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Sara Branco

Assistant Professor

Postdoctoral Researchers

Jessica Fletcher, Postdoctoral Researcher

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I earned my PhD at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland, where I studied a large subtelomeric gene family in the pathogenic fungus Candida albicans. I now hope to apply my skills to studying heavy metal tolerance in the genus Suillus. I am specifically interested in using NGS techniques to understand the genomic and transcriptomic bases for metal tolerance in this genus. I also hope to use my experience with CRISPR-Cas9 mutagenesis to engineer the Suillus genome to investigate the roles of specific genes that may be responsible for heavy metal tolerance.

Amy Honan, Postdoctoral Researcher

Students

Alexander Smith, MS Student

Cody Lewis, Undergraduate Student

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Treya Dabney, Undergraduate student

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Serif Toy

Former Branco Lab Members

Dr. Anna Bazzicalupo

Dr. Sonya Erlandson

Annie Schauster

Kathryn Gannon

Sophie Atkins

Maddie Trent

Rio Wofford

Margaret Branine

Lauren Ruffing

Megan Ratz

Julia Wolch

Colin Kennedy

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