Savannah works as a Research Administrator for the Department of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Nora works as a Research Assistant with the Institute for Natural Resources in the Pacific Northwest.

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I am a first year Master's student in the Pringle Lab. My primary interests are beneficial microbes & fungi and their mutualistic interactions with their hosts. My current research is investigating the differences in mycorrhizal colonization of burr oak in urban and rural settings.

Grant is especially interested in the germination of North American orchid seeds, and the role of fungi in orchid seed germination. He is currently a science teacher at The Jewish Leadership Academy in Miami, Florida.

I am interested in all aspect of fungi, but particularly host-fungi interaction. I want to use bioinformatics to decipher the genomic cause and result of ectomycorrhizal mutualism and fungal host specificity. I am also considering using genetic approaches to understand the mechanism of mutualism.

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I am an undergraduate student in the lab assisting Nora with research on how decomposer fungi adapt to nitrogen pollution. I am interested in fungal ecology and the fundamental biology of filamentous growth.

I am an undergraduate student at UW-Madison. I am interested in a variety of topics including genetics, species distribution, and the evolutionary history of fungi. I am also interested in invasive fungal species and what risks they might pose to native ecosystems. I am currently focused on helping Denny with species distribution modeling..

I am an undergraduate botany and horticulture major working on my senior thesis in the Pringle lab. My interests center primarily around fungal ecology and physiology and my research is focused on examining relationships between growth and sporulation rates in existing mycological literature.

I am an undergraduate student at the UW, majoring in Botany and English. My interests include genetics and philosophy of fungi, with an emphasis on phylogenetics and trophic cascades. I worked on genetic variation across populations of A. phalloides and A. muscaria.

Reinhard is an undergraduate student interested in fungal dispersal. He is currently helping Jacob conduct experiments on spore resilience to atmospheric conditions.

I am generally interested in how fungi move - from across landscapes to across continents. I approach questions on dispersal from a genomic, biophysical, and ecological perspective in order to better understand fungal biogeography and population dynamics. I am also interested in the intersection of fungal biology and intellectual property rights.

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Lilly is an undergraduate working with Nora. She is interested in the ecology of fungal ecology.

I am interested in the mutualistic relationships between fungi and agronomically important plants. Currently, I am researching how arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi increase the nitrogen-use efficiency of Panicum virgatum (switchgrass), a Department of Energy top-priority biofuel feedstock and forage crop. In addition, I like to collect and identify all sorts of fungi, and I am currently engaged in two fungal biodiversity inventories: one at the Boston Harbor Islands National Park in Massachusetts and another at the UW-Madison Arboretum.

I am interested in plant-fungal communication. In Fall 2019 I will be moving to Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a post-doctoral fellow

I am an evolutionary demographer interested in the evolution and biology of patterns of mortality over age. I synthesize the concepts and methods of evolutionary biology and demography with data from a wide variety of taxa, including fungi such as Neurospora crassa, and lichens, to understand phenomena including pre-reproductive mortality, post-reproductive survival and aging.

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I am an undergraduate majoring in botany and environmental studies. I am assisting Jacob with his biophysical experiments, and Nora with her research on sustainable urban forestry.

I started my PhD in 2016 in the department of comparative pathobiological sciences. I study the epidemiology of white-nose syndrome in bats of North America, particularly the fungal aspect of the disease in caves and on bats. I am interested in using ecology to explain patterns of species occurrence.

I am interested in the interactions between insects, fungi and plants, and the evolution and maintenance of mutualisms. Fungi and insects attract me as both are vast groups with unique capabilities that comprise a large part of the world’s biodiversity, but are significantly understudied relative to their abundance. Their interactions give insight into unusual life-cycles, evolution of complex traits and chemicals, and the interdependence of living organisms.

I am interested in the mechanisms of aging and communication within filamentous fungal networks and how these processes evolved in the fungi.  I am also interested in molecular signaling between genetically similar individuals in fungal communities.

I am a doctoral student doing an internship in Pringle laboratory, during fall 2015. My main research interest is in macrofungal conservation and its application on a local scale in Colombia by studying the diversity, population genetics and invasion biology of some macrofungal species present in the native neotropical montane oak forest, Quercus humboldtii. Moreover, I am interested in working with local farmer communities living nearby to these forests, by sharing knowledge about the biology and use of the fungal species

I’m an undergraduate student working on my senior thesis in the Pringle lab. My thesis work will attempt to model niche distribution patterns for individual Amanita species. In addition to macrofungi, I’m also fascinated by lichen. Their tolerance of extreme terrestrial habitats drives me to think about the potential remediation solutions they might provide, and I always want to know more about the myco/photobiont signaling present in the diverse ecosystem that we think of as an individual lichen thallus.

