Richard Summerbell

Summerbell has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers[https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?start=0&q=author:%22R+Summerbell%22&hl=en&num=100&as_sdt=2001&as_vis=1&as_subj=bio+med Richard Summerbell on Google Scholar]. Retrieved 2010-06-29. Google Scholar lists 154 results. in mycology, botany and bacteriology, including research papers in Nature{{cite journal |doi=10.1038/19519 |year=1999 |last1=Currie |first1=Cameron R. |last2=Scott |first2=James A. |last3=Summerbell |first3=Richard C. |last4=Malloch |first4=David |journal=Nature |volume=398 |pages=701–704 |title=Fungus-growing ants use antibiotic-producing bacteria to control garden parasites |issue=6729|bibcode=1999Natur.398..701C |s2cid=4411217 }} and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.{{cite journal |doi=10.1098/rstb.2005.1721 |pmc=1609221 |title=Microcoding: the second step in DNA barcoding |pmid=16214747 |year=2005 |last1=Summerbell |first1=R.C. |last2=Lévesque |first2=C.A. |last3=Seifert |first3=K.A. |last4=Bovers |first4=M. |last5=Fell |first5=J.W. |last6=Diaz |first6=M.R. |last7=Boekhout |first7=T. |last8=De Hoog |first8=G.S. |last9=Stalpers |first9=J. |last10=Crous |first10=P. W. |journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |volume=360 |issue=1462 |pages=1897–903|display-authors=8 }} Much of the research explores opportunistic fungal pathogens—those that grow on (and at the expense of) humans and animals—and the unique ways in which these organisms exploit their environments. These environments are diverse. They include biofilms in hospital plumbing that harbour fungal pathogens which attack patients hospitalized for leukemia or major organ transplants.{{cite journal |vauthors=Anaissie EJ, Kuchar RT, Rex JH, etal |title=Fusariosis associated with pathogenic fusarium species colonization of a hospital water system: a new paradigm for the epidemiology of opportunistic mold infections |journal=Clinical Infectious Diseases |volume=33 |issue=11 |pages=1871–8 |date=December 2001 |pmid=11692299 |doi=10.1086/324501|doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |vauthors=Anaissie EJ, Stratton SL, Dignani MC, etal |title=Pathogenic molds (including Aspergillus species) in hospital water distribution systems: a 3-year prospective study and clinical implications for patients with hematologic malignancies |journal=Blood |volume=101 |issue=7 |pages=2542–6 |date=April 2003 |pmid=12468437 |doi=10.1182/blood-2002-02-0530|doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |vauthors=Anaissie EJ, Stratton SL, Dignani MC, etal |title=Cleaning patient shower facilities: a novel approach to reducing patient exposure to aerosolized Aspergillus species and other opportunistic molds |journal=Clinical Infectious Diseases |volume=35 |issue=8 |pages=E86–8 |date=October 2002 |pmid=12355397 |doi=10.1086/342305|doi-access=free }} They also include waterfront vacation properties on streams, lakes or rivers that infect otherwise healthy visitors with the often deadly disease blastomycosis.{{cite journal |vauthors=Morris SK, Brophy J, Richardson SE, etal |title=Blastomycosis in Ontario, 1994-2003 |journal=Emerging Infectious Diseases |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=274–9 |date=February 2006 |pmid=16494754 |doi=10.3201/eid1202.050849 |pmc=3373107}} His most cited works are on the fungi that cause human skin diseases (dermatophytes) and nail infections (onychomycosis).{{cite journal |vauthors=Summerbell RC, Kane J, Krajden S |title=Onychomycosis, tinea pedis and tinea manuum caused by non-dermatophytic filamentous fungi |journal=Mycoses |volume=32 |issue=12 |pages=609–19 |date=December 1989 |pmid=2533665 |doi=10.1111/j.1439-0507.1989.tb02192.x|s2cid=32915689 }} {{As of|2010|7|9|df=US}}, his 1989 paper on onychomycosis is the most-cited original research paper published in the over 50-year history of the journal Mycoses.{{cite web |url=https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?as_q=&num=100&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=any&as_sauthors=&as_publication=mycoses&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_sdt=1.&as_sdtp=on&as_sdts=5&hl=en |title=Google Scholar search of papers in Mycoses ranked by number of times cited |access-date=2010-07-09}} {{As of|2010|7|9|df=US}}, Google Scholar counted 195 papers that cited Summerbell's paper and 207 papers that cited review paper {{cite journal |vauthors=Heykants J, Van Peer A, Van de Velde V, etal |title=The clinical pharmacokinetics of itraconazole: an overview |journal=Mycoses |volume=32 |issue=Suppl 1 |pages=67–87 |year=1989 |pmid=2561187 |doi=10.1111/j.1439-0507.1989.tb02296.x|s2cid=3928107 }}

