Jacqueline Pena

Graduate Student
Email:
jacquelinepena@uga.edu
Lab:
Bensasson Lab | Miller Plant Sciences
Research Areas:
Ecology & Global Change
Genomics & Bioinformatics
Evolutionary Biology
Research Interests:

I study how climate change shapes the distribution of wild fungal microbes to understand the ecological and evolutionary processes that contribute to thermal adaptation.

Grants:
  • 2020 HHMI Gilliam Graduate Fellowship Grant
  • 2018 NSF Bridge to the Doctorate Fellowship
  • 2024 UGA PBIO Duncan Award Recipient
Education:

Admission to the PhD program in the Plant Biology Department at the University of Georgia, 2018.

M.S. Ecology, Utah State University, Department of Wildland Resources, 2018. 

B.S. Biology, Boise State University, Department of Biological Sciences, 2016.

Major Professor


Douda Bensasson

Associate Professor

Committee Members


Jill Anderson

Courtesy Faculty in Plant Biology

Michelle Momany

Professor

External Committee

Dr. Kelly Dyer Professor of Genetics at UGA
Dr. Marin Brewer Associate Professor of Mycology, Plant Pathology department at UGA

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