Lotus Lofgren

Lotus Lofgren is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research integrates fungal ecology, genomics, and evolutionary biology to investigate the biodiversity and population dynamics of mushroom-forming fungi, with a particular focus on ectomycorrhizal Suillus species associated with pines. Her recent work, published in New Phytologist and Nature Reviews Biodiversity, has elucidated global population structures of the co-introduced fungus Suillus luteus and characterized terpene chemical diversity through genome mining and metabolomics. She also leads the Myco-Ed initiative, developing mycological curricula for education and discovery.