Education
C-MĀIKI is dedicated to integrating microbes into education
Across campus and communities we offer numerous classes, workshops and other educational opportunities
For Everyone
Māiki Mānoa Microbiome Meeting (M4)
This is a brownbag lunch meeting that focuses on topical presentations, workshops and discussions for microbiome scientists primarily at UH Mānoa. Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Staff and Faculty are welcome. To join our listserv contact Nicole Hynson.
Undergraduate Courses
BIOL 171L: Introduction to Biology I Lab (SEA-PHAGES Program)
C-MĀIKI Faculty: Alex Culley
Laboratory to accompany BIOL 171. A significant portion of class time is dedicated to writing instruction, and requires a minimum of 4,000 words of graded writing. Required for the UHM SEA-PHAGES Program.
BIOL 275L: Cell and Molecular Biology Lab
C-MĀIKI Faculty: Masato Yoshizawa
Laboratory for Cell and Molecular Biology. Teaching fundamental sterile and molecular techniques.
BIOL 454, SUST 450: Natural History of Hawaiian Islands
C-MĀIKI Faculty: Matthew Knope
Geography, geology, climatology, biotic environment of Pacific Basin and Hawaiian Islands; endemism and evolution in terrestrial and marine biota.
BOT/BIOL 430, TPSS 432: The Biology of Fungi
C-MĀIKI Faculty: Anthony Amend, Nicole Hynson, & Nhu Nguyen
Will introduce the diversity, ecology, evolution, and biology of the Kingdom Fungi. Focus on our current understanding of fungal evolution and diversity and how fungi interact with environments and hosts. Offered in even-year spring semesters.
BOT 461/461L: Systematics of Vascular Plants
C-MĀIKI Faculty: Matthew Knope
"Hands-on" experience with Hawai`i's unique tropical flora; emphasis on recognition and identification of vascular plant families and the principles and methodologies that define them; evolution of biodiversity.
GES/OCN 454: Earth’s Microbiome
C-MĀIKI Faculty: Mengting (Maggie) Yuan
Lecture on the diversity and function of the Earth’s microbiomes, inclusive of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, symbiotic and free living microorganisms with a focus on the microbial underpinnings of the Earth’s biogeochemistry. Offered in fall semesters.
ICS 435: Machine Learning Fundamentals
C-MĀIKI Faculty: Peter Sadowski
Introduction to machine learning concepts with a focus on relevant ideas from computational neuroscience. Information processing and learning in the nervous system. Neural networks. Supervised and unsupervised learning. Basics of statistical learning theory.
MATH 305: Mathematical Modeling: Probabilistic Models
C-MĀIKI Faculty: Daisuke Takagi
Probabilistic mathematical modeling emphasizing models and tools used in the biological sciences. Topics include stochastic and Poisson processes, Markov models, estimation, and Monte Carlo simulation. A computer lab may be taken concurrently.
MBBE/BIOL 401: Molecular Biotechnology
C-MĀIKI Faculty: Zhi-Yan (Rock) Du
General principles, applications, and recent advances of the rapidly growing science of biotechnology. Topics include impact of biotechnology on medicine, animal sciences, environment, agriculture, forensics, and economic and socio-ethical issues.
MBBE/BIOL 401L: Molecular Biotechnology Lab-Gene Editing by CRISPR/Cas9
C-MĀIKI Faculty: Zhi-Yan (Rock) Du
Students learn advanced gene editing techniques, including CRISPR/Cas9 to engineer prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
MICR 463/463L: Microbiology of Pathogens
C-MĀIKI Faculty: Michael Norris
Host-parasite relationships in microbial diseases of humans and animals with emphasis on bacterial pathogens. The lab covers characterization of bacterial pathogens through isolation, identification, and diagnosis.
MICR 490: Virology
C-MĀIKI Faculty: Alex Culley
Basic principles of virus biology. Topics include methods for virus study, virus structure, replication, gene expression, pathogenesis and host response.
OCN 320 - Aquatic Pollution
C-MĀIKI Faculty: Rosie Alegado
Pollution of freshwater and marine systems by human activities. Causes, consequences, and correctives. This course develops written communication skills. Starting in the spring semester.
