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Wang, Koon-Hui

Professor & Chair  


Email:  koonhui@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-2455
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Aigbedion-Atalor, Pascal

Assistant Specialist  


Email:  atalor@hawaii.edu
Phone:  969-8251
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Akahoshi, Kiersten

Junior Extension Agent  


Email:  Kiersten@hawaii.edu
Phone:  969-8229
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Alvarez, Anne M

Plant Pathologist, Emeritus  


Email:  alvarez@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-7764
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Arif, Mohammad

Associate Researcher  


Email:  arif@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-7765
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Bloese, Joanna

Assistant Specialist  


Email:  bloese@hawaii.edu
Phone:  969-8225
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Cheng, Zhiqiang

Specialist  


Email:  cheng241@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-6416
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Dobhal, Shefali

Assistant Researcher  


Email:  shefali@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-7027
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Doorenweerd, Camiel

Junior Researcher  


Email:  camiel.doorenweerd@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-9123
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Grace, J Kenneth

Researcher Emeritus  


Email:  kennethg@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956
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Hu, John

Plant Pathologist  


Email:  johnhu@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-7281
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Jenkins, Daniel

Professor  


Email:  danielje@hawaii.edu
Phone:  781-1343
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Kawate, Michael K

Emeritus  


Email:  mkawate@hawaii.edu
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Krushelnycky, Paul

Assistant Researcher  


Email:  pauldk@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-8261
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Luis, Jane Marian S

Assistant Specialist  


Email:  luisjm@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-5305
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Manandhar, Roshan

Assistant Extension Agent - Invasive Species  


Email:  roshanm@hawaii.edu
Phone:  274-3477
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Melzer, Michael J

Researcher  


Email:  melzer@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-7887
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Nishijima, Wayne T

Specialist Emeritus  


Email:  waynen@hawaii.edu
Phone:  981-5199
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Rubinoff, Daniel

Professor  


Email:  rubinoff@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-8432
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San Jose, Michael

Junior Researcher  


Email:  mdsjose@hawaii.edu
Phone:  946-2436
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Sato, Dwight M

Emeritus  


Email:  dwights@hawaii.edu
Phone:  981-5199
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Shikano, Ikkei

Assistant Professor  


Email:  ishikano@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-2000
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Sipes, Brent S

Professor Plant Pathology  


Email:  sipes@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-7813
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Tay, Jia-Wei

Assistant Researcher  


Email:  jwtay@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-6744
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Valenzuela, Hector R

Specialist  


Email:  hector@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-7903
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Villalobos, Ethel M

Junior Researcher  


Email:  emv@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-2445
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Wright, Mark G.

Professor of Entomology and Extension specialist  


Email:  markwrig@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-7670
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Planting Basil at Waimanalo


4 September 2024

A Winning Nema Team

PEPS students take top honors in nematode know-how

A Winning Nema Team

For the second time in three years, CTAHR students in the Dept. of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences won 1st prize in Cobb Bowl Jeopardy at the annual meeting of the Society of Nematologists, held August 4-9 in Park City, UT. Competing as “Aloha Nema,” our super-capable PEPS students Roshan Paudel, Lauren Braley, Benjamin Wiseman, Landon Wong, and Kekoa Larger joined Montana State University student Erika Consoli to test their nematology knowledge against other national teams.

Congratulations to our Cobb Bowl champs, shown in the photo below with Koon-Hui Wang and Brent Sipes. Koon-Hui offers some insight into why PEPS students have such a winning Cobb Bowl record and why our state is a great place to study nematology: “Plant-parasitic nematodes caused significant economic yield loss to key crops in Hawaiʻi, not limited to anthurium, banana, coffee, pineapple, and sweet potato. Warm climates in Hawaii allow different species of damaging nematodes to reproduce all year round and allow graduate students to test various impactful nematode management strategies in a short period of time.” Hawaiʻi growers and gardeners are sure to benefit from our students’ hands-on nematode know-how.

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