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Duke mycologists & biologists gather for my defense seminar
Team DOE-PMI presents a research poster at MSA 2013 at Yale, in New Haven, CT
Natalie VandePol explains her genome wide MLST approach for studying Mucormycota fungi at IMC11 San Juan PR 2018
Dr. Morgan Gorris describes niche modeling to predict future Coccidioides distributions given global warming trends, CSG63, Davis CA
ZygoLife breaks for dinner, Riverside CA, April 2018
Dr. Hameed maintains our PMI fungal culture collection
Pinus roots colonized by Suillus showing characteristic bi-furcate morphology
Dr. Terry Henkel and I stop for a photo in the pygmy forests on top of Mt Ayangannah, June 2012
Department of Energy Plant Microbe Interfaces (aka PMI) attends the International Society for Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions (ISMPMI) conference in Portland, OR, July 2016
We take Duke Basketball very, very seriously
MSA Student section exec board past and present snap a photo at IMC11 San Juan PR 2018
Instituto de Biología – UNAM
The Vilgalys lab catches an early flight west for Asilomar Fungal Genetics Conference, March 2015
The long term base camp at Potaro floods, Mycologists are unperturbed. Guyana, June 2010
a bloom of Beauvaria on a lady bug population
Brem lab Fall 2017
Dr. Jessy Labbe and I at the European Fungal Genetics Conference, Paris, April 2016
Rytas recounts his first publication experience
Thea demos pirate on pirate ECM mycoheterotroph life style
Clavulina tepurumenga giving rice and beans a new look
The MSA Student Section Executive Board meets in August 2016, Berkeley CA
BSL3 ready for cocci research
OSU mycologists inoculate Tan Oaks with Phytophthora January 2020
Dr. Bridget Barker (NAU) expounds on Onygenalean fungal diversity in ferret lungs, CSG63, Davis CA
Dr. Terry Henkel presents newly described fungal species from Guyana at MSA 2014, New Haven, CT
Brem lab wishes Gina and Sam farewell
Screening phylogenetically diverse fungi for bacterial endosymbionts
Cathie Aime working in her bush office, Potaro site, Guyana, May 2012
The Vilgalys lab closes down the Durham Bulls home season and wishes Posy & Tim farewell, August 2016
A notorious and handsome inhabitant of Oak-Pine forests in NC, Austroboletus betula
Dr. Greg Bonito uses a microscope to identify fungi
ZyGoLife working group meeting, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek CA, MSA August 2016
Yi Hong takes in a DBulls game his first week in lab, August 2016
My PhD Dissertation committee and I on defense day
ZyGOLife aha moment, July 2017
Dr. Zhi-Lin Yuang from Hangzhou, China collects fungi at NAMA in Front Royal VA, September 2016
Bruns captivates young minds w mycological wisdom gems
Dr. Tim James Duke Biology Alum returns to give a seminar and on our way home we find the bizarre cedar apple rust fruiting
Checking out Trichomycetes in the gut of isopteran insect hosts, UC Riverside
Drs. López, Truong, and Uehling tour theJardín Botánico – Instituto de Biología at UNAM February 2019
ZygoLife convenes at UC Riverside, Aprul 2018
Dr. Terry Henkel describes masting dynamics in Dicymbe corymbosa IMC11 San Juan PR 2018
Dr. Khalid Hameed manages Duke’s fungal culture collection
Dr Vilgalys surveys a days collections, Hawkesbury Institute, June 2018
The Vilgalys lab does lab fishing day at Sunset Beach, June 2016
Drs. Posy Busby and Rytas Vilgalys in a poplar patch with Jake
Mortierella elongata with and without endosymbionts
Dr. Jason Stajich describes Basidiobolus spore morphology at the ZyGOLife workshop at MSA 2017 in Athens, GA. July 2017
Dr. Carla Harper details fossil evidence for zygomycetous fungi
Making time lapse videos of bacterial fungal interactions with custom designed microfluidic devices
Drs. Rodriguez and Joehnk preparing to enter the BSL3 lab for Coccidioides research
