Welcome: Braydon

We are excited to add another talented postdoc to our team: Braydon Black, who joins us from the lab of James Kronstad at University of British Columbia. Braydon is making the transition from studying fungal threats towards harnessing fungal potential: in our lab, he will engineer waste conversion by edible fungi. He is funded by the prestigious Accelerator Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.

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Braydon completed his PhD in Microbiology & Immunology at the University of British Columbia under Prof. Jim Kronstad. During his PhD, Braydon uncovered key mechanisms driving metabolic adaptation and virulence of a pathogenic fungus, and developed a suite of molecular tools with potential broad application across fungi. He has also worked as a medical and science writer, developing training materials for biotech and pharma companies. As a Sustainability Accelerator Fellow at Stanford, he is excited to apply his extensive knowledge of fungal molecular biology to develop new approaches for converting food waste into nutritious, delicious, and sustainable fermented foods using filamentous fungi.