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Welcome: Braydon

Excited to have our second postdoc join the lab, bringing skills in engineering and studying difficult non-model fungi! Braydon is shifting from his PhD work on fungal pathogens, to harness fungal potential for waste upcycling in our group!

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Seminar: Nancy Keller

UW Madison Professor Nancy Keller visited our lab for a day and presented a campus-wide seminar on the ecology and evolution of fungal natural products. A true honor to learn from a true legend!

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Fermentation Workshop

We hosted a vibrant fermentation workshop in our temporary kitchen space, with chef Andrew Mayne of RD&E and the Sonnenburg Lab

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Lab outing to Jasper Ridge

Our rotation student Shreya brought us to Jasper Ridge where we did a beautiful mushroom walk in the California winter rain!

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Seminar: Louise Glass

UC Berkeley Professor and National Academy Member Louise Glass came to campus to meet with our lab and share her decades of inspiring work in molecular mycology

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Lab outing to NASA Ames

We had a wonderful outing to the Rotschild lab to learn about applications of fungi for space travel!

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Seminar: Pablo Cruz-Morales

Pablo Cruz-Morales came all the way from Denmark to share his work on fungi for addressing sustainability challenges

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Welcome: Jaqueline

Excited to have our first postdoc join the lab, bringing 10 years of fungal genetics experience!

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