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).

YEAR-ROUND RESEARCH AT MDIBL

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 2008
Dates on site are tentative

William C. Aird, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Phylogeny of endothelium

Dates on site: August 1 – September 30

*Michele Anderson, Ph.D., Scientist/Assistant Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology/Immunology, 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 6 – September 5

*Sharon Ashworth, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology, School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine

Actin dynamics in the wildtype and cofilin mutant zebrafish nephrons

Dates on site: June 6 – July 31

Barbara S. Beltz, Ph.D., Professor of Neuroscience, Neuroscience Program, Wellesley College

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

Dates on site: June 16 – June 27

*Carolyn Bentivegna, Ph.D., Associate Professor/Chair of Biological Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Seton Hall University

Developing hemoglobin protein in chironomid as a biomarker of environmental quality

Dates on site: January 8 – August 29

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

James L. Boyer, M.D., Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine

Mechanisms for the hepatobiliary transport of manganese (Mn)

Dates on site: June 1 – July 31

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

Crustacean models of endocrine signaling

Dates on site: June 1 – September 30

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

Title: Physiology of acid-base and ammonia regulation in fishes

Dates on site: May 26 – July 31

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

Regulation of vertebrate cardiac Na+ - Ca2+ exchangers by cAMP

Dates on site: July 1 – August 30

*Clare B. Congdon, Ph.D., Assistant Research Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Southern Maine

Machine learning for bioinformatics

Dates on site: June 9 – July 31

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

Effect of red-tides on resistant and sensitive populations of softshell clam, Mya arenaria

Dates on site: May 25 – June 8

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

Characterizing gene expression, inducing sutural fiber formation, and crosslinking the extracellular matrix of the cornea

Dates on site: May 21 – July 31

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

Quantification of GPx4 in tissues from vertebrates

Dates on site: June 5 – July 31

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

Role of aquaporins in the shark Squalus acanthias

Dates on site: June 1 – July 22

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

*Hugo de Jonge, Ph.D., Professor, Biochemistry Department, Erasmus University Medical Center

CNP/cyclic GMP regulation of CFTR-mediated chloride secretion in the shark rectal gland

Dates on site: July 16 – August 27

*Susan Edwards, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Appalachian State University

Osmoregulation in primitive fishes: characterization of osmoregulatory mechanisms in the anadromous sea lamprey Petromyzon marinus

Dates on site: May 30 – July 31

Franklin H. Epstein, M.D., Professor, Department of Medicine, BIDMC Harvard Medicine

Second messengers in perfused shark rectal glands

Dates on site: June 22 – September 12

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

Paracrine control of fish gill function

Dates on site: June 9 – October 31

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

Ca2+ signaling in vascular smooth muscle

Dates on site: June 1 – September 30

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

Regulation of NKCC2 in killifish gut

Dates on site: August 1 – September 30

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

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

Dates on site: June 1 – September 30

Gert Fricker, Ph.D., Professor, Institute of Pharmacology and Molecular Biotechnology, University of Heidelberg

Organic anion transport across epithelial tissues

Dates on site: August 1 – September 9

Leon Goldstein, Ph.D., Professor, Graduate Program in Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, Brown University

Regulation of osmolyte channels in skate red blood cells

Dates on site: July 1 – August 25

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

Mechanisms of proteinuria – molecular structure and function of the glomerular barrier

Dates on site: TBD

*Amro Hamdoun, Ph.D.,  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University

Title: TBA

Dates on site: July 17 – August 18

Raymond 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 6 – July 31

*Stephen Kajiura, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University

Assessments on the dogfish sensory system and its role in the effectiveness of electro- and chemical repellents for reducing dogfish bycatch in commercial and recreational fisheries.

Dates on site: August 11 – August 31

*Christopher Lage, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology, College of Natural and Social Sciences, University of Maine at Augusta

Population genetics of spiny dogfish in the Gulf of Maine

Dates on site: July 1 – July 31

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

Comparison of mucosal epithelial cells from Atlantic salmon and lobsters for their ability to support attachment and adhesion of Neoparamoeba pemaquidensis in vitro

Dates on site: August 1 – September 30

Petra H. Lenz, Ph.D., Associate Researcher, Pacific Biosciences Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Behavioral and neural mechanisms for predator evasion in crustacean zooplankton

Dates on site: June 6 – July 31

*Cedomil Lucu, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Aquaculture, University of Dubrovnik

Transport mechanisms and role of Cl channel in epipodite of American lobster Homarus gammarus

Dates on site: June 12 – July 12

*Heimo Mairbaurl, Ph.D., Professor, Medical Clinic VII/Sports Medicine, University of Heidelberg

Hormonal stimulation of shark rectal gland secretion in hypoxia

Dates on site: August 1 – September 7

*Rebeka Merson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Rhode Island College

Diversity of aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) family in elasmobranches

Dates on site: June 26 – July 31

David S. Miller, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Pharmocology, NIH/NIEHS

The cellular and molecular biology of xenobiotic transport

Dates on site: June 1 – September 30

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

Bimodal regulation of cloned and native shark cardiac Na+-Ca2+ exchangers: molecular determinants, cloning and comparison with frog and mammal

Dates on site: July 1 – August 30

*David Petzel, Ph.D., Professor, Biomedical Sciences Department, Creighton University School of Medicine

Water flux in the isolated gill of the eurythermal and euryhaline killifish

Dates on site: August 1 – September 30

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

Mechanisms of desiccation resistance in aerially incubated killifish embryos

Dates on site: May 24 – July 31

*Jonathan Rast, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Medical Biophysics/Immunology Department, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto

Analysis of the immune gene repertoire expressed by the larvae of the purple sea urchin and common sand dollar.

Dates on site: August 6 – September 5

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 8 – July 20

Jack R. Riordan, Ph.D., Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics and Cystic Fibrosis Center, UNC at Chapel Hill

Shark CFTR

Dates on site: August 1 – September 30

*Mario Schiffer, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine/Nephrology, Hannover Medical School

In vivo imaging of podocyte apoptosis in larval zebrafish and the balance of CD2AP/Cin85

Dates on site: July 7 – August 16

Joseph R. Shaw, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University

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

Dates of site: June 15 – July 31

*Larissa Shimoda, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine/Pulmonary, Johns Hopkins University

Hypoxia-induced Ca2+ responses in elasmobranch vessels

Dates on site: August 1 – September 8

Patricio Silva, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Temple University

The regulation of phosphate in elasmobranches

Dates on site: June 15 – August 29

Bruce A. Stanton, Ph.D., Professor and Director of the Lung Biology Center, Dartmouth Medical School

Arsenic regulation of CFTR expression and function

Dates on site: June 1 – September 30

*Erik Swenson, M.D., Professor, Department of Medicine and Physiology, University of Washington

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation in hypoxic vascular regulation in sharks

Dates on site: August 1 – September 7

*Nicole Theodosiou, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, Union College

Functional analysis of Hoxd13 during Leucoraja erinacea midgut and hindgut development

Dates on site: July 1 – July 31

*Ione Hunt von Herbing, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Biological Sciences Department, University of North Texas

Effects of hemoglobin polymerization on metabolism in fishes

Dates on site: June 14 – July 31

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

Comparative physiology of decapod crustacea: physiological responses to changes in temperature and salinity.

Dates on site: June 9 – July 31

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