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

C-MĀIKI Director, Dr. Nicole Hynson, attended the 2nd in person Microbiome Centers Consortium (MCC) meeting at the University of Chicago where Directors of the national academic microbiome centers met to discuss synergies and how to support the future of microbiome research and education. For more information on the MCC check out this website: https://microbiomecenters.org/

Cooperating C-MĀIKI faculty member Nhu Nguyen is a 2021 tenure and promotion recipient at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Bravo! https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2021/06/18/uh-2021-tenure-and-promotion-list/

Microbiome centers like C-MĀIKI are on the rise across the U.S.! Read all about these academic hubs of microbiome-related research and...

Dr. Margaret McFall-Ngai presents her research on the squid-vibrio symbiosis for the graduate class "Ecology of Microbial Symbiosis." See her talk here!

Check out Leah's defense of her research "Unearthing the role of ectomycorrhizal fungi in pine invasion on Maui," which was funded by C-MĀIKI. Watch the video here!

The One Health Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Certificate Program was named one of the winners of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Provost’s Strategic Investment Competition! 16 cross-unit and cross-disciplinary proposals were selected to receive a total of $750,000 in start-up funding. C-MĀIKI members Margaret McFall-Ngai, Nicole Hynson, Matthew Medeiros, and Nhu Nguyen will be part of a dynamic, cross-disciplinary team of UH faculty from the John A. Burns School of Medic