Interested in joining The Hynson lab? Please read over this ad for highly qualified Postdoctoral Researchers to work on a Department of Energy (DOE)-funded study titled “How do plant-associated fungi mediate vegetation and process shifts in response to interactive global change factors in P-limited dry forest-grassland systems?” The postdoc will be based in Honolulu, HI at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa with significant time also spent at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment in Western Sydney, Australia. Contact Dr. Hynson with any questions.

Nicole recently returned from a New Phytologist Symposium on the Ecological and Evolutionary consequences of Plant-Fungal Invasions where she gave an invited talk titled “Restoration aboveground, dysbiosis below? A pressing need for the integration of mycorrhizal ecology in plant restoration practices”. It was a great meeting with time to catch up with colleagues old and new!

We’ve been part of a global spore sampling project to capture the temporal dynamics of airborne fungi. Two new papers are out from this effort, one in Nature and the other in Scientific Data check ’em out!

Our research on the role of mycorrhizal fungi in endangered plant restoration was recently featured on Bioneers.

Big congrats to Kacie Kajihara and Nicola Kriefall on being elected as two of this year’s National Microbiome Data Collective (NMDC) ambassadors! 

We were lucky to have Don Hemmes give a guest lecture this Spring to our Biology of Fungi course co-taught by Drs. Hynson, Amend and Nguyen. Hawaii mycology is alive and well!