The Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory is an independent, nonprofit, marine research institution founded in 1898. The Laboratory is located in the village of Salisbury Cove, Maine, a small community wrapped around sheltered coves and wooded peninsulas on the northern edge of Mount Desert Island.

Year round and seasonal research is conducted at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL) in the areas of marine biomedicine and physiology, marine molecular biology and functional genomics, bioinformatics, environmental toxicology and toxicogenomics, transgenic species, and neuroscience.

Hands-on educational programs provide research experience and training to scientists at all levels, from high school to senior investigators. The Maine IDeA Network for Biomedical Research--a research and education network linking MDIBL, Bates College, Bowdoin College, Colby College, College of the Atlantic, The Jackson Laboratory, The University of Maine, The University of Maine-Machias, and The University of Maine-Farmington--is based at MDIBL.

MDIBL employs 37 scientists and staff year-round and has a vibrant summer community of scientists and students that can reach 200. Students and scientists live and work on campus. Eleven small laboratories perch over the water, and 28 cottages and dormitories are situated in the woods and around the coves that surround Laboratory Point. The social center of campus is the COOP, where everyone gathers for lunch and where students relax at the end of the day. Courses and conferences are held in Maren Auditorium and Dahlgren Hall--a new auditorium and restored historic schoolhouse paradoxically linked to form one conference center.

For more information about the Laboratory, please explore our website or contact our Office of Development and Public Affairs.