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

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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		Gilmore 306
Fridays 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm	School of Life Sciences Seminar		BIL152 / HOT

Upcoming Events

Dates	Event	Information	Host
April 12-14, 2023	Tester’s Symposium	https://manoa.hawaii.edu/lifesciences/tester-symposium/	SoLS

Upcoming Seminars

EECB Evoluncheon Seminar

https://www.hawaii.edu/eecb/

Seminar recordings 2022-2023: https://tinyurl.com/37m5e556

School of Life Sciences Spring 2023

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Date	Title	Speaker	Affiliation	Host
5/5	Simplifying habitat complexity	Joshua Madin	Assoc Research Professor, HIMB, UHM	Marko
4/28	Competition and resource partitioning between congeneric coral-dwelling scorpionfishes (Sebastapistes spp.) in Hawai‘i	Ryan Jones	PhD candidate	Hixon
4/21	Vision and Bioluminescence of Marine Crustaceans	Thomas Iwanicki	PhD candidate	Poter
4/14	TESTER SYMPOSIUM
4/7	HOLIDAY: GOOD FRIDAY
3/31	Following bonefishes in Hawai‘i: Connecting the dots from ocean to table	Keith Kamikawa	PhD candidate	Bowen
3/24	Effects of a Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience: A case study of Our Project In Hawai‘i’s Intertidal (OPIHI) Additional Information	Joanna Philippoff	Asst Specialist, College of Ed, UHM	Kraft-Terry
3/17	HOLIDAY: SPRING BREAK
3/10	NA
3/3	Energetic Tradeoffs at Extreme Body Size	William Gough	Post-Doctoral Researcher, HIMB, UHM	Toonen
2/24	Selenium metabolism in obesity and metabolic disorders	Lucia Seale	Asst Researcher, PBRC, UHM	Tricas
2/17	NA			NA
2/10	How do we get so many little frogs? The roles of ecology and plate tectonics in the diversification of Microhylid frogs in the Papuan region	Marguerite Butler	Professor, SoLS, UHM	Butler
2/3	Guano explains it all! An ecohistory of bird poo	David Duffy	Professor, SoLS, UHM	Duffy
1/27	Environmental Drivers of Species Distribution and Abundance: Case Studies on Various Marine Taxa	Justin Suca	Quantitative Fish Ecologist (CIMAR/PIFSC)	Morden
1/20	From seabirds to snails and ecology to taxonomy: An unpredictable path to conservation research	Norine Yeung	Malacology Curator, Bishop Museum	Moran
1/13	A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush: discovery and outreach through microbial diversity in Hawai‘i	Stuart Donachie	Professor, SoLS, UHM	Donachie

School of Life Sciences Seminar Fall 2022

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Date	Title	Speaker	Affiliation	Host
12/2	TBA	Mykle Hoban	Marine Biology PhD candidate, UHM	Toonen
11/25	HOLIDAY: Thanksgiving	–	–	–
11/18	From Bad to Worse: Zinc Limitation and Tuberculosis	Sladjana Prišić	Associate Prof, SoLS, UHM	Prišić
11/11	HOLIDAY: Veterans’ Day	–	–	–
11/4	Dynamic Human-Environment Interactions in Island Ecosystems: The Contribution of Archaeology	Patrick Kirch Luminary Speaker	Professor, Anthropology, UHM	Donald Drake
10/28	From the Landscape to the Lab: Investigations of Anthrax	Michael H. Norris	Assistant Prof, University of Florida	Hoang
10/21	Came for the capitulum, stayed for the pappus: flower development, diversity and evolution in the Asteraceae	Daniel Jones	Assistant Prof, Auburn University	Muir
10/14	Understanding reciprocal relationships between people and place for resilient social-ecological systems	Rachel Dacks	Researcher, HIMB	Smith
10/7	Biological invasions in coral reef connected insular estuaries	Kimberly A. Peyton	Research Scientist, Hawai‘i DNLR & DAR	Daehler
9/30	Foodscapes, Well-being, and Resilience in Solomon Islands	Eleanor Sterling	Director, HIMB	Ticktin
9/23	Phytotelmata and phylloplane: Leaf traits mediate biotic interactions	Kadeem Gilbert	Assistant Prof, Michigan State University	Heyduk
9/16	Identifying and evaluating threats to Pacific Island Cetaceans	Kristi West	Associate Researcher, HIMB	Hunter
9/9	Public Health and Epidemics (TB and COVID)	Edward Desmond	Hawai‘i Department of Health	Douglas
9/2	The Power of Poop: Insights into Hawaiian Honeycreeper Conservation through DNA Metabarcoding	Maria Costantini	Zoology PhD candidate, SoLS UHM	Reed
8/26	Linking traits and resource use to understand species interactions in a novel lizard community in Hawai’i	Amber Wright	Associate Prof, SoLS, UHM	Chong

School of Life Sciences Spring 2022

Date	Title	Speaker	Affiliation	Host
1/27	Environmental Drivers of Species Distribution and Abundance: Case Studies on Various Marine Taxa	Justin Suca	Quantitative Fish Ecologist (CIMAR/PIFSC)	Morden
1/20	From seabirds to snails and ecology to taxonomy: An unpredictable path to conservation research	Norine Yeung	Malacology Curator, Bishop Museum	Moran
1/13	A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush: discovery and outreach through microbial diversity in Hawai‘i	Stuart Donachie	Professor, SoLS, UHM	Donachie