2020 News

If you're a mediocre partner in a mututalism, you can avoid sanctions in fertilized soil (i.e., an environment where your service is not in high demand) - plant host will allocate less resources to you but not any less than other nodules.

From the time of my postdoc, I've been collecting conifer leaves to study the fungal endophytes therein.

Drought + pathogen --> increased mortality, lower survival

Congratulations to our seniors! Their bond made the lab a special place for many others.

I love it when fellow students are inspired artistically by science.

Stressful conditions that limit growth of fungi may increase their diversity due to the suppression of otherwise dominating species.

Our lock-down continues, but that doesn't stop student achievements from being recognized.

UCSB's Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration (CCBER) is hosting a seminar series this winter focusing on a wide variety of research topics, including, systematics, biotic inventories, biodiversity informatics, and climate change. Austen Apigo presented on his field work from Alaska to Panama to collect the hidden diversity of endophytes.

Happy New Year! We all took a break from the lab for the holidays.