Spatafora Lab celebrates the visit of Dr. Christ Hittenger, January 2020
Yi Hing Ke studies selection across Suillus genomes
Collaborators attending the PMI-Fungal Genetics meeting in Durham NC enjoy eastern NC BBQ, May 2016
Vlab takes over the greenhouse
Observing fungal mycelia growing in microfluidic chambers
sampling Pinus palustris ECM in Texas, July 2013
A massive and delicious haul of black trumpets (Craterellus fallax) from the forests around Mountain Lake Biological Research Station, Blacksburg VA area, August 2015
Microfluidic devices being bonded to glass slides in a plasma vacuume
Vilgalys lab out for a holiday lab lunch, December 2016
Participants in the ZyGOLife workshop, Mycological Society of America Meeting at The University of Georgia in Athens, GA, July 2017
Attendees of the Mid Atlantic States Mycological Conference 2017 in Raleigh, NC
Preparing soil samples for fungal isolations
Ko Hsuen examines an ECM parasitic plant
Dr. Terry Henkel and I hiking in from the air strip to our research camp on the Pegaimah Savannah, Region 7, Guyana, December 2011
Brem lab visits the Buck Institute for Aging, October 2017
Lab fishing day, June 2013
Rytas delivers a talk on the Populus Mycobiome at ECFG 2016 in Paris
Im prepared to do growth rate assays!
Summer in Durham means rust fungi on Rosaceous ornamentals
DOE PMI Fungal Genetics team scours the Duke Forest for fungi May 2016
Dr. Sara Branco and I enjoy the Pacific Coast during a break at Asilomar 2015
Giving a lecture on microfluidics and mycology at NC States Hunt video lab
Oyster mushroom buttons forming from a straw kit made at a mushroom cultivation workshop hosted by the Vlab
Dr. Jason Stajich describes Basidiobolus spore morphology in the ZyGOLife workshop at MSA 2017 in Athens, GA. July 2017
Dr. John Taylor describes diversity in the next generations of Coccidioides researcheres, Asilomar fungal genetics, March 2019
The bacterial fungal interaction team brainstorms over lunch during the Asilomar fungal genetics 2017 conference
Isolating chitinolytic fungi from soils using crab shells as baits
A mycological brainstorm takes a break for sunshine
Dr. Jim Trappe celebrates his 90th with the OSU BPP mycofam
Studying plant associated fungi means growing plants in lab
Dillon Husbands presents her research on Greenheart seed pathogens
Dr. Truong of UNAM arrives for mycological research
Dr. Gail Sondermeyer Cooksey, CA dpt of public health, describes trends in Coccidioides infections in California, CSG63, Davis, CA
Sampling for Dimensions in CT
Dr. Jason Stajich (UC Riverside) examines dung successional fungi
Dr. Alejo Rojas studying fungal microscopy at the ZyGOLife workshop at MSA 2017 in Athens, GA. July 2017
Celebrating Christmas 2012
L deliciosus popping up in pine plantations near Canberra, Australia, another invasive ECM fungus
Dr Jason Stajich presents novel volatile mediated bacterial fungal interactions in the early diverging fungi IMC11 San Juan PR 2018
Guyanese native Dillon Husbands identifies new species of ECM boletes at the Potaro study site, Region 8, Guyana, May 2010
Terry Henkel hops root to root on the ‘trail’ Mt. Ayangana expedition, June 2012, see youtube UpnOver for more
Asilomar Fungal Genetics 2013
Looking East from about half way up Mt. Ayangana, June 2012
Harpella
Zygolife scours the James Reserve in the San Jacinto State park reserve, April 2018
Nicole from Smith Lab (UF) dissects insect gut fungi and Dr. Alejo Rojas (Duke) provides comedic relief
Dillon Husbands, Purdue University, examines early diverging fungi in the ZyGOLife workshop at MSA 2017 in Athens, GA. July 2017
Suillus lutescens on pines in Oz rode in on the first fungal fleet
Amanita muscaria fruiting in Humboldt, November 2009
Wishing Dr. Vilgalys safe travels on his Australian sabbatical over a lab lunch June 2017
