Ph.D., Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University

Research Interests: Evolutionary mechanisms driving the emergence of pathogenic fungi

Favorite Fungus: Cantharellus formosus

Ph.D. Biochemistry, Université Laval

Research Interests: Antifungal resistance, functional genomics, genome editing, molecular evolution

Favorite Fungus: Saccharomyces cerevisiae (bread, beer, wine!)

Ph.D. Forest Pathology and Genomics,  University of British Columbia

Research Interests: Fungal lifestyles (pathogenic and non-pathogenic), Plant pathology, Antifungal drug/fungicide resistance, Fungal genetics & genomics

Favorite Fungus: Microbotryum lychnidis-dioicae (anther smut fungus)

TSGP Ph.D. Candidate

Pharm.D., MCPHS University

Research Interests: Identifying genetic determinants of antifungal resistance in Candida auris 

Favorite Fungus: Tremella fuciformis  aka "Snow jelly fungus"

Pathobiology Ph.D. Student

M.S. Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University

Research Interests: Using computational and molecular techniques to understand mechanisms underlying fungal evolution. 

Favorite Fungus: Pilobolus  fungi

Computational Biology Ph.D. Student

Research interests:  How Cryptococcus neoformans evolved to be so deadly to humans

Favorite Fungus:  Pink oyster mushroom

Undergraduate researcher

Pursuing B.S. Biology and B.A. History

Research Interests: Immunology and microbiology

Favorite Fungus: Cordyceps

Computational Associate II

B.S. Computer Science, Stanford University

Research Interests: My research interests involve developing computational pipelines to deepen our understanding of infectious disease biology and translate these insights into epidemiological and public health applications.

Favorite fungus: Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Computational Associate II

B.S. Biology, Bucknell University

Research Interests: My research interests entail accelerating fungal classification and diagnostics.

Favorite fungus: Candida albicans  (for research) and Agaricus bisporus (to eat)!

Senior Computational Associate

B.S. Cell Biology/Biochemistry, Bucknell University

Research Interests: Optimizing bioinformatic pipelines for genome assembly, metagenome assembly and annotation, and amplicon studies.

Favorite fungus: Candida auris