Summerbell spent a decade as the Chief of Medical Mycology at the Ontario Ministry of Health Public Health Lab in Toronto, followed by 6 years as senior scientist at the Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, a mycological institute and branch of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Utrecht.[http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theappetizer/archive/2009/05/20/back-to-plastic-reusable-grocery-bags-may-pose-public-health-risk.aspx News article from The National Post, 20 May 2009] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100304101442/http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theappetizer/archive/2009/05/20/back-to-plastic-reusable-grocery-bags-may-pose-public-health-risk.aspx |date=4 March 2010 }}. Retrieved 2010-07-00. He was editor-in-chief of the international scientific journal Medical Mycology from 2000 to 2004.Medical Mycology, Volume 42, Issue 1 2004, page i. Since 2008, he has been a faculty member of the University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public HealthFaculty of the University of Toronto School of Public Health [http://www.sph.utoronto.ca/faculty_template_new.asp?GetFile=RSummerbell]. Retrieved 2010-06-29. and research director of Sporometrics, a Toronto-based microbiological testing company.

Summerbell has co-authored two textbooks in medical mycology, Identifying Filamentous Fungi{{cite book |first1=Guy |last1=St Germain |first2=Richard |last2=Summerbell |title=Identifying Filamentous Fungi: A Clinical Laboratory Handbook |publisher=Star Publishing Company |year=1995 |isbn=978-0-89863-177-7}} (simultaneously published in French as Champignons Filamenteux D'Intérêt Medical{{cite book |first1=Guy |last1=St Germain |first2=Richard |last2=Summerbell |title=Champignons Filamenteux D'Intérêt Medical |publisher=Star Publishing Company |year=1995 |isbn=978-0-89863-179-1}}) and Laboratory Handbook of Dermatophytes.{{cite book |first1=Julius |last1=Kane |first2=Richard |last2=Summerbell |last3=Sigler |last4=Krajden |last5=Land |title=Laboratory Handbook of Dermatophytes: A Clinical Guide and Laboratory Handbook of Dermatophytes and Other Filamentous Fungi from Skin, Hair, and Nails |publisher=Star Pub Co |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-89863-157-9}}

Species (co-)described include:

