By Sarah Lawhun
MBL Whitman Fellow Rafael Yuste of Columbia University and his Hydra Lab are mapping the nervous system of a small, freshwater organism to create a predictive model of its behavior.
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By Hannah Knighton
Capt. Bill Klimm is exactly the kind of guy you’d think of when you hear the word “fisherman,” with his dark blue jeans, plain grey shirt, and a ball cap shading his slightly sunburned face. His eyes are a startling shade of blue, so vivid it was like all the time he spent on the ocean suspended the colors within him
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By Sarah Lawhun
2018 Whitman Center Fellow Janet Sheung used her understanding of biophysics to address how Stentor, a giant, unicellular organism, can regenerate from just a tiny fragment of its cell.
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By Diana Kenney
An odd-looking relative of the shark, the little skate, is emerging as an important genetic system for illuminating the evolution and development of vertebrates, including us.
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By Sarah Lawhun
Karen Crawford, a 2018 Whitman Fellow from St. Mary’s College of Maryland, studies the Hawaiian bobtail squid and the striped pyjama squid, defining methods for editing cephalopod embryos and gaining understanding of cephalopod development, genetics, and evolution.
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