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The Whitney Laboratory for the Marine Bioscience is a research institute of the University of Florida. The Lab's mission is to use marine organisms in basic biological research; to apply where possible, the novel results of this research to problems of human health, natural resources and the environment; to train future experimental biologists; and to contribute to public education and to the formulation of policy in basic research and marine science.
The staff of the Laboratory comprises faculty, associates, students and visiting scientists. They carry out research programs in a variety of areas including the physiology and biochemistry of vision and olfaction; neurotransmitter physiology, pharmacology and evolution; the structure, function and evolution of ion channels; motor pattern generation; membrane transport systems; and gene regulation.
The Whitney Laboratory is located on a narrow barrier island; it is close to the Atlantic Ocean, the Matanzas Inlet, the Intracostal Waterway and associated streams and creeks and miles of productive marshlands.
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