Pipes, an assistant professor at the Pacific Biosciences Research Center, will develop computational methods to recover biological information from ancient DNA preserved in seafloor sediments, helping to reconstruct past marine communities and build historical baselines for understanding how ocean biodiversity…
Copepods — small crustaceans that anchor the pelagic food web for Gulf of Alaska fish, seabirds, and marine mammals — appear to vanish each winter, then surge back each spring. Sampling a deep Alaskan fjord, Lauren Block and her colleagues…
In celebration of World Oceans Day, the Alaska SeaLife Center featured a captivating new exhibit that bridges the worlds of microscopic marine science and fine art. The “Plankton Mandala Art Exhibit” is the culmination of a multi-year collaboration between a…
The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa recently held the 2026 Joint COBRE Symposium: Microbiome and Precision Nutrition at the East-West Center. Hosted by the Pacific Biosciences Research Center (PBRC) in the UH Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and…
On Earth Day, an effort to clean up the Ala Wai Canal celebrated two meaningful milestones. The Genki Ala Wai Project reached 300,000 Genki Balls, and the City and County of Honolulu proclaimed April 2026 as “Genki Ball Month.” This…
Google will translate this video. Navigate to: Settings -> Subtitle/CC -> Auto Translate -> English In mid-April 2026, Dr. Robert Cowie travelled to Okinawa (Japan) to assess the ongoing program for conservation of endemic Okinawan land snails, including tree species,…
Devastation of island biodiversity: a land snail perspective Robert Cowie, along with Philippe Bouchet and Benoît Fontaine of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris, just published (open access) a review of the devastation of endemic island land snail faunas,…
The Discover Manoa event was held at the University of Hawaii Manoa campus on November 15, 2025. PBRC researchers and students created displays and demonstrations to showcase our exciting biosciences research.
Ms. Princess Santiago, Masters student of the MBBE program at CTAHR, received the Best Graduate Talk Award in the 13th International Selenium Meeting in Biology and Medicine (ISMBM), in Daejon, South Korea. Her talk was on "Loss of peroxiredoxin 6…
PBRC's Robert Cowie acted as one of two Research Advisors throughout production of the documentary and appears in it. "Accidental Host - The Story of Rat Lungworm Disease" is a 53-minute documentary about a silently-spreading foodborne parasite that invades human…
