M4 Seminar - Fall 2025 Schedule

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.

View our past seminar recordings

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 Distribution and Diversity Across Soils
Nov 5	Carl Min Ki Jeon (CECE)	Wastewater Surveillance for Respiratory Viruses
Nov 12	Peter Sadowski (ICS)	AI World Models in Science
Nov 19	Tai Maaz (TPSS)	Understanding Soil Health From a Microbiome Perspective
Nov 26	No Seminar
Dec 3	Mahdi Belcaid (ICS)	The Other Language Models: Learning the Code of Viral Proteins
Dec 10	No Seminar	C-MĀIKI Faculty Meeting