May 3, 2021: Our lab was awarded a large NSF grant to study the diversity of amoebae, both ecologically and genomically.  We are hiring 2 Postdocs and several more grad students (funded with RAs). Please contact me if your are interested joining our group. Award details here (https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2100888)

June 22, 2020: Congratulations Dr. Seungho Kang on your successful PhD defense!

June 12 2020: Congratulations to Dr. Alexander Tice on your successful PhD.

October 9, 2019: A news article about Brown's post as President of ISOP.

July 18, 2019: Matt Brown was elected as the President of the International Society of Protistologists.

February 28, 2019: Our Current Biology paper on testate amoebae is out! Please see all the cool press releases about it. On The Conversation and the MSU Newswire.

October 24, 2018: Brown's 50th career manuscript was accepted for publication this morning to Genome Biology and Evolution. This work focuses on the gene repertoires that function in meiosis and sex in Amoebozoa. Hofstatter et al. 2018, In Press. Comparative genomics supports sex and meiosis in Amoebozoa. Genome Biology and Evolution.