M4 Seminar - Fall 2026 Schedule
Updated: 3 days ago
The M4 (Māiki Mānoa Microbiome Meeting) weekly seminar series is set to resume this fall on August 26, 2026! Join us for a new presentation every Wednesday from 12:30 - 1:30 PM in STJHN 7. 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 cmaiki@hawaii.edu.
Updated: 9/15/26
Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|
Aug 26 | Andy Yu / Craig Nelson | UHM (RCI / Oceanography) | C-MĀIKI Gateway v2 & Gateway Apps Using Nextflow and Ampliseq |
Sep 2 | Fabiola Pulido | UHM (Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences) | Microbial Ecology of Disturbance: Succession and Recovery Across Fire and Drought |
Sep 9 | Matthew Medeiros | UHM (PBRC) | Changing Landscapes and Mosquito-Associated Microbiome Diversity on Windward Hawaiʻi Island |
Sep 16 | Birendra Mishra | UHM (HNFAS/CTAHR) | The Poultry Microbiome: Unlocking New Frontiers in Poultry Production and Food Safety |
Sep 23 | Stephanie Murray | UHM (PBRC) | SHARD-DB: Scalable Hash-Based Retrieval for High-Throughput Reference Database Construction |
Sep 30 | Solomon Maerowitz-McMahan | UHM (PBRC) | Mycorrhizal Fungal Resilience to Fire |
Oct 7 | Michael von Fricken | University of Florida - One Health Center of Excellence | Bridging Science and Action: An Integrated Approach to Vector-Borne Disease Surveillance, Biology, and Risk Mapping |
Oct 14 | Bryan Suechting / Derek Huck | UHM (PBRC) | Microbial Interactions in Poi / Microbes Facilitate Larval Mosquito Development on Detritus Diets |
Oct 21 | MICRO & MGAL Cores | UHM (ICEMHH) | Introduction to Core Facilities: MGAL and MICRO |
Oct 28 | Zhi-Yan (Rock) Du | UHM (MBBE) | TBD |
Nov 4 | William Harrigan | UHM (SOEST/HIMB) | Digging Deeper into Microbial Dark Matter Using Machine Learning |
Nov 11 | - | No Seminar - Holiday | - |
Nov 18 | Tatsuya Inagaki | USDA - PBARC | Experimental Manipulation of Unculturable Protist Communities in Termite Gut Revealed That Ancestral Mutualists Disproportionately Shape Host Fitness |
Nov 25 | - | No Seminar - Holiday | - |
Dec 2 | Christopher Wall | UHM (Earth Sciences) | TBD |
Dec 9 | Linden Schneider | UHM (Environmental Stewardship Center, Land & Ocean Conservation Futures) | Introduction to the Environmental Stewarship Center - UH Military Collaborations |
