Dr. Borkovich has worked with microorganisms during her entire career. Her current research focuses on how multicellular (filamentous) fungi sense their environment and then fine-tune their gene expression to allow exploitation of different nutritional sources or to infect plant hosts. Dr. Borkovich has contributed to whole-genome information for filamentous fungi, including predictions of gene functions in several species and creation of a genome-wide mutant library for N. crassa. Dr. Borkovich is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Academy of Microbiology. Dr. Borkovich earned her B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biochemistry from UC Davis and UCLA, respectively, and performed postdoctoral training at the University of Chicago and the California Institute of Technology.