DEADLINE APPROACHING! ⏰
Apply to Immunohistochemistry and Immunofluorescence (IHCIF) by June 16, 2026.
Financial aid is available.
🔗 More info here: go.mbl.edu/IHCIF
Your mouth is home to its own highly specialized microbial community.
New research suggests that these oral microbes may play an equally important role as the gut microbiome in maintaining health.
Read the full story here: go.mbl.edu/mouth-microbe
National Egg Day celebrates the humble breakfast egg. But at the Marine Biological Laboratory, we’re taking a different spin and highlighting the eggs that help scientists better understand life itself.
We are grateful to the Healey-Driscoll Administration and MassDEP for awarding MBL and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution nearly $500,000 to advance research on carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas flux in Massachusetts eelgrass meadows.
Happy #MicroscopyMonday!
This live image captures a larval sea anemone (Nematostella vectensis) that refracts light like a gemstone.
The vibrant, true-color image highlights the organism’s birefringence.
Imaged by @shribak.bsky.social) and @karenecheverri.bsky.social from the MBL’s Bell Center.
We’re grateful for Representative Thomas Moakley of Falmouth who successfully secured an amendment providing $200,000 for the Marine Biological Laboratory as part of the “Fair Share” amendment under the FY26 supplemental budget.
Read more about it here: go.mbl.edu/esv0te
🔬 For #MicroscopyMonday, a live Philodina roseola rotifer captured with Polychromatic Polarization Microscopy by Michael Shribak & Irina Arkhipova at @mblscience.bsky.social
PPM reveals fine anatomy in this tiny freshwater invertebrate.
#Microscopy #Bioimaging #NESM #Evident
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Summer at @mblscience.bsky.social 🌊 Stowers Fellow Nelson Hall and @stowersgrad.bsky.social student in the @planaria1.bsky.social Lab Dung Vuu are helping train the next generation of developmental biologists – from collecting specimens to exploring the earliest stages of life.
BOSTON, MA — Representative Thomas Moakley of Falmouth successfully secured an amendment providing $200,000 for the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole as part of H.5264, the FY26 supplem...
🍦Save the date!
Join the MBL Alumni Association for an Ice Cream Social on the Quad on Thursday, June 25 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Stop by for ice cream, conversation, and a chance to connect with fellow alumni. We hope to see you there!
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The 75th cohort of Grass Fellows arrived in Woods Hole this week to begin their residency in the Grass Laboratory.
More info here: go.mbl.edu/grass-75-years
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The 75th cohort of Grass Fellows arrived in Woods Hole this week to begin their residency in the Grass Laboratory. Since 1951, the Grass Fellowship Program has brought early-career investigators to the Grass Laboratory at the Marine Biological Laborator...