Rubinoff Lab

Summary:

This is a relatively new lab. Funding: NSF, DARPA, National Geographic. Research focuses on 1 understanding the relationships between different groups of organisms at the population level, species levels, and above 2 building DNA and morphology-based phylogenies to identify new species and uncover hidden relationships and patterns between species. Current projects focus on the application of systematics to improve agriculture and conservation efforts in Hawai'i and elsewhere.

Affiliations:

• Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa

People:

• PI: Rubinoff, Daniel
  

Resources:

Instruments

• Alpha Innotech AlphaImager 2200 workstation ( Gel imaging system )
  

• Leica stereo microscope ( Stereo microscope )
  

• MJ Research PTC-0200 thermal cycler ( Thermal cycler )
  

  Lab houses two of these instruments.

Web Links:

• http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/rubinoffd/