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Francois M. Lutzoni

Professor of Biology
Biology
Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708-0338
357 Bio Sci Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Grants


Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research: Building a global consortium of bryophytes and lichens: keystones of cryptobiotic communities

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2025

Spatio-temporal factors shaping symbiotic networks: a case study with cyanolichens

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2019 - 2024

PacBio Sequel IIe for GCB Sequencing Core

EquipmentMinor User · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2023 - 2024

Genetics Training Grant

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · 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

ResearchPrincipal 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 CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2017 - 2018

Dimensions: Collaborative Research: An Interdisciplinary Study of Hyperdiverse Endophytic Fungi and Their Function in Boreal Forests

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2011 - 2016

A multilocus phylogenetic study of the Teloschistales (Ascomycota) and the evolution of symbiotic systems

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2009 - 2013

Collaborative Research: Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life: Resolving the Evolutionary History of the Fungi

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2007 - 2012

DISSERTATION RESEARCH: A phylogenetic characterization of the lichen microbiome

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2010 - 2012

Dissertation Research: Molecular phylogeny of Verrucariales (Fungi, Ascomycota) and the evolution of nutritional modes.

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2005 - 2007

ATOL: Collaborative Research: Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2003 - 2007

Career: Using Multigene Phylogenies to Solve Early Euascomycete Relationships

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2001 - 2007

Collaborative Research: Assembling the fungal tree of life

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2003 - 2006

DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Phylogenetics of Nostoc and the Evolution of Specificity and Selectivity in Cyanolichen Symbioses

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2003 - 2005

Phylogeny in the Genus Omphalina and the Evolutionary Consequences of Mutualism

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1994 - 1996

External Relationships


  • Université Laval
  • W. Szafer Institute of Botany

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