M4 Seminar - Fall 2025 Schedule
- C-MAIKI
- Aug 25, 2025
- 2 min read
Updated: Dec 2, 2025
The M4 (Māiki Mānoa Microbiome Meeting) weekly seminar series is set to resume this fall on September 10, 2025! Join us for a new presentation every Wednesday from 12 - 1 PM in Webster 103. Please see the table below for our schedule.
This semester, we will also be streaming the seminars through Zoom for those who cannot attend in person. If you would like a Zoom link, please contact mcmedeir@hawaii.edu.
Date | Speaker | Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|
Sept 10 | Joanne Yew (PBRC) | Contribution of the Environmental Microbiome to Phenotypic Diversification |
Sept 17 | Masato Yoshizawa (SoLS) | Lean Environment-Adapted Cavefish Evolved to Intake a Benefit from the Gut Microbiota Starch Metabolism for Their Growth |
Sept 24 | Jason Baer (PBRC) | Exploring Microbial Pathways of Degradation and Recovery on Coral Reefs Using In Situ Experimental Platforms |
Oct 1 | Jeffrey Lackmann (PBRC) | Ecological Spillover of Foliar Fungi from Coffee Field to Forest |
Oct 8 | Makena Coffman (ISR) | Challenges and Opportunities of Sea Level Rise Response for Hawai‘i |
Oct 15 | Daisuke Takagi (PBRC/Math) | Directed Dispersal of Motile Bacteria in Confined Environments |
Oct 22 | Jiho Yang (PBRC) | Culture-Dependent and -Independent Characterization of Lichen Mycobiome Diversity |
Oct 29 | Hans Wu Singh (PBRC) | A Global Analysis of Legionella Distributions Across Soils: Abiotic Controls of Pathogenicity |
Nov 5 | Carl Min Ki Jeon (CECE) | Enhancing Wastewater Surveillance for Respiratory Viruses |
Nov 12 | Peter Sadowski (ICS) | AI World Models in Science
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Nov 19 | Tai McClellan Maaz & Giovana Slanzon (TPSS) | Measuring the Immeasurable: Relating Soil Health to Disturbance, Management, and Microbiome |
Nov 26 | No Seminar | |
Dec 3 | Mahdi Belcaid (ICS) | The Other Language Models: Learning the Code of Viral Proteins - CANCELED |
Dec 10 | No Seminar | C-MĀIKI Faculty Meeting |
