Disease Ecology Across Tropical Habitats 

Integrating disease ecology, mycology, and community ecology, my lab explores the nature and outcomes of plant-microbe interactions, as well as the ecology and epidemiology of fungal pathogens of tropical trees, using a combination of surveys and experiments in the forest, greenhouse, and lab.

Research objectives: Understand plant-fungal interactions across different scales —  individual to forest, horizontal and vertical spatial axes and their associated abiotic and biotic gradients, intra- and inter-annually, and across the ontogeny of long-lived trees —  to identify microbial-driven processes and outcomes governing forest dynamics under current and projected climate conditions.

Learn more about my lab by visiting the lab webpage: https://striresearch.si.edu/death-lab/