The Pringle Laboratory

Ecology & Evolution and the Fungi

The Pringle laboratory focuses on the biology of species whose life histories and body plans seem very different from our own. Fungi encompass a hetereogeneous array of both microbes and macrobes, and the Pringle laboratory uses fungi as tools to test and elucidate general principles of ecology and evolution.

What We Study

Ascobolus spores being launched from ascus.

Dispersal

A population of Coccomyces dentatus growing on a leaf. Individuals are delineated by black lines, signalling antagonistic interactions.

Population Biology of
Modular Organisms

Spores of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi from a North Carolina field.

Cooperation and Interactions

Genetic Architecture
of Symbiosis

Invasion Biology &
Conservation of Fungi

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