• Arachnomyces kanei (asexual state Onychocola kanei), an invader of human nails{{cite journal |vauthors=Gibas CF, Sigler L, Summerbell RC, Hofstader SL, Gupta AK |title=Arachnomyces kanei (anamorph Onychocola kanei) sp. nov., from human nails |journal=Medical Mycology |volume=40 |issue=6 |pages=573–80 |date=December 2002 |pmid=12521121 |url=http://www.devonian2.ualberta.ca/uamh/UAMH_Pub_pdf_files/2002%20Med%20Mycol%20Arachnomyces%20kanei.pdf |doi=10.1080/714031153 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706205953/http://www.devonian2.ualberta.ca/uamh/UAMH_Pub_pdf_files/2002%20Med%20Mycol%20Arachnomyces%20kanei.pdf |archive-date=6 July 2011 }}
• Phaeoacremonium krajdenii, a cause of subcutaneous infection of humans{{cite journal |vauthors=Mostert L, Groenewald JZ, Summerbell RC, etal |title=Species of Phaeoacremonium Associated with Infections in Humans and Environmental Reservoirs in Infected Woody Plants |journal=Journal of Clinical Microbiology |volume=43 |issue=4 |pages=1752–67 |date=April 2005 |pmid=15814996 |pmc=1081309 |doi=10.1128/JCM.43.4.1752-1767.2005}}
• Phaeoacremonium alvesii, a cause of subcutaneous infection of humans
• Phaeoacremonium amstelodamense, a cause of human joint infection
• Phaeoacremonium australiense, an endophyte of grapevines
• Phaeoacremonium griseorubrum, a cause of human fungemia (blood infection)
• Phaeoacremonium scolyti, an endophyte of grapevine, also isolated from bark beetle larvae
• Phaeoacremonium subulatum, an endophyte of grapevine
• Phaeoacremonium tardicrescens, from unspecified human medical source
• Phaeoacremonium venezuelense, from eumycetoma of the human foot
• Phaeoacremonium sphinctrophorum, from fungal cyst of the human foot{{cite journal |doi=10.3114/sim.54.1.1 |title=Taxonomy and Pathology of Togninia (Diaporthales) and its Phaeoacremonium Anamorphs |year=2006 |last1=Mostert |first1=L. |last2=Groenewald |first2=J. Z. |last3=Summerbell |first3=R. C. |last4=Gams |first4=W. |last5=Crous |first5=P. W. |journal=Studies in Mycology |volume=54 |pages=1–113|doi-access=free |hdl=20.500.11755/d8b25f8b-b0c3-45e1-b845-bf2f483bb566 |hdl-access=free }}
• Phaeoacremonium theobromatis, from stem of wild mountain cocoa (Theobroma gileri) in Ecuador
• Neocudoniella radicella, ectomycorrhizal with black spruce (Picea mariana){{cite journal |first1=Linda M. |last1=Kohn |first2=Richard |last2=Summerbell |first3=David W. |last3=Malloch |year=1986 |title=A New Inoperculate Discomycete Associated with Roots of Picea |journal=Mycologia |volume=78 |issue=6 |pages=934–40 |jstor=3807434 |doi=10.2307/3807434}}
• Teberdinia hygrophila a northern and alpine soil fungus{{cite journal |vauthors=Sogonov MV, Schroers HJ, Gams W, Dijksterhuis J, Summerbell RC |title=The hyphomycete Teberdinia hygrophila gen. nov., sp. nov. and related anamorphs of Pseudeurotium species |journal=Mycologia |volume=97 |issue=3 |pages=695–709 |year=2005 |pmid=16392257 |doi=10.3852/mycologia.97.3.695}}
• Acremonium fuci, an endophyte of brown marine algae in the genus Fucus{{cite journal |first1=Alga |last1=Zuccaro |first2=Richard C. |last2=Summerbell |first3=Walter |last3=Gams |first4=Hans-Josef |last4=Schroers |first5=Julian I. |last5=Mitchell |year=2004 |title=A new Acremonium species associated with Fucus spp., and its affinity with a phylogenetically distinct marine Emericellopsis clade |journal=Studies in Mycology |volume=50 |pages=283–97 |url=http://www.cbs.knaw.nl/publications/1050/027-A%20new%20Acremonium%20species%20associated%20with%20Fucus%20spp.,%20and%20its%20affinity%20with%20a%20phylogenetically%20distinct%20marine%20Emericellopsis%20clade.pdf}}
• Acremonium exuviarum, from shed skin of lizard{{cite journal |first1=Lynne |last1=Sigler |first2=Alga |last2=Zuccaro |first3=Richard C. |last3=Summerbell |first4=Julian |last4=Mitchell |first5=Jean A. |last5=Paré |year=2004 |title=Acremonium exuviarum sp. nov., a lizard-associated fungus with affinity to Emericellopsis |journal=Studies in Mycology |volume=50 |pages=409–13 |url=http://www.devonian2.ualberta.ca/uamh/UAMH_Pub_pdf_files/2004%20Sigler%20et%20al%20Acremonium%20exuviarum.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706210146/http://www.devonian2.ualberta.ca/uamh/UAMH_Pub_pdf_files/2004%20Sigler%20et%20al%20Acremonium%20exuviarum.pdf |archive-date=6 July 2011 }}
• Fusarium delphinoides, from diseased succulent plant Hoodia gordonii and from human eye infection{{cite journal |vauthors=Schroers HJ, O'Donnell K, Lamprecht SC, etal |title=Taxonomy and phylogeny of the Fusarium dimerum species group |journal=Mycologia |volume=101 |issue=1 |pages=44–70 |year=2009 |pmid=19271670 |doi=10.3852/08-002|s2cid=36053585 }}
• Fusarium biseptatum, from South African soil
• Fusarium penzigii, from decayed wood and human eye infection
• Phialosimplex caninus, cause of fatal infections in dogs{{cite journal |vauthors=Sigler L, Sutton DA, Gibas CF, Summerbell RC, Noel RK, Iwen PC |title=Phialosimplex, a new anamorphic genus associated with infections in dogs and having phylogenetic affinity to the Trichocomaceae |journal=Medical Mycology |volume=48 |issue=2 |pages=335–45 |date=March 2010 |pmid=20141373 |doi=10.3109/13693780903225805|doi-access=free }}
• Phaeomoniella pinifoliorum, a surface colonizer of pine needles{{cite journal |vauthors=Lee HB, Park JY, Jung HS, Summerbell RC |title=Phaeomoniella zymoides and Phaeomoniella pinifoliorum spp. nov., new acid-tolerant epiphytic fungi isolated from pine needles in Korea |journal=Mycologia |volume=98 |issue=4 |pages=598–611 |year=2006 |pmid=17139853 |doi=10.3852/mycologia.98.4.598}}
• Phaeomoniella zymoides, also from pine needles

