Hai D.T. Nguyen, Ph.D.

Current research and/or projects

My main research program is focused on taxonomic, molecular phylogenetic and genomic studies of zoosporic fungi with an emphasis on those that are agriculturally important. At the moment, I work on: the fungus causing potato wart, Synchytrium endobioticum, and its relatives in Chytridiomycota; Pythium species and related genera in the Oomycota.

Research and/or project statements

  • Development of novel molecular detection tools and bioinformatic tools
  • Whole genome sequencing and characterization of agriculturally important fungi
  • Resolving issues in fungal taxonomy
  • Fungal species identification, diagnostics, and description of novel species

Education and awards

  • Ph.D. Biology, University of Ottawa, 2015
  • M.Sc. Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, 2011
  • B.Sc. Biology (Cell and Molecular Biology), University of Ottawa, 2008

Key publications

  1. van de Vossenberg, B.T.L.H., van der Lee, T.A.J., Nguyen, H.D.T. (2020). The 2019 Potato Wart Disease workshop: shared needs and future research directions. EPPO Bulletin, [online] 50(1), 170-176. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/epp.12638

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  2. Bromfield, E.S.P., Cloutier, S., Nguyen, H.D.T. (2020). Description and complete genome sequences of bradyrhizobium symbiodeficiens sp. Nov., a non-symbiotic bacterium associated with legumes native to Canada. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (IJSEM), [online] 70(1), 442-449. http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003772

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  3. van de Vossenberg, B.T.L.H., Warris, S., Nguyen, H.D.T., van Gent-Pelzer, M.P.E., Joly, D.L., van de Geest, H.C., Bonants, P.J.M., Smith, D.S., Lévesque, C.A., van der Lee, T.A.J. (2019). Comparative genomics of chytrid fungi reveal insights into the obligate biotrophic and pathogenic lifestyle of Synchytrium endobioticum. Scientific Reports, [online] 9(1), http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-45128-9

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  4. Tremblay, É. D., D. Shearlaw, H. D. T. Nguyen, G. J. Bilodeau and S. Hambleton. 2019. Laboratory testing of qPCR assays designed in silico reveal promising results to rapidly identify phytopathogenic Tilletia species. In Plant Canada 2019 meeting. July 7-10 2019, Guelph, Ontario, Canada. (Poster).

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  5. Bromfield, E.S.P., Cloutier, S., Nguyen, H.D.T. (2019). Description and complete genome sequence of bradyrhizobium amphicarpaeae sp. Nov., harbouring photosystem and nitrogenfixation genes. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (IJSEM), [online] 69(9), 2841-2848. http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003569

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  6. Wingfield, B.D., Liu, M., Nguyen, H.D.T., Lane, F.A., Morgan, S.W., De Vos, L., Markus Wilken, P., Duong, T.A., Aylward, J., Coetzee, M.P.A., Dadej, K., De Beer, Z.W., Findlay, W., Havenga, M., Kolarík, M., Menzies, J.G., Naidoo, K., Pochopski, O., Shoukouhi, P., Santana, Q.C., Seifert, K.A., Soal, N., Steenkamp, E.T., Tatham, C.T., van der Nest, M.A., Wingfield, M.J. (2018). Nine draft genome sequences of Claviceps purpurea s.lat., including C. arundinis, C. humidiphila, and C. cf. spartinae, pseudomolecules for the pitch canker pathogen Fusarium circinatum, draft genome of Davidsoniella eucalypti, Grosmannia galeiformis, Quambalaria eucalypti, and Teratosphaeria destructans. IMA Fungus, [online] 9(2), 401-418. http://dx.doi.org/10.5598/imafungus.2018.09.02.10

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  7. Nguyen, H.D.T., Cloutier, S., Bromfield, E.S.P. (2018). Complete genome sequence of bradyrhizobium ottawaense OO99 T , an efficient nitrogen-fixing symbiont of soybean. Microbiology Resource Announcements, [online] 7(21), http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/MRA.01477-18

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  8. van de Vossenberg, B.T.L.H., Brankovics, B., Nguyen, H.D.T., van Gent-Pelzer, M.P.E., Smith, D., Dadej, K., Przetakiewicz, J., Kreuze, J.F., Boerma, M., van Leeuwen, G.C.M., André Lévesque, C., van der Lee, T.A.J. (2018). The linear mitochondrial genome of the quarantine chytrid Synchytrium endobioticum; insights into the evolution and recent history of an obligate biotrophic plant pathogen. BMC Evolutionary Biology, [online] 18(1), 136. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-018-1246-6

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  9. Díaz-Valderrama, J.R., Nguyen, H.D.T., Aime, M.C. (2017). Wallemia peruviensis sp. nov., a new xerophilic fungus from an agricultural setting in South America. Extremophiles, [online] 21(6), 1017-1025. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00792-017-0960-0

