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Check out the paper published in Mycologia, and Ronja’s interview on HPR: Steinbach, R. M., Whitner, S., & Amend, A. S. (2025). Marine fungi degrade plastic and can be conditioned to do it faster. Mycologia, 117(1), 1-8.

Weʻre recruiting 3 postdoctoral researchers to work on projects funded by the National Science Foundation, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, two are focused on the diversity, evolution and ecology of Basidiomycete yeasts in Hawaiʻi, and the second is focused on examining the roles of microbiomes in experimental food webs. In all cases, the

So many good things to report! Let’s start with people… Aloha oe to Bryson and Giullia! And welcome to Postdoc Samira, a recent emigre from the Aime lab at Perdue, and Rayne (who survived our Mycology class this spring), excited to have you both around to help with Bromeliad food web work! Syrena Whitner is

So, it’s been a minute since we’ve updated the website… here’s what you missed. Big e komo mai to Quinn Moon, Giulia Marenco Di Moriondo, and Reese Tsubota who have stepped in to help with culturing and with our phytoplankton pathogen studies.  Glad you’re here! Ronja received funding to present at SACNAS in Puerto Rico

This last year was quite a blur…Here’s what happened: Departures: Post-doc Fouad El Baidouri left us for a researcher position with the Neafsy Lab at Harvard/Broad. Gone, but not forgotten!  Dr. Andre Boraks successfully defended his PhD and is off to work with the International Conservation Fund of Canada.  A hui hou! Joani Villiunas is heading downhill

Molecular phylogeny and phylogeography of Holarctic species of Pluteus section Pluteus (Agaricales: Pluteaceae), with description of twelve new species. Congratulations Gerry! 

Check out the latest PLoS Pearl about marine fungi and coral dandruff: From Dandruff to Deep-Sea Vents: Malassezia-like Fungi are Ecologically Hyper-diverse

They’re here!  Rick Gardner, from Zeiss, has kindly flown over to set up our fancy new microscopes. With DIC and epi-fluorescence capabilities, pesky little microbes will have nowhere to hide. 

BOTH Gery and Kami were funded for three years through NSF. Gerry is studying the evolution and assembly processes of Hawaiian endophytes and Kami is studying the physiology and determinants of Fungal composition in Corals. Way to go both of you!