2010-11: Welcome, Olaf Mueller, New Postdoc Research Assoc

November 2010 – Welcome, Olaf Mueller, New Postdoctoral Research Associate

We welcome Olaf Mueller to the Lutzoni Lab as a new postdoctoral researcher! Olaf is funded by a subcontract to the lab (‘Co-evolved autotroph-heterotroph associations (AHAs): Lichens and their roles in biological soil crusts’) as part of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s (PNNL) foundational scientific focus area (FSFA) under DOE-BER’s genomic sciences program. In collaboration with Drs. Daniele Armaleo and Fred Dietrich, he is conducting comparative genomic analytical work on the first genomes (fungal and algal) sequenced from a lichen symbiosis.

2011-02: Welcome Ryoko Oono, New Postdoc Research Assoc

February 2011 – Welcome, Ryoko Oono, New Postdoctoral Research Associate

Welcome to our new Postdoctoral Researcher, Ryoko Oono! She is joining our lab as a result of obtaining a postdoctoral fellowship through Duke’s Molecular Mycology and Pathogenesis Training Program (MMPTP). Her time will be divided between the Lutzoni lab and the lab of Ignazio Carbone (Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University), and her work will focus on the biology of fungal endophytes.