PBRC News

May 2008

Special Event

Pacific Biosciences Research Center Symposium on Biodiversity
Friday May 9, 2008
East-West Center, UH Manoa Campus

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January 2008

Photo by Steve Haynes, Professor, Department of Psychology

Research Profile

These honeybees (Apis mellifera) at the Békésy Laboratory of Neurobiology may look like they've been dusted with freshly fallen January snow but they've actually been sprinkled with powdered sugar. The sugar is being used in an attempt to reduce the numbers of the parasitic Varroa mites (Varroa destructor) that plague honeybee colonies here and on the mainland.

The January issue of Malamalama features an article profiling the research of Jeff Bitterman and Patricia Couvillon. Their work focuses on complex learning mechanisms in the honeybee.

For more information:
Bee-lieve It or Not
Malamalama
January, 2008

September 2007

Journal Cover

A recently published scientific article authored by PBRC Researchers Brenden Holland and Robert Cowie was featured on the cover of the journal Molecular Ecology.

For more information:

About the Cover

Read the Article (PDF Format)

Visit the Cowie Lab Website

December 2004

Ostrander Named Interim PBRC Director

Gary K. Ostrander, UH Manoa Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, has been appointed Interim Director of PBRC. Dr. Ostrander will serve in this position until a new permanent Director is selected. Dr. Marilyn Dunlap will continue to serve as Interim Associate Director.

For more information about Dr. Ostrander, see the the News@UH article or his Curriculum Vitae (PDF).

August, 2004

Researcher Recognized

Mark Martindale is one of three recipients of the 2004 Regents' Medal for Excellence in Research.

For more information, see the articles in News@UH and on the UH System website.

July, 2004

Research Award

Marilou Andres has received a 2004 Young Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD). Marilou is the program coordinator for the Specialized Neuroscience Research Program. Her research will examine genetic changes in potassium channels that may cause some symptoms of schizophrenia. For more information, see the article in UH News.

June, 2004

PBRC Employee Recognized

Rich Chock is one of three UH Manoa employees named to receive the Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Service and he has been nominated for the Governor's Award for Distinguished State Service. For information about the Chancellor's Award, see the articles in UH News and News@UH.

For information about the Governor's Award nomination, see the articles in UH News and News@UH.

April, 2004

PBRC Researcher Awarded Fellowship

Robert Richmond has been selected for the prestigious Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship. He is among only 20 scientists worlwide to receive this award for 2004.

For more information visit:
The Aldo Leopold Leadership Program website or read the Honolulu Star-Bulletin article.

May, 2003

PBRC Hosts 3rd Annual Conference of Specialized Centers in Neuroscience

For more information visit:
The University of Hawaii SNRP Program
3rd Annual Conference of Specialized Centers in Neuroscience

December, 2002

PBRC Hosts International Symposium, December 8-11, 2002

For more information visit:
The University of Hawaii RCMI Program
8th RCMI International Symposium on Health Disparities

October, 2001

PBRC's Laboratory of Matrix Pathobiology receives 9.3 million dollar research award for Cardiovascular Research

For more information visit these web pages:
Laboratory of Matrix Pathobiology
Ku Lama November 2, 2001
Honolulu Star-Bulletin October 29, 2001
Honolulu Adverstiser October 30, 2001

June, 2001

Tina Carvalho's award-winning Microangela web pages have been featured in an article entitled What You Can't See Microscopically on the web edition of the New York Times (June 14, 2001).

November, 2000

Richard Allen's work with the contractile vacuole of Paramecium is featured on the cover of the November, 2000 issue of BioEssays (Vol. 22, No. 11, pp. 1035-1042).

October, 2000

Kewalo Marine Laboratory researchers Jamie Foster and Margaret McFall-Ngai have their work featured on the cover of the October, 2000 (Vol. 226, No. 2) issue of Developmental Biology

August, 2000

Work from the laboratories of Margaret McFall-Ngai and Ned Ruby at PBRC's Kewalo Marine Laboratory were the cover story for the August 29, 2000 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

For more information:
The U.H. Press Release
Visit the PNAS website to see the cover illustration
Download a reprint in PDF format (approx. 1MB)
Visit the Kewalo Marine Laboratory Website

June, 2000

PBRC's Laboratory of Matrix Pathobiology Identifies Gene Mutation Responsible for PXE.

For more information:
U.H. Lab Identifies Rare Gene Mutation (Ku Lama June 23, 2000)
Visit the Laboratory of Matrix Pathobiology Website