Allison Walker

Biography

I study the taxonomy and ecology of fungal endophytes of coastal and marine plants.

Research Interest

I study the taxonomy and ecology of fungal endophytes of coastal and marine plants. Research in my lab includes collecting in seagrass, saltmarsh, intertidal, and Acadian forest habitats and traditional culture-based and microscopic identification of fungi, combined with modern molecular phylogenetic and ITS barcoding methods, DNA community fingerprinting, qPCR probe design and genomics. Recent collaborative projects have discovered a new fungal species Ophiognomonia acadiensis and a new source of the antifungal compound griseofulvin, both from Canada’s Acadian forest.