME, André APTROOT, Robert BAUER, Dominik BEGEROW, Gerald L. BENNY, Lisa A. CASTLEBURY, Pedro W. CROUS, Yu-Cheng DAI, Walter GAMS, David M. GEISER, Gareth W. GRIFFITH, Cécile GUEIDAN, David L. HAWKSWORTH, Geir HESTMARK, Kentaro HOSAKA, Richard A. HUMBER, Kevin HYDE, Urmas KÕLJALG, Cletus P. KURTZMAN, Karl-Henrik LARSSON, Robert LICHTWARDT, Joyce LONGCORE, Jolanta MI?DLIKOWSKA, Andrew MILLER, Jean-Marc MONCALVO, Sharon MOZLEY-STANDRIDGE, Franz OBERWINKLER, Erast PARMASTO, Valérie REEB, Jack D. ROGERS, Claude ROUX, Leif RYVARDEN, José Paulo SAMPAIO, Arthur SCHUESSLER, Junta SUGIYAMA, R. Greg THORN, Leif TIBELL, Wendy A. UNTEREINER, Christopher WALKER, Zheng WANG, Alex WEIR, Michael WEISS, Merlin WHITE, Katarina WINKA, Yi-Jian YAO, Ning ZHANG – A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi. Mycol. Res. 111: 509-547
• TAN, S-H, INGEN, C.W. & STALPERS, J.A. 2007 – Freeze-drying using a shelf freeze-dryer. In Day, J.G. & Stacey, G. (eds) Cryopreservation and freeze-drying protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology 368: 119-126. Humana Press.
• VRIES, R.P., STALPERS, J.A., LANGE, E.S.DE & WÖSTEN, H.A.B. 2008 – Control and possible applications of a novel carrot-spoiling basidiomycete, Fibulorhizoctonia psychrophila. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 93: 407-413
• DRIEL, G.A. VAN, HUMBEL, B.M., VERKLEIJ, A.J., STALPERS, J.A., MÜLLER, W, & BOEKHOUT, T. 2008 – Septal pore complex morphology in the Agaricomycotina (Basidiomycota) with emphasis on the Cantharellales and Hymenochaetales. Mycol. Res. 113: 559-576