Honolulu ARCS Scholar Alum Anthony Amend will discuss "Fantastical Yeasts and Where to Find Them (in Hawaiʻi)" at the April 16 gathering of Honolulu Science Café. Dr. Amend is a professor in the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa's Pacific Biosciences Research Center, where he heads the Amend Lab on Microbial Diversity, Ecology and Evolution Lab. He studies factors that shape diverse microbial communities on land and in the ocean, and why differences in those communities matter for hosts and ecosystems. Read more