Graduate Student Email: jacquelinepena@uga.edu Office: 1506 Miller Plant Sciences Research 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. Education Education: 2018 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 2016 B.S. Biology, Boise State University, Department of Biological Sciences Other Information Of note: 2020 HHMI Gilliam Graduate Fellowship grant 2018 NSF Bridge to the Doctorate Fellowship