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A highlight of the MBLspring calendar is Research Day, when resident scientists and staff gather to learn from each other and celebrate the hard work and accomplishments of the prior year.

On May 8, MBLDirector of Research Anne Sylvester announced the theme of the fourth annual Research Day: “Looking to the Future.” Over 100 MBLcommunity members gathered to recognize and thank employees and to share quick glimpses into the groundbreaking research happening in the ��Ůֱ������’s three resident research centers: the Eugene Bell Center for Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering, the Joseph Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, and the Ecosystems Center.

“The biological discovery that happens here day and night, all the time, leads to impact in the areas of human health and disease, planetary health, and imaging innovation,” said Sylvester.

Anne Giblin, senior scientist and director of the Ecosystems Center, talked about the center’s 50-year legacy of groundbreaking discovery studying the planet’s carbon and nitrogen cycles, microbial processes, and climate feedback loops.The long-term data sets of ecosystem processes that the center’s scientists have built and stewarded are an invaluable asset for understanding global environmental change.

Cristina Roman-Vendrell, a postdoctoral scientist in Jen Morgan’s lab, shared how she first came to the MBLas a student and fell in love with the lamprey as a model organism. Roman-Vendrell will soon be moving to Georgia Southern University as an assistant professor, where her lab will focus on membrane trafficking in the nervous system and neurodegenerative disease.

“The MBLwill always be my scientific home,” said Roman-Vendrell.