Threat to coral found through bacteria
Researchers investigated the role of each component, host organisms, viruses, bacteria and metabolites, in coral-turf algal interactions.
UH joins new national consortium to advance microbiome research
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers Margaret McFall-Ngai and Nicole Hynson, co-authored a publication announcing the new consortium and its goals for advancing the far-reaching field of microbiome research.
UH data science institute awarded $1M National Science Foundation grant
The award allows the university to acquire and deploy a new community computer cluster in support of computational and data-intensive research for the 10-campus system.
$10.4M grant to UH researchers links environmental microbiomes to human health
Many of the researchers and their students are addressing two critical and intertwined health problems: the deteriorating environment and the current spread of diseases.
Trailblazing microbiome research receives $1M W.M. Keck Foundation grant
This will be the first time an entire watershed, ridge to reef, has been studied to map its microbial communities and their ecosystem processes.
Prestigious $5M award for UH microbial researcher
Margaret McFall-Ngai has been selected to receive a MERIT award of more than $5 million from the National Institutes of Health.
Preservatives may harm “good” human bacteria, UH Maui study finds
Food preservatives may be harmful to beneficial bacteria in the human body, according to a study at UH Maui College.
Microbiome transplants provide disease resistance in critically-endangered Hawaiian plant
Transplanting wild microbes from healthy related plants can make a native Hawaiian plant healthier and likelier to survive in wild
Initiative to address challenges facing Hawaiʻi and the world launches with research projects
Inaugural UH Mānoa Strategic Investment Initiative projects capitalize on the strengths of the university and focuses on a challenge facing Hawaiʻi, the solutions of which can be exported to the world.
UH’s only female National Academy of Sciences member reveals how animals select good microbes
Margaret McFall-Ngai's inaugural article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveals a newly discovered mechanism by which organisms select beneficial microbes and reject harmful ones.
