Welcome to the Spring 2021 Virtual Showcase Archive!
Students who voluntarily submitted a recording of their oral and/or poster presentation will be listed here in our archives.
Under each presentation, you will find:
- Student presenter(s)
- Faculty mentor(s)
- Description of the project
Thank you for taking the time to engage with our students!
We are excited to highlight the following students and their projects. (Click the link to head straight to your presentation of choice or scroll to view them all)
Malassezia is Widespread, Highly Generalist, and Has Undescribed Diversity in Our Oceans
Project by: Ronja Steinbach
Malassezia is Widespread, Highly Generalist, and Has Undescribed Diversity in Our Oceans
Student Presenter: Ronja Steinbach
Mentors:Dr. Anthony Amend and Dr. Fouad El Baidouri
Description: This project examines the diversity, specificity, and biogeographical distribution of marine Malassezia, a genus of fungus. We used samples from Waimea Bay, Oʻahu, collected as part of the C-MĀIKI microbiome project in addition to samples from collaborators in Washington state, and Woods Hole, Massachusetts. We did nested polymerase chain reactions (PCRs) to amplify around 500 base pairs of the 28S rDNA, did MiSeq high throughput sequencing and used those results to construct a new phylogeny examining the diversity within this genus, and then performing statistical analyses in R, to answer our other questions.
Support provided by UROP