Donachie Lab

Associate Professor Department of Microbiology
University of Hawai'i
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: 808-956-6452, Fax: 808-956-5339
donachie@hawaii.edu

• PhD 1995, Polish Academy of Sciences
• BS 1986, Manchester Metropolitan University

• 2008 - present: Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Hawai'i.
• 2003 - 2008: Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Hawai'i.
• 1999 - 2003: Junior/Assistant Researcher, Department of Microbiology, University of Hawai'i. Major projects: NSF Microbial Observatories: Microbial diversity in lakes of the Hawaiian Archipelago. 2. NSF Marine Bioproducts Engineering Center: Cultivation of bacteria from deep-sea hydrothermal vents in high-pressure and high temperature samplers and reactors; isolation of acidophiles and thermophiles from New Zealand volcanoes and geothermal systems; establishment and maintenance of DNA and culture collections. (PI - Prof. Maqsudul Alam)
• 1998 - 1999: Post-Doctoral Researcher, Marine Biotechnology and Biosystems Engineering Laboratory, SOEST, University of Hawai'i. Marine Derived Biocatalysts: Isolation of organophosphorus acid anhydrolases from marine bacteria. (PI - Prof. Oskar Zaborsky)
• 1996 - 1998: Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Oceanography, SOEST, University of Hawai'i. Hawai'i Ocean Time Series: Investigation of factors controlling ectoenzyme expression in Pacific and Antarctic marine bacteria. (PI - Prof. Dave Karl) http://hahana.soest.hawaii.edu/index.html
• 1988 - 1995: PhD student, Department of Antarctic Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. Investigation of the potential role of bacteria in the digestive tracts of Antarctic marine euphausiids. (PI - Prof. dr. hab. Stanislaw Rakusa-Suszczewski). Winter-over group, 14th Polish Antarctic Expedition at Henryk Arctowski Station. http://www.dab.waw.pl/

• Antarctica Service Medal of the United States of America (1999) http://www.history.navy.mil/medals/antarc.htm

• 2008, Scott Base, Antarctica. Sea-ice microbiology, with Dr. Ken Ryan's (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ) 'Latitudinal Gradient Project'.
• 2005 Lava tubes of Kilauea Volcano, Hawai‘i
• 2004 Hawai‘i Ocean Time series cruise (Sub-tropical North Pacific Ocean)
• 2001 Lo‘ihi submarine hydrothermal vents. Two Pisces V dives (http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/HCV/loihi.html)
• 2001 Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand
• 2000 to 2003 Lakes in the Hawaiian Archipelago (Laysan, Hawai‘i, Maui, Moloka‘i, Pearl and Hermes Atoll) (http://www.hawaii.edu/microbiology/MO)
• 2000 White Island Volcano, New Zealand. http://www.geonet.org.nz/whiteisland.html
• 1998 Antarctic Peninsula, RV Laurence M. Gould
• 1996-1998 Fourteen Hawai‘i Ocean Time (HOT) series cruises, Sub-tropical North Pacific. CLIMAX II cruise http://hahana.soest.hawaii.edu/index.html, http://hahana.soest.hawaii.edu/hot/hot_jgofs.html
• 1997 Antarctic Peninsula, RV Polar Duke
• 1991 German Kattegat, FS Alkor http://www.ifm-geomar.de/index.php?id=1052&L=1
• 1989-91 Antarctic winter, 14th Polish Antarctic Expedition, Henryk Arctowski station, King George Island (link http://www.dab.waw.pl/)
• 1988-89 Weddell Sea, Polish Sea-Ice Zone Expedition, RV Profesor Siedlecki

• Institute of Biology (UK) http://www.iob.org/
• American Society for Microbiology http://www.asm.org/
• Society for Industrial Microbiology (USA) http://www.simhq.org/

• Phyllis Lam (PhD), SOEST, University of Hawai‘i (2004)
• Sarah Mincks (PhD), SOEST, University of Hawai‘i (2005)
• Tonya Fowler (MS), Microbiology, University of Hawai‘i (2005)
• Kathleen Brostrom (MS), Microbiology, University of Hawai‘i (2005)
• Maria Hansen (MS), Microbiology, University of Hawai‘i (2005)
• Xiaojun (Stephen) Lu (MS), Microbiology, University of Hawai‘i (2005)