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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 · 12/11/2025
@pgirguis.bsky.social TY! Let me know what you got. If we're all interested in the same polymer(s) splitting the cost would make the whole thing more reasonable. The only quote I've gotten is $6k for 100mg, which is more than we want to spend. But there's good economy of scale.
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Can anyone suggest an affordable commercial source of 13C labeled chitin? That doesn't growing/purifying it in house.
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawaiiedu/jobs/5105274/director-of-pacific-biosciences-research-center-pbrc-89024
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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 · 08/10/2025
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 · 06/08/2025
Congratulations!
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
@ikeryturralde.bsky.social
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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 · 30/06/2025
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 · 24/04/2025
🦟🧪 ***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
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Yee Mosquito Lab
Visit the post for more.
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Just don't look at the reader comments before trying to fall asleep...
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Yup
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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 · 27/02/2025
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 · 22/02/2025
Thanks for coming all this way to see us!
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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 · 28/01/2025
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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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 · 18/01/2025
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 · 17/01/2025
I was an undergrad GA in this lab 30 years ago. AMA!
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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
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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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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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
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 · 06/12/2024
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 · 06/12/2024
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 · 06/12/2024
After "evolving" the fungi on increasing concentrations of PU for multiple gen
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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 · 06/12/2024
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 · 23/11/2024
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 · 27/11/2024
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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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Oh, yeah, weʻre hiring a lab manager too! Clever BS and MS applicants welcome.
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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...
A researcher on a boardwalk in a DANK hawaiian forest on Molokai.
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Jessica Bernardin @jess-bernardin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
🌱🔬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. 👇
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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...
pipes-lab.pbrc.hawaii.edu
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · 12/07/2024
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.
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · 29/04/2024
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!
Mycology class posing in front of fermenters in a brewery.
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
Forgot to tag #Fungal24
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
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!
a group of 30 marine mycologists from 4 continents posing at Asilomar for a photo
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
This is why "laughs at my jokes" is the most important criterion for hiring postdocs.
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
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...
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
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
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
State of the art microscopy, micro genomics, and invert model research Cores. Our department is in a high-functioning research-intensive college (SOEST) with its own grants dev office, and livable trainee salaries. We value our mission advancing UH as Hawaiian place of learning.
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
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...
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Career Opportunities at the University of Hawai'i | University of Hawai'i
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Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
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. 🍄
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Assistant Professor in Fungal Biology
University of California, Riverside is hiring. Apply now!
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Dr. Sydney Glassman @sydneyglassman.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
My department is hiring an assistant professor of fungal biology! All aspects of Mycology welcome 🍄 microplantpath.ucr.edu/job-opportun...
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
This is one of the most niche bumper stickers I’ve ever seen in the wild!
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