HYNSON LAB FOR COMMUNITY ECOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII
We study plant and fungal communities. We are especially interested in the symbiosis between plants and fungi known as mycorrhizae. The goals of our research are to better understand the ecology, evolution, and physiology of the mycorrhizal symbiosis through field and laboratory experiments that take place in a diversity of settings.
Welcome to our lab!
Recent News
April-Welcome Alex! Alex will be joining us this Fall as a PhD student in Fungal Ecology.
March-For Spring Break we’re off to Koke’e State Park with the Botany 203 class to foray for fleshy fungi. We hope to make this an annual event.
February-A collaboration between our lab, researchers from UC Santa Barbara, U of Maryland and the USDA Forest Service Research Station in Hilo, HI on the feedbacks between fire, invasive species and fungi was just recommended for a full proposal submission to the DoD’s SERDP program.
January-A new textbook on Mycoheterotrophy was just published by Springer with a chapter authored by Nicole and colleagues on the physiological ecology of mycoheterotrophic plants.
December-Our paper on ectomycorrhizal fungi and pine invasions in Hawaii was just accepted in Biological Invasions.
November-We just had a paper on dust seed germination accepted in Molecular Ecology.
October-Welcome Susan Alford, our new lab manager.
September-Our proposed special symposium on Fungal Ecology was accepted for the 2013 MSA/APS joint meeting in Austin, TX, and we received sponsorship from the journals Fungal Ecology and New Phytologist.
August-Aloha! Nicole has finally started as assistant professor at UH Manoa.