Rita Grunberg

Excited to share our new manuscript! We show that reducing fungal diseases in plant communities can lower plant diversity and also amplify variation in community structure 🌿🌱 @MitchelllabUNC @fletch_halliday @KOKeeffe12 journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Excited to see my first chapter in print! We found facilitation between a biotrophic and necrotrophic fungal pathogen and changes in nutrient allocation under different nutrient addition treatments. @MitchelllabUNC @ritagrunberg doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…

We've had a busy month at the Wilson Center! Check out our latest updates in our newsletter at duke.is/WilsonJulyNews…

This Saturday! We, @LegalAidNC, & partners across the Triangle are hosting a Medicaid enrollment and resource fair! Join us on Saturday, January 27 from 10am – 2pm for help enrolling and to learn about other resources. RSVP at duke.is/medicaidfair. Please share widely!

As a former postdoc in the Mitchell lab, I highly recommend this position! Charles is super supportive and a great supervisor!! 🌻

Formerly incarcerated individuals face unique challenges in securing housing. This month, we released a policy brief that outlines the relationship between housing and the criminal legal system and provides recommendations on how to improve. Learn more: wcsj.law.duke.edu/news/improving…

Check out our new paper on parasite stoichiometry link.springer.com/article/10.100…

@p_cresson @DanielBolnick This link should work! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

@DanielBolnick @ritagrunberg Looks very interesting but the link is broken... :(

We are looking for a full-time (w/benefits) Research Technician / Field & Lab Manager to work on disease ecology and transmission of fungal plant pathogens, including microbial species interactions and climate variation. Please share! unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/258541

Huge congratulations are in order for Dr. Julie Geyer! Julie successfully defended her dissertation on the plant microbiome. The lab awarded Dr. Geyer the prestigious "Golden Microbiome" for her incredible microbime research. Congratulations, Julie!! @UNC_GradSchool @UNC_Biology

Taking a break from Zelda ToK to share our new manuscript published in #PLOSONE: Historical contingency in parasite community assembly: Community divergence results from early host to symbionts and ecological drift dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa… @MitchelllabUNC @bnewjoy

Extremely proud of @UNC_Biology @MitchelllabUNC undergrads Evan Morgan and Natalie Harper for winning best undergraduate presentation this weekend at @Helm_Soc meeting! 🪱

Friday vibes 💕

New preprint! We show that experimentally reducing disease in intact plant communities generally decreased plant diversity and increased variation in community structure. Such a fun collaboration w/ @fletch_halliday @KOKeeffe12 @bnewjoy @MitchelllabUNC biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our @WinspireU student, Carden, did an awesome job presented their research demonstrating that priority effects alter #fungal pathogens in vitro. Congrats, Carden!

Exciting new study from my former Morin lab crew! @Rutgers_EcoGSA @RutgersEENR

Had a great time watching my former mentee @elisemckeann present some of her new research @Helm_Soc

New & #OpenAccess in @ESAEcology: Historical contingency and the role of post-invasion evolution in alternative community states doi.org/10.1002/ecy.37… #OpenData in @ZENODO_ORG @ritagrunberg @pjmorin123 #BiologicalInvasion #EcoEvolutionaryDynamics #IntraspecificVariation

New paper in @ESAEcology with my former @RutgersEENR crew Cara Faillace and Peter Morin @pjmorin123. We show historical contingency due to evolution following biological invasions results in long-lasting alternative ecological community states. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…