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*Assistant Professor of*\
*Indigenous Knowledge and Practice*\
\
Sustainable Community Food Systems Program\
Division of Social Sciences\
University of Hawai'i West O'ahu\
University: <[email protected]>\
LinkedIn: [mklau-info](www.linkedin.com/in/mklau-info/)\
ResearchGate: [Matthew_Lau2](www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew_Lau2)\
:::
# Education
- Postdoctoral Fellow, [Harvard University, Harvard
Forest](https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/), 2014--2017
- *Advisor*: [Aaron M.
Ellison](https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/aaron-ellison)
- Ph.D. Biology, [Northern Arizona University](http://www.nau.edu),
[IGERT Fellow](http://www.mpcer.nau.edu/igert/), 2014
- *Title*: The evolution of ecological networks.
- *Award:* Outstanding Dissertation (NAU Biological Sciences)
- *Advisor*: [Thomas G.
Whitham](http://www6.nau.edu/biology/People/Faculty/Whitham/Whitham.htm)
- M.S. Biology, [Northern Arizona University](http://www.nau.edu),
2008
- *Thesis*: Host species and site contribute to variation in
foliar endophyte abundance, diversity and community composition.
- *Advisor*: [Nancy C.
Johnson](http://www.nau.edu/~envsci/johnsonlab/index.htm)
- B.S. Biology, [Humboldt State
University](http://www.humboldt.edu/~biosci/), 2004
- *Emphasis*: Fungal Ecology
- *Advisors*: Nathan J. Sanders and Terry W. Henkel
- *Advanced Study*: [Harvard Forest
REU](http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/education/reu/reu.html),
Summer 2003, [Aaron M.
Ellison](http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/profiles/ellison.html)
# Grants, Awards and Fellowships {#awards-and-fellowships}
- Grant Coordinator, USDA NRCS Grant, Project Konohiki (MA'O Organic
Farms), 2022--2024
- Young Scholar Grant (Chinese Academy of Sciences), 2021--2023
- President's International Fellowship Initiative (Chinese Academy of
Sciences), 2019--2021
- External Research Fellow (Harvard University), 2018--2021
- ARCS Foundation Scholarship (Phoenix Chapter), 2013--2014
- Chateaubriand Fellowship (French Embassy), 2011--2012
- NSF IGERT Fellowship (Northern Arizona University), 2008--2010
- ARCS Foundation Scholarship (Phoenix Chapter), 2007--2008
- ARCS Foundation Scholarship (Phoenix Chapter), 2006--2007
- Northern Arizona University Minority Student Development Fellowship,
2005--2008
# Teaching Experience
- Program Coordinator, Farm Expansion Experience (FE'E) Internship,
MA'O Organic Farms, Spring 2022--Fall 2023
- Climate Smart Agriculture Workshop Series, Farm Expansion Experience
(FE'E) Program, Summer 2022
- Lecturer, Sustainable Community Food Systems Program (University of
Hawai'i West O'ahu), Fall 2021--Spring 2023
- Lecturer, Ecological Foodways (Lasell University), 2019-2021
- Statistical Computing in R (Harvard Forest, Harvard University),
Summer 2015-2018
- Seminar on Ethics in Computational Ecology (Harvard Forest, Harvard
University), Summer 2014
- BIO326L Ecology Lab (Northern Arizona University), Fall 2012--Spring
2013
- [Introduction to Programming in R (University of North Carolina
Wilmington)](http://people.uncw.edu/borretts/courses/RworkshopUNCW.pdf),
Summer 2011
- BIO181 Introductory Biology: The Unity of Life (Northern Arizona
University), Fall 2010
- BIO680 [Introduction to Ecological Analyses in
R](http://www.mpcer.nau.edu/igert/eco_analysis_r.html) (Northern
Arizona University), Fall 2008 and Fall 2009
# Agricultural Experience
- Mahi'ai Mua, Advanced Farmer, MA'O Organic Farms, Lualualei Valley,
O'ahu, Hawai'i. 2021--2022.
- Harvest Intern, Biodynamic and Organic Winery and Vineyard
Operations, Troon Vineyard, Grants Pass, OR. Fall 2021.
