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)
Category: News
2025-02: Congratulations Dr. Carlos Pardo de la Hoz!
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.
2024-06: Congratulations to Amanda Wilson – recipient of two awards!
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!
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.
