Graduating Spring 2020 with BS in Botany&Plant Pathology from OSU. Interested in Fungal-Host Interactions.Working in the Spatafora Lab with Rhizopogon.
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Coccomyces dentatus looks like an old weathered map sometimes... but also one of my favorite examples of somatic incompatibility ๐
#mycology#fungi#fungus
Suillus in Ecuador!? The crew for motm_movie just got to Lita, up near the Colombian border, and this was almost the first thing I saw. I didnโt see anything nearby that could be a host (was expecting the importedโฆ https://t.co/uhPOsA2QUl
Beautiful Akanthomyces sp. on a huge Saturniid moth at Los Cedros! โฃ
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The kid in the background is Darly, daughter of one of the employees of the Reserve, and the best 7-year-old biologist Iโve ever met: sheโs theโฆ https://t.co/U1kJBdtDi0
Recently found a species of Trichia being parasitized by a fungus while out looking for #endogone. My only guess is that it's a species of Byssostilbe, hopefully our attempts to culture it succeed and we will know for sure. #mycology#parasitism#WomenInSTEM#fungi
Truffle mania continues in #osumycology with the research of Carolina Piรฑa-Paez and Dan Luoma. Seen here living their best lives w pogies and sunshine. Stay tuned for more on how coniferous sky islands impact ECM fungal diversity #mycofam
Genetic testing has confirmed the first case of #whitenosesyndrome in a fringed myotis (Myotis thysanodes) in King County, Washington. 13 species have now been confirmed with the disease https://t.co/QKKpIfN0mh
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This morning I got notice that my very first academic paper (looking at Orange-crowned Warblers as vine maple pollinators under @AaronListon) is in review! Woo hoo!!! In the meantime, back to work at the coffee shop ๐ โ๏ธ #ornithology#WomenInSTEM#Acer#pollinators#OCWA