Christine Hawkes
Bio
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
- Priorities, opportunities, and challenges for integrating microorganisms into Earth system models for climate change prediction , MBIO (2024)
- Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of Nigrospora sp. isolated from switchgrass leaves and antagonistic toward plant pathogens , JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS (2023)
- Fungal Symbionts Generate Water-Saver and Water-Spender Plant Drought Strategies via Diverse Effects on Host Gene Expression , PHYTOBIOMES JOURNAL (2023)
- Manipulating the plant mycobiome to enhance resilience: Ecological and evolutionary opportunities and challenges , PLOS PATHOGENS (2023)
- Plant-soil feedback under drought: does history shape the future? , TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION (2023)
- Legacies of precipitation influence primary production in Panicum virgatum , OECOLOGIA (2022)
- Microbes, memory and moisture: Predicting microbial moisture responses and their impact on carbon cycling , FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY (2022)
- Plant Host Traits Mediated by Foliar Fungal Symbionts and Secondary Metabolites , MICROBIAL ECOLOGY (2022)
- Drought legacy affects microbial community trait distributions related to moisture along a savannah grassland precipitation gradient , JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY (2021)
- Extension of Plant Phenotypes by the Foliar Microbiome , ANNUAL REVIEW OF PLANT BIOLOGY, VOL 72, 2021 (2021)