Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience - University of Florida

THE WHITNEY LABORATORY
for MARINE BIOSCIENCE

Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience is a full-time University of Florida research center for biomedical research and biotechnology located in St. Augustine, Florida. Founded in 1974, the Whitney Lab is dedicated to using marine model animals for studying fundamental problems in biology and applying that knowledge to issues of human health, natural resources, and the environment. Researchers at the lab are on the front lines of a variety of scientific areas including biodiversity, ocean health, marine chemistry, neuroscience, sensory biology, evolutionary genomics, embryology, and cell regeneration – working to Go Greater for all of us.

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Whitney Laboratory's 50th Anniversary Soiree - April 12

Celebrating Five Decades of Discovery! Join us for an evening of heavy hors d’oeuvres, music and a marine focused silent auction.

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Celebrating 50 Years!

Five Decade of Discovery at Whitney Laboratory

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Join us for Whitney Laboratory's 50th Anniversary Soiree April 12!

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Join us for an evening of heavy hors d’oeuvres, music and a marine focused silent auction. Read More


Ten questions to guide behavioral experiments

Date with a Fly credit: Julia Schlee, MPINB

The 10-step “guideline”, entertainingly written and published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, encourages researchers to (re-)engage with their animals’ ecology and lifestyle. Read More


Women's History Month - Margaret James, Ph.D.

Margaret James

Whitney Laboratory celebrates Women's History Month - Join us throughout March as we celebrate women who have helped shape the Whitney Laboratory to what it is today! As one of the lab’s first female faculty members, Dr. James helped expand its range of research. Read More


Registration Open for 2024 Summer Camps

Girl holding dna made from candy

Registration is now open for the 2024 Whitney Laboratory Science Summer Day Camps and Sea Turtle Summer Camp! Read More


Ctenophores deploy a rapid injury response dating back to the last common animal ancestor

Two juvenile ctenophores of the species Mnemiopsis leidyi

Congratulations to Whitney researchers Dorothy Mitchell, Dr. Allison Edgar, Julia Ramon Mateu, Dr. Joseph Ryan and Dr. Mark Martindale who published a paper titled "The ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi deploys a rapid injury response dating back to the last common animal ancestor" in Communications Biology. Read More


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