Hidden in water collected from the MBL's own Waterfront Park, Whitman Fellows Takato Honda, Ph.D. and Daniel Cortes have discovered a new species of stentor: Stentor hondawara. 🔗 Full story here: go.mbl.edu/5xfcpj

Join us on August 7 for George O'Toole's lecture on the “gut-lung axis” and how it may open new possibilities for treating airway disease with gut-targeted probiotics. Free and open to the public for in-person and virtual attendance. 🔗 More info here: go.mbl.edu/fel

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! This image shows a Crithidia fasciculata parasite imaged by Ultrastructure Expansion Microscopy. Imaged by Felina Loya, a 2026 Biology of Parasitism course student.

Join us for a celebration of the world-class #oceanscience happening in #WoodsHole! 🔗 woodsholesciencestroll.org/

Shari Eberts—hearing health advocate, author, and speaker—recently visited the Marine Biological Laboratory to speak with students in the 2026 Biology of Hearing and Balance Course. 🔗 Read the full story here: go.mbl.edu/take5-eberts

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Society for Developmental Biology Annual Meeting in Las Vegas!

Join us on July 31 for a lecture by Maria J. Harrison that examines the relationship between plants and fungi at the cellular level. Lectures are free and open to the public for in-person and virtual attendance. 🔗 More info here: go.mbl.edu/fel

Why do some clams live to be over 500 years old, yet humans usually live to be less than 100? Matthew Harris, professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and MBL Whitman Fellow, is trying to find out. 🔗 Read the full story here: go.mbl.edu/c1n7bs

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Why do some clams live to be over 500 years old, yet humans usually live to be less than 100?

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This summer, #PhD student Paco Guerra Garcia is teaching with Investigator Siva Sankari at @mblscience.bsky.social, introducing students to the molecular biology of plant-microbe #symbiosis. 🌱

We're thrilled to welcome Nicole Theodosiou as the next Burroughs Wellcome Director of Education at the Marine Biological Laboratory! 🔗 go.mbl.edu/2u4alx

Marine Biological Laboratory Appoints Nicole A. Theodosiou as Burroughs Wellcome Director of Education | Marine Biological Laboratory

WOODS HOLE, Mass. (July 23, 2026) -- The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) has appointed Nicole A. Theodosiou, Ph.D., as its next Burroughs Wellcome Director of Education at the Marine Biological Laboratory.  She will join the MBL on September 8.

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The 2026 Embryology Course may have wrapped up last week, but the connections made here will last far beyond the summer. A course participant shares how networking with fellow scientists shaped her summer at the MBL. 🔗 go.mbl.edu/unrvo5

DEADLINE APPROACHING! ⏰ Apply to Comparative Developmental Biology by July 28. This intensive two-week laboratory course is designed for graduate students in their second or later year of Ph.D studies and post-docs. 🔗 More info here: go.mbl.edu/CDB

The Microbial Diversity Class visited Sippewissett salt marsh on Saturday to learn about the interesting microbiology and to take samples to bring back to the lab. It's a salt/brackish environment with lots of sulfate, photorespiratory microbes and more. @mblscience.bsky.social

Join us on July 24 for Liqun Luo’s discussion of how the brain drives hunger and thirst, sponsored by the Grass Foundation. Free and open to the public for in-person and virtual attendance. 🔗 More info here: go.mbl.edu/fel

A two-week introduction to intensive, lab-focused, developmental #biology training was all it took for Varsha Tamilkumar and Juan Pablo Venegas Martínez to know they wanted more. 🔗 Full story here: go.mbl.edu/8nmsqp

On June 10, Woods Hole had a sweet time celebrating the 75th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s book, The Sea Around Us. 🔗 Full story here: go.mbl.edu/carson-75

The MBL Celebrates 75 Years Since Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us | Marine Biological Laboratory

“The sea has always challenged the minds and imagination of men and even today it remains the last great frontier of Earth.” – Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us (1951) On June 10, Woods Hole had a sweet time celebrating the 75th anniversary of Rachel Car...

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Shellfish are a summertime staple in coastal areas like Cape Cod. Yet, according to farmer, researcher, and MBL Whitman Fellow Dan Ward, shellfish hatchery production is primarily limited by one thing: chloroplasts. 🔗 Full story here: go.mbl.edu/shellfish

How did humans evolve to speak and to walk upright? 🔗 Full story here: go.mbl.edu/floating-bones

DEADLINE APPROACHING! ⏰ Apply to Comparative Developmental Biology by July 28. This intensive two-week laboratory course is designed for graduate students in their second or later year of Ph.D studies and post-docs. 🔗 More info here: go.mbl.edu/CDB

Join us on July 17 to hear Rachel Meyers lecture on "RNAi Across Scales: From Model Organisms to Clinical Therapies." Open to the public for in-person and virtual attendance. No registration required for in-person attendance. 🔗 More info here: go.mbl.edu/fel

The Marine Biological Laboratory has received a $3.2 million Research Infrastructure award from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) to enhance its Central Microscopy Facility. 🔗 go.mbl.edu/mlsc2026

A participant in the MBL #Neurobiology course shares his research project that investigates how membrane voltages are generated, controlled, and manipulated. 🔗 Watch the full video here: go.mbl.edu/1qvq4g

Biologists have long puzzled over how organs develop into their final shapes, and the nearly transparent bodies of young sea stars may offer a unique window into the organ development process. 🔗 Read the full story here: go.mbl.edu/sea-star-organs

Tadasu Nozaki of UMass Amherst and an MBL Whitman Fellow is trying to better understand the complex movements that allow chromosomes to pair. 🔗 Read the full story here: go.mbl.edu/nozaki

Unlike other organisms, Clytia medusae can repair damage so rapidly you can actually watch small wounds close within minutes. Larger wounds heal in less than an hour, a rate of recovery humans can only dream of. And no scar tissue is formed. 🔗 go.mbl.edu/jellyfish

📢 APPLICATIONS OPEN! Applications are open for the MBL’s Semester in Biological Discovery, a spring semester or quarter program that provides an immersive research experience in discovery-driven biological sciences modeled on the MBL’s world-renowned ARTCs. 🔗 mbl.edu/sbd

Semester in Biological Discovery (SBD) | Marine Biological Laboratory

The MBL's Semester in Biological Discovery (SBD) is a 12-week program that provides an immersive research experience in discovery-driven biological sciences modeled on the MBL's world-renowned Advanced Research Training Courses. The SBD program is also ...

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Hit the Networking Jackpot Heading to the Society for Developmental Biology Annual Meeting? Don't miss the MBL Alumni Association Reception! Join us on Friday, July 24, from 8:30–9:30 pm at The Chandelier at The Cosmopolitan. Poster Art by MBL Director Nipam Patel.

Join us on July 10 for a lecture by Mark Barrow, exploring the cultural responses to Rachel Carson’s "Silent Spring" that generated a firestorm of controversy and helped catalyze the modern environmental movement. 🔗 More info here: go.mbl.edu/fel

DEADLINE APPROACHING! ⏰ Apply to Comparative Developmental Biology by July 28. This intensive two-week laboratory course is designed for graduate students in their second or later year of Ph.D studies and post-docs. 🔗 More info here: go.mbl.edu/CDB

Congrats to the 2026 rat somatosensory team 🐀🧠 Adam, Jasmine, Pam, Sandra, Simone and Tom on their groundbreaking teamwork @nsb-mbl.bsky.social Thx to 🪰🐟 modules, staff, directors for amazing support in making this year another fun-filled, enriching scientific experience 💫 @mblscience.bsky.social