#microbes

Maui College scholar chosen to present post-wildfire biomedical study at national conference in Washington D.C.

Deardorff will present “Microbes as Human Indicators of Human Health Risk after the Lahaina Wildfires” to an audience of biomedical professionals at the 2024 National IDeA Symposium of Biomedical Research Excellence (NISBRE) Conference in June.

UH gets $10.7M for human, environmental microbiome research

Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa have been awarded $10.7 million from the National Institutes of Health to study how human health is impacted by exposure to microbes. The studies will also explore how microbiomes are impacted by environmental and social-economic gradients in Hawaiʻi, and how an animal’s microbiome confers persistent health, using invertebrate hosts.

Microbes may be small but have big impact in climate change, report says

Microbes may be small, but they are highly impactful to environmental and human health amid a changing climate, according to a new report co-authored by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa oceanographer David Karl.

Study: Phytoplankton Bloom Detectable by Satellite, Fueled by 2018 Kīlauea Eruption

The lava-impacted seawater contained high concentrations of nutrients that stimulated phytoplankton growth, resulting in an extensive plume of microbes that was detectable by satellite.