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

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. 

Jake Sarver completed a Master's thesis entitled, "Investigating community assemblage and host specificity of foliar fungal endophytes in pine."

We are excited to be collaborating with the D'Antonio lab on a new project "Identifying native seeds in the seed bank through DNA and RNA extractions," funded by the Coastal Fund!

Ryoko and her family romped though coastal and alpine pine forests of Japan to collect some more pine species, Pinus densifora, P. thunbergii, and P. parviflora, only found in eastern Asia.