I'm an Environmental Science and Public Policy concentrator working with Kolea Zimmerman exploring early life history traits of Neurospora crassa. My specific research involves documenting secreted proteins and signaling molecules.

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My research, broadly, examines the formation and uses of environmental knowledge for environmental governance and conservation. For my dissertation, this included documenting the emerging field of fungal conservation in the United States and Europe, and its impacts on federal land management and policy. From that research I have an ongoing project on social-ecological systems of morels in the mid-Atlantic states of the USA, which emphasizes the integration of local and scientific knowledge for management and conservation. My current research project, funded through the National Science Foundation, looks at how evolutionary biologists are navigating the relationship between molecular biology research and biodiversity conservation politics, using the discipline of mycology as the case study. I am also a postdoctoral fellow, studying with Sheila Jasanoff, in the Program on Science, Technology & Society at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

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I'm interested in physical and mathematical models that can help us quantify and understand morphological diversity. How can we relate morphology (phenotype) to the the way species interact with their environment (external constraints) or to the underlying developmental genetics (genotype)? Currently, I'm exploring how the physics of spore dispersal influences the shape of ascomycete fruiting bodies. I'm also part of Michael Brenner's group at SEAS where I work on related (and sometimes completely unrelated) questions.

My research focuses primarily on fungal spore dispersal and bacterial biofilm development. I am particularly interested in individual and collective motility in these biological systems, both from a mechanistic and an evolutionary perspective. I make use of an interdisciplinary approach, combining theoretical modeling of the physical mechanisms that allow motility; numerical simulations of the model equations and simple experiments

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I study how the northern pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea, affects and is affected by two species it hosts: the dominant yeast Candida glaebosa and the mosquito endemic to the pitcher plant, Wyeomyia smithii. I also look at how a parallel yeast species might play a similarly important role in a convergent group of carnivorous pitcher plants, the Southeast Asian Nepenthes.

Gabriel's research explored the evolution of mycelial network architectures in response to environmental constraints. He's currently pursuing microfluidics projects at the LadHyX laboratory, École Polytechnique, Paris.

Primrose focuses on microbial dispersal and interactions between dispersal and competition in natural communities. At Harvard, she used the communities of yeasts living in pitchers of the carnivorous plant Sarracenia pursuer as a model. Primrose graduated in summer 2012, and is now a post-doctoral scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology at Plön.

Harvard College Class of 2010

As an undergraduate, Becky documented patterns of lichen biodiversity loss in urban habitats. She went on to explore speciation in Solanum sect. Lycopersicon (tomato plants) as a technician at Indiana University. Becky plans to apply her background in ecology and evolutionary biology to the study of human health, and in 2012 Becky began medical school at the University of Massachusetts, Worcester.

Harvard College class of 2008

As an undergraduate, Kristi established protocols to digitally image lichens. Kristi left us to spend the summer chasing lizards with the Losos lab, then chased genes at the Harvard Medical School, and is now a graduate student in the Plant Pathology Department at Penn State.

Harvard College class of 2010

In the Pringle laboratory, Sasha focused on describing bacterial communities within lichens, working closely with Celeste Peterson. After graduation she worked at the Evolutionary Biology Centre in Uppsala, Sweden. Sasha's now pursuing a Ph.D. at the Universität Basel, exploring the Daphnia microbiome with Dieter Ebert's group.

Harvard College class of 2011

Sam's research focused on the diversity of decomposer fungi, the impacts of global change on biodiversity, and adaptation of fungi to disturbed ecosystems. The research included field work, and morphological and molecular analyses. Sam's now working towards a Ph.D. in Plant Biology at Michigan State University.

Marcus is a fluid dynamicist interested in the physics of fungal spore launch and dispersal, particularly in ascomycetes. Marcus spent a year doing post-doctoral research here and is now an Assistant Professor at UCLA.

Karla worked with us to establish lots of our standard protocols, and is now a Conservation Ecologist with The Nature Conservancy of New Mexico.

Harvard College class of 2010

Julie's research explored fungal diversity in caves. After graduation she worked in Israel, then Hungary, and is now using a Fulbright scholarship to study bats in Brazil.

In the Pringle Lab, Ben's research interests were in the ecological and evolutionary links between above-ground and below-ground biota. He was specifically interested in how plants and soil fungi interact in natural environments at the population- and community levels of biological organization. He was also interested in human perceptions and valuations of the hidden biodiversity of soils. Ben is now in the Dutton Lab at the Harvard FAS Center for Systems Biology.

Harvard College class of 2008

Jessica did a lot of different things for us, including field work and molecular biology. Jess is currently pursuing a Master's in Public Policy with a focus on environmental policy and international development, at the University of Michigan.

Junling's research focuses on the role of AM fungi in conferring tolerance to plants experiencing abiotic and biotic stresses. Junling was a visiting scholar from China Agricultural University, and stayed in Anne's lab for one year.