WELCOME TO THE CENTER FOR INTEGRATED FUNGAL RESEARCH

The goal of the Center for Integrated Fungal Research (CIFR) is to integrate all aspects of fungal research including environmental and climate initiatives, disease, agriculture, evolution, mathematical modeling, genomics and bioinformatics, and to translate knowledge from fundamental research to stakeholders, the general public, and the scientific community.  CIFR will promote education and understanding of the relative contribution of global biodiversity to the beneficial and deleterious activities of fungi.

Recent News

Congratulations to Christine Hawkes for being one of twelve professors in CALS to be named a William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor. See the video announcement HERE.  

Owen Duckworth has been named a Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America.  Congratulations on this recognition!

Congratulations to Manuel Kleiner on achieving tenure!  We wish you continued success!

Read about Ignazio Carbone’s and James White’s  Tree-Based Alignment Selector (T-BAS) toolkit for assembling a Phytophthora “Tree of Life” in collaboration with Jean Ristaino and colleagues:  https://news.ncsu.edu/2023/04/researchers-assemble-pathogen-tree-of-life/

Congratulations to Manuel Kleiner who was included in NC State’s 2022-23 class of University Faculty Scholars!

Alun Lloyd has been named as the College of Sciences’ Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.  Read all about it HERE.  Congratulations!