The differences in the plant and animal communities on coral reefs and mangrove swamps are obvious to anyone who looks at them. And still, marine biologists have long known that the larvae of the animals and the spores of algae…
A September 1 publication in Nature Methods, “TRANSLON: a single term for translated regions”including Drs. Marla Berry and Lucia Seale of PBRC as co-authors, along with an international cadre of collaborators, proposes new terminology to refer to the translated region…
Simon Lee, undergraduate student Maggie Yuen's lab presented his poster “Isolation, Identification, and Enumeration of Legionella spp. From Environmental Samples” at UROP’s SURE Symposium on August 2nd, 2025.
Megan Smith, PhD student, NSF Graduate Research FellowshipMentors: Drs. Dan Hartline and Petra Lenz Madelief Schelvis, PhD student, 49th Annual Tester Symposium, Honorable Mention, Graduate Student TalkMentor: Dr. Robert Richmond Princess Jena Santiago, MS student, 2025 U.S. NSF GRFP competition, Honorable…
We are thrilled to share that our Voice of the Sea episode Pacific Biosciences Research Center won a Bronze Telly Award for Television programming in Science & Technology! These Telly Awards are a tremendous honor and reflect the amazing scientific, community, and conservation work we…
Children ages two to eight years across 11 Pacific jurisdictions—including Hawaiʻi—are not meeting daily recommended intakes for key micronutrients (essential vitamins and minerals needed in small amounts for health), either consuming too much or too little. That discovery was published…
Title: Dean, School of Ocean and Earth Science, and TechnologyHiring Unit: Office of the Provost, ManoaPosition Number: 0089288Date Posted: September 25, 2024 Closing Date: Continuous recruitment. For first consideration, submit application by October 30, 2024 as review of applications will begin on…
The new paper, “Bacterial envelope polysaccharide cues settlement and metamorphosis in the biofouling tubeworm Hydroides elegans,” was published in July 2024 in the Nature journal Communications Biology. Authors: Marnie L. Freckelton , Brian T. Nedved and Michael G. HadfieldKewalo Marine…
PBRC researcher Rob Cowie was a co-author on a 2022 study published in the journal Biological Reviews that suggested as many as 150,000 to 260,000 of all known species could have perished since roughly 1500. This publication was recently featured…
Click to view the 30-second episode trailer! On TV: K5 Sun June 23rd at 6pm & Sat June 29th at 6pm HST! In this episode of Voice of the Sea, we're exploring the Pacific Biosciences Research Center (PBRC) at UH Mānoa. We…
