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Francois M. Lutzoni
Professor of Biology
Biology
francois.lutzoni@duke.edu
Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708-0338
357 Bio Sci Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
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Selected Grants
Collaborative Research: Leveraging historical collections and new surveys to characterize foundational shifts in vital symbioses in the threatened Arctic
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2020 - 2026
Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research: Building a global consortium of bryophytes and lichens: keystones of cryptobiotic communities
Research
Co-Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2020 - 2025
Spatio-temporal factors shaping symbiotic networks: a case study with cyanolichens
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2019 - 2024
PacBio Sequel IIe for GCB Sequencing Core
Equipment
Minor User ·
Awarded by National Institutes of Health ·
2023 - 2024
Collaborative Research: Filling the largest phylogenetic void of the fungal genealogy of life and integrating symbiotic, environmental and physiological data
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2016 - 2022
Genetics Training Grant
Inst. Training Prgm or CME
Mentor ·
Awarded by National Institutes of Health ·
1979 - 2020
SG: Combining phylogenetic and network analyses for the study of symbiotic systems: a case study using lichens
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2016 - 2019
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Assessing the Importance of Trophic Lability for Fungal Endophytism Using the Moss Dicranum scoparium and its Associated Fungi
Inst. Training Prgm or CME
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2017 - 2018
Dimensions: Collaborative Research: An Interdisciplinary Study of Hyperdiverse Endophytic Fungi and Their Function in Boreal Forests
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2011 - 2016
Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research: North American Lichens and Bryophytes: Sensitive Indicators of Environmental Quality and Change
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2011 - 2016
REVSYS: Phylogenetic Revision of the Lichen-Forming Genus Peltigera (Ascomycota): Dissentangling Cryptic Speciation, Phenotypic Plasticity, and Hybridization
Research
Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2010 - 2015
A multilocus phylogenetic study of the Teloschistales (Ascomycota) and the evolution of symbiotic systems
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2009 - 2013
Collaborative Research: Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life: Resolving the Evolutionary History of the Fungi
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2007 - 2012
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: A phylogenetic characterization of the lichen microbiome
Inst. Training Prgm or CME
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2010 - 2012
Collaborative Research: Hyperdiverse endolichenic and endophytic fungi: A large-scale, multi-gene phylogenetic survey and estimation of trophic transition networks
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2007 - 2010
Dissertation Research: Molecular phylogeny of Verrucariales (Fungi, Ascomycota) and the evolution of nutritional modes.
Inst. Training Prgm or CME
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2005 - 2007
ATOL: Collaborative Research: Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2003 - 2007
Career: Using Multigene Phylogenies to Solve Early Euascomycete Relationships
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2001 - 2007
Collaborative Research: Assembling the fungal tree of life
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2003 - 2006
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Phylogenetics of Nostoc and the Evolution of Specificity and Selectivity in Cyanolichen Symbioses
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2003 - 2005
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Phylogeny, reconstruction of ancestral states and divergence times of lichen-forming fungi Acarosporaceae and Acrospora (Valerie Reeb)
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2001 - 2004
Phylogeny in the Genus Omphalina and the Evolutionary Consequences of Mutualism
Research
Co-Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
1994 - 1996
