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Anthony Amend
@fungaloha.bsky.social
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Professor of environmental microbes and marine fungi at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Amendlab.com
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · 1d
www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawaiiedu/jobs/5105274/director-of-pacific-biosciences-research-center-pbrc-89024
Director of Pacific Biosciences Research Center (PBRC) (89024)
Title: Director of Research Institute (UHM), Pacific Biosciences Research Center (PBRC)Position Number: 89024Hiring Unit: Pacific Biosciences Research Center (PBRC)Location: University of Hawaii at Ma...
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · 1d
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.
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · Aug 6
Congratulations!
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · Jul 14
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · Jul 14
Our lab charges small waves!
Our lab group posing with surfboards in front of diamondhead volcano
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · Jul 14
Our lab charges small waves!
Our lab group posing with surfboards in front of diamondhead volcano
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · Jun 30
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?
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Don Yee @mosquitolab.bsky.social · Apr 24
🦟🧪 ***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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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · Apr 22
Just don't look at the reader comments before trying to fall asleep...
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Stirling Churchman @stirlingchurchman.bsky.social · Apr 21
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...
Opinion | Science Suffers With Trump’s Funding Freeze
America’s scientific enterprise demands reliable stewardship, not destabilizing political intervention.
www.wsj.com
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · Apr 8
Yup
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · Apr 7
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!
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · Feb 27
P20 will soon be in the same boat. Our institutional guidance is to check the FAQs on the Provost's website on the "Evolving Federal Landscape". Good luck!
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · Feb 22
Thanks for coming all this way to see us!
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · Feb 3
Rich Humber was the PI, and I think Kathie Hodge was a grad student. I was in charge of growing, freeze-drying and maintaining isolates. Looking back on myself as a teenager I was the *WORST*, he was a saint for keeping me on. Apologies to all those receiving my contaminated cultures.
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · Jan 28
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...
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · Jan 18
Winter fieldwork keeps us on our toes. Finding the smallest seagrass in the biggest ocean w/ @ikeryturralde.bsky.social and crew.
Five researchers carrying snorkel and field gear in beautiful Maunalua bay with Kokohead in the background
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · Jan 17
I was an undergrad GA in this lab 30 years ago. AMA!
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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · Jan 13
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?!
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · Dec 7
No one seems to read the paper anymore, so you gotta put the good stuff up front!
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · Dec 6
Hah. That got cut off. We raced them against their unevolved counterparts and some of them got faster (by ~15%).
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · Dec 6
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.
Ronja Steinbach holding a giant cluster of Macrocybe spectabilis
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · Dec 6
After "evolving" the fungi on increasing concentrations of PU for multiple gen
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · Dec 6
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.
fungi degrade PU as evidenced by a zone of clearance around the colony
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · Dec 6
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...
Me with a chunk of live rock in Kaneohe bay
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Shirley Luckhart @shirleyluckhart.bsky.social · Nov 23
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.
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · Nov 27
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...
A picture of Tom Volk wearing a tshirt that says Mycologists have questionable morels.
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