Names marked by an asterisk (*) are New Investigator Awardees. Seasonal investigators are included after the year-round investigators. This list is also available for download (pdf).

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

Cell and Molecular Biology of Marine Elasmobranchs

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

1. Comparative functional genomics with special emphasis on spermatogenesis
2. 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

1. Angiogenic growth factor signaling pathways
2. 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

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

SEASONAL RESEARCH AT MDIBL during 2007
Dates on site are tentative

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

Hagfish endothelial phenotypes           

Dates on site: June 9 – September 30

*Michele K. Anderson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto

Evolutionary innovations in immunity: the role of the elasmobranch Leydig organ in blood cell development and function

Dates on site: August 2 – August 31

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

Membrane Transport of Xenobiotics

Dates on site: June 25 – August 4

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

Marine model for studies of drug transport mechanisms: induction of gene transcription in cells of Strongylocentrotus purpuratus exposed to xenobiotics in vitro.

Dates on site: August 9 – September 20

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

Hepcidin expression and function in marine organisms

Dates on site: July 2 – September 1

*Nancy Berliner, M.D., Chief, Division of Hematology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Hepcidin expression and function in marine organisms

Dates on site: August 2 – August 30

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

Membrane Transport of Xenobiotics

Dates on site: June 20 – October 8

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

Control of external bacteria in the American Lobster, Homarus americanus, through Eelgrass, Zostera marina, consumption.

Dates on site: July 2 – August 17

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

Dates on site: August 12 – August 18

*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

Dates on site: May 25 – September 30

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

Molecular basis for acid-base and ion transport in fishes

Dates on site: May 26 – August 1

*Glen E. Collier, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biological Science, The University of Tulsa

Gene organization of crustacean arginine kinase

Dates on Site: August 2 – September 30

*Clare Bates Congdon, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Department of Computer Science, Colby College

Machine learning and bioinformatics
           
Dates on site: June 1 – June 30

*Laurie Connell, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, School of Marine Sciences, The University of Maine

Determination of a naturally occurring sodium channel gene mutation in eastern Maine populations of softshell clam, Mya arenaria

Dates on site: June 11 – July 29

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

Immobilizing corneal LASIK flap with elasmobranch sutural fibers and mussel byssel proteins

Dates on site: May 25 – July 31

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

Lipid peroxidation and oxidant activity in cold- and warm-acclimated teleost fish

Dates on site: June 5 – July 31

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

Evolutionary and comparative analysis of aquaporin water channel genes in fish

Dates on site: June 10 – July 31

Douglas DeSimone, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell Biology, University of Virginia School of Medicine

Functional conservation of ADAM family membrane metalloproteases in cranial neural crest cell induction, specification and migration

Dates on site: June 7 - July 31

Jane Disney, Ph.D., Director, Mount Desert Island Water Quality Coalition

CMTS Community Environmental Health Laboratory – toxic phytoplankton monitoring program; Eelgrass restoration in Frenchman Bay

Dates on site: June 1 – September 30

*Susan L. Edwards, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University

Characterizing the NHE2b subunit of the transmembrane protein NHE2 in the gills of the euryhaline mummichog

Dates on site: June 1 – July 29

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

Dates on site: June 30 – August 31

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

Paracrine control of fish gill function

Dates on site: June 9 – November 1

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

Calcium signaling in vascular smooth muscle

Dates on site: June 2 – September 5

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

• Regulation of NKCC2 in killifish gut
• Regulation of NKCC1 in the rectal gland of dogfish shark

Dates on site: August 2 – September 30

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

Dates on site: June 1 – September 30

Raymond A. Frizzell, Ph.D., Professor and Chairman, Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh

• Role of SGK and Nedd4-2 in regulation of salt adaptation in teleosts (collaboration with B. Stanton and D. Sato)
• Analysis of chloride secretion in SRG cultures (collaboration with J. Forrest)

