about.Rmd

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Bea Bock is a fourth-year PhD candidate at Northern Arizona University (NAU) in Flagstaff, AZ expecting to graduate in Spring 2026. Co-advised by Dr. Catherine Gehring and Dr. Nancy Johnson, she studies plant root-fungal symbioses and is interested in fungal networks facilitating resource transfers among plants. 

<img src="bea.jpg" style="width:25%">

# Dissertation Chapters:

-   Systematic analysis of the fungal endophyte literature using natural language processing

-   Root fungal symbioses of native cottonwoods and invasive tamarisks depending on neighbor and drought

-   Assessing the ability of non-mycorrhizal fungi to form common fungal networks among plants

# Publications:

Orcid ID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2240-9360>   

**Bock, B.**, & Markovchick, L. (2023). Considering Soil Biota and Symbioses in Forest Management and Ecosystem Restoration. Forests, 14(6), 1236. <https://doi.org/10.3390/f14061236>

**Bock, B.M.**, Darroch, S. A. F., & Casey, M. (2023). Long-term changes in unionid community in Kentucky Lake: Implications for understanding the effects of impoundment on river systems. Journal of Freshwater Ecology, 38(1), 2203712. <https://doi.org/10.1080/02705060.2023.2203712>

Sperling, E. A., Melchin, M. J., Fraser, T., Stockey, R. G., Farrell, U. C., Bhajan, L., Brunoir, T. N., Cole, D. B., Gill, B. C., Lenz, A., Loydell, D. K., Malinowski, J., Miller, A. J., Plaza-Torres, S., **Bock, B.**, Rooney, A. D., Tecklenburg, S. A., Vogel, J. M., Planavsky, N. J., & Strauss, J. V. (2021). A long-term record of early to mid-Paleozoic marine redox change. Science Advances, 7(28), eabf4382. <https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abf4382>

# Contact Me

[bmb646\@nau.edu](mailto:bmb646@nau.edu)

X: @Bea_m_Bock

Github: [https://github.com/beabock] (https://github.com/beabock)