Pacific Biosciences Research Center
We’re exploring the Pacific Biosciences Research Center (PBRC) at UH Mānoa. We visit the Kewalo Marine Lab, the Isabella Aiona Abbott Life Sciences Building, the Békésy Laboratory of Neurobiology, the Biomedical Sciences Building, and the Selenium Research Laboratory to learn about PBRC faculty and student research—on microbes, copepods, mosquitos, and mice — and how this research can improve ocean health, fight human diseases, and protect native birds!
Watch the 30-second trailer for Season 11, Episode 3 on Vimeo, YouTube, or on Vimeo with English Subtitles.
Watch related episodes: Saving the kiwikiu, Saving the kiwikiu part 2, Zooplankton of the Deep.
Full Episode
Cover images: copepod by Tehya Chance, microbe filtering by Kiana Frank, and ʻiʻiwi by USFWS
Curriculum Connections:
- C-MORE: microbe lessons and information
- PBS learning video and lesson plans: Microbes
- Grades 6-12: Birds
- Activity: Local Bird Guide
- DLNR Video: Hawaiian Endangered Forest Birds
- Symphony of the Hawaiian Birds: Lessons, Tools, Games, and Video
Additional Resources:
- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
- School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
- Pacific Biosciences Research Center (PBRC)
- Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU): Environmental Biology for Pacific Islanders
- MARC Program at UH Mānoa: Maximizing Access to Research Careers
- C-MĀIKI – Center for MICROBIOME Analysis through Island Knowledge & Investigation
Kewalo Marine Laboratory
- Lab Hui o Frank: Nā kilo ao māiki (Observers of the microbial realm)
- Ecology & Evolution Scientist Spotlight: Kiana Frank
- Follow LabHuioFrank on YouTube or X (Twitter)
- Kewalo celebrates 50 years
- UH News: $5M to support Hawaiian, Pacific Island students in marine, environmental science
- Lab Hui o Frank: Nā kilo ao māiki (Observers of the microbial realm)
- Isabella Aiona Abbott Life Sciences Building
- The Medeiros Lab Hui: A group of scientists studying the ecology and evolutionary biology of infectious disease in Hawai‘i
- HI Dept. of Health: You can help eliminate mosquito breeding sites
- Hawaiʻi Invasive Species Council: Watch Wolbaci-what?
- UH News: $10.4M grant to UH researchers links environmental microbiomes to human health
- The Medeiros Lab Hui: A group of scientists studying the ecology and evolutionary biology of infectious disease in Hawai‘i
Békésy Laboratory of Neurobiology
- Petra Lenz Lab: Ecology of planktonic organisms
- Northern Gulf of Alaska: Long Term Ecological Research
- Student book: Seasons in the Sea: A Year in the Gulf of Alaska
- Hartline Lab: Copepod research
- Selenium Research Laboratory
- Lucia Seale Selenium Lab: Investigates how the element selenium (Se) contributes to nutritional and medical health
- Seale Lab Team
- Follow the Seale Lab on X (Twitter)
- UH News: $2M grant to research selenium, fat cell, obesity connections
- SOEST News: New research at UH to fight obesity
- Lucia Seale Selenium Lab: Investigates how the element selenium (Se) contributes to nutritional and medical health
- Biological Electron Microscopy Facility (BEMF)
- Website: instruments, services, and images
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Contact information:
Kanesa Seraphin, Ph.D.
kanesa@hawaii.edu
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