C-MĀIKI faculty member Alex Culley has been featured in a Science article for the discovery of a novel dinoflagellate giant virus (PelV-1). This virus has the longest virus appendage described to date! Read the article here: https://www.science.org/content/article/giant-virus-record-long-tail-discovered-pacific-ocean Read the bioRxiv preprint here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.19.665647v1.full

Check out this great Science article highlighting C-MĀIKI's world class environmental microbiology research! The feature is based on C-MĀIKI member Anthony Amend's talk at the Ecological Society of America's annual meeting. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/no-microbiome-island-unprecedented-survey-hawaiian-valley-reveals?utm_campaign=news_daily_2019-08-28&et_rid=17101647&et_cid=2964879