Principal investigator
Keaton Tremble, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor · Principal Investigator
Keaton is a fungal evolutionary biologist studying cryptic fungal ecology. His work asks what makes coexisting fungal species functionally different in the soils they share, drawing on field studies, metatranscriptomics, genomics, and experimental bioassays.
Before starting the lab at Illinois, Keaton trained as a postdoc at Duke University with Rytas Vilgalys and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Utah with Bryn Dentinger. Outside of work he can usually be found riding his mountain bike far faster than his talent allows and dreaming of his next big rafting trip.