# Research Positions {#research-experience}
- Research Fellow, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of
Science, 2019-2021
- External Research Fellow, Harvard University, 2018-2021
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, [Harvard
Forest](http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/) ([Aaron M.
Ellison](http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/aaron-ellison)),
Spring 2014-2018
- Visiting Researcher, [Community Genetics
Laboratory](https://www4.bordeaux-aquitaine.inra.fr/biogeco/)
([Richard
Michalet](http://www4.bordeaux-aquitaine.inra.fr/biogeco_eng/People/Former-members/Michalet-Richard)),
Fall 2011
- Visiting Researcher, [Systems Ecology and Ecoinformatics
Lab](http://people.uncw.edu/borretts/) ([Stuart
Borrett](http://people.uncw.edu/borretts/people.html)), Summer 2011
- Research Assistant, [Cottonwood Ecology
Group](http://www.poplar.nau.edu/) ([Dr. Thomas G.
Whitham](http://www.poplar.nau.edu/people.php?mode=showus&user=tgw)),
2010--2011
- Research Assistant, [The Soil Ecology
Lab](http://www.nau.edu/~envsci/johnsonlab/index.htm) ([Dr. Nancy C.
Johnson](http://www.nau.edu/~envsci/johnsonlab/NCJ.htm)), 2005--2008
- Research Assistant, Humboldt State University Ant Ecology Lab [(Dr.
Nathan J. Sanders)](http://web.utk.edu/~nsanders/nate.html), 2003
# Computer Software and Language Proficiencies
Computer: R, Python, Matlab, LaTeX, HTML, Bash, ruby, Emacs, git, MacOS,
Linux/Unix and Windows\
\
Human: English (native speaker), French (not fluent), Mandarin (not
fluent), Spanish (not fluent) and Hawaiian (not fluent).
# Contributed Software
Matthew K. Lau (2019) Rclean: The Rclean Package (v1.1.7).
https://docs.ropensci.org/Rclean http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3665732
Matthew K. Lau (2018) Rclean: A Tool for Writing Cleaner, more
Transparent Code (v1.0.1). https://cran.r-project.org/package=Rclean
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1208640
Thomas Pasquier, and Matthew K Lau. (2018). ProvTools/encapsulator:
create a capsule for scientific projects (v0.1.1).
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1199232
Matthew K. Lau, Nathan Justice and Aaron M. Ellison (2018) Virtual
pitcher plant microecosystem simulator (v1.0.0).
https://harvardforest.shinyapps.io/virtualpitcherplant/
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1226372
Matthew K. Lau, Stuart R. Borrett, Pawandeep Singh and David E. Hines
(2017) enaR: Tools for Ecological Network Analysis. R package version
3.0.0.
Matthew K. Lau and Raj Whitlock (2009) DiversitySampler: Functions for
re-sampling a community matrix to compute diversity indices at different
sampling levels.. R package version 2.0.
Matthew K. Lau (2009) DTK: Dunnett-Tukey-Kramer Pairwise Multiple
Comparison Test Adjusted for Unequal Variances and Unequal Sample Sizes.
R package version 3.0.
# Publications
- Trisoviç A, Pasquier TFJ-M, Lau MK, Seltzer M, Crocas M (2022) A
large-scale study on quality and reproducibility of research outputs
in R. Nature Scientific Data 9(1): 60.
- Liu B, Wang X, Lau MK, and Liang Y (In Review at *Journal of
Biogeography*) Divergent evolutionary tendency in functional traits
of boreal forest understory vascular plant species.
- Naesborg R, Lau MK, Michalet R, Williams C, Whitham TG (Accepted)
Tree genes affect rock lichen and plant understory communities: An
example of trophic-independent interactions. Ecology.
- Ma T, Liang Y, Sunde M, Lau MK, Liu B, Wu M, He H (2021) Assessing
the effects of climate variable and timescale selection on
uncertainties in dryness/wetness trends in conterminous China.
International Journal of Climatology.
- Liu B, Biswas S, Yang J, Liu Z, He H, Liang Y, Lau MK, Fang Y, and
Han S (2020) Strong influences of stand age and topography on
post-fire understory recovery in a Chinese boreal forest. Forest
Ecology and Management. 473: 118307.
