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Kabir Peay is a Professor in the Department of Biology and the Department of Earth System Science at Stanford University. He completed his Master’s degree at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in 2003 and obtained his Ph.D. in 2008 from the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. His postdoctoral training included work in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at UC Berkeley and the Department of Biology at Stanford. Since joining Stanford in 2012, Peay has focused on microbial ecology, specifically exploring the ecological processes and structures of natural communities through the study of fungi, which play crucial roles in nutrient cycling and ecosystem dynamics. He has earned several prestigious fellowships and awards for his research and commitments to interdisciplinary collaborations. Peay serves on the editorial boards of several scientific journals, including Fungal Ecology and FEMS Microbiology Ecology. His research interests encompass the study of mycorrhizal fungi and their relationships with plants, contributing to a comprehensive understanding of plant-microbe symbiosis across various ecological scales.
Stanford University • Stanford, California
Teaching and researching in the Department of Biology and Earth System Science.
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