Applications now open for the position of Director of Pacific Biosciences Reseach Center, at University of Hawaiʻi.
PBRC fosters cutting-edge research across cellular, molecular, developmental, ecological, evolutionary, and conservation biology—with a focus on Hawaiʻi and the Pacific.

Our lab charges small waves!

Tremendous visit to National University of Singapore to discuss all things marine mycology. So excited to see the groundbreaking work coming out of this part of the world. Thanks to Ying Chang and lab for being such great hosts, hope to repay the favor soon!

Winter fieldwork keeps us on our toes. Finding the smallest seagrass in the biggest ocean w/ @ikeryturralde.bsky.social and crew.

Undergrad Ronja Steinbach completed this study on her own while I was on sabbatical. Proof that great things can and do happen when I get out of the way of my students! Lots of exciting next steps, get in touch if you want to help leverage fungi to clean up our oceans.

After "evolving" the fungi on increasing concentrations of PU for multiple gen

We screened our marine fungal collection using a nifty clearance assay in which Polyurethane is provided as the sole C source. Remarkably, >60% or our screened isolates could clear some or most of the plate. This is a higher percentage than is reported in most studies using terrestrial fungi.

Proud of our new paper in which we force-feed plastic to marine fungi, and watch them evolve to eat it more efficiently. Plastic is the fastest growing new habitat on our planet, fungi can help recycle it.

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Hereʻs a link to the PDF:
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In what passes for tradition... from the late, great, and inimitable Tom Volk (alav ha-shalom) I present to you:

Fungal diseases that must be overcome to have a traditional Thanksgiving dinner

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RP PLS! Iʻm hiring 3 postdocs at U Hawaiʻi to study yeast diversity and evolution, marine fungi, and the genomics of microbiomes in experimental foodwebs. All of these projects have existing datasets and LATITUDE to pursue individual interests and "blue sky" ideas www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5d7u4...

Mycology is better than yours! Class field trip to Honolulu Beerworks to wrap up the semester observing Saccharomyces in its native habitat. Thanks everyone for the awesome semester!

And that's a wrap on the Second Occasional Meeting of Marine Mycology at lovely Asilomar. Can't wait to answer the burning question of how many fungi there are in the ocean. Think you know? Take our 30 second poll here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1dAm...

This group is the best!

This is one of the most niche bumper stickers I’ve ever seen in the wild!