About Bea
Bea Bock is a third-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.
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