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The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is an international center for research & education in biology & ecology in Woods Hole, MA. An affiliate of @UChicago .

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Have you always wanted to take an MBL summer course? Or are you one of our alums? Since we can't bring students to Woods Hole this year, we're bringing the MBL to you with MBL Virtual Programming of our most popular classes!
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Psssst.... We got the stuff.
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IMGOING TO SCREAM OHJYGOD 😭😭😭😭😭😭 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭👼👼👼👼👼👼
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Not trying to sway you one way or the other, of course. Just dropping this picture of the smallest Hummingbird Bobtail Squid next to a paperclip... Photo credit: Tim Briggs
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Which Symbiotic superstar deserves a spot in the #MBLMarchMadness Semi-Finals?
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A friendly grammar lesson from the MBL: 🐟 fish 🐟 🐟 🐟 fish 🐟 🐡 🐠 fishes
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It's #MicroscopyMonday , so let's take a a peek into the microscope. This This is a squid hatching (Doryteuthis pealeii) observed through a polychromatic polscope, where ordered structures such as muscle are colored. Credit: Elizabeth Lee, UChicago
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#MicroscopyMonday 🔬! This butterfly ovarian follicle was imaged using a @zeiss_micro LSM 880 microscope. Maximum intensity projection through a confocal z-series. Cyan - Nuclei, Magenta - Actin. Credit: Davis Laundon, MBL Physiology 2019
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#MicroscopyMonday 🔬 — A 3D reconstruction of a cleared mouse embryo labeled for neurons (magenta) and muscles (cyan). This type of imaging lets researchers can image deep into biological tissue to study neuronal morphology in an intact animal or embryo. Credit: G Carrillo
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It's #MicroscopyMonday ! These images of juvenile squid were taken at the MBL Embryology Course by Wang Chi.
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Take a dive under the 🔬 for Microscopy Monday w/ this 10-hr time lapse of Ciona embryos from neurula stage to hatching. Credit: MBL Director Nipam Patel ( @Parflyale ), Bob Zeller ( @SDSU ). Shot during the MBL 2019 Embryology Course on a @zeiss_micro LSM 880.
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It's #MicroscopyMonday , so let's take a dive under the 🔬 ! Check out these Horseshoe crab embryos (Limulus polyphemus) imaged during the MBL's 2022 Embryology Course. Credit: Ivan Ferriera ( @ivanferrreira )
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We are pleased to announce the 2022 Schedule! Apply for one of MBL’s popular Advanced Research Training Courses today. Learn more:
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We are pleased to announce the 2023 Schedule! Apply for one of MBL’s popular Advanced Research Training Courses today. Learn more:
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It's #MicroscopyMonday so let's take a peek into the microscope to check out the long-fin squid (Doryteuthis pealeii) embryos. Credit: Carrie Albertin
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We're excited to announce that the applications for the 2024 Advanced Research Training Courses at the MBL are OPEN! Deepen your horizons. Deepen your understanding. Go deep at the MBL.
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Nipam Patel of University of California, Berkeley, has been appointed Director of the Marine Biological Laboratory, effective Sept. 4. Welcome, Dr. Patel!
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Today, October 8, is #WorldOctopusDay , and the start of International #Cephalopod Awareness Days! 🐙 The MBL has two octopus species on campus— the California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides) and the lesser Pacific striped octopus (Octopus chierchiae).
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Welcome to 2024—It's the first #MicroscopyMonday of the #NewYear ! Let's take a peek into the 🔬 with this amazing image of a snail embryo (Crepidula fornicata) taken during the 2023 Embryology Course at the MBL. Credit: Jake Leyhr
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Squid embryos (Loligo pealei) stained with the DNA dye, DAPI, which reveals all cells of the embryo. Credit: Andrew Gillis
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Hey @Twitter @verified , we're a #nonprofit that's been around since 1888, are affiliated with 60 Nobel prize scientists, and had a @NYTScience COVER STORY last month. Why do our #verification requests keep getting denied?
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It's #MicroscopyMonday , so let's take a peek into the microscope. This butterfly ovarian follicle was imaged using a Zeiss LSM 880 microscope. Maximum intensity projection through a confocal z-series. Cyan - Nuclei, Magenta - Actin. Credit: Davis Laundon, MBL Physiology 2019
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Today would have been the 100th birthday of Shinya Inoué, pioneering innovator in microscopy and live-cell imaging and beloved MBL scientist. 🔬 📸 by Tom Kleindinst
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We're happy to report that Nipam Patel ( @Parflyale ) has been reappointed director of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), @UChicago Provost Katherine Baicker announced today. Patel has served as MBL’s director since 2018.
