Hawkes receives Chancellor’s Innovation Fund

Congratulations to Dr. Christine Hawkes and her collaborator, Dr. Saad Khan for receiving one of this year’s Chancellor’s Innovation Funds.  The award will be used to investigate how endophytic fungi can help plants absorb essential nutrients.  Optimization of this endophytic fungi delivery method will enable farmers to increase crop yield with less fertilizer. Read more HERE.


Carbone and Duckworth Named WNR Distinguished Professors

Congratulations to Ignazio Carbone and Owen Duckworth for being named a William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor. CALS[…]

PNAS Publication Reveals How Strawberries Were Ambushed By Fungal Parasites

Michael Bradshaw’s lab and co-author Ignazio Carbone published a PNAS paper that pinpoints the ancestral history of[…]

Mallory Choudoir wins Faculty Paper of the Year

Mallory Choudoir was awarded the Faculty Paper of the Year at the Global One Health Academy (GOHA) symposium last month for[…]