- Lau MK, Pasquier FJ-M, Seltzer M (2020). Rclean: A Tool for Writing
Cleaner, More Transparent Code. Journal of Open Source Software,
5(46), 1312, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01312.
- Lau MK, Ellison AM, Nguyen A, Penick C, DeMarco B, Gotelli NJ,
Sanders NJ, Dunn R and Helms Cahan S (2019) Draft Aphaenogaster
genomes expand our view of ant genome size variation across climate
gradients. PeerJ 7:e6447.
- Lau MK, Baiser B, Northrop A, Gotelli NJ & Ellison AM (2018) Regime
shifts and hysteresis in the pitcher-plant microecosystem.
Ecological Modeling. 382: 1-8.
- Pasquier T, Lau MK, Han X, Fong E, Lerner BS, Boose ER, Crosas M,
Ellison AM, Seltzer M (2018) Sharing and Preserving Computational
Analyses for Posterity with `encapsulator`. IEEE CiSE 20: 111.
<https://doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2018.042781334>
- Pasquier T, Lau MK, Trisovic A, Boose ER, Couturier B, Crosas M,
Ellison AM, Gibson V, Jones CR, Seltzer M (2018) If these data could
talk. Nature Sci. Data. 4: 170114.
- Ikeda, Dana H. and Max, Tamara L. and Allan, Gerard J. and Lau,
Matthew K. and Shuster, Stephen M. and Whitham, Thomas G. (2017)
Genetically informed ecological niche models improve climate change
predictions. Glob. Chang. Biol. 23:164-176.
- Keith AR, Bailey JK, Lau MK & Whitham TG (2016) Genetics-based
interactions of foundation species affect community diversity,
stability and network structure. Proc. R. Soc. B. 281.
- Lau MK, Borrett SR, Baiser B, Gotelli NJ & Ellison AM (2017)
Ecological network metrics: opportunities for synthesis. Ecosphere.
8: e01900.
- Lau MK, Borrett SR, Keith AR, Shuster SM & Whitham TG (2016)
Genotypic variation in foundation species generates network
structure that may drive community dynamics and evolution. Ecology.
97: 733-742.
- Floate KD, Godbout J, Lau MK, Whitham TG, Isabel N (2016)
Plant-herbivore interactions in a trispecific hybrid swarm of
cottonwoods: Genetic similarity and the hybrid bridge hypothesis.
New Phytologist. 209: 832-844.
- Lamit LJ, Busby PE, Lau MK, Compson ZG, Wojtowicz T, Keith AR,
Zinkgraf MS, Schweitzer JA, Shuster SM, Gehring CA, Whitham TG
(2015), Tree genotype mediates covariance among communities from
microbes to lichens and arthropods. Journal of Ecology 103:
840--850.
- Smith DS, Lamit LJ, Lau MK, Gehring CA & Whitham TG (2015) Change of
plant traits by introduced elk negatively affects associated
arthropod communities and network structure. Acta Oecologia 67:
8-16.
- Smith DS, Lau MK, Jacobs R, Monroy JA, Shuster SM, &
Witham TG (2015) Introduced elk alter traits of a native plant and
its plant-associated arthropod community. Oecologia DOI
10.1007/s00442-015-3362-y.
- Borrett SR & Lau MK (2014) enaR: An R package for Ecosystem Network
Analysis. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 5: 1206-1213.
- Lau MK (2014) BOOK REVIEW: Grounding ecological networks. Ecology.
95:2681--2682.
- Flores-Rentería L, Lau MK, Lamit LJ, & Gehring CA (2014) An elusive
ectomycorrhizal fungus reveals itself: A new species of Geopora
(Pyronemataceae) associated with *Pinus edulis*. Mycologia. DOI
10.3852/13-263.
- Lamit LJ, Lau MK, Sthultz CM, Wooley SC, Whitham TG, & Gehring CA
Tree genotype and genetically based growth traits structure twig
endophyte communities. American Journal of Botany. DOI
10.3732/ajb.1400034.
- Ikeda DH, Bothwell HM, Lau MK, O'Neill G, Grady K, Ferrier SM,
Allan G, Shuster SM & Whitham TG (2013) A genetics-based Universal
Community Transfer Function for predicting the impacts of climate
change on future communities. Functional Ecology 28:65--74.
