Marine Biological Laboratory

The MBL Whitman Center Fellowships convene scientists from around the world to advance the mission of biological discovery. Applications due November 1. https://lnkd.in/eCeH8zt5

It's #MicroscopyMonday, so let's take a peek into the 🔬 This Fluorescent image of an Acropora sp. showing individual polyps with symbiotic zooxanthellae placed 15th in the 2023 Nikon Small World competition. Darkfield, Flourescence, Image Staking at 5x Magnification Credit: Dr. Pichaya Lertvilai, UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Learn how the scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole are studying novel research organisms to help unlock fundamental secrets of biology to understand the world and ourselves. Video produced by Jessica Rotondo. Footage: BioQuest Studios / MBL

It's definitely Spooky Season, especially on the MBL campus. Check out the winners of this year's pumpkin carving contest! Are you local to Woods Hole? Come and see them in person at Halloween in the Hole TODAY, October 26, from 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

This story in Science Magazine on therapeutic applications of RNA editing quotes MBL Senior Scientist Joshua Rosenthal, co-founder of a biotechnology company, Korro Bio, working in this field.

Please join us to learn more about tropical seaweed farming in the Caribbean! Join us for a Spotlight Webinar about seaweed farming in the Caribbean. Sustainable Seaweed Cultivation in the Caribbean will take place online November 21 from 1 PM - 2:30 PM U.S. East Coast time.  Register https://lnkd.in/gNfUUcdM Together, presenters from The University of Chicago Marine Biological Laboratory, The Nature Conservancy, and the Belize Women’s Seaweed Farmers Association will delve into the recently published Better Practices for Sustainable Seaweed Cultivation in the Caribbean. Learn about the current state of farming throughout the region, the types of seaweeds being grown–including Eucheumatopsis isiformis, recommended cultivation practices, and current and prospective market opportunities for coastal seaweed farmers.  Stay tuned after the presentations for a facilitated Q&A session with speakers. This event will be hosted by Kendall Barbery of GreenWave. Dr. Gretchen Grebe, Assistant Professor of Aquaculture and Marine Sustainability, Unity Environmental University Dr. Loretta Roberson, Associate Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole Seleem Chan, Mariculture Specialist and Safety Officer with The Nature Conservancy, Belize Jalima Martin Gold, President of the Belize Women’s Seaweed Farmers Association This event is a part of the GreenWave Spotlight, a webinar series that showcases regenerative ocean farming projects around the world. The webinar will be recorded and made available on GreenWave’s Ocean Farming Hub after the live session. Sustainable Seaweed Cultivation in the Caribbean United States Eastern Time November 21, 2024, 1 PM - 2:30 PM Online (Zoom)  Register Have questions? Contact greenwave@edmaker.co. Copyright © 2024 GreenWave, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up for one of our online events. GreenWave | PO BOX 550 | New Haven, CT 06513-0550

Using two specialized microscopes invented at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), a team of researchers from Japan and the MBL have developed a new method to measure the forces that keep the nucleus centered within a living cell. The experiments also provided important new clues about the properties of cellular cytoplasm and the mechanisms of organelle motion within cells.

What will happen to the 1.8 billion tons of #carbon stored in the frozen peat of #Arctic #tundra, as the world warms? Will #carbondioxide be belched into the atmosphere from the northern polar regions, dramatically exacerbating #climatechange? An unexpected new insight into this major concern, based on an Alaskan soil experiment conducted since 1981 by Gaius Shaver, senior scientist emeritus at the Marine Biological Laboratory and colleagues, is published this month in Nature Climate Change. The tundra vegetation, it indicates, is transitioning to shrubs and actually becoming *MORE* efficient at storing carbon.

It's #MicroscopyMonday, so let's take a peek into the 🔬 This image of carbon nanotubes was taken with stereomicroscopy at 30X magnification. It placed 16th in the 2023 Nikon Small World competition. Credit: Dr. Diego García, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Real Sociedad Española de Física

MBL Associate Scientist Loretta Roberson is as collaborator on this project, funded by Schmidt Sciences with support from the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research. The team is establishing a virtual institute-sponsored research center called Sargassum BioRefinery (SaBRe) with Jose Avalos of Princeton University as the lead investigator, and Roberson and Shishir Chundawat at Rutgers University as co-leaders of the center.