Christine Hawkes
Professor, Director of Microbiology Graduate Program
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
Thomas Hall 2560B
chawkes@ncsu.edu WebsiteBio
Dr. Hawkes completed a Smith Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC Berkeley and a NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Microbial Biology at the University of York (UK). Her training is in plant-microbe interactions, community ecology, and ecosystem ecology. Learn more at the Hawkes Lab website.
Education
B.A. Environmental Studies Bucknell University 1993
Ph.D. Biology University of Pennsylvania 2000
Area(s) of Expertise
Microbial and Plant Ecology
Publications
- Diverse root fungal endophytes mediate plant access to soil nutrients , bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2026)
- Niche constraints drive differences between mycorrhizal fungal guilds in future range shifts , bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2026)
- Long-term climate establishes functional legacies by altering microbial traits , The ISME Journal (2025)
- Tree Species Controls Over Nitrogen and Phosphorus Cycling in a Wet Tropical Forest , Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America (2025)
- Effective Seed Sterilization Methods Require Optimization Across Maize Genotypes , Phytobiomes Journal (2024)
- Invasive Buffelgrass, Cenchrus ciliaris, Balances Opportunistic Acquisition of Foliar fungi With Host and Environmental Filtering in Its Introduced Range , Molecular Ecology (2024)
- Priorities, opportunities, and challenges for integrating microorganisms into Earth system models for climate change prediction , mBio (2024)
- The quantification of southern corn leaf blight disease using deep UV fluorescence spectroscopy and autoencoder anomaly detection techniques , PLOS ONE (2024)
- Tree species controls over nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in a wet tropical forest , Ecological Monographs (2024)
- Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of Nigrospora sp. isolated from switchgrass leaves and antagonistic toward plant pathogens , Journal of Microbiological Methods (2023)