Steward Lab

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

We part of the collaborative Marine Viral Ecology Laboratories (MarVEL) at UH

Latest News and Updates

January 2023 - Congratulations, Adi and Amanda!  – MarVEL team members Amanda Laughlin and Andrian Gajigan are two of the inaugural recipients of graduate fellowships from the Uehiro Center for the Advancement of Oceanography (UC•AO)

Jan and Feb 2023 – Two new papers on ecophysiology of phytoplankton and feeding kinetics of flagellates.

October 2022 – Congratulations Kelsey! — Kelsey McBeain was honored as the 2022 RCUH Outstanding Employee of the Year

News Archives

New paper on the feeding behaviors of dozens of mixotrophic microalgae when consuming Prochlorococcus. Click to go to the paper.

New paper on the discovery of two new species of diatoms and their nitrogen-fixing symbionts in the open ocean!  Click to go to the Press release or the paper.

February 2021 - Congratulations, Adi!  – Research Support from National Geographic. Graduate student Adi Gajigan was awarded a National Geographic Early Career Grant to help cover costs of his research. He will be studying the microbial and viral influences on harmful algal bloom that are associated with intensive coastal aquaculture in Bolinao, Philippines

January 2021  - Congratulations, Qian!  Former post-doc Qian Li has started a new position as Assistant Professor in the School of Oceanography at Shanghai Jiao Tong University ...and her paper on mixotroph grazing is now published in Limnology and Oceanography

Congratulations, Petra!  – Graduate student Petra Byl was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in 2018. 


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