John Alan Elix

John Alan (Jack) Elix (born 1941)[1] emeritus professor in chemistry at the Australian National University,[2][3] is an organic chemist who has contributed in many fields: lichenology, lichen chemotaxonomy, plant physiology[2] and biodiversity and natural product chemistry.[3] He has authored 2282 species names,[4] and 67 genera[5] in the field of mycology.

John Alan Elix
Born	1941  (age 80)
Awards	Acharius Medal (2004) Nancy T. Burbidge Medal (2015)
Scientific career
Fields	Organic chemistry lichenology taxonomy, plant physiology
Institutions	Australian National University (1967–)
Doctoral students	Simone Henrica J.J. Louwhoff
Author abbrev. (botany)	Elix

The standard author abbreviation Elix is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]

Education

His first degree, B.Sc., and his Ph.D were both in organic chemistry from the University of Adelaide. This was followed by post-doctoral years at the University of Cambridge and then a D.Sc. in natural products chemistry from the Australian National University.[7]

Career

Elix spent a post doctoral year in 1966 at Cambridge, returning to Australia in 1967 to a lectureship in chemistry at the ANU.[1] He retired as professor of chemistry in 2002,[1] becoming professor emeritus.[3]

By 1975 he had already published several papers on the organic chemistry of lichens,[8][9][10] and ultimately leading to work on the evolution, taxonomy and phylogeny of lichens.[11][12][13] For his work on lichens, Elix was awarded the Acharius Medal in 2004 and the Nancy T Burbidge Medal in 2015.[1]

Selected publications

• Elix, John A; Ernst-Russell, Karin D (1993), A catalogue of standardized thin layer chromatographic data and biosynthetic relationships for lichen substances, Australian National University

Some genera authored

• Amphorothecium P.M.McCarthy, Kantvilas & Elix[14][15]
• Canomaculina[16][17]
• Parmelinopsis[18][19]
• Australiaena[20][21]

See also

• Category:Taxa named by John Alan Elix

References

1. Cohn, Helen (2017). "Elix, John Alan (Jack) - Biographical entry - Encyclopedia of Australian Science". www.eoas.info. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
2. "Professor John Elix". researchers.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
3. "John ELIX | Emeritus Professor | DSc | Australian National University, Canberra | ANU | Research School of Chemistry (RSC)". ResearchGate. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
4. "Mycobank:Advanced search (author contains Elix & rank=sp.)". Mycobank. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
5. "Using an advanced search (author name contains "Elix" AND rank=genus)". www.mycobank.org. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
6. IPNI.  Elix.
7. Nash, T.H. "IAL - Acharius Medallists: Jack Elix". www.lichenology.org. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
8. John A. Elix (1975). "2'-O-Methylphysodic acid and hydroxyphysodic acid: two new depsidones from the lichen Hypogymnia billardieri" (PDF). Australian Journal of Chemistry. 28 (4): 849–858. ISSN 0004-9425. Wikidata Q104151554.
9. JA Elix; U Engkaninan (1975). "The structure of galbinic acid. A depsidone from the lichen Usnea undulata". Australian Journal of Chemistry. 28 (8): 1793–1797. doi:10.1071/CH9751793. ISSN 0004-9425. Wikidata Q78432536.
10. John A. Elix; David A. Jackman; Melvin V. Sargent (1974). "Structure of the lichen depsidone pannarin". Journal of the Chemical Society. Chemical communications: 892–893. ISSN 0022-4936. Wikidata Q104151783.
11. Steven D Leavitt; Martin Westberg; Matthew P Nelsen; et al. (23 February 2018). "Multiple, Distinct Intercontinental Lineages but Isolation of Australian Populations in a Cosmopolitan Lichen-Forming Fungal Taxon, Psora decipiens (Psoraceae, Ascomycota)". Frontiers in Microbiology. 9: 283. doi:10.3389/FMICB.2018.00283. ISSN 1664-302X. PMC 5829036. PMID 29527197. Wikidata Q51148234.
12. S. Y. Kondratyuk; I. Kärnefelt; A. Thell; J. A. Elix; J. Kim; A. S. Kondratiuk; J.-S. Hur (September 2015). "Brownlielloideae, a new subfamily in the Teloschistaceae (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota)". Acta Botanica Hungarica (in German, English, and French). 57 (3–4): 321–343. doi:10.1556/034.57.2015.3-4.6. ISSN 0236-6495. Wikidata Q54800616.
13. Pradeep K Divakar; Ana Crespo; Mats Wedin; et al. (24 August 2015). "Evolution of complex symbiotic relationships in a morphologically derived family of lichen-forming fungi". New Phytologist. 208 (4): 1217–1226. doi:10.1111/NPH.13553. ISSN 0028-646X. PMID 26299211. Wikidata Q35753148.
14. "Index Fungorum - Names Record Amphorothecium". www.indexfungorum.org. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
15. P.M. McCarthy; G. Kantvilas; J. A. Elix (July 2001). "Amphorothecium, a new pyrenocarpous lichen genus from New South Wales, Australia". The Lichenologist. 33 (04): 291–296. doi:10.1006/LICH.2001.0330. ISSN 0024-2829. Wikidata Q55891827.
16. "MycoBank Record: Canomaculina". www.mycobank.org.
17. Elix & Hale (1987). Mycotaxon. 29. p. 239.
18. "MycoBank Record: Parmelinopsis". www.mycobank.org.
19. Elix & Hale (1987). Mycotaxon. 29. p. 242.
20. "MycoBank Record: Australiaena". www.mycobank.org.
21. M. Matzer; H. Mayrhofer; J. A. Elix (January 1997). "Australiaena Streimannii, a New Genus and Species in the Physciaceae From Tropical Australasia". The Lichenologist. 29 (1): 36. doi:10.1017/S0024282997000078. ISSN 0024-2829. Wikidata Q55933677.

Further reading

• Kantvilas, G; McCarthy, Patrick M. (Patrick Martin), 1955-; Louwhoff, Simone Henrica J. J; Elix, John A; Wirth, V (2001), Lichenological contributions in honour of Jack Elix, J. Cramer, ISBN 978-3-443-58057-5CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)