Here’s a wonderful biography of Anne from National Geographic’s Explorer Home: “Dr. Anne Pringle was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and spent her childhood traveling through Southeast Asia and West Africa. After being dragged along on one-too-many birding expeditions, she abandoned the birds for fungi. She was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago and then completed a Ph.D. in Botany and Genetics at Duke University. After completing a Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, she joined the faculty at Harvard University. She next moved to the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she is now Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the Departments of Botany and Bacteriology. She has given over 100 invited talks to academic and popular audiences in countries including China, Colombia, France, Singapore, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States. She has been awarded the Alexopoulos Prize for a Distinguished Early Career Mycologist (2010), the Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award from the Harvard University Graduate Student Council (2011), the Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching from Harvard University (2013), and a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship (2011-2012). Her research has been featured by the New York Times, Slate, and the Wisconsin State Journal, and National Public Radio, among others. Pringle was elected President of the Mycological Society of America.”

From the University of Wisconsin’s Pringle Lab: “The missions of the Pringle Lab are to publish excellent science and have a lot of fun as we make our discoveries. Our twin aims are data and joy. We believe the best science happens in a diverse lab whose members come from all walks of life and every corner of the globe. We welcome you and respect whatever path brought you to us. We focus on the biology of species whose life histories and body plans seem very different from our own. Fungi encompass a heterogeneous array of both microbes and macrobes. The Pringle Lab uses fungi as tools to test and elucidate general principles of ecology and evolution.”