Christine Hawkes | Plant and Microbial Biology
- Long-term climate establishes functional legacies by altering microbial traits, The ISME Journal (2025, January 1)
- Tree Species Controls Over Nitrogen and Phosphorus Cycling in a Wet Tropical Forest, Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America (2025, January 6)
- Effective Seed Sterilization Methods Require Optimization Across Maize Genotypes, Phytobiomes Journal (2024, April 22)
- Invasive Buffelgrass, Cenchrus ciliaris, Balances Opportunistic Acquisition of Foliar fungi With Host and Environmental Filtering in Its Introduced Range, Molecular Ecology (2024, December 12)
- Priorities, opportunities, and challenges for integrating microorganisms into Earth system models for climate change prediction, mBio (2024, March 25)
Christine Hawkes
Professor, Director of Microbiology Graduate Program
Microbiomes and Complex Microbial Communities Cluster
Bio
Hawkes is an ecologist studying the functions of plant and soil microbiomes. She received her bachelor’s degree in environmental studies from Bucknell University, and her Ph.D. in biology from the University of Pennsylvania. In her dissertation research, she addressed how soil microorganisms affected population viability of endangered plants. As a David H. Smith Postdoctoral Fellow, she studied the role of soil microbes in plant invasions and nitrogen cycling at the University of California, Berkeley. As a National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Fellow, she addressed how root-associated microbes affect carbon cycling with warming temperatures. Hawkes currently leads a cross-disciplinary research program focused on (1) how plant microbiomes mediate plant stress phenotypes and (2) how drought and climate legacies affect plant and soil microbiomes.
Learn more at the Hawkes Lab website.
Education
Ph.D., Biology, University of Pennsylvania (2000)
B.A., Environmental Studies, Bucknell University (1993)
