Annie Hatmaker

Postdoctoral Fellow
Plant and Microbial Biology

I am a computational biologist studying how pathogenicity evolves in fungal pathogens. I use genomics, bioinformatics, and machine learning to answer questions about how fungi evolve to infect plants and humans.

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Education and background

  • B.S., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2014
  • M.S., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2016
  • Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 2024
  • NIH NEI NRSA Predoctoral Individual Fellow, 2022-24
  • Postdoctoral Scholar, USDA-ARS/University of Minnesota, 2024-present
  • USDA NIFA AFRI Postdoctoral Fellow, 2025-present