News
New awards!
The Chancellor’s Innovation Fund has provided us with a year of funding to test translation of root endophytic fungi between switchgrass and maize. Related to...
Grad student Rachel Hammer selected for DOE SCGSR program!
Congrats to Rachel Hammer for being selected by the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program (SCGSR)! Rachel will visit Peter Weber at Lawrence...
More efficient corn
Growing corn requires a lot of (expensive) fertilizer, and we’re hoping to find ways that fungi can reduce those needs by improving plant access to...
Meet Postdoc Dr. Luciana Bachega
Get to know Dr. Luciana Bachega, who leads our DIGME project. This is a great profile of her scientific journey written by Dr. Brianna Almeida.
Building a fungal toolkit for crops
Read the latest article about our collaborative FunCrops project. Although this research is wrapping up, the results provide the foundation for continued efforts to understand...
Hawkes Lab Word Cloud
Thanks to ScholarGoggler for the word cloud based on our publications!
NIFA NNF Fellowships in Plant Microbiomes, Genetics, and Data Science
For 2024-25, we’ve been awarded NIFA NNF Fellowships to train four students at the intersection of plant microbiomes, genetics, and data science. Learn more and...
Five years at NC State
As of Aug 18, we’ve been at NC State for 5 years. I’d say we’re settled in now, even if I still haven’t managed to...
How does the soil microbiome respond to drought?
We’re starting a new project “Microbes, memory, and moisture: leveraging DroughtNet to predict how microbial moisture responses will impact carbon cycling” funded by the National...
FunCrops: new project on endophyte rescue of plant stress
We are starting a new collaborative effort to understand how fungi living in leaves of crop plants enhance plant resistance to pathogens and drought. This...
Celebrating our first year at NCSU!
In our first year at NC State, we set up the lab, started new research, and developed new collaborations. It has been a whirlwind of...