#NSF UH Manoa

It is estimated that scientists have discovered only 1% of the yeast species thought to exist on Earth. A professor in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), hopes to change this by shedding light on what is known as a “dark area” of the fungal tree of life using a $1 million award over the next four years, funded by the National Science Foundation.