Jyothi Kumar, Ph.D. student in the Harris Research Group, will present “Stress Biology of Extremophilic Fungi”; and, Margarita Marroquin, Ph.D. student in the Wilson Research Group, will present “Characterizing GATA Factor Control of Nitrogen Scavenging by the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae and Its Implications for Hemibiotrophy”.