macfound 263d ago

Meet Toby Kiers, an evolutionary biologist and 2025 #MacFellow investigating symbiotic partnerships between plants, fungi, and other microbes. She illuminates the evolutionary mechanisms underlying cooperation between species as well as the role of plant-microbe mutualisms in ecosystem health. Kiers’s research shows that microbes are not passive accessories to plants but powerful actors in their own right. Learn more about Toby Kiers: https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2025/toby-kiers