DRB Graduate Program Student Retreat IBR Conference Room, March 1, 2013
Message from the organizer: "Thank you all students and faculty members for participation. I may be biased :) but I think everything worked out very well. I personally enjoyed learning what everyone is doing and I was very much impressed with the quality of presentations and discussions. Also, special thanks to Dr. Marikawa for promoting me to organize the event, Dr. Moisyadi for photographing, Dr. Lozanoff for providing fund for the event, Dr. Cooper and Dr. Gerschenson for support as representatives of UH graduate studies administration, and the IBR administrators, Candice Lau and Shirley Liu for their help to organize the event. Mahalo!"      - Monika Ward
Carolyn Higuchi presented a new method to grow ovarian tissues in a culture dish	Jonathan Riel identified Y-chromosome genes important for sperm function	Jessie Macias is purifying transposase enzyme to enhance transgenesis technology
Ferhat Ulu determined the signals crucial for male germ cell differentiation	Natsumi Takahashi is investigating the regulators of adult stem cells	Victor Ruthig is isolating new proteins important for the maintenance of sperm DNA integrity
Chase Moleta is studying health disparity to help Native Hawaiians	Brent Fujimoto is investigating the mechanisms of head regeneration using marine organism	Aileen Li is identifying new genes controlling the early stage of animal development
Michael Ortega is studying the molecules crucial for the initiation of DNA replication	Joel Marh is developing new methodologies to improve efficiency of transgenesis	Darrah Kauhane-Floerke is studying a variety of transposons for their evolutionary roles
Audience (IBR Director Dr. Steve Ward on the right)	Dr. Gerschenson (left) and Dr. Cooper (right). Mahalo for joining our retreat	Dr. Moisyadi (right)
group photo