Egan Lab - Fungal Cell Biology

University of Arkansas, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology

About us

Our group use cell biological and molecular genetic approaches to understand how filamentous fungal pathogens grow as highly polarized cell types called hyphae, and how they use these to infect both plant and human tissues. We are principally interested in the role that the cytoskeleton and its associated molecular motor proteins play in controlling polarized filamentous growth and infection related morphogenesis.