Names marked by an asterisk (*) were New Investigator Awardees. Seasonal investigators are included at the bottom of this list. This list is also available for download.

David Barnes, Ph.D., Senior Investigator; Associate Director, Center for Marine Functional Genomic Studies; Director, Marine Cell Lines & Stem Cell Program, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory

Derivation of continuous marine cell lines for model systems in toxicology and cell biology

James Coffman, Ph.D., Investigator, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory

Cell fate specification in the sea urchin embryo

George W. Kidder, III, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Illinois State University; Principal
Investigator, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory

Osmoregulation in Fundulus heteroclitus and related species

Carolyn Mattingly, Ph.D., Director, Bioinformatics Program, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory

Comparative Toxicogenomics Database

Antonio Planchart, Ph.D., Investigator, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory;
Faculty Member, College of the Atlantic

• Comparative functional genomics with special emphasis on spermatogenesis
• Computational and biochemical analysis of potential gene regulatory elements

Denry Sato, Ph.D., Investigator and Associate Director of the Marine Cell Line and Stem Cell Program, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory

• Angiogenic growth factor signaling pathways
• Structure and function of polypeptide growth factor receptor genes in marine organisms

David W. Towle, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory;
Director, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory Marine DNA Sequencing and Analysis Center

• Regulation of transporter and heat shock gene expression in marine invertebrates
• Production of expressed sequence tags and microarrays for experimental marine organisms

SEASONAL RESEARCH AT MDIBL during 2006

*William Aird, M.D.  Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Dissecting endothelial phenotypes in hagfish           

*David J. Anschel, M.D.  Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University; Long Island
Comprehensive Epilepsy Center

Abalone settlement bioassay for anti-epileptic substance screening

Ned Ballatori, Ph.D., Professor of Toxicology, Department of Environmental Medicine, 
 University of Rochester School of Medicine

Membrane transport of xenobiotics

Christopher J. Bayne, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Department of Zoology, Oregon State University at Corvallis

• Characterization of the transcriptome of a dogfish embryo-derived cell line
• Conditions for the harvest and passage of sea urchin cells in vitro

*Barbara S. Beltz, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Wellesley College

Neurogenesis and apoptosis in the crustacean brain: You are what you eat!

Edward J. Benz, Jr., M.D., President/Professor, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

• Genes encoding Na, KATP’ase in Squalus acanthias
• The protein 4.1 gene family in the dogfish shark

Nancy Berliner, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine/Hematology Section, Yale University School of Medicine

• Genes encoding Na, KATP’ase in Squalus acanthias
• The protein 4.1 gene family in the dogfish shark

James L. Boyer, M.D., Ensign Professor of Medicine; Director, Liver Center, Yale University School of Medicine

• Membrane transport of xenobiotics
• Comparative studies of nuclear receptors

*Paul J. Bushmann, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Anne Arundel
Community College

Consumption of Eelgrass Zostera marina by the American Lobster Homarus americanus: Implications for Seagrass Antibacterial Compounds

*Shi-Ying Cai, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist, Yale University School of Medicine

Bile salts modulate lipid metabolism in Leucoraja erinacea, the little skate

Celia Y. Chen, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Dartmouth
College

Biological processes affecting bioaccumulation, transfer, and toxicity of metal
contaminants in estuarine sediments

*Andrew E. Christie, Ph.D., Research Scientist and Lecturer, Department of Biology, University of Washington

Behavioral Control in Decapod Crustaceans:

• Elucidation of the Molecular and Cellular Components of Circadian-Circatidal Clocks
• Identification and Characterization of Novel Peptide Hormones

James B. Claiborne, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University

Molecular basis for acid-base and ion transport in fishes

Lars Cleemann, Ph.D., Associate professor of Pharmacology, Department of Physiology,
Georgetown University

Molecular mechanism of “bimodal” regulation of shark cardiac sodium calcium
Exchanger

*Clare Bates Congdon, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Colby College

