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Anne Pringle
Anne Pringle is an esteemed mycologist and professor born in Malaysia. She has taught various levels of education, including teaching at Harvard University for 9 years, then began teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she continues to teach today. She has focused her research largely on lichens and Amanita phalloides, also known as death cap mushrooms. She has worked closely with the Mycological Society of America, the Society for the Study of Evolution, and the Genetics Society of America.

Education and Career
In 1993, Anne Pringle graduated from the University of Chicago with a bachelor’s degree in Biology. Pringle then attended Duke University where she earned her Ph.D. in Botany and Genetics in 2001. During her time at Duke, Pringle wrote her thesis on “The Ecology and Genetics of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi.”

Shortly after graduating from the University of Chicago, Pringle began her career as a teacher at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn, New York. She taught various science classes such as introductory courses of botany, chemistry, biology, and physics from 1993 to 1995. In 2005, Pringle was an assistant professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. In 2008, she was promoted to an associate professor in the department and served until 2014. From 2015 to 2017, she was an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Department of Botany and Bacteriology. Since 2017, Pringle has been a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

In 2009, Pringle was a founding board member of Mushroom Observer, a website where people can share their mycological observations and help others identify mushrooms, where she was also named as vice president. In 2017, Pringle was elected as the president of the Mycological Society of America in 2017 and served until 2021.

=== Awards, Fellowships, and Honors ===
 * 1995-1997 — National Institutes of Health Graduate Fellowship in Genetics at Duke University
 * 2001 — Perry Prize for dissertation of greatest distinction at Duke University
 * 2001-2004 — Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science Research Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley
 * 2009 — Founding board member and vice president of Mushroom Observer
 * 2010 — Alexopoulos Prize of the Mycological Society of America
 * 2011 — Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award from the Harvard University Graduate Student Council
 * 2011-2012 — Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship at Harvard University
 * 2013 — Fannie Cox Prize for excellence in science teaching at Harvard University
 * 2014-2015 — Charles Bullard Fellowship in Forest Research at Harvard Forest
 * 2017-2021 — President of the Mycological Society of America
 * 2017-present — Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison
 * 2018 — Fellow of the Mycological Society of America
 * 2018-present — Letters & Science Mary Herman Rubenstein Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
 * 2018-present — National Geographic Explorer
 * 2019 — Mid-Career Mycorrhiza Research Excellence Award from the International Mycorrhiza Society

Contribution to the Field
Pringle has done extensive research during her tenure at Harvard. She largely focused her studies on the life cycle of lichens on various tombstones in a cemetery in the New England area to identify the ecological niche that they take up in the environment.

Aside from teaching as a professor, Pringle has also given over 100 educational talks to various audiences of higher education since 1999, both virtually and in-person across 15 different countries. Since 2005, she has also given 29 talks to audiences with less scientific backgrounds. One of these particular instances includes three lectures to iBiology, a free platform that aims to make science more accessible to a wider audience.

As of March 2023, Pringle is continuing her mycological research in South Africa with the Forestry & Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) as a visiting professor to study the Sporothrix genus. Pringle and her team are hoping to gain a deeper understanding of Sporothrix schenckii, a fungus that has largely affected South African miners as it can cause sporotrichosis, a skin disease that can develop into or cause lung infections.

