Fungal Ecology-Dr. Porras-Alfaro

04/29/2020

Congratulations to Master Xiomy for successfully defending her thesis! 🎉🎉🎉

Xiomy will start a PhD at the University of Georgia next Fall! Congratulations! 🍄🍄🍄

03/24/2020

Today we had our first paper discussion of the lab! John, Maria and Terri discussed a paper about priority effects by Devin Leopold and Posy Busby.

Can’t wait for our next paper discussion next week! 🎉😊

03/18/2020

The week before Spring Break our Lab mate Maria Jose Romero Jimenez defended her thesis. Congrats Master Maria!!!!!!! She will be headed to somewhere USA to start her PhD in the fall. :)

12/12/2019

Spent the afternoon with Trinity Academy high school students and their teacher doing one of our favorite activities, microscopy.

12/06/2019

Happy last day of classes to our current students, and here is some exciting news for our prospective ones!

11/21/2019

to Biology Day! Last Friday our high school, undergrad and graduate students showed some of the work we do at the lab to more high school students.

11/16/2019

New pub for our lab on fungal entomopathogens!
Congratulations Ryan Deaver!

For decades entomopathogenic fungi have garnered interest as possible alternatives to chemical pesticides. However, their ecology outside of agroecosy…

11/07/2019

to a couple of days ago! Graduate students Xiomy and María, undergraduate student Alejandro and Dr. Andrea Porras-Alfaro went to Konza Prairie Biological Station. There we met and had great discussions about the projects with collaborators from Kansas State University, University of New Mexico, Mercy College and University of Georgia!

11/01/2019

A Fanstatic Fungal Friday shout out to Jadyn Henry. She is at the National FFA Convention representing the State of IL. in the National Agriscience Fair. Jadyn made the national stage today as one of the top three in the country. She earned 3rd place overall. Great Job Jadyn!

10/26/2019

Members from the Fungal Ecology Lab, Astrolab (physics) and Dr. Bellot’s lab (chemistry) had a wonderful day at the Louis Stokes Midwest Regional Center of Excellence! We all shared the great research done at WIU!