The February 2009 CTAHR Research News is ready to download. Join us to learn about one of our newest faculty members, Dr. Yong Li of the Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences. Dr. Li is a food microbiologist has is working on a variety of projects - from finding quick and efficient methods to identify pathogenic food bacteria - to determining the good "bugs" found in native products such as kava and kalo. We also feature a thought provoking piece by CTAHR's corn breeder, Dr. Jim Brewbaker, of the Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences. The piece is based upon a speech given by Dr. Brewbaker at the Hawaii Science and Technology Council in January, 2009. Jim was part of a panel with Ken Kamiya, papaya grower and Mike Conway of Dole Foods as part of HSTC's Biotechnology: Feeding, Fueling and Healing Hawaii Conference. In this months edition, we have a loaded Research Calabash, lots of new open grants and the results from our stakeholder input survey about the CTAHR Research News. We hope you will download the February issue of the CTAHR Research News, read it and share it with others. As always, any feedback, comments, suggestions on the issue, please do not hesitate to send us an e-mail to Doug Vincent at vincent@hawaii.edu.