The School of Life Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa holds regular seminar series that are open to students, faculty, and the public. The featured guest speakers come from local, national, and international institutes. Please see our seminar information from the School of Life Sciences and check this page regularly to see any updates on seminars. If you would like to share a special seminar announcement with our group please email us at lifesci@hawaii.edu
| Date and Time | Seminar Series | Location | |
| Mondays 11:30 am – 12:30 pm | Microbiology 690 Seminar | TBA | |
| Fridays 11:30 am – 12:30 pm | EECB Evoluncheon | Virtual | |
| Fridays 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm | School of Life Sciences Seminar | SPAL155 / HOT |
Upcoming Events
| Dates | Event | Information | Host |
| 2/24-2/26 | SoLS graduate recruitment week | contact host | Chong, Heyduk, Muir |
| 4/20-4/22 | Tester’s Symposium | https://manoa.hawaii.edu/lifesciences/tester-symposium/ | SoLS |
Upcoming Seminars
School of Life Sciences Seminar
| Date | Title | Speaker | Affiliation | Host |
| 1/21/22 | Regulatory Affairs: Careers in science | Jai Denton | Senior Regulatory Officer, Monash University, Australia | Reed |
| 1/28/22 | Little blind cavefish, lead to big insights | Suzanne McGaugh | Associate Prof, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul | Yoshizawa |
| 2/4/22 | Life, Light, and Color: Visual Diversity in the Underwater World | Lorian Schweikert | Assistant Prof, University of North Carolina Wilmington | Porter |
| 2/11/22 | Feeling the Flow: Evolution of the Mechanosensory Lateral Line System in Fishes | Jacqueline Webb | Professor, University of Rhode Island | Cole |
| 2/18/22 | Walking the forbidden path for Local students: staying at UH for graduate school | Kawika Winters | Reserve Manager, He’eia National Estuarine Research Reserve | Ferguson |
| 2/25/22 | Hitchhiker’s Guide to Graduate School – what I learned and wish I had known | Beth Lenz | Assistant director for diversity and community engagement, University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program | Muir/Chong/Heyduk |
| 3/4/22 | Studying swiftly swimming sharks | Marianne Porter | Associate Prof, Florida Atlantic University | Butler |
| 3/11/22 | Plant diversity, aboveground biomass and soil organic carbon during tropical forest succession | Manichanh Satdichanh | Postdoc, World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences | Barton |
| 3/18/22 | SPRING RECESS | – | SPRING RECESS | – |
| 3/25/22 | Kuhio Day | – | Kuhio Day | – |
| 4/1/22 | Environmental Hypoxia as a Driver of Phenotypic Evolution in Mexican Cavefish | William R Jeffery | Professor, Univ Maryland College park | Yoshizawa |
| 4/8/22 | Insights from an introduced lizard on coping with environmental change: Is it better to be behaviorally flexible or consistent? | Robyn Screen | PhD candidate, SoLS UH Manoa | Wright |
| 4/15/22 | Good Friday | – | Good Friday | – |
| 4/22/22 | Tester’s Symposium | – | Tester’s Symposium | SoLS |
| 4/29/22 | Patterns and processes shaping avian diversity across the Hawaiian Archipelago | Luke Campillo | PhD candidate, SoLS UH Manoa | Thomson |
| 5/6/2022 | Oh the places you’ll go: population and phylogeographic insights in widely distributed marine taxa | ‘Ale‘alani Dudoit | PhD candidate, SoLS UH Manoa | Toonen |
| Fall 2022 | TBA | Josha Gross | Associate Prof, Univ of Cincinnati | Yoshizawa |
| Fall 2022 | TBA | Patricia Ornelas García | Associate Prof, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | Yoshizawa |
| Fall 2022 | TBA | Kimberly A. Peyton | Research Scientist, State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Aquatic Resources | Daehler |