Dr. Anne Pringle is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Chicago in 1993, and completed her doctoral degree in Botany and Genetics at Duke University in 2001. Pringle continued her postdoctoral training as a Miller Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, where she began work with the death cap fungus. In 2005, she joined the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology department at Harvard University. For her passion towards scientific teaching and mentoring, she was awarded at Harvard University the Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching (2013), and the Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award (2011). In 2015, Pringle moved to the University of Wisconsin, where she continues studying the complex kingdom of fungi. Learn more about Pringle’s research at her lab website.
Anne Pringle provides an overview of the vastly diverse and complex world of fungi, and tells us the story behind Bay Area Amanita phalloides. (Talk recorded in February 2017)
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