DUKE MYCOLOGY RESEARCH UNIT
Faculty and Research

Heitman Lab Members

Casey Perley Rotating Graduate Student 320 CARL Building Box 3546 DUMC Durham, N.C. 27710 Phone: 919.684.3036 Fax: 919.684.5458 Email: casey.perley@duke.edu

I am originally from the small town of Boston NY, located just south of Buffalo in the western part of the state. I traveled to Connecticut to attend college at Yale University, followed by a year in the real Boston (MA) as a research technician in the Lindquist Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2009, I made the long trip down south to attend Duke, and am currently a first-year graduate student in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology. My first rotation was in the Heitman lab, where I studied the role calcineurin plays in mating for C. lusitaniae and C. tropicalis. Outside of lab, I can be found cheering on my beloved Buffalo Bills and Sabres, playing harp, or cooking copious amounts of food for friends and neighbors.