2004           German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Short-term lectureship  in Ecuador

1998 - 2002 German Academic Exchange Service PhD scholarship (DAAD)

My research focuses mainly on biodiversity, micro- and macroevolutionary processes within diverse lineages in the fungi kingdom by integrating molecular and nonmolecular features. I’m also particularly interested in population community assemblages of fungi associated with land plants across a broad spectrum of habitats, linking phylogeny, ultrastructure and environmental characteristics.

Prof. Dr. Joseph Ammirati (University of Washington, USA)
Dr. Victor Bandala (Institute of Ecology A.C Xalapa , Mexico)
Ing. Miguel Angel Jara (CONAF IX Region, Chile)
Dr. Martin Nebel (State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, Germany)
Dr. Bernd Oertel (University of Bonn, Germany)
Gunther Saar (Germany)
Dr. Sabrina Setaro (Wake Forest University, USA)

Module

Botany practical course

Evolution and ecology of fungus-plant associations

Evolution and ecology of fungi

Fungi in subalpine ecosystems

Vegetation of Chile

Setaro SD, Garnica S, Herrera PI, Suárez JP, and Görker M. (2011). A clustering optimization strategy to estimate species richness of Sebacinales in the tropical Andes based on molecular sequences from distinct DNA regions. Biodivers Conserv, doi: 10.1007/s10531-011-205-y

Garnica S, Spahn P, Oertel B, Ammirati J, and Oberwinkler F. (2011). Tracking the evolutionary history of Cortinarius species in section Calochroi, with transoceanic disjunct distributions. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11:213, doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-213

Krause C, Garnica S, Bauer R, and Nebel M. (2011). Aneuraceae (Metzgeriales) and tulasnelloid fungi (Basidiomycota) - a model for early steps in fungal symbiosis. Fungal Biology:1e13, doi: 10.1016/j.funbio.2011.06.013

Weiß M, Sykorova Z, Garnica S, Riess K, Martos F, Krause C, Oberwinkler F, Bauer R, and Redecker D (2011). Sebacinales Everywhere: Previously Overlooked Ubiquitous Fungal Endophytes. PLoS ONE 6(2): e16793, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016793

Kottke I, Suárez JP, Herrera P, Gruz D, Bauer R, Haug I, and Garnica S. (2010). Atractiellomycetes belonging to the 'rust' lineage (Pucciniomycota) from mycorrhizae with terrestrial and epiphytic neotropical orchids. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 277(1685): 1289-1298, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1884

Garnica S, Weiß M, Oertel B, Ammirati J, and Oberwinkler F. (2009). Phylogenetic relationships in Cortinarius, section Calochroi, inferred from nuclear DNA sequences. BMC Evolutionary Biology 9: 1, doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-1

Garnica S, Weiß M, Walther G, and Oberwinkler F (2007). Reconstructing the evolution of agarics from nuclear gene sequences and basidiospore ultrastructure. Mycological Research 111: 1019–1029, doi: 10.1016/j.mycres.2007.03.019. Feature of this article in Science. Evolution survival aids, doi: 10.1126/science.316.5825.662a

Ammirati J, Garnica S, Halling RE, Mata M, Mueller GM, and Carranza J (2007). New Cortinarius species associated with Quercus and Comarostaphylis in Costa Rica. Canadian Journal of Botany 85: 794-812, doi:10.1139/B07-067

Shefferson R, Taylor D, Weiß M, Garnica S, McCormick M, Adams S, Gray H, McFarland J, Kull T, Tali K, Yukawa T, Kawahara T, Miyoshi K, Lee Y-I (2007). The evolutionary history of mycorrhizal specificity among lady's slipper orchids. Evolution 61: 1380–1390, doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00112.x

Suárez JP, Weiß M, Abele A, Garnica S, Oberwinkler F, and Kottke I (2006). Diverse tulasnelloid fungi form mycorrhizas with epiphytic orchids in an Andean cloud forest. Mycological Research 110: 1257–1270, doi:10.1016/j.mycres.2006.08.004

Moncalvo JM, Nilsson RH, Koster B, Dunham SM, Bernauer T, Matheny PB, McLenon? T, Margaritescu S, Weiß M, Garnica S, Danell E, Langer G, Langer E, Larsson E, Larsson K-H, and Vilgalys R (2006). The cantharelloid clade: dealing with incongruent gene trees and phylogenetic reconstruction methods. Mycologia 98(6): 937–948, doi:10.3852/mycologia.98.6.937

Garnica S, Weiß M, Oertel B, and Oberwinkler F (2005). A framework for a phylogenetic classification in the genus Cortinarius (Basidiomycota, Agaricales) derived from morphological and molecular data. Canadian Journal of Botany 83: 1457–1477, doi:10.1139/b05-107

Walther G, Garnica S, and Weiß M (2005). The systematic relevance of conidiogenesis modes in the gilled Agaricales. Mycological Research 109: 525–544, doi:10.1017/S0953756205002868

Garnica S, Weiß M, and Oberwinkler F (2003). Morphological and molecular phylogenetic studies in South American Cortinarius species. Mycological Research 107: 1143–1156, doi:10.1017/S0953756203008414

Garnica S, Weiß M, Oertel B, and Oberwinkler F (2003). Phylogenetic relationships of European Phlegmacium species (Cortinarius, Agaricales). Mycologia 95: 1155–1170.