Carlos graduated from Universidad de Los Andes (Uniandes, Bogotá, Colombia) in Microbiology. Carlos comes to Duke University with already several graduate courses under his belt, and an award for best student poster that he received at the 11th International Mycological Congress. We are delighted to have him join the Lutzoni Lab.
Category: News
2018-07: Congratulations Carlos Pardo De la Hoz – recipient of the best student poster award at IMC11
2018-05: Lutzoni lab conducts three weeks of field work in Borneo, Malaysia
This collaborative work was done as part of the NSF GoLife project on endophytic and endolichenic fungi (mycophygolife.org).
2017-11: Lutzoni Lab hosts lichen field trip for Duke undergrads
The Lutzoni Lab hosted a lichen field trip for the “Wild Ones,” an undergraduate natural history club at Duke. Selected photos from the trip can be viewed here. We all had a great time sharing our enthusiasm for lichens with the group!
2017-10: Welcome Dr. Scott LaGreca, new DUKE collections manager for lichens
We’re excited to welcome Scott LaGreca to the lichenology team at Duke. Scott is coming to us from Cornell University, where he was curator of the Cornell Plant Pathology Herbarium (CUP).
This is actually a homecoming for Scott, since he did his Ph.D. at Duke with lichenologist William Culberson.
2017-08: Congratulations Ian Medeiros – recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Well done Ian!!!
2017-08: Welcome Ian Medeiros – New Ph.D. student in the Lutzoni Lab
Ian graduated from the College of the Atlantic (Maine) with a broad interest in natural sciences. Ian is already an accomplished lichenologist with extensive research experience. We are delighted to have him join the Lutzoni lab.
2017-07: Congratulations Dr. Ko-Hsuan Chen!
Congratulations to Dr. Ko-Hsuan Chen for successfully defending her doctoral dissertation at Duke University, Lutzoni Lab. Her dissertation is entitled “Evolution of fungal endophytes and their functional transitions between endophytism and saprotrophism.”
2017-05: Congratulations Jade Lu – recipient of The Excellence in Plant Science Prize
Jade was awarded The Excellence in Plant Science Prize, which is given each year by the Plant Science faculty at the graduation ceremony in recognition of excellence in botanical research. Jade’s honor thesis was entitled “Patterns of symbiotic associations between Peltigera and Nostoc along a latitudinal transect crossing the circumboreal belt.”
2017-02: Congratulations Ko-Hsuan Chen – recipient of a NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG)
Ko-Hsuan Chen was award a NSF DDIG for her proposal entitled “Assessing the Importance of Trophic Lability for Fungal Endophytism Using the Moss Dicranum scoparium and its Associated Fungi.” Well done Ko-Hsuan!!!