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About Me

EDUCATION

AA (Liberal Arts) 1971 Atlantic Community College

BS (Science Education) 1973 Rowan University

Ph. D. (Ecology) 1981 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

TEACHING

Course Listing

I teach biology courses at Tennessee State, and have the following interests in biological research.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

The evolution and ecology of natural yeast communities; mutualism among yeast, insects and hosts

• Jamil's Gel  P. orbus killer plate 
• Tables  19th Int.Yeast Conf. Talk 
• Figures  19th Int.Yeast Conf. Poster 
• Australian Unknown   
• Peruvian Flower Yeast
 

ACADEMIC VISITS

• First Caribbean Cacti
• Second Caribbean Cacti
• Chilean Cacti
• Peruvian&Guatemalan Cacti
• 19th Int.Yeast Conf
• 19th Int.Yeast Conf. Talk
  
  

 PUBLICATIONS

• Refereed Journals: 25
• Book Chapters: 3
• Presentations: 22

Ganter, P. F. 2011. Cactophilic yeast: everything is not everywhere. In: Fontaneto, D., editor. Biogeography of microorganisms. Is Everything Small Everywhere? Systematics Association Special Volumes Series 79. Cambridge University Press. pp. 130-174.

Ganter, P. F., G. Cardinali, and K. Boundy-Mills. 2010. Pichia insulana, an new cactophilic yeast from Curaçao. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 60: 1001-1007.

de Barros Lopes, M. and P. F. Ganter. 2006. The cactus-yeast community. In: A.K. Sharma and A. Sharma, editors. Plant Genome: Biodiversity and Evolution, Vol. 2B: Lower Groups. Science Publishers from New Hampshire. pp 459-479.

Ganter, P. F. 2006. Yeast and invertebrate associations. In Rosa, C. A. and Gabor, P. Biodiversity and Ecophysiology of Yeasts. pp. 303-370. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg. pp 303-370.

Ganter, P. F., G. Cardinali, M. Giammaria, B. Quarles. 2004. Correlations among measures of phenotypic and genetic variation within an oligotrophic asexual yeast, Candida sonorensis, collected from Opuntia. FEMS Yeast Research 4:527-540