Authors

Efren Cazares

Efren is a Research Assistant Professor at Oregon State University. Efren earned his B.S. in Biology at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León in Monterrey, México. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University in 1992. He was an Associate Professor at Instituto Tecnológico de Cd. Victoria in Mexico from 1992 to 1995, teaching introductory Microbiology and General Ecology. He specializes in the systematics and taxonomy of mycorrhizal fungi, mycorrhizal ecology and applications, small mammal mycophagy, and rare, sensitive or endemic fungi in the Pacific Northwest..