New Publications: August 2026 | Marine Biological Laboratory

Every month, research from MBL scientists and affiliates is published in academic journals across the globe. In August 2026, 8 new studies were published. MBL-affiliated authors are in bold.

Borbee, E., Changsut, I., McAlister, J., Demarco, T., Davies, S., Ianniello, C., Sanchez García, M., Roberson, L., Schickle, A., Sneed, J., Pelose, G., Wuitchik, D., Fuess, L., Warner, J., Babonis, L., Rotjan, R., & Sharp, K. (2026). Development of methods for spawning, fertilization, larval husbandry, and settlement in the temperate coral Astrangia poculata. Frontiers in Marine Science, 13, 1901305. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2026.1901305

Rankovic, B., Geisterfer, Z. M., Chhabra, A., Jovanovic, V. M., Seim, I., Hoffmann, C., Condric, A., Aguilar Pérez, G., de Boer, R., Hofstede, L. T., Sun, J., Freitag, K., Nowick, K., Jendrach, M., Heppner, F. L., Despic, V., Müller-McNicoll, M., Sigrist, S., van den Bogaart, G., Reshetniak, S., Gladfelter, A. S., & Milovanovic, D. (2026). RNA Promotes Synapsin Condensates That Organize Synaptic Vesicles in Live Neurons and Enable Localized Translation in Reconstituted System. Advanced Science, e77115. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.77115

Jonas, E. A., Margulis, E., Yu, A., & Mnatsakanyan, N. (2026). The mitochondrial swelling channel. Journal of General Physiology, 158(5), e202614066. https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.202614066

Lemaitre, N., Faure, E., Zamora, R., Archer, C., Sieber, M., Ellwood, M., Hassler, C., Lin, Y., Cassar, N., Maignien, L., & Vance, D. (2026). The Ni cycle in the Southern Ocean: Insights from Ni concentrations, isotopes and metagenomics. Biogeosciences, 23(15), 5571–5591. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-23-5571-2026

Liu, J., Chandler, T., Li, Y., Agashe, A., Wei, M., Su, Y., Wu, Y., Baskin, T. I., Jaumouillé, V., Chen, J., Xu, P., Ye, H., Zhu, W., Fischer, R. S., Swaminathan, V. S., Nain, A. S., Mehta, S. B., La Riviere, P. J., Shroff, H., Liu, H., & Guo, M. (2026). Efficient spatio-angular reconstruction enables high-fidelity mapping of six-dimensional structures and dynamics with polarized fluorescence microscopy. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-76703-0

Rocha, A., V., Badzioch, R., Caraballo-Vega, J., Klupar, I. E., Salinas, A. A., Curasi, S. R., Schaepman-Strub, G., Reifsnyder-Brown, C., Shaver, G., & Rastetter, E. (2026). Shared and divergent rates and trajectories of Arctic vegetation community reorganization after fire and fertilization. Arctic Science, 12. https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2025-0102

Webster, N. B., Davila-Sandoval, J. A., Carrillo-Baltodano, A. M., Duda, S., Özpolat, B. D., & Meyer, N. P. (2026). Patterns of Autonomous and Conditional Neural Specification for the Brain and Ventral Nerve Cord in Annelida. Evolution & Development, 28(3), e70050. https://doi.org/10.1111/ede.70050

Bulseco, A. N., Yang, W., Huber, J. A., & Vallino, J. J. (2026). Growth characteristics of natural microbial populations are skewed toward bacteria with low specific growth rates. Microbiology Spectrum, e0219326. https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.02193-26

Are you an MBL scientist with a paper that came out this month, which was not included on this list? We apologize for the oversight. Please email comm@mbl.edu.