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If it were a contest of which organism is cutest, we're still not sure who would win... Photos: Octopus, Credit: Tim Briggs; Axolotl, Credit: Christian Selden
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Shinya Inoué, pioneer of live-cell microscopy and digital microscopy, former Trustee and inspiring mentor at the MBL for decades, died peacefully on Monday.
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We've been saving this hummingbird bobtail squid picture for a special occasion. (Credit: Tim Briggs)
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The special cells that control color on cephalopods (like the Woods Hole squid in this video) are called "chromatophores." The chromatophores of cephalopods are neuromuscular organs rather than cells and are not controlled hormonally, which is how many other animals change color.
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It's #MicroscopyMonday , so let's take a dive under the 🔬 ! "Baby Squid" - A live baby squid in transmitted light under polychromatic polarization microscope. Credit: Michael Shribak - UChicago Science as Art 2022 Competition
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It's #MicroscopyMonday , so let's take a peek into the 🔬. This image of a veiled Chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) skeleton was taken during the Embryology course at the MBL. Alcian blue and alizarin red staining. Credit: Jake Hines and Nate Peters
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What's your new year's resolution? Here at the MBL, we resolve to axolotl questions. (Get it? "Ask a lot of" questions.) We also #resolve to work on our science puns in 2020.
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@dacolon Thank you for expressing this, @dacolon . Many people fail to see the connection between systemic inequalities and outright violence. It's a continuum that almost all women struggle with.
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An article in Science today on the origins of multicellularity features many images taken in MBL Embryology and the research of Nicole King, incoming MBL Physiology course co-director! #embryo2018 #physiology2018 @sciencemagazine @Choano_Lab
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It's International #PolychaeteDay ! #DYK that small marine animals with multiple propulsers—including polychaete worms—don’t push themselves forward when they swim, but instead create negative pressure behind them that pulls them through the water? 📸 : Sean Colin
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We're excited to announce that the MBL and @UChicago have partnered to develop a PhD Graduate Program that will allow students to join MBL faculty labs and carry out their thesis work here in Woods Hole! The deadline for all PhD programs is December 1.
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It's #MicroscopyMonday , so let's take a look into the 🔬! This colorful confocal image of squid embryo (Dorytheuthis pealei) was taken during a MBL Embryology Course. Credit: Juliana Roscito (University of Sao Paulo), 2012 Embryology Course
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The MBL mourns the passing of Osamu Shimomora, Distinguished Scientist Emeritus and 2008 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. Photo: Martin Chalfie
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A Halloween special for #MicroscopyMonday 🦇 🔬 🎃 — This image of a short-tailed fruit bat (Carollia perspicillata) at stage 20 was taken during the Embryology Advanced Research Training Course at the MBL. Credit: Mary Colasanto and Sophia Tintori
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First map of whole-body muscle activity in #Hydra brings team closer to cracking the neural code! @yusterafa @szyjohn
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The MBL is committed to expanding the range of organisms used as biological models and create the next generation of genetically tractable research organisms. The four contests in the #MBLMarchMadness New Research Organisms Division represent some of these biological models.
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An image from the MBL's Central Microscopy Facility won first place in a prestigious microscopy contest this year, while Michael Shribak, senior scientist in the MBL's Bell Center, received recognition in three imaging contents! (Image details in ALT txt).
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It's the last #MicroscopyMonday in #Squidtember , so let's dive under the 🔬! Check out this cluster of suckers at distal end of feeding tentacle in young longfin inshore squid (Doryteuthis pealeii)! Credit: Karen Crawford
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It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of Jianwu (Jim) Tang, a senior scientist in the Ecosystems Center, who died on January 4, 2023, in Shanghai, China after a long illness. He was 52. The MBL flag will be lowered in his memory.
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It's #CephalopodWeek , so every day this week, we're going to highlight one of the awesome cephalopod species at the MBL. Let's start small with the hummingbird bobtail squid (Euprymna berryi). Yes, that is a paperclip. Photo Credit: Tim Briggs (2019)
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This video—by @CarrieOcto —of a clutch of O. bimaculoides eggs, with baby octopuses wriggling inside the casings reached thousands of viewers and was the MBL’s most popular video of the year.
