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University of Hawaii at Manoa
University of Hawaii System
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
 

MBBE Faculty

In addition to the core faculty listed below, the following link describes the Cooperating and Affiliate Graduate Faculty.

Name
Office
Phone / Email
Pratibha V. Nerurkar, Ph.D.
Professor and Department Chair
Metabolic disorders, signal transduction, alternative medicine, proteomics
AG SCI 415H
(808) 956-9195
pratibha@hawaii.edu
Jon-Paul Bingham, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Marine peptide biochemistry
ST JOHN 210
(808) 956-4864
jbingham@hawaii.edu
Dulal Borthakur, Ph.D.
Department Chair, Professor
Plant-microbe interactions, plant biotechnology
AG SCI 415F (808) 956-6600
dulal@hawaii.edu

Young Cho, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Fine-tuned gene regulation, sRNA, photosynthesis, climate change, tropical plant genomics

AG SCI 402F

(808) 956-9270

ybcho@hawaii.edu

David Christopher, Ph.D.

Professor

Plant molecular and cellular biology, functional genomics, plant biotechnology

AG SCI 415B

(808) 956-8550

dchr@hawaii.edu

Zhi-Yan (Rock) Du, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

AG SCI 
218

(808) 956-8819

duz@hawaii.edu

Nan Jiang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Plant biochemistry, specialized metabolism

AG SCI 415D
(808) 956-7942
nanjiang@hawaii.edu
Samir Khanal, Ph.D.,P.E.
Associate Professor
Bioenergy and biobased products, waste-to-energy
AG SCI 415K
(808) 956-3812
khanal@hawaii.edu

Ryan Kurasaki, P.E.

Junior Specialist

Automation, controlled environment agriculture

AEI 121

(808) 956-7259

rkurasak@hawaii.edu

Qing X. Li, Ph.D.
Professor
Proteomics, bioremediation, environmental biochemistry and biotechnology
AG SCI 402J
(808) 956-2011
qingl@hawaii.edu
Gernot Presting, Ph.D.
Professor
Bioinformatics, functional genomics
ST JOHN 515
(808) 956-8861
gernot@hawaii.edu
Garrett Roell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Metabolic modeling, machine learning, fermentation optimization, multi-omics analysis
AG SCI 402C
(808) 956-8048
groell@hawaii.edu
Wei-Wen Winston Su, Ph.D.
Professor
Biochemical engineering, plant cell culture, molecular biotechnology
AG SCI 415O
(808) 956-3531
wsu@hawaii.edu


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