Lily D. Peck

This study compares genomic adaptations of cheese-associated Nectriaceae fungi, revealing contrasting evolutionary paths involving gene family expansions, reductions, and horizontal gene transfer.

The study investigates DNA methylation's role in Lamarckian inheritance in California oaks, finding environmental induction and gene expression associations but not stable transmission across generations.

Repeated drought in valley oak seedlings induced CHH hypermethylation recurring at the same gene-proximal transposable elements, associated with elevated yet methylation-attenuated expression of nearby genes.

This study identifies high constitutive expression of drought-responsive genes in a drought-tolerant oak, alongside limited plasticity in response to dehydration.

This study identifies horizontal gene transfers from Fusarium oxysporum to Fusarium xylarioides as a mechanism driving the repeated outbreaks of coffee wilt disease.

This study uses historical genome sequencing to show how two populations of Fusarium xylarioides evolved similar pathogenic traits through horizontal gene transfer from other Fusarium species.