University of Michigan
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Timothy James

Timothy James

  • Assistant Professor
    Assistant Curator of Fungi
  • Ph.D., Duke University, 2003
  • James Lab

Contact information

  • University of Michigan
    1147 Kraus Natural Science Building
    830 North University
    Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048
  • Phone: (734) 615-7753
  • Lab: (734) 763-8161
  • Email: tyjames@umich.edu

Fields of study

Evolution of fungi, mating systems, and phylogenetics

Academic background

I received my Ph.D. degree from Duke University in biology in 2003. I was a postdoctoral fellow in biology at Duke University from 2003-2006, in evolutionary biology at Uppsala University from 2006-2007, and in biology at McMaster University 2008.

Graduate students

Thomas Jenkinson, Iman Sylvain

UM affiliation

  • Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • U-M Herbarium

Related news

James wins peer-nominated mycology award

Timothy JamesProfessor Tim James was awarded the C.J. Alexopoulos Prize at the annual Mycological Society of America meeting.

NSF grants to digitize biological collections

Professor Timothy James and Rich Rabeler, assistant research scientist, have been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation as part of an initiative to integrate and digitize information for biologists, policy-makers and the general public.

Tree of life sprouts new branch: James interviewed on NPR

Listen in to Professor Timothy James who was interviewed as a related expert on National Public Radio Thursday, May 12, 2011 regarding a paper published in Nature.