It was a busy spring! We’re so happy to welcome new postdocs Jason Baer and Jiho Yang to the lab. A huge congratulations to Rayne who completed her UROP project with aplomb! and graduated with her BS. Rayne is sticking around to lend a hand on yeast projects. Daehlin got funding to work for the summer in the tissue lab at Lyon Arboretum where sheʻs developing protocols for sterile cultivation of Halophila hawaiiana, our endemic sea grass. Weʻre hoping to have her back by fall. Tim Berger visited our lab for a whirlwind visit where he advanced some of the chemistry work on plastic degradation while racking up adventures around Hawaii. Finally, we got to host Jeff Stallman and Daniel Raudabaugh from Purdue, who helped us sample and isolate yeasts from around some of the cooler spots on Oahu.
