Scott LaGreca and Ian Medeiros provided a two-hour introduction to the biology and biodiversity of lichens on a Saturday morning walk at ECWA’s Glennstone preserve. Twenty people from the Durham area attended the event, and based on their enthusiasm we suspect that none of them will ever again go for a hike without noticing the lichens.
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2018-11: Lutzoni Lab participates in NC Museum of Natural Sciences’ Darwin Day outreach event
Members of the Lutzoni Lab spent the day teaching kids and adults about symbiosis and lichens. Visitors to the museum got a chance to look at lichens under the microscope, see a lichen fluoresce under UV light, and watch as a desiccated lichen thallus was rehydrated. Jigsaw puzzles of Xanthoria and Peltigera entertained younger visitors and gave us visual aids for discussing lichen structure and reproduction. Special thanks to Scott LaGreca for organizing the Lutzoni Lab’s participation in this fun and educational event.
2018-09: Welcome Will White – New Undergraduate Student in the Lutzoni Lab
We’re excited to welcome Duke third-year Will White to the Lutzoni Lab as an undergraduate research assistant. He will be working on a variety of projects under the daily supervision of Ian Medeiros and Carlos Pardo De la Hoz.
2018-08: Welcome Carlos Pardo De la Hoz – New Ph.D. Student in the Lutzoni lab
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.
2018-07: Congratulations Carlos Pardo De la Hoz – recipient of the best student poster award at IMC11
Carlos received the Best Poster award in the Evolution section of the International Mycological Congress (IMC11). This is an extraordinary achievement because Carlos did this work as an undergraduate student in the Lutzoni lab. He was competing with graduate students for this award. The title of his poster was “Using a phylogenetic framework to assess the role of symbiotic specificity in shaping evolutionary and spatial patterns of associations in trimembered lichens.” Carlos will start his Ph.D. in August 2018 in the Lutzoni lab.
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.