Rate My Professor Francois Lutzoni

Throughout his career at Duke University, where he advanced to Professor of Biology in 2015, Lutzoni has earned prestigious awards, including the Mycological Society of America Fellow (2016), C. J. Alexopoulos Prize (2005), Edward Tuckerman Award from the American Bryological and Lichenological Society (2009), NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award (2002), and multiple Duke University Senior Honor Awards (2017, 2018). His highly influential publications include 'Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life: progress, classification, and evolution of subcellular traits' (American Journal of Botany, 2004), 'Reconstructing the early evolution of Fungi using a six-gene phylogeny' (Nature, 2006), 'A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi' (Mycological Research, 2007), and 'Major fungal lineages are derived from lichen symbiotic ancestors' (Nature, 2001). With over 29,000 citations, his work has profoundly shaped systematic biology, lichenology, and evolutionary studies of symbiosis. Lutzoni has served as Associate Editor for Mycologia, on the editorial board of International Journal of Plant Sciences, and as a reviewer for journals such as Science, Nature Reviews Microbiology, and Systematic Biology, as well as NSF panels.