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  10. Nguyen, H.D.T., Lewis, C.T., Lévesque, C.A., Gräfenhan, T. (2016). Draft genome sequence of Alternaria alternata ATCC 34957. Genome Announcements, [online] 4(1), http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.01554-15

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  11. Hirooka, Y., Tanney, J.B., Nguyen, H.D.T., Seifert, K.A. (2016). Xerotolerant fungi in house dust: Taxonomy of Spiromastix, Pseudospiromastix and Sigleria gen. nov. in Spiromastigaceae (Onygenales, Eurotiomycetes). Mycologia, [online] 108(1), 135-156. http://dx.doi.org/10.3852/15-065

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  12. Wingfield, B.D., Ambler, J.M., Coetzee, M.P.A., Wilhelm de Beer, Z., Duong, T.A., Joubert, F., Hammerbacher, A., McTaggart, A.R., Naidoo, K., Nguyen, H.D.T., Ponomareva, E., Santana, Q.S., Seifert, K.A., Steenkamp, E.T., Trollip, C., Van der Nest, M.A., Visagie, C.M., Wilken, P.M., Wingfield, M.J., Yilmaz, N. (2016). Draft genome sequences of Armillaria fuscipes, Ceratocystiopsis minuta, Ceratocystis adiposa, Endoconidiophora laricicola, E. polonica and Penicillium freii DAOMC 242723. IMA Fungus, [online] 7(1), 217-227. http://dx.doi.org/10.5598/imafungus.2016.07.01.11

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  13. Pratibha, J., Nguyen, H.D.T., Mel'nik, V.A., Bhat, D.J., White, G.P., Seifert, K.A. (2015). Lectotypification, epitypification, and molecular phylogeny of the synnematous hyphomycete Pseudogliophragma indicum, the second genus in the Wiesneriomycetaceae. Mycoscience, [online] 56(4), 387-395. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.myc.2014.12.002

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  14. Jančič, S., Nguyen, H.D.T., Frisvad, J.C., Zalar, P., Schroers, H.J., Seifert, K.A., Gunde-Cimerman, N. (2015). A Taxonomic Revision of the Wallemia sebi Species Complex. PLoS ONE, [online] 10(5), http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125933

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  15. Nguyen, H.D.T., Jančič, S., Meijer, M., Tanney, J.B., Zalar, P., Gunde-Cimerman, N., Seifert, K.A. (2015). Application of the phylogenetic species concept to wallemia sebi from house dust and indoor air revealed by multi-locus genealogical concordance. PLoS ONE, [online] 10(3), http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0120894

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  16. Wingfield, B.D., Barnes, I., De Beer, Z.W., De Vos, L., Duong, T.A., Kanzi, A.M., Naidoo, K., Nguyen, H.D.T., Santana, Q.C., Sayari, M., Seifert, K.A., Steenkamp, E.T., Trollip, C., Van Der Merwe, N.A., Van Der Nest, M.A., Wilken, P.M., Wingfield, M.J. (2015). Draft genome sequences of Ceratocystis eucalypticola, Chrysoporthe cubensis, C. deuterocubensis, Davidsoniella virescens, Fusarium temperatum, Graphilbum fragrans, Penicillium nordicum, and Thielaviopsis musarum. IMA Fungus, [online] 6(2), 493-506. http://dx.doi.org/10.5598/imafungus.2015.06.02.13

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  17. Nguyen, H.D.T., Chabot, D., Hirooka, Y., Roberson, R.W., Seifert, K.A. (2015). Basidioascus undulatus: Genome, origins, and sexuality. IMA Fungus, [online] 6(1), 215-231. http://dx.doi.org/10.5598/imafungus.2015.06.01.14

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  18. Nguyen, H.D.T., Tanney, J.B., Chabot, D., Nickerson, N.L., Seifert, K.A. (2014). Paratritirachium curvibasidium, a new heat-resistant basidiomycete from flare pit soils in Alberta, Canada. Mycological Progress, [online] 13(3), 575-587. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11557-013-0941-3

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  19. Nguyen, H.D.T., Nickerson, N.L., Seifert, K.A. (2013). Basidioascus and Geminibasidium: A new lineage of heat-resistant and xerotolerant basidiomycetes. Mycologia, [online] 105(5), 1231-1250. http://dx.doi.org/10.3852/12-351

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  20. Nguyen, H.D.T., Seifert, K.A. (2008). Description and DNA barcoding of three new species of Leohumicola from South Africa and the United States. Persoonia, [online] 21 57-69. http://dx.doi.org/10.3767/003158508X361334

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Research facility

960 Carling Avenue
Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6
Canada

Language

English