Kaitlyn Savoy

KU PhD student Kaitlyn Savoy
  • Doctoral Aspirant
  • Self Graduate Fellow

Contact Info

Biography —

Mentor: Dr. Ben Sikes

Research Interests: Astromycology

Hometown: Olathe, Kansas

 

Education —

B.A. in Biology, University of Kansas, 2024, Lawrence, KS

Selected Presentations —

  1. Savoy, KL and Sikes, BA. Electric fields as a potential dispersal mechanism for fungal spores. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research, San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 2024. Poster presentation.
  2. Sikes, BA and Savoy, KL. Soil fungal crust community resilience to multiple space-like environmental stresses. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research, Washington, D.C., November 2023. Poster presentation.


 

Grants & Other Funded Activity —

Savoy, KL. Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellowship. The University of Kansas. $225,000. 4 years. 08/2025-05/2029.