- Lau MK, Arnold EA & Johnson NC (2013)Factors influencing communities
of foliar fungal endophytes in riparian woody plants. Fungal Ecology
6: 365--378.
- Álvarez-Sánchez FJ, Johnson NC, Antoninka AJ, Chaudhary VB, Lau MK,
Owen SM, Sánchez-Gallen I, Guadarrama P, & Castillo S (2012)
Large-scale diversity patterns in spore communities of arbuscular
mycorrhizal fungi. In M. Pagano, editor, *Mycorrhiza: Occurrence in
Natural and Restored Environments*, Nova Science Publishers, New
York (USA).
- Bowker MA, Muñoz A, Martinez T & Lau MK 2012 Rare drought-induced
mortality of juniper is enhanced by edaphic stressors and influenced
by stand density. Journal of Arid Environments 76:9--16.
- Lau MK, Whitham TG, Lamit LJ & Johnson NC (2010) Ecological &
Evolutionary Interaction Network Exploration: Addressing the
Complexity of Biological Interactions in Natural Systems with
Community Genetics and Statistics. JIFS 7:17--25
- Price LB, Johnson KE, Aziz M, Lau MK, Bowers J, Ravel J, Keim PS,
Serwadda D, Wawer MJ & Gray RH (2010) The effects of circumcision on
the penis microbiome. PLoS One 5(1):e8422.
- Chaudhary VB, Lau MK & Johnson NC (2008) Macroecology of microbes --
biogeography of the Glomeromycota. In V. Ajit, editor, *Mycorrhiza*
(3rd Edition), Springer-Verlag, Germany.
- Ellison AM, Chen J, Diaz D, Kammerer-Burnham C & Lau M (2005)
Changes in ant community structure and composition associated with
hemlock decline in New England. Pages 280-289 in B. Onkenand and R.
Reardon, editors. *Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Hemlock
Woolly Adelgid in the Eastern United States*. U.S. Department of
Agriculture -- U.S. Forest Service -- Forest Health Technology
Enterprise Team, Morgantown, West Virginia.
# Presentations
- Lau MK (2023) E Mā'ona ka Honua: Edupreneurial 'Auwai as Systemic
Intervention for Community Wellness. Invited Speaker, Annual
Conference on Native American Nutrition, University of Minnesota.
- Lau MK (2023) 'Ahupua'a Urbanism: Social Enterprise and Un-planning.
Lecture, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawai'i Manoa.
- Lau MK (2022) Project Konohiki: Collaborative Farmer Education in
Hawai'i. Sustainable Agriculture Education Society Meeting,
University of Ohio.
- Lau MK, Liu B, & Liang Y (2020) Networks of forest trade in the
Anthropocene. Invited Speaker, CSU San Bernadino.
- Lau MK (2020) Using R for open-science. Workshop, University of
Peshwar, Pakistan.
- Lau MK (2019) Ecological Foodways: Landscape Opportunities at the
Intersection of Food, Ecology, and Culture. ASLA, San Diego, CA
(USA).
- Lau MK (2019) Genetic variation in a foundation tree generates
ecological network structure. International Conference on Fire
Disturbance Ecology, North East University, Cheng Chun (China).
- Lau MK (2019) Evolution of Ecological Networks: Climate Change and
Human Landscapes. Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Shenyang, China.
- Lau MK (2018) Automated code cleaning can help address the
Reproducibility Crisis. Institute of Quantitative Social Sciences,
Harvard University.
- Lau MK (2018) Ecological Network Evolution in the Anthropocene.
Departmental Seminar, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Shenyang (China).
- Lau MK (2018) Ecological Network Evolution in the Anthropocene.
Invited Speaker, North West Polytechnical University, Xian (China).
- Lau MK, Gotelli NJ, Ellison AM (2017) Provenance for reproducible
multi-level foodwebs. Invited: Alfred Wagner Institute Symposium on
Applied Foodweb Research. Sylt, Germany.
