SPECIAL SEMINAR — DR. HARRY WILSON Tuesday, December 6, 2011 Hamilton Library, 3rd Floor, Room 301 2:00 PM Dr. Wilson will present an overview of the Okinawa Insitute for Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University and discuss opportunities for UH Faculty and Students. OIST’s transdisciplinary approach to science and technology will transform graduate research and [More...]
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Kaneshiro in Okinawa with President Greenwood
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Oct 182011
From UH Matters – with M.R.C. Greenwood A photo on President Greenwood’s blog shows PBRC’s Ken Kaneshiro with Donna Vuchinich, MRC Greenwood, Ed Kuba and Bob Luey in Okinawa.
Blanchard Elected President of IBNS
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May 012011
Dr. Caroline Blanchard of the Bekesy Laboratory of Neurobiology has been elected as the next President of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society starting with the society’s 2011 meeting.
Prize-Winning Research
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Apr 252010
At the Spring Symposium for Undergraduate Research and Creative Work help April 24, 2010, two students mentored by PBRC faculty were awarded prizes: Amanda Lee (Biology major) – “The Physiological and Mechanistic Effects of the Hawaiian Box Jellyfish Pore-forming Proteins” (Angel Yanagihara, sponsor) Andrew Salazar (Marine Biology major) and Robert Young (Math/Psychology major) – “Artificial [More...]
Apr 012010
Seminar Announcement Monday, April 5, 2010 Biomedical Sciences Bldg, T-208 Dr. Robert Cowie, Researcher Dr. Kenneth Hayes, Assistant Research Affiliate Center for Conservation Research and Training “Snails: Evolution, Biodiversity and Alien Species”
35th Tester Symposium
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Mar 202010
At the 35th Annual Albert L. Tester Symposium, hosted by the Department of Zoology, March 17 – 19, 2010, Kevin Pang, a graduate student in Mark Martindale’s lab at the Kewalo Marine Laboratory, and Vincent Giani, an undergraduate in Elaine Seaver’s lab at the Kewalo Marine Laboratory, won awards. Kevin’s poster (coauthored with JF Ryan, [More...]
Best Student Poster
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Jan 102010
Kevin Pang, a graduate student in Mark Martindale’s lab at the Kewalo Marine Laboratory, won the Best Student Poster award for the division of Evolutionary Developmental Biology at the 2010 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) conference in Seattle. Kevin’s poster entitled “Wnt and TGF-beta signaling in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi,” was coauthored with [More...]
Ocean Explorers
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Apr 142009
Emi Yamaguchi, a graduate student in Dr. Elaine Seaver’s lab, is spearheading an upcoming outreach program. The “Ocean Explorers” program with the Hawaii Children’s Discovery Center in Kakaako, is offering a weekly curriculum, over a 6-week period, which includes exposure to live animals and/or hands-on activities to teach children about marine science. The kickoff day [More...]
Student Workshop
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Apr 132009
On Saturday, April 11, 2009, nineteen students and fourteen teachers from Oahu and Kauai high schools participated in the Instrumentation Workshop, sponsored by the American Chemical Society (ACS) Hawaii Section in collaboration with the UH-Manoa Chemistry Department (UHMCD) and the Pacific Biosciences Research Center (PBRC) Molecular Biology Core Laboratory. The participants were introduced to different [More...]
Hayes Completes Dissertation
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Feb 272009
Kenneth Hayes, a graduate student supported in PBRC’s Center for Conservation Research and Training since August 2003, has completed his doctoral dissertation on the evolution, molecular systematics and invasion biology of apple snails (Ampullariidae) in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Cowie. Kenneth has accepted a postdoctoral position at the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian [More...]
