Biographical Sketch: Walt W. Lilly
The Coprinus cinereus Genome Project.
National Science Foundation. $750,000. 2004-2008. With
Allen Gathman, Pat Pukkila (University of North Carolina) and Fred Dietrich
(Duke University).
Internal Grants from the Grants and Research Funding Committee. Southeast Missouri State
University. In excess of $46,000 over the period 1983-2006.
Biochemistry of nitrogen-limited growth of wood-decaying fungi. National Science
Foundation. 1996-1999. $205,000 + $23, 979 in REU and ROA supplements. With Allen Gathman.
Biochemistry of nitrogen-limited growth of wood-decaying fungi. National Science
Foundation. 1993-1996. $160,000 + $14,625 in REU supplements. With Allen Gathman.
Biochemistry of nitrogen-limited growth of wood-decaying fungi. National Science
Foundation. 1990-1993. $127,500 + $6,750 in REU supplements.
Protease activity, protein turnover and nitrogen nutrition during growth of
Schizophyllum commune. Research Corporation. 1988-1990. $19,000.
Investigative experiences in molecular biology. Southeast Missouri State
University. Funding For Results Award. $21,000 1998-1999. With Allen Gathman.
(for curricular development)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Underlined Authors are undergraduates.
Stajich, J.E., Birren, B., Burns, C., Casselton, L.A., Dietrich, F., Fargo, D.C., Gathman, A.C., James, T.Y., Kamada, T., Lilly, W.W., Ma, L-J, Muraguchi, H., Palmerini, H., Rehmeyer, C., Wilke, S., Zolan, M., and Pukkila, P.J. 2006. Genomic Analysis of Coprinus cinereus. In "Proceedings of the International Symposium on Mushroom Science, Akita Prefectural University, 59-74.
*Guettler S,
Jackson EN, Lucchese SA, Honaas L, Green A, Hittinger CT, Tian Y,
Lilly WL, Gathman AC. 2003. ESTs from the basidiomycete Schizophyllum
commune grown on nitrogen replete and nitrogen-limited media. Fungal
Genetics and Biolology.
39:191-198.
*Hanks, JN,
Hearnes, JM,
Gathman, AC, and Lilly, WW. 2003. Nitrogen Starvation Induced Changes in
Amino Acid and Free Ammonium Pools of Schizophyllum commune. Current
Microbiology. IN PRESS
Johnston, JM, Ramos, ER, Bilbrey*, RE, Gathman, AC, and Lilly, WW.
2000. Characterization of ScPrI, a small serine protease from mycelia of Schizophyllum
commune. Mycol. Res. 104: 726-731.
Inselman, AL, Gathman, AC, and Lilly, WW. 1999. Two fluorescent markers identify the vacuolar system of Schizophyllum commune. Current Microbiol. 38: 295-298.
Hummel, KM, Inselman, AI, Ramos, ER, Gathman, AC and Lilly, WW. 1998. Extracellular protease production by submerge cultures of Schizophyllum commune. Mycologia. 90: 883-889.
Bilbrey, RE, Penheiter, AR, Gathman, AC, and Lilly, WW. 1996.
Characterization of a novel phenylalanine-specific aminopeptidase from the basidiomycete,
Schizophyllum commune. Mycol. Res. 100: 462-466.
Hummel, KM, Penheiter, AR, Gathman, AC, and Lilly, WW. 1996. Anomolous estimation
of protease molecular weights using gelatin-containing SDS-PAGE. Anal. Biochem. 233:
140-142.
Gordon, LJ and Lilly WW. 1995. Quantitative analysis of Schizophyllum commune
metalloprotease ScPrB activity in SDS-gelatin PAGE reveals differential myclelial
localization of nitrogen limitation-induced autolysis. Current Microbiol. 30: 337-343.
Lilly, WW, Bilbrey, RE, Williams, BL, Loos, LS, Venable, DF, and Higgins, SM. 1994.
Partial
Higgins, SM and Lilly, WW. 1993. Multiple responses to heat stress by the basidiomycete
fungus Schizophyllum commune. Current Microbiol. 26: 123-127.
Lilly, WW, Wallweber, GJ, and Lukefahr, TA. 1992. Cadmium absorption and its
effects on growth and mycelial morphology of the basidiomycete fungus, Schizophyllum
commune. Microbios 72: 227-237.
Wallweber, GJ and Lilly, WW. 1992. Purification and characterization of the two
constitutive acid phosphatase isozymes from Schizophyllum commune. Mycol Res. 96: 792-797
Lilly, WW, Wallweber, GJ, and Higgins, SM. 1991. Proteolysis and amino acid
recycling during nitrogen deprivation in Schizophyllum commune. Current Microbiol. 23:
27-32.
Lilly, WW, Higgins, SM, and Wallweber, GJ. 1990. Electrophoretic detection of
multiple proteases from Schizophyllum commune. Mycologia 82: 504-507.
Lilly, WW, Higgins, SM, and Wallweber, GJ. 1990. Uptake and translocation of
2-aminoisobutyric acid by Schizophyllum commune. Exp Mycol. 14: 169-177.
May, GD, and Lilly, WW. 1988. A rapid method for the extraction of membrane-grown
fungal cultures. Mycologia 80:247-249.
Sessoms, DB, and Lilly, WW. 1986. Derepressible proteolytic activity in
homokaryotic hyphae of Schizophyllum commune. Exp Mycol. 10: 294-300.