The genus Summerbellia{{cite journal |last1=Giraldo |first1=A |last2=Crous |first2=Pedro W |title=Inside Plectosphaerellaceae |journal=Studies in Mycology |date=2019 |volume=92 |issue=March |pages=227–286 |doi=10.1016/j.simyco.2018.10.005 |url=|pmid=30518989 |pmc=6276054 }} and the species Sarocladium summerbellii have been named in Summerbell's honour.{{cite journal|author1=Giraldo, A|author2=Gené, J|author3=Sutton, D.A.|author4=Madrid, H|author5=de Hoog G.S.|author6=Cano, J|author7=Decock, C|author8=Crous, P.W.|author9=Guarro J.|title=Phylogeny of Sarocladium (Hypocreales)|journal=Persoonia|date=2015|volume=34|issue=1 |pages=10–34|language=en|doi=10.3767/003158515x685364|pmid=26240442|pmc=4510268}}

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Summerbell began working as a gay activist in 1979 when he became president of the gay and lesbian student association at the University of British Columbia.{{cite web|url=http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/pdfs/ubyssey/UBYSSEY_1979_02_09.pdf |title=1979 article on homosexuality in the student newspaper of University of BC (The Ubyssey) |access-date=2013-12-05}} He was co-host of Coming Out, Canada's first gay and lesbian radio programme[http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/bitstream/1892/6338/1/b14531653.pdf Savage, Phillip. Doing Community Radio: The Practices of Information Programming at a Community Radio Station, 1985]. Retrieved 2010-06-29. on CFRO-FM in Vancouver from 1978 to 1980. He was also an editor of the gay liberation magazine The Body Politic from 1982 to 1986[http://www.uwo.ca/pridelib/bodypolitic/bpindex/1983index.htm The Body Politic, index of issues 1983]. Retrieved 2010-06-29.[http://www.uwo.ca/pridelib/bodypolitic/bpindex/1984index.htm The Body Politic, index of issues 1984]. Retrieved 2010-06-29.[http://www.uwo.ca/pridelib/bodypolitic/bpindex/1985index.htm The Body Politic, index of issues 1985]. Retrieved 2010-06-29.[http://www.uwo.ca/pridelib/bodypolitic/bpindex/1986index.htm The Body Politic, index of issues 1986]. Retrieved 2010-06-29. and a contributor to other early Canadian gay publications such as Q Magazine.[http://www.clga.ca/Material/Records/inven/tbp/othpub.htm Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Inventory of the Records of The Body Politic & Pink Triangle Press]. Retrieved 2010-06-29. As a gay activist, he was an early commentator on (then) controversial topics such as AIDS and promiscuity,{{cite book |first=Ann |last=Silversides |title=AIDS Activist: Michael Lynch and the Politics of Community |publisher=Between the Lines |year=2003 |page=[https://archive.org/details/aidsactivistmich0000silv/page/32 32] |isbn=978-1-896357-73-7 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/aidsactivistmich0000silv/page/32 }} and attitudes to homosexuality in Christianity, Judaism and Islam.{{cite web |url=http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_isla3.htm |title=Islam and homosexuality: Positive and supportive comments by Muslim and human rights groups |publisher=Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance |date=2007-08-13 |first=B. A. |last=Robinson}}

