Kirsten Gotting

I am a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin Madison. My research uses the fungus-growing ant-microbe symbiosis to study co-evolution between the parasitic symbiont Escovopsis and the defensive adaptations developed by fungus-growing ant hosts to stop this parasite.

I write about graduate school and what resources people have asked me for in the past. My interests include:

- Justice in STEM
- Trait Evolution and Diversification
- Mycology and Bacteriology
- Symbiosis and Adaptation
- The History of Genetics

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