Faculty profile
Toby Spribille
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Latest papers
Evidence for extensive diversity in the pollen-parasitic genus Retiarius in western North America, including two new species associated with lichens.
Mycologia · 2025 · senior author
Making Fungal-Photobiont Symbioses in the Lab: Past, Present, and Future of the Elusive In Vitro Lichen.
Annual review of microbiology · 2025 · senior author
Endangered Deep-Snow Mountain Caribou Have a Distinct Winter Diet and Gut Microbiome That May Be Altered by Maternal Penning.
Molecular ecology · 2025 · senior author
Latest funding
- $150,000
Symbiosis
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
- $150,000
Confocal Microscope Upgrade for Development, Physiology & Evo-Devo Studies
NSERC · 2022 · Co-investigator
- $120,000
Evolution of organismal composition and architecture in self-assembling fungal symbioses
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
21 publications.
Evidence for extensive diversity in the pollen-parasitic genus Retiarius in western North America, including two new species associated with lichens.
Huereca A, Allen CCG, McMullin RT, Simon A, Belosokhov A, Spribille T
Making Fungal-Photobiont Symbioses in the Lab: Past, Present, and Future of the Elusive In Vitro Lichen.
Belosokhov A, Spribille T
Endangered Deep-Snow Mountain Caribou Have a Distinct Winter Diet and Gut Microbiome That May Be Altered by Maternal Penning.
Sugden S, Serrouya R, Neufeld L, Schwantje H, St Clair CC, Stein L, Spribille T
Massive Gene Loss in the Fungus Sporothrix epigloea Accompanied a Shift to Life in a Glucuronoxylomannan-based Gel Matrix.
Allen CCG, Díaz-Escandón D, DeLong-Duhon S, Tagirdzhanova G, Huereca A, Reckseidler-Zenteno S, Forbes A, Spribille T
Microbial occurrence and symbiont detection in a global sample of lichen metagenomes.
Tagirdzhanova G, Saary P, Cameron ES, Allen CCG, Garber AI, Escandón DD, Cook AT, Goyette S, Nogerius VT, Passo A, Mayrhofer H, Holien H, Tønsberg T, Stein LY, Finn RD, Spribille T
Systemic infection of Bryoria (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota) by Athelia (Agaricomycetes, Basidiomycota) in western North America.
Goyette S, Spirin V, Spribille T
Genome-level analyses resolve an ancient lineage of symbiotic ascomycetes.
Díaz-Escandón D, Tagirdzhanova G, Vanderpool D, Allen CCG, Aptroot A, Češka O, Hawksworth DL, Huereca A, Knudsen K, Kocourková J, Lücking R, Resl P, Spribille T
Evolutionary biology of lichen symbioses.
Spribille T, Resl P, Stanton DE, Tagirdzhanova G
Large differences in carbohydrate degradation and transport potential among lichen fungal symbionts.
Resl P, Bujold AR, Tagirdzhanova G, Meidl P, Freire Rallo S, Kono M, Fernández-Brime S, Guðmundsson H, Andrésson ÓS, Muggia L, Mayrhofer H, McCutcheon JP, Wedin M, Werth S, Willis LM, Spribille T
Let's not abandon Russian scientists.
Holdren J, Fedoroff N, Lane N, Talbot N, Spribille T
Symbiosis
Principal investigators: Spribille, Toby
Keywords: symbiosis; evolution; genomics; bioinformatics; fungi; algae; bacteria; lichens; polysaccharides; proteins
Confocal Microscope Upgrade for Development, Physiology & Evo-Devo Studies
Principal investigators: Leys, Sally
Evolution of organismal composition and architecture in self-assembling fungal symbioses
Principal investigators: Spribille, Toby
Evolution of organismal composition and architecture in self-assembling fungal symbioses
Principal investigators: Spribille, Toby
Keywords: symbiosis; biofilms; genomics; fungi; algae; bacteria; metabolism; lichens; microscopy; natural selection
Evolution of organismal composition and architecture in self-assembling fungal symbioses
Principal investigators: Spribille, Toby
Symbiosis
Principal investigators: Spribille, Toby
Keywords: symbiosis; evolution; microbiology; fungi; systems biology; ; genomics; molecular biology; microscopy; ecology
Symbiosis
Principal investigators: Spribille, Toby
Symbiosis
Principal investigators: Spribille, Toby
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Jennifer Geddes-McAlister and Adnane Sellam: 2 shared papers
- Jennifer Geddes-McAlister and Toby Spribille: 1 shared paper
- Jennifer Geddes-McAlister and Isabelle Benoit Gelber: 1 shared paper
- Jennifer Geddes-McAlister and Rajagopal Subramaniam: 1 shared paper
- Adnane Sellam and Toby Spribille: 1 shared paper
- Adnane Sellam and Isabelle Benoit Gelber: 1 shared paper
- Adnane Sellam and Rajagopal Subramaniam: 1 shared paper
- Toby Spribille and Lisa Stein: 1 shared paper
- Toby Spribille and Rebecca Case: 1 shared paper
- Toby Spribille and Isabelle Benoit Gelber: 1 shared paper
- Toby Spribille and Rajagopal Subramaniam: 1 shared paper
- Department of Biological Sciences
- Microbiologie, infectiologie et immunologie
- Biology
- Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Biological Sciences - University of Alberta
- Cereals and Pulses
- Biological Sciences
Co-authors at University of Alberta, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Rebecca Case
Biological Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Lisa Stein
Biological Sciences - University of Alberta
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Isabelle Benoit Gelber
Biology
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Rajagopal Subramaniam
Cereals and Pulses
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Jennifer Geddes-McAlister
Molecular and Cellular Biology
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Adnane Sellam
Microbiologie, infectiologie et immunologie
1 shared papers, latest 2021
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