C-MĀIKI News

Sending a big congratulations to C-MĀIKI faculty member Joanne Yew for her promotion to Full Researcher! https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2025/06/10/uh-2025-tenure-and-promotion-list/

The research of C-MĀIKI Director, Nicole Hynson, has been featured in the Smithsonian magazine! This article highlights the efforts of the Hynson lab in utilizing mycorrhizal fungi in na'u (Gardenia brighamii) restoration. Can Fungi Save This Endangered Hawaiian Tree?

Congratulations to C-MĀIKI faculty members Kiana Frank and Mahdi Belcaid on their tenure and promotion! See more here: https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2024/06/13/uh-2024-tenure-and-promotion-list/

Sean Swift, former C-MĀIKI lab technician and current PhD candidate in Dr. Craig Nelson's lab recently presented new results from Waimea at the Spring 2024 M4 Seminar! Check out the recording of his talk here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Yj4JnRGXHnMsHwX1cmEvNL6277AKykJm/view?ts=66061527

C-MĀIKI wrapped up 2023 with our first in-person symposium since pre-pandemic! On December 14, 2023, C-MĀIKI faculty and students...

Advanced Science News has featured research from C-MĀIKI faculty member Masato Yoshizawa! Masato has been studying the effect that a ketogenic diet has on cavefish that display autism-like behaviors. Read more about his research in the article from ASN. https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/cavefish-provide-clues-to-the-keto-diets-effect-on-autism-like-behavior/

C-MĀIKI faculty member Masato Yoshizawa and his team have been studying the effect that a ketogenic diet can have on Mexican tetra fish behavior. Their team has received a five-year $1.5M National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences grant to study the genetic and metabolic bases of repetitive behaviors. This research aims to develop new treatments for repetitive behavior-associated disorders and/or repetitive behavior-prone animals in captivity

The M4 (Māiki Mānoa Microbiome Meeting) seminar series continues this semester with a line up of great talks! This fall semester, the M4 seminar series will convene weekly on Wednesdays at 12PM in Biomed T211. Date Speaker Institution 13-Sep-23 Elizabeth Gross Dept. of Mathematics, UH-Manoa 20-Sep-23 Masato Yoshizawa School of Life Sciences, UH-Manoa 27-Sep-23 Joanne Yew PBRC, UH-Manoa 04-Oct-23 Rebecca Chong School of Life Sciences, UH-Manoa 11-Oct-23 Joao A

A big congrats to C-MĀIKI faculty members Anthony Amend, Nicole Hynson, Craig Nelson and Alika Maunakea on their promotions to Full...

In February we welcomed the External Advisory Committee for the NIH COBRE: Integrative Center for Environmental Microbiomes and Human...

We are excited to restart the M4 seminar series (now entitled Māiki Mānoa Microbiome Meeting) this spring. This semester, the M4 seminar...

Our computational work at C-MĀIKI is in large part made made possible by the C-MĀIKI Gateway and MetaFlow|mics pipeline, for These tools help accelerate microbiome research automating the processing of microbiome data and packaging high performance computing resources and storage in a web-based interface. Mahalo Sean Cleveland and Cédric Arisdakessian for bringing this platform to life! Read more at https://web.archive.org/web/20220712001819id_/https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1

The keys to saving endangered species and improving the ecology of our communities may be found in thousands of microbiomes and microbes examined by researchers from the ocean to the summit of the Waimea Valley watershed on Oʻahu. Our team of researchers conducted a monumental field expedition by sampling more than 3,000 microbes and microbiomes from the ocean of Waimea Bay to the deepest part of Waimea Valley. The investigation revealed three key discoveries: microbes follow

C-MĀIKI Researcher Alex Culley has been featured in a Télé-Québec Documentary (Climat déréglé, santé en danger) exploring the threat of...

The Pacific Biosciences Research Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa is hiring a Researcher (Full Professor equivalent) in Integrated Microbiome Science. Those interested in applying should do so by May 16 to be included in the first round of considerations. For more information please see: https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawaiiedu/jobs/3495963/researcher-equivalent-to-full-professor-of-biosciences-posn-82743?keywords=Researcher&pagetype=jobOpportunitiesJobs