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Publications & Software

*Indicates undergraduate student mentee

Software & Data Products

nanodRop: Tools for Importing and Processing NanoDrop Data
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Automated Extraction of Fungal Trophic Modes using BioBERT

Selected First-Author Research

Evidence for common fungal networks among plants formed by a Dark Septate Endophyte

  • Bock, B.M., Hoeksema, J.D., Johnson, N.C., & Gehring, C.A. (2025). Communications Biology.

  • The Win: First evidence of fungal-mediated water transfer in common networks by DSEs.

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The Sparsely Sampled Ubiquity of Global Fungal Endophytes

  • Bock, B.M., McKay, N.P., Johnson, N.C., & Gehring, C.A. (2025). In Review.

  • The Scope: Analysis of 20,000+ abstracts using Natural Language Processing.

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Mentorship Highlights

A simple protocol for producing axenic seeds of Sorghum bicolor

  • Bock, B., Scherer, J., *Parrish, F., *Burnside, J., *Rohrer, C., & Gehring, C. (2025). microPublication Biology.

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Nitrogen utilization by a plant symbiotic fungal isolate of Alternaria alternata

  • Bock, B., *Curry, L., & Gehring, C. (2025). microPublication Biology.

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Collaborative Research

Concurrent common fungal networks formed by different guilds of fungi

  • Rillig, M. C., Lehmann, A., Mounts, I. R., & Bock, B. M. (2025). New Phytologist.

  • 🏆 Award: Selected as a Top 10 Mycorrhizal Research Paper (IMS Newsletter, 2025).

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Remote sensing reveals variation in riparian cottonwood response to drought

  • Seeley, M. M., ... Bock, B., ... & Doughty, C. E. (2025). Plant Biology.

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Pine-fungal co-invasion alters whole-ecosystem properties

  • Vietorisz, C., ... Bock, B., ... & Hoeksema, J. (2025). New Phytologist.

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Evidence for resources transfer via common endophyte networks

  • Waschk, P., ... Bock, B.M., ... & Anthony, M.A. (2026). Scientific Reports (In Review).

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Previous Research

  • Long-term changes in unionid community in Kentucky Lake (2023) - Journal of Freshwater Ecology.

  • A long-term record of early to mid-Paleozoic marine redox change (2021) - Science Advances.

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