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A Microdiversity for Each Season: Team Reveals Subtle Shifts in Salt Marsh Bacteria

A Microdiversity for Each Season: Team Reveals Subtle Shifts in Salt Marsh Bacteria

By David Holzman

A new study reveals how subtypes of an abundant marine microbe, Synechococcus, shift through time and changing seasons in Falmouth’s Little Sippewissett salt marsh.

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Summer Undergraduates at MBL Inspire a Variety of Research Topics

Summer Undergraduates at MBL Inspire a Variety of Research Topics

By Emily Zollo

As the summer spills into fall, nearly 60 undergraduates who spent the summer at MBL are returning home to more than 25 institutions around the nation, having found many opportunities to learn from the scientific talent and generous biodiversity of the Woods Hole ecosystem.

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Forgot Your Eclipse Glasses? At the MBL, Many Ways to View the Sun Were On Hand

Forgot Your Eclipse Glasses? At the MBL, Many Ways to View the Sun Were On Hand

By Diana Kenney

A crowd of scientists, students, and staff gathered on the MBL Quad today to view the solar eclipse, bringing an array of home-made, found, or bought viewing devices!

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How Curious is That Octopus? MBL Project Documents Lives, Behaviors of Cephalopods

How Curious is That Octopus? MBL Project Documents Lives, Behaviors of Cephalopods

By Jennifer Tsang

Eric Edsinger needed 21 security cameras, not for a super top-secret project, but to get a glimpse into the lives of octopuses.

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Woods Hole Sleuthing Leads to Unusual Bacterium – and Propels a Career in Science

Woods Hole Sleuthing Leads to Unusual Bacterium – and Propels a Career in Science

By Jennifer Tsang

When Dianne Newman was a teaching assistant for the MBL Microbial Diversity course in 1998, little did she know the experience would launch her into several years’ worth of scientific inquiry.

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Three Weeks by the Sea | UChicago College Admissions Blog

Three Weeks by the Sea | UChicago College Admissions Blog

October 17, 2017

Michael Rosbash, Former Embryology Course Faculty, Receives Nobel Prize
October 2, 2017
Microbial Physiology and Diversity: What’s Old is New | Small Things Considered
August 27, 2017
The Inner Ear in Living Color | @m_scheibinger
August 27, 2017

How this Beautiful, Invasive Jellyfish Adapts to Dominate Foreign Ecosystems | Massive

How this Beautiful, Invasive Jellyfish Adapts to Dominate Foreign Ecosystems | Massive

October 6, 2017

Microbial Diversity Web Service “VAMPS” at MBL Receives Sustaining Support
August 30, 2017
Grant will Expand MBL Study of Neural Defects in Parkinson’s, Other Diseases
August 30, 2017
Collaborators to Investigate Structure of Microbial Food Webs
August 28, 2017

Q & A with Neuroethologist Melissa Coleman | Current Biology

Q & A with Neuroethologist Melissa Coleman | Current Biology

October 11, 2017

Falmouth Teacher to Bring Arctic Science to Class after Embedding with MBL Ecologists
August 22, 2017
MBL Microscopy Innovator Joins Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
August 3, 2017
Catching Up with the Library’s Catherine N. Norton Fellows | BHL
July 27, 2017