Selected Publications

 * Pringle, A., J.M. Moncalvo, and R. Vilgalys. 2000. High levels of variation in ribosomal DNA sequences within and among spores of a natural population of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Acaulospora colossica. Mycologia 92:259-268.
 * Anne Pringle. 2001. The ecology and genetics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Ph.D. Thesis, Duke University.
 * Pringle and Taylor. 2002. Understanding the fitness of filamentous fungi. Trends in Microbiology 10:474-481.
 * Pringle A., D. Chen, and J.W. Taylor. 2003. Sexual fecundity is correlated to size in the lichenized fungus Xanthoparmelia cumberlandia. The Bryologist 106:221-225.
 * Pringle, A., J.M. Moncalvo, and R. Vilgalys. 2003. Revisiting the rDNA sequence diversity of a natural population of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Acaulospora colossica. Mycorrhiza 13:227-231.
 * Anne Pringle. 2005. Immortal Fungi. Mycena News 56:01.
 * Friesen M.S., A. Pringle, B. Callan, A. Leathem. 2005. Amanita phalloides heads north. Conference Proceedings of the North American Congress of Clinical Toxicologists.
 * Pringle A., S.N. Patek, M. Fischer, J. Stolze, and N.P. Money. 2005. The captured launch of a ballistospore. Mycologia 97:866-871.
 * Pringle A., D.M. Baker, J.L. Platt, J.P. Wares, J.P. Latge, and J.W. Taylor. 2005. Cryptic speciation in the cosmopolitan and clonal human pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus. Evolution 59:1886-1899.
 * Schwartz M.W., J.D. Hoeksema, C.A. Gehring, N.C. Johnson, J.N. Klironomos, L.K. Abbott, and A. Pringle. 2006. The promise and the potential consequences of the global transport of mycorrhizal fungal inoculum. Ecology Letters 9:601-616.
 * Gilchrist M.A., D.L. Sulsky, and A. Pringle. 2006. Identifying fitness and optimal life history strategies in an asexual filamentous fungus. Evolution 60:970-979.
 * Wolfe B.E., V.L. Rodgers, K.A. Stinson, and A. Pringle. 2008. The invasive plant Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard) inhibits ectomycorrhizal fungi in its introduced range. Journal of Ecology 96:777-783.
 * Pringle A. 2008. Forward to The Fungi of Serbia, written by Branislav Uzelac and members of the Mycologists’ Association of Serbia.
 * Vellinga E.C., B.E. Wolfe, and A. Pringle. 2009. Global patterns of ectomycorrhizal introductions. New Phytologist. 181:960-973.
 * Pringle A., R.I. Adams, H.B. Cross, and T.D. Bruns. 2009. The ectomycorrhizal fungus Amanita phalloides was introduced and is expanding its range on the West Coast of North America. Molecular Ecology 18:817-833.
 * Wolfe B.E., F. Richard, H.B. Cross, and A. Pringle. 2010. Distribution and abundance of the introduced ectomycorrhizal fungus, Amanita phalloides, in North America. New Phytologist 185:803-816.
 * Pringle A., E. Barron, K. Sartor, J. Wares. 2011. Fungi and the Anthropocene: Biodiversity discovery in an epoch of loss. Fungal Ecology 4:121-123.
 * Anne Pringle. 2012. The Christmas Fungus on Christmas Island. In: Microbes and Evolution: The World Darwin Never Saw, Eds. S. Maloy and R. Kolter. ASM Press, Washington, D.C.
 * Anne Pringle. 2013. Asthma and the Diversity of Fungal Spores in Air. PloS Pathogens 9(6):e1003371.
 * Pringle, A., E. Vellinga, and K. Peay. 2015. The shape of fungal ecology: Does spore morphology give clues to a species’ niche? Fungal Ecology 17:213-216.
 * Dickie I.A., M.A. Nuñez, A. Pringle, T. Lebel, S. Tourtellot, and P.R. Johnston. 2016. Towards management of invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi. Biological Invasions 18:3383-3395.
 * Tulloss R.E., T.W. Kuyper, E.C. Vellinga, Z.L. Yang, R.E. Halling, J. Geml, S. Sánchez-Ramírez, S. C. Gonçalves, J. Hess, and A. Pringle. 2016. The genus Amanita should not be split. Amanitaceae 1:1-16.
 * van Diepen L.T.A., S.D. Frey, E.A. Landis, E.W. Morrison, and A. Pringle. 2017. Fungi exposed to chronic nitrogen enrichment are less able to decay leaf litter. Ecology 98:5-11.
 * Anne Pringle. 2017. Establishing new worlds: The lichens of Petersham. In Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet, eds. A. Tsing, H.A. Swanson, E. Gan, N. Bubandt. University of Minnesota Press.
 * Seminara A., J. Fritz, M.P. Brenner, and A. Pringle. 2018. A universal growth limit for circular lichens. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 1 5:20180063.
 * Morrison, E.W., A. Pringle, L.T.A. van Diepen, A.S. Grandy, J.M. Melillo, and S.D. Frey. 2019. Warming alters fungal communities and litter chemistry with implications for soil carbon stocks. Soil Biology & Biogeochemistry 132:120-130.
 * Vargas-Estupiñán N., S. Gonçalves, A.E. Franco-Molano, S. Restrepo, and A. Pringle. 2019. In Colombia the Eurasian fungus Amanita muscaria is expanding its range into native, tropical Quercus humboldtii forests. Mycologia 111:758-771.
 * Wang, Y.-W., J. Hess, J.C. Slot, and A. Pringle. 2020. De novo gene birth, horizontal gene transfer and gene duplication as sources of new gene families associated with the origin of a symbiosis in the fungal genus Amanita. Genome Biology and Evolution. 1 2:2168-2182.
 * Anne Pringle. 2021. A lichen: A community and an organism. Cell Systems 12:207-209.
 * Iapichino, M., Y.-W. Wang, S. Gentry, A. Pringle, A. Seminara. In press. A precise relationship among Buller’s drop, ballistospore and gill morphologies enables maximal packing of spores within gilled mushrooms. Mycologia.