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!
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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.
2023-06-26: When Science and Art meet…
As a part of the BSURF program, Arielle went on an art crawl in downtown Durham for a weekend outing. She found a lichen glass art piece in one of the galleries by Teddy Devereux, a retired scientist who now focuses on artwork!
2023-03-26: Outreach lichen walk with Duke undergraduates
The Lutzoni Lab spent a rainy March afternoon talking about the biology of lichens with The Wild Ones, a Duke undergraduate student organization focused on increasing knowledge of and appreciation for the natural world.
François Lutzoni provides an introduction to the biology of the lichen symbiosis
2022-12-05: When Science and Art Meet at the End of the Road
Lutzoni Lab science-art outreach was featured on the Duke Biology website. See our past discussion of this outreach effort here.
2022-11-12: Darwin Day at North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
This November, the Lutzoni Lab participated in the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’ annual “Darwin Day” event in Raleigh. The theme for this year was “Fungi” and the lab’s exhibit—”The Secret Life of Lichens”—featured lichen herbarium specimens, symbiont cultures, a dissecting microscope, lichen puzzles, and a really cool Scottish children’s video about lichens. A total of 3,579 people visited the museum Saturday—clearly, there is a desire from the public to learn more about science, and fungi in particular.
2022-07: Peltigera fieldwork in Alberta
The Lutzoni Lab team of Carlos Pardo De la Hoz, Jola Miadlikowska, and François Lutzoni, along with Diane Haughland from the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI), spent three weeks in Alberta, Canada, in the summer of 2022 to collect samples for our ongoing research on cyanolichen networks.
Find out more about this fieldwork and project here.
2022-08: Welcome Diego Garfias Gallegos – New Ph.D. Student in the Lutzoni lab
We are excited to welcome Diego Garfias Gallegos to the Lutzoni lab as a first-year Ph.D. student in the Duke Biology department. Previously, he studied the cycad microbiome as a master’s student at Langebio, Cinvestav, Mexico.