In her first year as a PhD student, Amanda received both the Forest Fungal Ecology Award from the Mycological Society of America and the Graduate Student Research Award from the Triangle Center for Evolutionary Medicine and Duke Microbiome Center for her research on fungal endosymbiont dispersal!
Author: Diego Garfiasgallegos
2024-03: Congratulations Carlos Pardo De la Hoz – recipient of two prestigious awards!
This year, Carlos received both the Graduate Research Fellowship from the Mycological Society of America, and the Bill Dahl Graduate Student Research Award from the Botanical Society of America for his eco-evolutionary and comparative genomic research on lichen symbiosis using the model clade Peltigera and their cyanobacterial partners Nostoc!
2024-02: Congratulations Dr. Ian Medeiros!
Congratulations to Ian Medeiros for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation!
Ian is the recipient of the Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Smithsonian Institution where he is pursuing his postdoctoral research on lichens.
2023-08: Welcome Amanda Wilson – New Ph.D. Student in the Lutzoni lab
We are happy and excited to welcome Amanda Wilson to the Lutzoni lab as a first-year Ph.D. student in the Duke Biology department. Amanda is interested in studying the dispersal and population structure of fungal endophytes. Amanda graduated with a B.S. in Plant Sciences at Cornell University.