Machine learning and bioinformatics in collaboration with researchers at MDIBL

Gary W. Conrad, Ph.D., University Distinguished Professor, Division of Biology, Kansas
State University

Molecular comparisons of sutural fiber formation mechanisms in avian and elasmobranch embryos

Elizabeth L. Crockett, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Ohio University

• Sterol limitation of zooplankton growth:  roles in nutrition and membrane biology
• Effects of acclimation temperature on membrane susceptibility to lipid peroxidation: biophysical and functional consequences

*Christopher P. Cutler, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University

Evolutionary and comparative analysis of aquaporin water channel genes in fish

*Susan L. Edwards, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Physiology/Pharmacology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Molecular Sciences, James Cook University, Australia

Functional genomics of acid/base relevant ion transporters in the branchial epithelium of agnathans

Franklin H. Epstein, M.D., William Applebaum Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Harvard Medical School

PKC and the regulation of chloride transport

Jonathan A. Epstein, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Medical Center

Zebrafish neural crest and cardiovascular development

David H. Evans, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Zoology, University of Florida

Paracrine control of fish gill function

Susan K. Fellner, M.D., Professor, Cell and Molecular Physiology, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Calcium signaling in vascular smooth muscle

Biff Forbush, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale
University School of Medicine

• Regulation of the Na-K-Cl cotransporter in the rectal gland of dogfish shark
• NKCC isoforms in killifish; distribution, function, and regulation

John N. Forrest, Jr., M.D., Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Yale University School of Medicine          

• Biology of membrane proteins regulating ion transport in the shark rectal gland
• Signal transduction pathways regulating shark CFTR chloride channels
• Toxicity of heavy metals in the shark rectal gland

*Gert Fricker, Ph.D., Professor, University of Heidelberg

Organic anion transport in kidney tubules, brain capillaries, and choroid plexus

*H. Rex Gaskins, Ph.D., Professor of Immunobiology, Departments of Animal Sciences & Veterinary Pathobiology, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign

Development of Ciona intestinalis as a model for comparative toxicogenomics

*Griselda Genovese, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. Biodiversidad y Biologia Experimental Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Vitellogenin and Vitelline envelope proteins induction in Cichlasoma dimerus (Teleostei, Perciformes) exposed to waterborne octylphenol

*Wolfram Goessling, M.D., Ph.D., Instructor in Medicine, HHMI Children’s Hospital, Boston

The role of wnt signaling in zebrafish stem cell development

Leon Goldstein, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Molecular Pharmacology,  Physiology and Biotechnology, Brown University

Regulation of the osmolyte channels in skate RBC

Hermann Haller, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Dept. of Nephrology, Hannover Medical
School, Germany

Molecular mechanisms of renal tissue regeneration in the spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias) and the little skate (Leucoraja erinacea)

Daniel K. Hartline, Ph.D.,  Research Professor/Director, Bekesy Laboratory of Neurobiology, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Behavioral and neural mechanisms for predator evasion in crustacean zooplankton (w/P. Lenz)

R. Patrick Hassett, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Ohio
University

• Sterol limitation of zooplankton growth: roles in nutrition and membrane biology
• Effects of acclimation temperature on membrane susceptibility to lipid peroxidation: biophysical and functional consequences

Raymond P. Henry, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University

Neuroendocrine control of carbonic anhydrase gene expression in the gills of the
euryhaline green crab, Carcinus maenas

John H. Henson, Ph.D., Charles A. Dana Professor of Biology, Department of Biology,
Dickinson College

Mechanisms underlying motility and innate immune function in sea urchin coelomocytes

*Dirk M. Hentschel, M.D., Instructor, Harvard Institute of Medicine

Hypoxia in zebrafish and its effect on the pronephros

*Warren G. Hill, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of
Medicine, University of Pittsburgh

Expression and functional characterization of aquaporins from the eel, Anguilla anguilla

*Shawn E. Holt, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Department of Human Genetics; Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Massey Cancer Center, Medical Coll. of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University