OSU Mycology welcomes Dr. Kabir Peay for a BPP lecture January 2020
Dr. Rytas Vilgalys pops in for Poplar root sampling
Dr. Terry Henkel and I compare the day’s collections, Ayangannah Savannah, December 2011
Sydney Glassman enjoys hiking and ascomycetes in Big Sur National Forest, CA, March 2013
UNAM mycologists gather for pizza, February 2019
Duke’s west campus in the summer time
Dr. Cathie Aime prepares to feast on wild chantrelles (Canthaerellus guyanensis) at the long term research site, Potarro River Basin, region 8, Guyana
Coccidioides researchers convene in Davis, CA for the annual study group, April 2019
Pinus Suillus compatability pairings
Dr. Bitty Roy explicates mycological research at The University of Oregon, January 2020
Dr. Rytas Vilgalys leads a tour of the Duke Phytotron facility for the PMI-Fungal Genetics meeting, May 2016
Dr. Ulises Yunuén Rosas López discusses fungal endophytes associated w native Mexican cacti February 2019
Vilgalys lab postdocs pose for a photo at Point Lobos, Asilomar Fungal Genetics Meeting, March 2013
Exploring local cuisine after field work, Eastern TX, July 2013
Sampling pine ECM roots in TX, 2012
Dr. Joey 2Ps Spatafora (Oregon State Univesity) examines early diverging fungal morphologies
Crisper Cas9 PPO knockout button mushrooms at the UPenn Mushroom Research Cultivation Center, MASMC 2016
Dr. Vilgalys and I sampling Pine ECM roots in Texas, just after MSA 2013
Dr Jill Myers elucidates fungal dsRNA mycovirus diversity IMC11 San Juan PR 2018
A Laccaria invasion in our glass house
Team ZyGoLife meets to plan research at the University of Florida Fungal Herbarium, January 2014
Carolina Piña-Paez and Dr. Dan Luoma hard at work study Rhizopogon divesrity
Dr. Sunny Liao prepares samples in a pop-up hotel room lab
OSU BPP mycofam celebrates fall 2021 together over sausages
Dr. Greg Bonito recaps a JGI CSP that launched fungal endosymbiont research in the US at the BFI meeting IMC11 San Juan PR 2018
Expat hitchhiking A. muscaria associated w pines down under
Bacterial Fungal Interactions researchers gather at IMC11 in San Juan, Puerto Rico July 2018
MSA Student Section Executive Board at MSA 2017 in Athens GA
The Vilgalys lab leads a mushroom ID Tweet-up workshop in Duke Forest, August 2013
Our beloved Chapel on Duke’s West campus
Dr. Matthew Smith (University of Florida) checks insect associated zygomycetour fungi for microscopic structure
Dr. Merlin White (Boise State) lectures on symbiotic gut fungi of insects
Dr. Bruce McCune and team lichen plot on 2020 herbarium goals, January 2020
Collecting ECM roots for RNA sequencing
Rytas models one of a kind fashion, University of Western Sydney, June 2018
Plett lab gathers for food and catching up, Richmond, NSW, June 2018
Blue oysters fruiting from a kit
Henkel and Grupe pick ECM root tips of Pakaraimea dipterocarpaceae by candlelight on Christmas Eve at our Pegaimah Savannah bush research camp, December 2011
The Vilgalys lab camps outside of Washington DC for MASMC 2013
Delicious lil babes, Amazon Rainforest 2011
The Vlab welcomes alumnus Dr. Tim James from U Michigan for a UPGG seminar
preparing for my outreach lecture at the Tropical Night Life event at CA academy of Sciences museum
taking proper BSL3 precautions for Coccidioides research
Me, gearing up for my talk at Asilomar, March 2019
Heather Mead informs on lookers about Coccidioides population diversity, FGC2019
Kevin Amses details his metagnomic assembly pipleline, SCGID (pronounced SQUID)
Zygolife meets to plot on future research at Asilomar Fungal Genetics 2019
Rytas Vilgalys practicing iphone field photography
Lotus Lofgren enjoys the sweet syrup scent of L. deliciocus in Pacific Grove, CA
Professor Alisha Quandt surveys forest fungi, Pacific Grove CA March 2019
Fungal Genetics goers enjoy the Amplified DNA Band, March 2019