OCN/PEPS 340: Ecology of Infectious Disease and Symbiosis
C-MĀIKI Faculty: Andrea Jani
Upper division course providing an introduction to the ecology of infectious diseases of animals, plants, and humans. This course looks into the biological, ecological, and human factors that affect disease emergence, transmission, and control with an emphasis on issues pertinent to Hawai‘i. Offered in spring semesters.
OEST 103: Introduction to Systems Biology
C-MĀIKI Faculty: Kiana Frank, Matthew Medeiros
A non-majors course integrating micro- and macrobiology with a focus on Hawaiian biomes and from a kanaka world view.
TPSS/BIOL 480 & 480L: Life in the Soil Environment
C-MĀIKI Faculty: Nhu Nguyen
Upper division lecture and lab offered in odd-year fall semesters. An interdisciplinary study of the diverse life in the soil beneath our feet that includes bacteria, fungi, protists, nematodes, arthropods, invertebrate, viruses, and the essential functional roles these organisms contribute to sustainability of the planet.
Graduate Courses
BOT 612: The Ecology of Microbial Symbiosis
C-MĀIKI Faculty: Nicole Hynson
Learn the current methods and theory applied to microbial systems. Generally offered in even-year spring semesters.
BOT 662: Microbiome Bootcamp - High Throughput Sequencing Approaches to Ecology and Evolution
C-MĀIKI Faculty: Anthony Amend
Fundamentals of experimental design, lab techniques and data analysis to conduct research using high throughput sequencing. Students will work in groups to conduct an amplicon sequencing study with ten samples. Generally offered in odd-year spring semesters.
ICS 635: Machine Learning
C-MĀIKI Faculty: Peter Sadowski
Introduction to key theoretical concepts of machine learning. Practical experience with decision free methods, artificial neural networks. Bayesian belief networks and contemporary statistical methods including regression, clustering and classification.
ICS 637: Deep Learning with Neural Networks
C-MĀIKI Faculty: Peter Sadowski
Graduate course on deep learning with artificial neural networks. Provides practical techniques for modeling image, video, text, and graph data with supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning approaches. Includes instruction in the latest software frameworks.
ICS 692: Special Topics Seminar
C-MĀIKI Faculty: Peter Sadowski
Seminar discussing special topics in information and computer science
MATH 602: Methods of Applied Mathematics
C-MĀIKI Faculty: Daisuke Takagi
Linear algebra, ordinary differential equations, and partial differential equations. Topics include spectral theory, matrix exponentiation, initial-value problems, dynamical systems, bifurcation theory, first-order PDEs, characteristics, Sturm-Liouville theory, boundary-value problems, Green’s functions.
MBBE 601: Molecular Cell Biology
C-MĀIKI Faculty: Zhi-Yan (Rock) Du
Provide fundamental concepts and dynamic characteristics of the molecules of the prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell, their biosynthesis and regulation, and the mechanisms that regulate cellular activities.
MBBE 691: Advanced Special Topics in MBBE
C-MĀIKI Faculty: Zhi-Yan (Rock) Du
Study and discussion of advanced special topics and problems in molecular biosciences and bioengineering.
MBIO 600 - Kūlana Noiʻi: Introduction to Place-Based Methodologies in Hawaiʻi
C-MĀIKI Faculty: Rosie Alegado
Lectures, discussions, and service-learning organized to deepen understanding in: what is a research paradigm; how methods are developed in research designs; and new knowledge for place-based research. Marine Biology Graduate Program students only.
MICR 685: Molecular and Cellular Bacterial Pathogenesis
C-MĀIKI Faculty: Michael Norris
Detailed examination of the molecular and cellular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis. Overview of key literature, synthesis of scientific problems into research proposals.
MICR 690: Microbiology Seminar
C-MĀIKI Faculty: Sladjana Prisic
Microbiology seminar series for graduate students.
MICR 695: Research Literature Review
C-MĀIKI Faculty: Michael Norris
Review of primary literature in a selected area of microbiology.
TPSS 604: Advanced Soil Microbiology
C-MĀIKI Faculty: Nhu Nguyen
Study of biochemical and biogeochemical transformations mediated by soil microorganisms, emphasis on processes important to plant growth productivity and environmental quality.
