Marine Biological Laboratory

It's #WorldEmojiDay, so here's some emojis that describe the science happening at the MBL. 🧪🔬🦠🧫🦑🦟🪱🦋🐟🦈🐸🦐🌍 🐙 🧬

Meet a UChicago Metcalf Intern: Marta’s Summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory   Marta Pantin is a Class of 2026 UChicago student majoring in biochemistry.   A rising scientist with a passion for learning, Marta plans to pursue a Ph.D and a research career.   She’s taking a major step on her career journey this summer as a Metcalf intern at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA.   Working in a lab team led by microbiologist Scott Chimileski, PhD, Marta is researching how bacteria organize themselves in the human oral microbiome. She hopes this research can one day inform important healthcare efforts such as optimizing drug delivery.   This internship builds on Marta’s rigorous coursework and her previous experiences as a research assistant with the University’s Biological Sciences Division and the Severo Ochoa Molecular Biology Centre.   Watch this video to learn more about Marta’s adventures at the Marine Biological Laboratory this summer! #uchicago #internship #science

Just TWO DAYS LEFT to apply to the Gene Regulatory Networks Advanced Research Training Course at the MBL! This course introduces the concepts of Gene regulatory networks (GRNs), and teaches experimental and computational methods used to study them, through highly interactive lectures, discussions, group projects, and practical tutorials. go.mbl.edu/GRN

Are you at this year's Society for Developemental Biology #2024SBD? There's an MBL Meet Up TONIGHT at 7 p.m. at the Lobby Bar at the Signia Atlanta. See you there!

It's #MicroscopyMonday, let's go dive into the 🔬! Confocal image of Crepidula fornicata (slipper limpet) embryo stained for FMRF (yellow), Acetylated tubulin (green) F-actin (purple; phalloidin) and DAPI (blue; nuclei). Credit: Rachel K. Miller (MD Anderson) and Juliette Petersen (University of Colorado - Denver)

In case you missed it: The Open House at the MBL's Central Microscopy Facility was covered by the Falmouth Enterprise! https://lnkd.in/emmjAhRb

When it comes to climate change research, a lot of the news is bad. The planet is warming, seas are rising, and much of life on Earth is struggling to respond—but there are a few examples of organisms swimming against that current. MBL Grass Fellow Aalok Varma, University of California San Diego, is taking a deeper look at some organisms that are doing well in the face of climate change—cephalopods. #climatechange #cephalopods #cephs #research #climate #biology #organisms #grassfoundation #grassfellow #mbl #woodshole

Don't forget to join us TONIGHT (Friday, July 12) for a very special Friday Evening Lecture featuring Yasmin Hurd of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Hurd's talk "Deciphering Neurobiological Processes of Opioid Addiction towards Novel Interventions," will delve into decoding the neurobiological underpinnings of psychiatric disorders such as addiction is critically linked to expanding insights obtained from the human brain which can inform targeted treatments. Yasmin Hurd is the Ward-Coleman Chair in Translational Neuroscience and Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience and Pharmacological Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine in New York. She is also the Director of the Addiction Institute at the Mount Sinai Behavioral Health System which covers one of the largest addiction populations in the U.S. As always, MBL lectures are free and open to the public. Doors open at 7:30p.m., lectures start at 8 p.m. Can't come in person? All our Friday Evening Lectures are livestreamed. mbl.edu/fel #addition #sciencetalk #lecture #sciencelecture #opiods #opiod #opiodaddction #neurobio #neurobiology #mtsinai

It's #SharkWeek! So dive into this 2023 story of research done, in part, at the MBL on the spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias), a small shark species we keep in the Marine Resources Center.

Jose Fabian Vergara-Ovalle is spending the summer at the MBL digging into the genes and brain areas critical for memory formation in the California two-spot octopus.