University of Nebraska-Lincoln

The Fungal Ecology Lab

2025

  • Riley graduated with her BSc in Cellular Biochemistry as a Chancellor's Scholar and highest distinction in the May 2025 commencements. Congratulations, Riley!

  • Tessa graduated with her BSc in Environmental and Sustainability Studies, with minors in Mathematics, Spanish, and Communication, and highest distinction!! May 2025 commencements. Congratulations, Tessa!

  • Riley Eisenbraun successfully defended her undergraduate thesis titled: "Single and Multiple Fungicide Resistance Among Genetically Distinct Populations of the Potato Black Dot Pathogen, Colletotrichum coccodes." Congratulations, Riley!

  • Tessa doing microscopy

  • Tessa's first fungal spores

  • Kelvin delivered his first departmental seminar in the Spring of 2025

  • We celebrated Tessa's birthday with a delicious cake.

  • Riley presented a poster at the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) Midwest Division meeting and won the 1st place. Congratulations, Riley!

  • We celebrated Riley's birthday with a tres leches cake

2024

  • Xin Zhi obtained her MS degree in the December 2024 commencements. Congratulations, Xin Zhi!

  • Xin Zhi delivered her exit seminar and defended MS thesis in December 2024. Congratulations, Xin Zhi!

  • Kelvin won the 1st place at the graduate level in the 4th UNL Microbiology Research Symposium. Congratulations, Kelvin!

  • Teddy took the stage at the faculty research slam with his talk: "Fungal evolution for people in a hurry"

  • Teddy trying to look cool at the Niagara Falls after the Mycological Society of America meeting held in Toronto in June 2024"

  • Tessa running experiments, Fall 2024

  • Lab group photo (from left to right: Kelvin, Carlos, Norah, Xin Zhi, and Teddy)

  • Celebrating Sofia's birthday, Summer 2024

  • Teddy and Sofia with Joe Liscano (CSS Farms) in the Summer of 2024

  • Celebrating Carlos' birthday, Summer 2024

  • Sofia running greenhouse experiments, Summer 2024

  • Nanopore sequencing at the Fungal Ecology Lab, Summer 2024

  • Nanopore sequencing at the Fungal Ecology Lab, Summer 2024

  • Summer 2024 sampling trip to Western Nebraska

  • Summer 2024 sampling trip to Western Nebraska

  • Lab group photo (from left to right: Tessa, Norah, Ellie, Xin Zhi, and Teddy)

2023

  • Xin Zhi delivers her first seminar in the Department of Plant Pathology

  • Lab December 2023 Dinner

  • Tessa doing microscopy

  • Tessa holding Ernie (Teddy's pet rabbit)

  • Xin Zhi presenting her research at NC-APS 2023 at Purdue

  • Xin Zhi presenting her research at NC-APS 2023 at Purdue

  • Teddy at NC-APS 2023

  • Xin Zhi collecting samples in western Nebraska

  • Teddy collecting samples in western Nebraska

  • Xin Zhi collecting more samples in western Nebraska

  • Lab Photo - April 2023 (Teddy and Xin Zhi)

  • Lab Photo - March 2023 (Teddy, Elizabeth, and Xin Zhi)

2022

  • Teddy and some members of the Department of Plant Pathology being silly for Halloween 2022

  • Marie Giselle doing research in the lab