Dates on site: June 1 – July 31

H. Rex Gaskins, Ph.D., Professor, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana

Development of Ciona intestinalis as a model for comparative toxicogenomics

Dates on site: July 14 – July 31

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

Regulation in the expression of estrogen receptor(s) in Cichlasoma dimerus (Teleostei, Perciformes) by octylphenol

Dates on site: July 15 – August 31

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

Modeling liver toxicity an dregeneration in zebrafish (Danio rerio): The role of wnt/ß-catenin signaling in regeneration after chemical liver injury

Dates on site: August 9 – September 3

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

Regulation of osmolyte channels in skate red blood cells

Dates on site: June 25 – August 25

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)

Dates on site: June 1 – July 31

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

Lipid peroxidation and oxidant activity in cold- and warm-acclimated teleost fish

Dates on site: June 5 – July 31

*Clarissa A. Henry, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, The
University of Maine

Cell and molecular biology of segmentation and muscle development in Zebrafish

Dates on site: August 2 – August 31

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

Neuroendocrine control of environmentally mediated induction of carbonic anhydrase in the gills of Carcinus maenas

Dates on site: June 1 – August 3

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

• Cytoskeletal mechanisms underlying retrograde flow in sea urchin coelomocytes
• In vitro morphogenesis of cultured skate hepatocytes.

Dates on site: June 9 – July 31

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

Anatomy of the renal vasculature in larval and adult zebrafish

Dates on site: August 1 – September 23

Shawn E. Holt, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Massey Cancer Center, Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University

Aquatic animals as models for understanding the mechanisms of tissue regeneration

Dates on site: August 2 – August 31

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

• Osmoregulation in mammals
• Sodium-solute cotransporters

Dates on site: June 15 – July 31

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

Dates on site: September 3 – October 31

*Lucy Lee, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biology, Wilfred Laurier University

Development and use of fish and shellfish cell cultures for the growth and characterization of Neoparamoeba pemaquidensis

Dates on site: July 1 – August 31

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)

Dates on site: June 1 – July 31

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

Transport mechanisms and role of apically located Cl- channel in the epipodite preparation of  the American lobster, Homarus americanus
           
Dates on site: June 1 – July 14

David S. Miller, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Pharmacology and Chemistry, NIH/NIEHS

Cellular and Molecular Biology of Xenobiotic Transport

Dates on site: July 1 – September 7

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

Dates on site: May 24 – July 31

*Jonathan P. Rast, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto

Analysis of the immune gene repertoire expressed by sea urchin larva

Dates on site: August 2 – August 31

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

Control of flounder renal tubule phosphate and sulfate transport

Dates on site: June 15 – July 31

*Alan C. Rigby, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
           
Marine snail conotoxins: targeted probes for ion channels

Dates on site: August 2 – September 24

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

Dates on site: August 2 – August 31

*Brian Silliman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Florida

Density-dependent and species-specific consumer control of community states on gulf of Maine rocky shores

Dates on site: August 10 – August 18

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

The regulation of phosphate in elasmobranches

Dates on site: June 15 – August 29

Joseph R. Shaw, Ph.D., Research Associate, Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College

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

Dates on site: June 1 - June 30

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

Arsenic regulation of ABC transporter expression and function

Dates on site: June 1 – July 31

*Erik Swenson, M.D., Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington

Hemoglobin-Nitric Oxide Interactions in Teleost and Elasmobranch Blood and their Role in Vascular Regulation

Dates on site: July 1 – July 31

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

HIF and HSP induction in response to salinity stress in the blue crab Callinectes sapidus
using RNAi and realtime PCR

Dates on site: June 11 – July 31

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

Invertebrate myelin composition

Dates on site: July 2 – July 27           

*Ione Hunt von Herbing, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Marine Sciences, The University of Maine

The physiology of detection and response to environmental change in the
developing marine fishes

Dates on site: June 1 – August 4

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

The physiological responses of decapod crustaceans to thermal change: the
comparative physiology of acid-base balance in lobsters and crabs

Dates on site: June 18 – August 4

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