The mission of Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park — to pursue collaborative solutions to critical environmental challenges through discovery and learning — will be the subject of a May 13 MDI Science Café at the MDI Biological Laboratory.
The MDI Biological Laboratory and the University of New England (UNE) are bringing Maine researchers together to discuss how they can collaborate to identify solutions to the opioid epidemic in Maine.
The science of hard cider will be the topic of an MDI Science Café and cider tasting at 5 p.m. on April 22 presented by Todd Little-Siebold, Ph.D., a history professor at College of the Atlantic (COA) in Bar Harbor and Elli Hartig, a research assistant at the MDI Biological Laboratory.
The role of next-generation therapies in cancer treatment will be the subject of a March 11 MDI Science Café entitled “The Frontiers of Cancer Research” by cancer biologist/immunologist Muneer G. Hasham, Ph.D., of The Jackson Laboratory.
The epidemic of chronic kidney disease in those with diabetes and its implications for public health will be the subject of a Feb. 11 MDI Science Café entitled “Chronic Kidney Disease: The Hidden Danger of Diabetes” by Hermann Haller, M.D., president of the MDI Biological Laboratory.
Though the ability to grow a new limb after injury or new heart muscle after a heart attack may seem like science fiction, regenerative biology may be closer than we think to achieving this goal. In a Jan. 14 science café entitled “Unlocking the Potential for Repair and Regeneration of Human Limbs, Hearts, Brains and Other Organs,” James Godwin, Ph.D., who studies regeneration in salamanders, will talk about how the potential for human…
Fourth graders from elementary schools on Mount Desert Island and in Trenton visited the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor during the week of Nov. 26 for an introduction to biology.
Vicki P. Losick, Ph.D.has been named as the inaugural recipient of an award from the William Procter Scientific Innovation Fund. The award will support her research at the MDI Biological Laboratory on
MDI Biological Laboratory Welcomes State and National Officials
The MDI Biological Laboratory welcomed state and national officials to a Nov. 2 workshop for scientist-mentors involved in an innovative new data-to-action citizen science program led by the laboratory.
The MDI Biological Laboratory has announced the completion of the Hamilton Pond dam repair. The dam creating the 51-acre pond, which is owned by the laboratory, partially collapsed in early February due to a high water event, resulting in a drop in the water level.