• Workshops in Germany, Spain and Mexico on the
  study of Mycetozoans, supported by NSF PEET

• West State Street Research Site: Coordinator for Stewardship Garden and Native American Prairie

In my laboratory we are studying: phylogeny, taxonomy, ecology and geographical distribution of dictyostelid cellular slime molds, supported by NSF PBI

• Cavender, J.C. and E.M. Vadell. In press. The Cellular
  Slime Molds of Ohio. Ohio Botanical Survey, Columbus.
• Cavender, J.C., E.M. Vadell, J.C. Landolt and S.L.
  Stephenson. 2005. New species of small dictyostelids
  from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
  Mycologia 97:493-512.
• Cavender, J.C., J.C. Landolt, S.L. Stephenson, N.D.Cavender and E.M. Vadell. 2004. Comparison of
  cellular slime mold populations on three Caribbean
  Islands, including a description of the new species
  Polysphondylium equisetoides. Syst. Geogr. Pl.
  74:243-250.
• Swanson A.R., F.W. Spiegel and J.C. Cavender. 2002. Taxonomy, slime molds and the questions we ask. Mycologia 94: 968-979.
  
• Cavender, J. C., S. L. Stephenson, J. C. Landolt and E. M. Vadell. 2002. Dictyostelid cellular slime molds in the forests of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 40: 235-264.
• Cavender, J.C. and E.M. Vadell.  2000.  The genus Acytostelium.  Mycologia 92: 992-1008.
• Swanson, A.R., E. M. Vadell and J.C. Cavender. 1999. Global distribution of forest soil dictyostelids. Journal of Biogeography 26: 133-148.
• Vadell, E.M. and J.C. Cavender. 1998. Polysphondylium from forest soils of Tikal, Guatemala. Mycologia 90:715-725.
• Stevenson, S.L. and J.C. Cavender. 1996. Dictyostelids and Myxomycetes in Soils. In : Hall , G.S. (ed.), Methods for the Examination of Organismal Diversity in Soils and Sediments, Pp. 91-101. CAB International, International Mycological Institute, Egman, UK.
• Vadell, E.M., M.T. Holmes, and J.C. Cavender. 1995. Dictyostelium citrinum, D. medusoides, and D. granulophorum: three new members of the dictyosteliaceae from forest soils of Tikal, Guatemala. Mycologia 87:551-559.

• Diversity of cellular slime molds on the Caribbean Islands
• Distribution, taxonomy and ecology of dictyostelid cellular slime molds in Iguazu, Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia
  Argentina
• Cellular slime mold inventory of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (ATBI)
• Cellular slime molds of Australia
• Cellular slime molds of South Africa