We’re very excited to announce our most recent publication on the bacterial microbiome of O’ahu’s Waimea Valley. This study reflects the efforts of our longstanding collaborations among numerous faculty from a diversity of disciplines here at the University of Hawaii at Manoa who are all part of our institute C-MAIKI (Center for Microbiome Analysis through Island Knowledge and Investigation).
Congratulations to lab member Thomas Chapin who successfully defended his MSc over the summer on the application of local mycorrhizal fungi for native Hawaiian orchid conservation. Here’s a link to his defense online.
Kacie has been an undergraduate research assistant in the lab for 4 years and is starting her Master’s this fall. She’s received the prestigious Hau’oli Mau Loa Fellowship as well as just gotten her first publication published in New Phytologist! This study was part of her Undergraduate Research Project in as part of our larger study examining the role of mycorrhizal fungi in native Hawaiian forest restoration. Congrats Kacie!
The Hynson Lab and Medeiros Lab (http://www.medeiros-hui.com/) are hiring two new postdoctoral positions to work on a recently funded National Science Foundation Rules of Life Project
We are looking for applicants with expertise in one or more of these areas:
• Aquatic food web ecology with experience setting up manipulative experiments
• Fungal biology/ecology including field and/or lab–based studies
• Microbial ecology, with experience generating and analyzing high throughput amplicon
sequencing data.
Interested parties should email the following to Matthew Medeiros (mcmedeir@hawaii.edu) and
Nicole Hynson (nhynson@hawaii.edu)
• A brief cover letter outlining your background relevant to the project and how you meet the
minimum qualifications.
• A current CV with a list of 3 potential references and their contact info.
UH News featured our recent award from the National Science Foundation to understand how microbiomes govern food web architecture efficiency. This is a collaborative project between four research groups at The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa: the Hynson Lab, Amend Lab, Medeiros Lab and Sadowski Lab.