- Lau MK & Ellison AM *Temporal scales of coupled ecosystem processes
provide a benchmark for alternate ecosystem states Photosynthesis
and decomposition in a model micro-ecosystem.*, Ecological Society
of America Meeting (ESA), Baltimore, MD, August 2015
- Lau MK *Evolution and Ecological Networks: Merging Community
Genetics and Network Ecology.* Ecological Society of America Meeting
(ESA), Baltimore, MD, August 2015
- Lau MK, Borrett SR *enaR: Free, open-source tools for ecological
network analysis.* Ecological Society of America Meeting (ESA),
Minneapolis, MN, August 2013
- Lau MK, Lamit LJ, Gehring CA, and Whitham TG *Cottonwood genetics
influence lichen interaction network structure.* Université Bordeaux
1, Talence, France, December 2011
- Whitham TG, Lau MK, Lamit LJ, Smith DS, Busby PE, Schweitzer JA,
Gehring CA, Allan GJ, Shuster SM and Newcombe G \* A Community
Genetics Approach for Understanding Microbial Community Structure
and Feedbacks on a Foundation Tree Species.\* Ecological Society of
America Meeting (ESA), Pittsburgh, PA, August 2010
- Lau MK, Keith AR and Whitham TG *Network structure is linked to the
community stability of canopy arthropods associated with Populus
angustifolia.* Ecological Society of America Meeting (ESA),
Pittsburgh, PA, August 2010
- Lau MK, Johnson NC, Whitham TG, Hagenauer LE, Lamit LJ and
Lonsdorf EV *A Community Genetics Approach for Understanding Complex
Biological Interactions.* 7th International Symposium on Integrated
Field Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, October 2009
- Lau MK, Hagenauer LE and Whitham TG *Assemblage-structuring force of
species interactions varies spatially and temporally: Co-occurrence
analysis of canopy arthropod distributions.* Ecological Society of
America Meeting (ESA), Albuquerque, NM, August 2009
- Lau MK, Johnson NC *Fungal foliar endophyte communities exhibit host
species fidelity in woody plants of Arizona riparian forests.*
Ecological Society of America Meeting (ESA), Milwaukee, WI, August
2008
- Lau MK *Unusual absence of asymptomatic fungal leaf endophytes of
Populus fremontii: a potential phytochemical mechanism*. (poster)
Ecological Society of America Meeting (ESA), San Jose, CA, August
2007
- Whitewater L, Lau MK, Johnson NC *Investigating the potential for
local adaptation of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus* . (poster)
REU Summer Research Symposium, Northern Arizona University, Aug
2007.
- Lau MK, Johnson NC *Do AMF cultivate their favorite bacteria? A
hypothesis for a potential mechanism of AMF adaptation*. (poster)
5th International Conference on Mycorrhiza (ICOM5), Granada, Spain,
July 2006
# Professional Activities
## Reviewer {#article-reviewer}
- *Nature Ecology and Evolution*
- *Pedobiologia*
- *Ecological Modeling*
- *PNAS*
- *Ecology Letters*
- *PLoS One*
- *PLoS Computational Biology*
- *Ecological Monographs*
- *Ecology*
- *Journal of Ecology*
- *Botany* (formerly *The Canadian Journal of Botany*)
- *Acta Oecologia*
- *Nature*
## Professional Memberships
- [Society for Conservation Biology (SCB)](http://www.conbio.org/)
- [British Ecological Society (BES)](http://www.aaas.org/), 2008
- [American Association for the Advancement of Science
(AAAS)](http://www.aaas.org/)
- [Ecological Society of America (ESA)](http://www.esa.org/)
## Professional Service
- Workshop Organizer, Ecological Foodways: Landscape Opportunities at
the Intersection of Food, Ecology, and Culture (ASLA), San Diego,
CA, 2019.
- Workshop Organizer, Introduction to Ecological Network Analysis,
Ecological Society of America Meeting (ESA), Baltimore, MD, 2015.
- Workshop Coordinator, EU Sponsored White Paper Workshop on
Foundation Species Genetics Research Directions, Flagstaff, AZ
Spring 2011
- Meeting Organizer, Western Mycorrhiza Gathering, Flagstaff, AZ, 2008
- Workshop Organizer, IGERT Workshop: Bayesian Statistics in Ecology,
Flagstaff, AZ, 2007
- Meeting Organizer, Soil Ecology Society Conference, Moab, UT, 2007