Researchers determined the skin microbiome of an endangered frog was altered when the frogs were infected by a specific fungus, and it didn’t recover to its initial state.
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers Margaret McFall-Ngai and Nicole Hynson, co-authored a publication announcing the new consortium and its goals for advancing the far-reaching field of microbiome research.
The award allows the university to acquire and deploy a new community computer cluster in support of computational and data-intensive research for the 10-campus system.
Many of the researchers and their students are addressing two critical and intertwined health problems: the deteriorating environment and the current spread of diseases.