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We should have mentioned that these are FREE. Registration links will be updated this week.
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To help ease the burden on our furloughed colleagues MBL will offer USCG, NOAA and USGS employees free breakfast and lunch at Swope Dining Room (5 North St.,WH) through the duration of the government shutdown. Breakfast: 7:30-10:00; Lunch: 11:30 -1:30, M-F. Present government ID
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It's #MicroscopyMonday , so let's take a look under the 🔬. This 3D projection of an embryo of Doryteuthis pealeii squid was imaged during the 2023 Embryology Advanced Research Training Course at the MBL. More info in alt-text Credit: Martin Estermann ( @EstermannMartin )
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A honeycomb-like image of the marine diatom Trigonium, taken by MBL Senior Scientist Michael Shribak, has won First Place in the 2022 Photo Contest sponsored by Optics & Photonics News!
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There's just something about an autumn morning in Woods Hole. 🍂 Credit: Lisa Abbo
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Thank you to everyone who participated — this has been an #MBLMarchMadness to REMEMBER. We are proud to announce this year's winner, with more than 276,000 total votes — THE AXOLOTL IS CROWNED MBL GOAT (Greatest Organism of All Time)!
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It's #MicroscopyMonday , so let's take a look into the 🔬 with this @NikonSmallWorld image of an adult transgenic zebrafish head. Blood vessels (blue), lymphatic vessels (yellow), and the skin and scales (magenta). 4x magnification Credit: Daniel Castranova and Brant Weinstein
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A little slice of Woods Hole peace to start the new year.
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It's #MicroscopyMonday , so let's take a dive under the 🔬| This image of a live baby squid in transmitted light under polychromatic polarization microscope shows real colors, as it is seen by naked eye! Credit: Michael Shribak, MBL, in @UChicago 2022 "Science as Art" Competition
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No, those aren't #NewYearsEve fireworks! This confocal image of squid embryo (Loligo pealei) was taken during the 2012 MBL Embryology Course. 🔬 🦑
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Not Wordle, just the science happening at the MBL. ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ ⬜️🦑🐟🦐⬜️ ⬜️🦋🐙🐸⬜️ ⬜️🦠🔬🌎⬜️ ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️
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A huge thank you to all the vendors who loan microscopes and other scientific equipment to the MBL courses each year! You are major drivers in the research discovery and technological innovation dynamics at MBL.
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Feeling springy in Woods Hole today. 🌸
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It's #WorldOctopusDay ! Check out this amazing video captured by Caroline Albertin ( @CarrieOcto ) of California two-spot octopuses (Octopus bimaculoides) emerging from their egg casings.
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One of Science magazine's favorite photos of 2018 is this image of juvenile squid taken in the MBL Embryology course! Kudos to Wang Chi Lau and Nipam Patel @sciencemagazine #embryo2018
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#MicroscopyMonday Valentine's Day special — #DYK that octopuses like this Octopus bimaculoides embryo have three hearts? 💜 💜 💜 Credit: Martyna Lukoseviciute, University of Oxford and Carrie Albertin, MBL
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Students from MBL's popular Embryology course—established in 1893—are on campus right now for #Embryo21 ! Yesterday, MBL Director Nipam Patel ( @Parflyale ) led the arthropod module.
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Bobtail squid takes the lead in becoming the first cephalopod genetic model system! Congrats to MBL's Josh Rosenthal on his @NSF EDGE award - and to the other awardees in the MBL community.
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We are thrilled to announce that MBL Director Nipam Patel has been elected to @theNASciences in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research!
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By 106 votes, we are pleased to announce that the AXOLOTL (Ambystoma mexicanum) is our inaugural #MBLMarchMadness Champion!
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Ever wondered what cephalopod suckers look like under a microscope? Wonder no more.
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It's #MicroscopyMonday , so let's take a look into the 🔬! Mouse inner ear spiral ganglia culture. Image taken with Zeiss LSM710 in Biology of Inner Ear course 2017. Credit: Mirko Scheibinger during 2017 Biology of the Inner Ear Course
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🎶 There's no place like Woods Hole for the Holidays. 🌟 🎶 Photo: Scott Bennett
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A beautiful shot of Eel Pond early this morning. Credit: Louie Kerr
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It's #MicroscopyMonday , so let's take a peek into the 🔬. This is an image of a Drosophila larval body wall. Third instar larva body wall muscle with nervous system innervation. Credit: Pablo Guzman Palma
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Chromatophores in action!
