Gillian Gile
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Phone: 480-727-4761
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Mail code: 4501Campus: Tempe
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Gillian Gile is an evolutionary microbiologist who studies symbiosis, defined as a relationship between distinct organisms that is maintained over evolutionary time. Microbial eukaryotes, the single-celled relatives of plants and animals also known as protists, engage in a fascinating array of partnerships with each other, with bacteria, and even with plants and animals.
One such symbiosis is the partnership between termites and the protists that live in their guts and help with wood digestion. Another study system is the far more ancient symbiosis between a protist and a photosynthetic bacterium that ultimately led to the complex cells of modern plants and algae. Professor Gile uses molecular biology, phylogenetics, and comparative genomics techniques to understand how the protists in these symbioses interact and co-evolve with their partners.
- Ph.D. University of British Columbia, Canada 2009
- B.S. Humboldt State University, California 2005
Select Publications:
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Taerum SJ, Jasso-Selles DE, Hileman JT, De Martini F, Mizumoto N, Gile GH. 2020. Spirotrichonymphea (Parabasalia) symbionts of the termite Paraneotermes simplicicornis. European Journal of Protistology 76:125742.
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Jasso-Selles DE, De Martini F, Velenovsky JF, Mee ED, Hileman JT, Montoya SJ, Garcia MD, Su N-Y, Chouvenc T, Gile GH. 2020. The protist symbiont communities of Coptotermes formosanus and Coptotermes gestroi: Morphological and molecular characterization of five new species. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 67:626-641.
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Dorrell RG, Azuma T, Nomura M, Auren de Kerdrel G, Paoli L, Bowler C, Ishii K, Miyashita H, Gile GH, Kamikawa R. 2019. Principles of plastid reductive evolution illuminated by non-photosynthetic chrysophytes. PNAS 116:6914-6923.
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Taerum SJ, De Martini F, Liebig JR, Gile GH. 2018. Incomplete co-cladogenesis between Zootermopsis termites and their associated protists. Environmental Entomology 47:184-195.
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Gavelis GS, Gile GH. 2018. How did cyanobacteria first embark on the path to becoming plastids?: Lessons from protist symbioses. FEMS Microbiology Letters 367:fny209.
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Jasso-Selles D, De Martini F, Freeman KD, Garcia MD, Merrell TL, Scheffrahn RH, Gile GH. 2017. The parabasalid symbiont community of Heterotermes aureus: Molecular and morphological characterization and description of four new species and reestablishment of the genus Cononympha. European Journal of Protistology, 61:48-63.
- Čepička I, Dolan MF, Gile GH. 2017. Parabasalia. In: Handbook of Protists, Archibald JM, Simpson AGB, Slamovits CH eds. Springer, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-32669-6_9-1.
Courses
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MBB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MIC 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MIC 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 340 | General Genetics |
BIO 340 | General Genetics |
BIO 340 | General Genetics |
BIO 340 | General Genetics |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 340 | General Genetics |
BIO 598 | Special Topics |
2024 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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BDE 792 | Research |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
MBB 493 | Honors Thesis |
MIC 493 | Honors Thesis |
MIC 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
MBB 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BDE 799 | Dissertation |
BDE 792 | Research |
BDE 795 | Continuing Registration |
BDE 799 | Dissertation |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
MIC 494 | Special Topics |
BIO 591 | Seminar |
BIO 591 | Seminar |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
MIC 494 | Special Topics |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MBB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MIC 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MIC 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 340 | General Genetics |
BIO 340 | General Genetics |
BIO 340 | General Genetics |
BIO 340 | General Genetics |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 598 | Special Topics |
2023 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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BDE 792 | Research |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
MIC 495 | Undergraduate Research |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
---|---|
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
MIC 493 | Honors Thesis |
MIC 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
MBB 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BDE 799 | Dissertation |
BDE 792 | Research |
BDE 795 | Continuing Registration |
BDE 799 | Dissertation |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
MIC 494 | Special Topics |
MIC 494 | Special Topics |
BIO 591 | Seminar |
BIO 591 | Seminar |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MIC 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MIC 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
2022 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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BDE 792 | Research |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
---|---|
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
MIC 493 | Honors Thesis |
MIC 495 | Undergraduate Research |
MBB 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BDE 799 | Dissertation |
BDE 792 | Research |
BDE 792 | Research |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
MIC 494 | Special Topics |
BIO 591 | Seminar |
BDE 795 | Continuing Registration |
BDE 799 | Dissertation |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
MIC 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MIC 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 340 | General Genetics |
BIO 340 | General Genetics |
BIO 340 | General Genetics |
BIO 340 | General Genetics |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 340 | General Genetics |
2021 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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BDE 792 | Research |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
---|---|
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
MIC 493 | Honors Thesis |
MIC 495 | Undergraduate Research |
MBB 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BDE 799 | Dissertation |
BDE 792 | Research |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
MIC 494 | Special Topics |
BIO 591 | Seminar |
EVO 598 | Special Topics |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
MIC 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MIC 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 340 | General Genetics |
BIO 340 | General Genetics |
BIO 340 | General Genetics |
BIO 340 | General Genetics |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 394 | Special Topics |
BIO 340 | General Genetics |
BIO 340 | General Genetics |
2020 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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BDE 792 | Research |
MIC 495 | Undergraduate Research |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
MIC 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MIC 493 | Honors Thesis |
MIC 495 | Undergraduate Research |
MBB 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BDE 799 | Dissertation |
BDE 792 | Research |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
MIC 494 | Special Topics |
BIO 591 | Seminar |
EVO 598 | Special Topics |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
MIC 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MIC 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 340 | General Genetics |
BIO 340 | General Genetics |
BIO 340 | General Genetics |
BIO 340 | General Genetics |
BIO 340 | General Genetics |
BIO 340 | General Genetics |
BIO 340 | General Genetics |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 394 | Special Topics |