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…
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…
