Luis C. Mejia, a Ph.D. candidate at Rutgers University working under supervision of Jim White, Lisa Castlebury, and Amy Rossman, won the Backus Award from the Mycological Society of America (MSA). According to the MSA, "The Backus Award is awarded annually to promising graduate students in mycology. Applicants are evaluated on the basis of their scholastic merit, research ability and promise shown as a mycologist." Luis's dissertation research is on systematics and evolution of wood-inhabiting fungi from the family Gnomoniaceae (Diaporthales).

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