Maggie R Wagner
Dr. Maggie R. Wagner earned a B.S. in Plant Biology at the University of Michigan (2009), followed by a Ph.D. in Genetics & Genomics at Duke University (2016). Her dissertation research focused on the ecological causes and evolutionary consequences of phenotypic plasticity in a wild perennial mustard species. While at Duke, she developed strong interest in plant-associated microbiomes both as a critical component of the plant's environment and as an "extended phenotype" of the plant host. She was awarded an NSF Plant Genome Postdoctoral Fellowship to investigate how modern breeding affects the composition and function of the maize microbiome, while based at North Carolina State University. In 2019 she established her lab in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Kansas Biological Survey at the University of Kansas, where she continues to work on the complex interplay between plant genotype, phenotype, and microbiome.
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