I am an evolutionary biologist who studies 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.
The Hatmaker lab opened at the University of Georgia in August 2026! I am now an Assistant Professor of Fungal Biology at the University of Georgia in the Department of Plant Pathology. Previously, I was a USDA-NIFA Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Minnesota. I completed my doctorate at Vanderbilt University in 2024. Prior to that, I earned my Bachelor and Master degrees from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, before working at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a Post-Master’s Research Associate. You can discover more about my research and my publications by visiting my Google Scholar profile.
E. Anne Hatmaker, Ph.D. 