Professional Experience

Research Plant Pathologist
Western Regional Plant Introduction Station
Agricultural Research Service, USDA
Pullman, Washington
1999-present

Collection Scientist for Mycology & Botany
American Type Culture Collection
Rockville, MD & Manassas, VA
1994-1999

Research Associate
USDA-ARS Tree Fruit Research Lab
Wenatchee, WA
1992-1994

Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Plant Pathology
Washington State University
Pullman, WA
1988-1992

Forestry Technician
US Forest Service, Lolo National Forest
1965-1987

Education

Washington State University - PhD in Plant Pathology 1992

University of Montana - MS in Forestry 1988

University of Washington - BS in Biological Oceanography 1970

Professional Affiliations

American Phytopathological Society

Mycological Society of America

United States Federation for Culture Collections

International Society for Human and Animal Mycology

Canadian Phytopathalogical Society

Department of Plant Pathology (Adjunct Faculty), WSU

Research Specialties and Interests

Fungi endophytic or quiescent in seeds and fruits; etiology of diseases of stored seeds and fruits; taxonomy and identification of ascomycetes and anamorphic ascomycetes; ex-situ conservation and utilization of germ plasm of higher plants and associated microbes.

Selected Publications

Dugan, F., K. Schubert and U. Braun. 2004. Check-list of Cladosporium names. Schlechtendalia 11: 1-103.

Lupien, S.L., B.C. Hellier and F.M. Dugan. 2004. First report of onion rust Puccinia allii on Allium pskemense and A. altaicum. Plant Disease 88: 83.

Paulitz, T.C., F. Dugan, W. Chen and N.J. Grünwald. 2004. First report of Pythium irregulare on lentils in the United States. Plant Disease 88: 309.

Braun, U., P.W. Crous, F. Dugan, J.Z. Groenewald, and G.S. de Hoog. 2003. Phylogeny and taxonomy of Cladosporium-like hyphomycetes, including Davidiella gen. nov., the teleomorph of Cladosporium s. str. Mycological Progress 2(1): 3-18.

Dugan, F.M., B.C. Hellier and S.L. Lupien. 2003. First report of Fusarium proliferatum causing rot of garlic bulbs in North America. Plant Pathology 52: 426.

F.M. Dugan. 2002. Fungal Biotechnology, Mycopesticides, pp. 578-579 in: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 9th ed.

Dugan, F.M. and S.L. Lupien. 2002. Filamentous fungi quiescent in seeds and culm nodes of weedy and forage grass species endemic to the Palouse region of Washington and Idaho. Mycopathologia 156:31-40.

Dugan, F.M., S.L. Lupien and G.G. Grove. 2002. Incidence, aggressiveness, and in planta interactions of Botrytis cinerea and other filamentous fungi quiescent in grape berries and dormant buds in central Washington state. Journal of Phytopathology 150:375-381.

Dugan, F.M. and T. L. Peever. 2002. Morphological and cultural differentiation of described species of Alternaria from Poaceae. Mycotaxon 83: 229-264.

Dugan, F.M., J.W. Sitton, R.F. Sullivan and J.F. White, Jr. 2002. The Neotyphodium endophyte of wild barley, (Hordeum brevisubulatem subsp. violaceum) grows and sporulates on leaf surfaces of the host. Symbiosis 32:147-159.

Schroeder, B.K., S.L. Lupien and F.M. Dugan. 2002. First report of pink seed of pea caused by Erwinia rhapontici in the United States. Plant Disease 86:188.

Dugan, F.M., and J.S. Tang. 2000. Culture collections, in: Encyclopedia of Food Microbiology Vol.I, pp. 498-502, edited by R.K. Robinson, C.A. Batt and P.D. Patel. Academic Press, London.

Youssef, N.N., and F.M. Dugan. 2000. Location of an endophytic Neotyphodium sp. within various leaf tissues of wild barley (Hordeum brevisubulatum subsp. violaceum). Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter 124:17-19.

Ho, M.-H.M., R.F. Castaneda, F.M. Dugan, and S.C. Jong. 1999. Cladosporium and Cladophialophora in culture: descriptions and an expanded key. Mycotaxon 72:115-157.

Dugan, F.M. 1998. Air pollution (indoor, fungi), pp. 12-14, in: 1999 McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology. McGraw-Hill, New York.

Dugan, F.M., and K.K. Nakasone. 1998. Mapping the microbial universe: The importance of living collections for fungal systematics. Diversity 14(3&4):35-39.

Dugan, F.M., and R.G. Roberts. 1997. Preharvest fungal colonization affects storage life of Bing cherry fruit. J. of Phytopathology 145:225-230.

Jong, S.C., F. Dugan, and M.J. Edwards. 1996. ATCC Filamentous Fungi, 19th ed. ATCC, Rockville, MD. 726 + ix pp.

Dugan, F.M., R.G. Roberts, and R.T. Hanlin. 1995. New and rare fungi from cherry fruits. Mycologia 87:713-718.

Dugan, F.M., and R.G. Roberts. 1994. Etiology of pre-harvest infections of bing cherry fruits by fungi. Phytopathology 84:1031-1036.

Dugan, F.M., G.G. Grove, and J.D. Rogers. 1993. Comparative studies of Cryptosporiopsis curvispora and C. perennans: I. Morphology and pathogenic behavior. Mycologia 85:551-564.

Dugan, F.M., R.G. Roberts, and G.G. Grove. 1993. Comparative studies of Cryptosporiopsis curvispora and C. perennans: II. Cytology and vegetative compatibility. Mycologia 85:565-573.

Grove, G.G., F.M. Dugan, and R.J. Boal. 1992. Perennial canker of apple: seasonal host susceptibility, spore production, and perennation of Cryptosporiopsis perennans in infected fruit in eastern Washington. Plant Disease 76:1109-1114.