Austen Apigo

Education

• Bachelor of Science (2013) Evolution, Ecology and Biodiversity, University of California, Davis
• PhD (2022) Evolution, Ecology and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara 

Awards & Honors

• Short Term Fellowship, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (2017)
• Worster Award, UC Santa Barbara (2018)
• Ellen Schamberg Burley Award (2019)
• Charles A. Storke Fellowship (2019)
• Olivia Long Converse Fellowship (2016 & 2020-21)
• Mycological Society of America Graduate Student Fellowship (2021)
• Sonoma County Mushroom Association Scholarship (2021)
• UC President's Dissertation Year Fellowship (2021-22)

Selected Publications

• Dimensions of Host Specificity in Foliar Fungal Endophytes
• Species diversity of fungal endophytes across a stress gradient for plants
• Plant abundance, but not plant evolutionary history, shape patterns of host specificity in foliar fungal endophytes
• Deep sequencing across multiple host species tests pine-endophyte specificity

Talks

2021 Grad Symposium talk @ https://vimeo.com/513225182