Stuart P. Donachie, PhD
Somewhere in the Ross Sea
Yvonne On, UROP Recipient 2018-19
Quorum sensing in biofilms
Christy Handel, MICR 499, 2018-19
Quorum sensing in biofilms
Kailey Sager, REU 2018, and MICR 499, 2018-19
Lava cave microbes
Kayla Hiura, REU 2017
Microbes in the loi
Brittany Lawson, REU 2017
Lava cave microbes
Jan Kealoha, MS (2017)
Thesis: Microbiologically influenced corrosion of 1018 carbon steel in static seawater/fuel (petroleum-based and renewable) mixtures
Alex Lee, REU 2016
Genome of Piscirickettsia litoralis.
Maxwell Darris, REU 2016
Microbes in my AC!
Julia Stewart, REU 2016
Culturable microbes in Porites sp.
Siobhan L. Burn, MS (2015)
Thesis: Cultivation-based description of microbial diversity in sediment samples after a molasses spill in Honolulu Harbor, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i (USA).
Rebecca D. Prescott, PhD (2015)
Now a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, for her work on “Survival in extreme environments through cooperation: biofilms and looking for life on Mars.”.
Thesis: Water quality influences on declining settlement from the Great Barrier Reef region: biofilms as key players.
Solomon Champion, UROP Recipient 2013-14
Bacteria in Honolulu Harbor
Jimmy H.W. Saw, PhD (2012)
Joined Thijs Ettema’s lab' in Uppsala University, Sweden, as a Marie Curie Fellow. Currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in Steve Giovannoni’s lab' at Oregon State University. Will start his own lab at George Washington University in Spring 2019.
Thesis: Polyphasic characterization of an epilithic biofilm from a lava cave in Kīlauea Caldera, Hawai‘i.
Sampling in a lava cave, Kīlauea Caldera
Mark D. Speck, PhD (2010)
Now a Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Helen Turner's lab' at Chaminade University, Honolulu.
Thesis: Comparative analysis of Bacteria communities between the Hawaiian reef-building corals Porites compressa and P. lobata.
Getting us around Palmyra Atoll.
Dr. Mark V. Brown, NASA Postdoctoral Researcher (2007)
Now a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Environmental and Life Sciences at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
After exiting a lava cave in Kīlauea Caldera.
Leena Mahdi, MS (2006)
Thesis: A survey of Hawaiian marine fungi and yeast.
Committee member - 12 students: SOEST, University of Hawai‘i: Phyllis Lam (PhD) and Sarah Mincks (PhD). Department of Microbiology, University of Hawai‘i: Mike Son (PhD); Tracey Freitas (PhD); Tonya Fowler (MS); Kathleen Brostrom (MS); Maria Hansen (MS); Alexandra Shibata (MS); Stephen Lu (MS); Travers Ching (MS); Xin Wang PhD (PhD); Zhenxin Sun (MS); Andrew Bluhm (MS).