Position Title
PhD Student
As a Junior Specialist, Anna wears the hats of post-baccalaureate researcher, technician, and lab manager. Since joining the Bogar Lab in 2023, she has been busy preparing metabarcoding libraries, sampling roots in the high Sierras, mentoring undergraduates, and writing her first manuscript. As a researcher, Anna is interested in bridging basic and applied plant-microbe interaction ecology by investigating the multipartite biotic interactions that drive variation in the outcomes of mycorrhizal symbiosis observed in the field. Her background spans mycorrhizal guilds, including work with orchid mycorrhizal fungi at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi at both the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research and Cornell University's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Anna holds a BS in Plant Science with a minor in Fungal Biology from Cornell University. In her free time, Anna enjoys swing dancing, backpacking, and a good game night.