In 1985, he published a humorous look at gay life and culture entitled Abnormally Happy: A Gay Dictionary that satirizes stereotypical views of gays and lesbians.Summerbell, Richard. Abnormally Happy: A Gay Dictionary. New Star Books. 1985: back cover. {{ISBN|978-0-919573-41-3}}

Summerbell also authored an early safe sex campaign series called "Is There a Condom in Your Life?" in Toronto gay newspaper Xtra!, beginning in 1987.{{cite news |first=Richard |last=Summerbell |title=Is There a Condom in Your Life |journal=Xtra |issue=76 |date=18 May 1987 |pages=1, 3 |publisher=Pink Triange Press |location= Toronto |issn=0829-3384}}

As a songwriter and musician, Summerbell released an independent CD, Light Carries On, in 2004. One song from the CD, Thank you for being My Dog, won the 7th Annual Great American Song Contest in the Special Music category and won Summerbell a place in the Great American Song Hall of Fame.[http://www.greatamericansong.com/hall-of-fame05.html Great American Songwriting Hall of Fame]. Retrieved 2010-06-29. Songs by Summerbell have been included in several popular compilations of music by gay musicians.{{cite web|url=http://music.cbc.ca/#/bands/Richard-Summerbell |title=Richard Summerbell's music on CBC Radio 3 |publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=2013-12-28}} He has also written contemporary lyrics for the Huron Carol.{{cite web|url=http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/summerbell2 |title=Richard Summerbell | CD single "star date 25.12: nativities." The Lake Huron Carol b/w You Came a Star from Heaven (Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle) | CD Baby Music Store |publisher=Cdbaby.com |access-date=2013-11-02}}

• Identifying Filamentous Fungi, G. St. Germain & R. C. Summerbell, Star Publishing, Belmont CA, 1995, {{ISBN|978-0-89863-177-7}}
• Champignons Filamenteux D'Interêt Medical, G. St. Germain & R.C. Summerbell, Star Publishing, Belmont CA, 1995, {{ISBN|978-0-89863-179-1}}
• Laboratory Handbook of Dermatophytes, J. Kane, R. C. Summerbell, et al., Star Publishing, Belmont CA, 1996, {{ISBN|978-0-89863-157-9}}
• Abnormally Happy: A Gay Dictionary, Richard Summerbell, New Star Books, Vancouver BC, 1985, {{ISBN|978-0-919573-41-3}}

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• [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&sa=G&oi=qs&q=author:rc-summerbell Richard Summerbell on Google Scholar]
• Identifying Filamentous Fungi (St. Germain, G. & R. C. Summerbell, Star Publishing, Belmont CA, 1996) {{ISBN|978-0-89863-177-7}}
• Champignons Filamenteux D'Interêt Medical (St. Germain, Guy & R.C. Summerbell, Star Publishing, Belmont CA, 1996) {{ISBN|978-0-89863-179-1}}
• Laboratory Handbook of Dermatophytes (Kane, J., R. C. Summerbell, L. Sigler, S. Krajden, & G. Land, Star Publishing, Belmont CA, 1996) {{ISBN|978-0-89863-157-9}}
• [http://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=richard+summerbell&go=Go Richard Summerbell on Wikiquote]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100713032351/http://radio3.cbc.ca/#/bands/Richard-Summerbell Richard Summerbell's music on CBC Radio 3]
• [http://www.woobiebearmusic.com/artists.htm Gay music compilations featuring music written by Richard Summerbell] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100729190739/http://woobiebearmusic.com/artists.htm |date=29 July 2010 }}
• [http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/summerbell2 Rewritten rock music version called The Lake Huron Carol set in the modern Lake Huron area]
• [https://www.myspace.com/richardsummerbell Richard Summerbell's Myspace page]
• [https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&sitesearch=clga.ca&q=summerbell&btnG=search#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=richard+summerbell+site:clga.ca&pbx=1&oq=richard+summerbell+site:clga.ca&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=6539l7361l0l7623l8l8l0l0l0l3l140l832l3.5l8l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=e1f3a786fca33344&biw=1344&bih=634 Richard Summerbell in the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives]

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