Dr. Miranda Hart
Assistant Professor
Email: mhart@uoguelph.ca
Office: SCIE 2457
Ext: 56855
Lab: SCIE 2405/2406
Ext: 53594
Profile | Education | Research | Publications | Teaching | Grad Students |
Profile
I studied Biology at the University of Saskatchewan as an undergrad, with an emphasis on ecology. After reading a paper in the New Yorker, I was galvanized to save the world's forests. At the University of Alberta, I took a M.Sc. in Forest Science, but while I was there, a paper about mycorrhizas aborted a career in tree physiology. For my PhD, I studied arbuscular mycorrhizas at Guelph, followed by a post doc in environmental biology.
Education
B.Sc. - University of Saskatchewan 1996
M.Sc. - University of Alberta 1998
Ph.D. - University of Guelph 2002
PDF - University of Guelph 2004
Research
I am a microbial ecologist. I look at various types of microbes, in various contexts. Right now, I’m interested in microbial gastronomy – or how microbial ecology plays a role in the development of wine and many of the foods we eat. I’m also interested in the role of microbes restoration ecology and sustainable agriculture. I use molecular tools to characterize and track microbes in food and in the environment. I am presently recruiting graduate students. Please see advert below.
Selected Publications
Hart M.M. and Trevors, J.T. 2005. The practical application of mycorrhizas, what are we waiting for? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3: 533-539.
Hart, M.M., Reader, R.J. and Klironomos, J.N. 2003. Plant coexistence mediated by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Trends in Evolution and Ecology 18: 418-423.
Hart, M.M. and Reader, R.J. 2002. Taxonomic basis for variation in the colonization strategy of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. New Phytologist 153: 335-344
Hart, M.M., Reader, R.J. and Klironomos, J.N. 2001. Life-history strategies of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in relation to their successional dynamics. Mycologia. 83: 1184-1196
Klironomos, J.N. and Hart, M.M.. 2001. Animal nitrogen swap for plant carbon. Nature 410: 651-652
Teaching
BIOL*1040 (Ecology section)
Coordinating several IB graduate courses
Grad Students
Currently recruiting
(position description).