Rosanna P. Baker

The paper identifies fungal proliferation in North America before and after the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, linking it to climatic cooling and Deccan Traps activity.

This study shows that melanin in Cryptococcus neoformans sequesters calcium, impairing polysaccharide capsule formation and leading to increased shed polysaccharide that may affect host immunity.

The paper shows that environmental Cryptococcus neoformans strains undergo genomic and phenotypic changes during mammalian infection, suggesting animal virulence drives genetic adaptation.