Can anyone suggest an affordable commercial source of 13C labeled chitin? That doesn't growing/purifying it in house.
Anthony Amend
@fungaloha.bsky.social
Professor of environmental microbes and marine fungi at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Amendlab.com
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.
At some point I saw a google sheet type list of funded grad-school opportunities (funded projects, not fellowships). Can anyone help me find this type of resource?
🦟🧪 ***I'm recruiting*** one student (M.S. or Ph.D.) to join my lab January 2026. Students need a 3.0 GPA and have an interest/experience in mosquito taxonomy, phenotypes, or ecology. Work on genetics/genomics is a plus. Deadline is 15 October 2025. US based students only. yeemosquitolab.org
Yee Mosquito Lab
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Just don't look at the reader comments before trying to fall asleep...
Stirling Churchman@stirlingchurchman.bsky.social · last yr.My father-in-law, Jack Strominger, and I wrote a letter to the @wsj.com editor about the current threats to science due to Trump's funding freeze. Please repost! www.wsj.com/opinion/scie...
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!
Latest stop on the media tour is undergrad Ronja Steinbach's interview on Public radio, explaining our experimental evolution of marine plastic degrading fungi. www.hawaiipublicradio.org/the-conversa...
Marine fungi could help break down plastics in the ocean
New research shows that the aquatic habitat growing the fastest around the world is plastic — so researchers are looking for all kinds of help when it comes to eliminating plastic in our oceans. The C...
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Anthony Amend@fungaloha.bsky.social · 2y agoProud 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. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Hereʻs a link to the PDF: amendlab.com/wp-content/u...
Winter fieldwork keeps us on our toes. Finding the smallest seagrass in the biggest ocean w/ @ikeryturralde.bsky.social and crew.
Out now: enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Fun collaboration with @biotechdixon.bsky.social and great work by PhD Alejandro! I guess we really do biotech now?!
Genetic Bioaugmentation‐Mediated Bioremediation of Terephthalate in Soil Microcosms Using an Engineered Environmental Plasmid
Synthetic operon-encoding genes for the uptake and catabolism of xenobiotic terephthalate, inserted into self-mobilisable environmental plasmid. Delivery of the plasmid-encoded trait via horizon gene...
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Michael Brockhurst@brockhurstlab.bsky.social · 2y agoDipping a toe into synthetic biology… our favourite plasmid (pQBR57, if you’re asking) is made into a bioremediation-gene-spreading-machine to help clean-up plastic manufacturing. With Neil Dixon + led by Alejandro Marquiegui www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Hereʻs a link to the PDF: amendlab.com/wp-content/u...
We’re excited to consider applicants for scholarships for our 2025 Biology of Vector-borne Diseases course! See our advert below. Please re-skeet to trainees and colleagues, as graduate students to faculty and practitioners across plant, animal and human health can apply.
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 botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/t...
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...
🌱🔬The most time-intensive and difficult paper of my PhD is now published in #mSystemsJ! I'm proud of this work and also how much I've grown since I first started this experiment. Read on to learn more about how the functions of bacterial communities impact plant growth and health. 👇
Lenore Pipes is hiring a Postdoc and grad student at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa to study next gen classification and phylogenetic methods. Hitch yourself to a rising star in our department! pipes-lab.pbrc.hawaii.edu/pdfs/jobs/Po... pipes-lab.pbrc.hawaii.edu/pdfs/jobs/Gr...
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I'm excited to be recruiting a funded Postdoc and Grad student at U Hawai'i to study the phylogenomics and ecology of Basidiomycete yeasts in strange tropical habitats and hosts, leveraging our unique ecological gradients. Come find me at #IMC12 to learn more.
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!
Phenomenal pop-sci piece in Biosciences about Marine Fungi with shoutouts to lots of great labs (none of whom I can find on this app). academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
No splashy paper announcement, but my daughter was featured on "Story Pirates" this morning and I feel like I have to let the world know. #pleaseclap
Please spread the word about 3 tenure track, hard-money microbiome faculty positions. These are well-resourced, come with their own grants, few teaching requirements (but lots of opportunities), potential footprint in our marine lab. www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa...
Career Opportunities at the University of Hawai'i | University of Hawai'i
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Faculty Job: Assistant Professor in Fungal Biology - UC Riverside aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01824 Candidates w/ broad expertise in mycology including host-pathogen interactions, symbiosis biology, metabolism and biotechnology, development/morphology, ecology/climate change, and evolution. 🍄
Assistant Professor in Fungal Biology
University of California, Riverside is hiring. Apply now!
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My department is hiring an assistant professor of fungal biology! All aspects of Mycology welcome 🍄 microplantpath.ucr.edu/job-opportun...
This is one of the most niche bumper stickers I’ve ever seen in the wild!
