(VA) (Virginia Native Plant Society) Join Mary Jane Epps, Ph.D. for a presentation to the John Clayton Chapter: Seeing the Fungi for the Trees. A Hidden World of Plant-Fungal Interaction.

Mary Jane Epps is an associate professor of biology at Mary Baldwin University, where she teaches botany, ecology, entomology, and conservation biology. Following a bachelor’s degree at Duke University, she earned a Ph. D. studying fungal-insect interactions at the University of Arizona in 2012 and completed postdoctoral research at North Carolina State University in 2015. As an ecologist with a strong emphasis on natural history, especially in a Virginia context, her research explores various interactions between plants, fungi, and insects.