Author: Diego Garfiasgallegos

Celebrating the graduation of two of the undergraduate students in the Lutzoni lab. Arielle Kim will soon start her training in genetic counseling, and Amber White is graduating with distinction and will be pursuing a premed post-baccalaureate training program. Both will be included as co-authors in upcoming publications. Congratulations to both. We will miss you!

From left to right: Jolanta Miadlikowska, Amber White, Amanda Wilson, Arielle Kim, and François Lutzoni)

Congratulations to Carlos Pardo de la Hoz for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation!
Carlos is now a Research Scholar in the lab of Joao Xavier at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center where he is pursuing his postdoctoral research on microbial interactions in the human gut.

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!

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.

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.