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Cecelia Stokes
Cecelia Stokes is a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Department of Botany. She received her undergraduate degree in General Biology from the University of North Carolina Asheville (UNCA) and was advised by Dr. Jonathan Horton. During her time at UNCA, she was awarded the University Research Scholar Designation, a Distinction in Biology, and received the Bernhardt-Perry Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. Although Stokes’ first research focused on plant community ecology, she fell in love with the world of fungi after taking a Mycology course and never looked back. After graduation, she worked as a Research Technician in a Plant Pathology lab at North Carolina State University where she researched fungal plant pathogens and their impacts on agricultural systems. In 2022, she began her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, co-advised by Drs. Anne Pringle and Michelle Jusino. Simultaneously, she is a Pathways Intern at the Center for Mycological Research of the U.S. Forest Service. Currently, Stokes is researching the invasion biology and chemical ecology of Amanita phalloides, or the death cap.