It seemed only yesterday that...
May-June 2023
Summer is a time of change in Academia. Undergraduates Makana Ioh, Sophia Lee, and Quinn Moon graduated with their BS degrees. Makana will participate in a post-baccalaureate program at NIH and Quinn will join Tim Jame's lab at the University of Michigan as a PhD student. We wish them the very best!
Newly minted Dr. Wesley Sparagon will officially join the lab as a postdoc. Dr. Caio Pires de Paula César from the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences is visiting the lab to learn ways to study fungal-bacterial interactions. And Jacob White, a fungal enthusiast, also joined the lab for the summer.
May 2023
Makana Ioh received the Honors Thesis Prize for her excellent thesis work "Fungal-Bacterial Interactions may lead to suppression of bacterial antibiotic resistance"!
February 2023
We welcome new postdoc Dr. Gaetan Martin to the lab!
The lab received a grant from the Department of Energy to study fungal-bacterial interactions in soil! We were featured by UH News, and Nhu was interviewed by Hawaii Public Radio on the project.
We start a new fall semester with great news. Makana Ioh returned from her summer undergrad research experience on the mainland.
She was awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) award from UH Manoa and will start her exciting project this fall.
Our collaborative paper on using plant/root phenotyping as a model for undergraduate research education is published. We made the cover of the journal Natural Science Education!
Welcome to our latest lab member, Giovana Slanzon! Giovana just completed her PhD and joins the lab study fungal-bacterial interactions in the soil. Welcome Giovana!
Welcome to our latest lab member, Laurens Stouthart! Laurens is visiting us from the Netherlands. Welcome Laurens!
Welcome to our latest lab member, Karen Parada! Karen joins the lab to start her PhD in fungal-bacterial interactions.
Nhu was promoted to Associate Professor!
Nhu joins the NIH COBRE Environmental Microbiome program at UHM as a Research Project Leader. This position comes with funding for the lab to study fungal-bacterial interactions across our broad soil gradients!
January 2021We start another year with undergrads Andrew Lin and Makana Ioh joining us for exciting research!
August 2020The new semester starts with exciting additions to the lab. We're excited that Rick Lewis (post-doc), Christian Fullmer (graduate student), and Roxanne main (undergrad) will join the team to dig deep into soil microbial ecology!
June 2020Congratulations to Ishwora Dhungana for passing her MS Thesis Defense with flying colors!
The lab received two awards from USDA NIFA to run two projects! We will be providing research and technical training opportunities to undergraduate students and we will develop methods to measure soil biodiversity.
May 2020Congratulations to Jon Abe for receiving the Senior Honors Project Award in natural science category! Each department may only nominate one student whose work is selected among other nominees.
April 2020Welcome to Christian Fullmer, who will join us in the fall to start his MS graduate program!
March 2020Lab operations have been reduced to a minimum necessity. Stay safe everyone!
October 2019Our lab received funding from the Department of Energy to study soil nutrient movement as part of a larger project led by Mary Firestone at UC Berkeley! Part of the project will examine fungal-bacterial interactions.
September 2019Welcome to Christopher Kim, our newest lab member!
May 2019Steven passed his thesis defense and won the UH Manoa Graduate Student Organization Merit Award for Research! Congrats, Steven!
April 2019
Jon was awarded the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) funds to study rhizobia in native and invasive legumes. Congrats, Jon!
February 2019Ishwora passed her qualifying exam to become a master's candidate. Congrats, Ishwora!
May 2018Steven passes his qualifying exam to become a master's candidate. Congrats, Steven!
March 2018Cade Justad-Sandberg and Talyssa Topacio will join the lab as REU students for the summer to learn about using DNA techniques to study biodiversity.
January 2018Steven Heisey and Ishwora Dhungana join the lab as new graduate students. Welcome, Steven and Ishwora!
August 2016Nhu sets up at UH and attempted to get the lab running.