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📢 It's time to apply for the 2024 Advanced Research Training Courses at the MBL! Join us in Woods Hole and expand your horizons, learn from the some of the top minds in your fields, and make connections that will last a lifetime. Course dates and info in the #thread below. 👇
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We got more where that come from. 😏 Photo: @timbriggsphoto
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It's #MicroscopyMonday , so take a dive under the 🔬 to gaze at this confocal image of a squid embryo. Nuclei are stained blue, neural structures are red and cilia on the surface of the embryo are stained green. Credit: Davalyn Powell/MBL Embryology Course
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Sometimes the MBL's Gemma collects more than it is looking for! This stingray came up in the net this week. It was released back to the water, healthy and big fins flapping. Video by Bill Grossman.
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It's #MicroscopyMonday , so lets take a journey under the 🔬 with this #timelapse of development of the annelid worm (Platynereis dumerilli). Credit: B. Duygu Özpolat. Imaged with @zeiss_micro LSM780 Confocal microscope, every 13 minutes.
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It's #DarwinDay ! Did you know that there's a SIGNED copy of "The Origin of Species" in the @MBLWHOILibrary ? Darwin forgot to sign the book when he gave it to MBL's first President Alphaeus Hyatt in 1873, so he mailed his signature to Hyatt, who pasted it inside front cover!
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A scene from the #Embryo22 lab space.
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The calm before the storm. Eel Pond looking beautiful at 6:15 this morning. Credit: Suzanne Livingston
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#ICYMI : A team of MBL researchers have genetically altered a squid for the first time in history, an important step in the study of cephalopods.
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Have you ever wondered what our MBL scientists are working on? Check out this #ScienceShort featuring MBL Associate Scientist Andrew Gillis ( @GillisLab )!
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It's #MicroscopyMonday , so let's take a look into the 🔬! Look at this little crab, the "Crab megalops". Credit: Chiara Sinigaglia (Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche sur Mer/ CNRS, France).
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Come join us at the MBL! Applications are open for our 2022 Advanced Research Training Courses. Click the links below to learn more. (Courses are listed chronologically by start date). 👇👇👇
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When we say that the pygmy zebra octopus (O. chierchiae) is the next biological model, we don't mean that it looks good in stripes—although it clearly does. So what DO we mean? (thread)
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It's #MicroscopyMonday 🔬! This amazing image shows the arms and beak of a baby hummingbird bobtail squid (Euprymna berryi). Blue: nuclei; green: GlcNAc. Image Credit: Ryan Null ( @RyannosaurusTex ) using Z stack max projection GIMP and FIJI on a @zeiss_micro LSM780
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Happy #MicroscopyMonday , to this bobtail squid (Eurprymna scolopes) imaged on a @LeicaMicro scope during #Embryo21 📸 Credit : Viraj Doddihal ( @VirajDoddihal ) Graduate School of Stowers Institute for Medical Research. Special thanks to Carrie Albertin and Karen Crawford.
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We know you're missing the MBL and Woods Hole, so if you want to be here *virtually* we put together some Zoom backgrounds of #WoodsHole spots for you 😉
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At the Marine Biological Laboratory, we believe that basic science leads the way to vital and exciting discoveries. 🔬🧬
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Scientists from the @ScienceStowers did what many scientists dream of: They found a way to stay in Woods Hole all year. The Kansas City-based institute established a year-round satellite lab at the MBL, available for up to 6-8 scientists at a time.
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A beautiful sunset in Woods Hole this evening! Image Credits: Diana Kenney and Carolyn Johnson
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It is with sadness that we share the sudden passing of one of our beloved colleagues, David Remsen, Director of Marine Research Services (MRC).
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First place in the Nikon Small World Contest goes to an MBL Embryology Course image! @NikonSmallWorld @zeiss_micro Credit: Teresa Zgoda and Teresa Kugler
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The little skate may look weird -- but it's growing into an important genetic system for illuminating vertebrate evolution @NeilShubin @tetsuyanakamu @jlgomska
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Did you know that in 1998, two toadfish from Woods Hole went into space with John Glenn to study the effects of microgravity on the vestibular system?
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Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)
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It's #MicroscopyMonday 🔬. This photo is of a late-stage caprellid embryo with HOX Antibody Stain. HOX genes Ultrabithorax (UBX) and Abdominal A (abd-A) in red and DAPI (Nuclei) in cyan. Credit: PhD candidate Jennifer McCarthy on a ZEISS LSM 880
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