Understanding the regulation of telomerase and telomere biogenesis in marine animals

Rolf K.H. Kinne, M.D., Ph.D.,  Director, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Molekulare Physiologie, Dortmund, Germany

• Osmoregulation in mammals
• Sodium-solute cotransporters

Thomas J. Koob, Ph.D., Section Chief, Skeletal Biology, Shriners Hospital for Children

• Formation and properties of elasmobranch egg capsules
• Biomimetic evolutionary analysis: the origin of vertebrae
• Structure, composition and function of the elasmobranch skeleton
• Biomaterials from sea cucumber collagen fibrils

Petra H. Lenz, Ph.D., Associate Research Professor, Bekesy Laboratory of Neurobiology, 
Pacific Biomedical Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Behavioral and neural mechanisms for predator evasion in crustacean zooplankton (w/D. Hartline)

*Cedomil Lucu, Professor, University of Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatia

Volume regulation and transport mechanisms of American lobster (Homarus americanus)
           
David S. Miller, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Pharmacology and Chemistry, NIH/NIEHS

Cellular and Molecular Biology of Xenobiotic Transport

Martin Morad, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Georgetown University

Bimodal regulation of cloned and native shark cardiac Na-Ca exchangers: molecular
determinants, cloning and comparison with frog and mammal

*Thomas Pannabecker, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Arizona

• Localization and Regulation of Urea Transport in the Kidney of the Dogfish Shark Squalus acanthius
• Localization and Physiology of Vacuolar H+-ATPase in Proximal Tubules of the Dogfish Shark Squalus acanthius

Robert L. Preston, Ph.D., Professor of Physiology, Department of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University

Osmoregulation and stress responses in the euryhaline fish, Fundulus heteroclitus

J. Larry Renfro, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of Connecticut

• Control of flounder renal tubule phosphate and sulfate transport
• Mechanism of sulfate transport by dogfish shark choroid plexus

*Alan C. Rigby, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
           
Marine Snail Conotoxins: Targeted Probes for Ion Channels

John R. Riordan, Ph.D., Professor, Biochemistry/Biophysics and Cystic Fibrosis Center,
School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

3D structure and key intermolecular interactions of CFTR in shark rectal gland

*David C. Sandeman, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Wellesley College

Adult neurogenesis in the crustacean brain: the effect of environment, locomotion, and toxins on the proliferation of neurons

*Mario Schiffer, M.D., Fellow, Internal Medicine; Nephrology/Researcher, Hannover Medical School

Knockdown of podocyte specific genes and analysis of glomerular filtration leakage in zebrafish (Danio rerio)

*Joseph R. Shaw, Ph.D., Research Associate, Department of Biology, Dartmouth College

The toxicity of arsenic and other metals to the euryhaline teleost, Fundulas heteroclitus: determining mechanisms of action and gene-expression profiling

Patricio Silva, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Section Nephrology, Temple University

PKC and the regulation of chloride transport

*Celine Spanings-Pierrot, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Universite Montpellier II

Transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation of ionic transporters and crustacean
hyperglycemic hormone in the shore crab Pachygrapsus marmoratus

Bruce A. Stanton, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physiology, Dartmouth Medical School

Arsenic regulation of ABC transporter expression and function

*Nora B. Terwilliger, Ph.D., Professor, Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, University of Oregon

HSP and HIF induction in response to salinity stress in the green crab, Carcinus maenas

*Monica Ryff Moreira Roca Vianna, Ph.D., Professor, Pontifical University of Rio Grande do Sul

Invertebrate myelin composition      

*Mary Voytek, Ph.D., Project Chief, United States Geological Survey

Environmental controls on bioavailability of mercury in estuarine systems: microbially
mediated methylation and demethylation

*Mary Kate Worden, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Virginia

The biogeography of Homarus americanus: physiological and biochemical factors that
determine thermal tolerance

Leonard I. Zon, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The zebrafish as a genetic model of definitive hematopoiesis and cell-cycle biology

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