Tyler Bourret

Contact Tyler:  tbbourret'at'ucdavis.edu
                        (530) 754-9894 (lab) 

I joined the Rizzo lab in 2012 as a PhD student in the UC Davis Plant Pathology department. My current research is focused on the ecology of invasive Phytophthora spp. in coastal Californian forests. Specifically, I am investigating a change in the pathogen community that was detected following fires that burned some of our Big Sur plots in 2008. Projects include monitoring of Phytophthora species occurring in soil and in vitro investigation of pathogenicity, survival and interactions of Phytophthora nemorosa, pseudosyringae and ramorum. Other interests of mine include fungal evolution and biodiversity, and the ecology and systematics of yeasts.  

Publications/Presentations/Posters

Bourret T.B., G.G. Grove, G.J. Vandemark, T. Henick-Kling and D.A. Glawe. 2013. Diversity and molecular determination of wild yeasts in a central Washington State vineyard. North American Fungi 8(15): 1-32. http://dx.doi.org/10.2509/naf2013.008.015

Bourret T.B., E.K. Kramer, J.D. Rogers and D.A. Glawe. 2013. Isolation of Geotrichum candidum pathogenic to tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) in Washington State. North American Fungi 8(14): 1-7. http://dx.doi.org/10.2509/naf2013.008.014

Bourret T.B., D.A. Glawe, C.G. Edwards and T. Henick-Kling. 2012. Curvibasidium rogersii, a new yeast species in the Microbotryomycetes. North American Fungi 7:1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.2509/naf2012.007.012

Bourret T.B., D.A. Glawe, G.G. Grove, T. Henick-Kling, J.D. Rogers and G.J. Vandemark. 2012. Diversity of wild yeasts in a central Washington vineyard (Poster). 13th International Congress on Yeasts, August 26-30, 2012.

Bourret T.B. 2012. Diversity of wild yeasts in a central Washington vineyard. Thesis. Washington State University, Pullman USA.

Bourret T.B. 2012. Diversity of wild yeasts in a central Washington vineyard (Presentation). Washington State University Department of Plant Pathology Seminar Series. June 28, 2012.

Bourret T.B., D.A. Glawe, G.G. Grove and T. Henick-Kling. 2012. Diversity of wild yeasts in a central Washington vineyard (Poster). Washington Association of Wine Grape Growers 2012 Annual Meeting and Trade Show. Feb 7–10, 2012.

Bourret T.B. 2011. Intragenomic polymorphisms in fungal ribosomal DNA: implications for species determination and phylogenetics (Presentation). Washington State University Department of Plant Pathology Seminar Series. September 12, 2011.

Bourret T.B. 2011. The genesis of pathogenesis: Tracing the evolutionary history of the pathogenic lifestyle in the recently reassembled fungal tree of life (Presentation). Washington State University Department of Plant Pathology Seminar Series. April 4, 2011.

Bourret T.B., D.A. Glawe, G.G. Grove and T. Henick-Kling. 2011. Yeasts associated with wine grapes (Vitis vinifera) in central Washington (Poster). Washington Association of Wine Grape Growers 2011 Annual Meeting, Convention and Trade Show. February 9-11, 2011.

Bourret T.B., J.F. Ammirati and H.D. Bradshaw. 2005. Yeast communities on fruits from the Olympic Peninsula, WA. (Presentation). Eighth Annual University of Washington Undergraduate Research Symposium. May 13, 2005.

Bourret T.B. and F.B. Taub. 2003. Seasonal Cycling In Closed Ecological Systems (Poster). Sixth Annual University of Washington Undergraduate Research Symposium. May 16, 2003.

Education