DUKE MYCOLOGY
RESEARCH UNIT
Faculty and Research
Fred Dietrich, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
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Biography:
Fred Dietrich was an undergraduate math major at the University of California, Davis,
and then a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Gerry
Fink’s lab. He moved to Stanford to join the S. cerevisiae genome project, working
with Ron Davis and David Botstein to complete yeast chromosome V.
Fred moved to the Biozentrum, University of Basel in Switzerland in 1997 and spent three
years as a post-doctoral fellow with Peter Phillipsen sequencing the genome of the filamentous
ascomycete Ashbya gossypii. He was recruited to the Department of Molecular Genetics
and Microbiology (MGM) at Duke in July 2000 where his attention focuses on the genomic evolution
of fungi, most importantly, the pathogenic basidiomycete Cryptococcus neoformans serotype
A. He is also interested in the interface between automated sequence acquisition and
bioinformatics and in how to visualize genomic information.
