Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution
Research at the Center explores the evolution and interaction of genomes of diverse organisms that play significant roles in environmental biology and human health.
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Chromaffin cells from the axillary gland of the skate (Leucoraja erinacea).
Chromaffin cells from the axillary gland of the skate (Leucoraja erinacea). Photo by Andrew Gillis.
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About Josephine Bay Paul

The Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution is dedicated to the memory of Josephine Bay Paul (1900-1962), a leader in industry, education, and the arts in the middle decades of the twentieth century.

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Featured Learning Experience

Semester in Biological Discovery (SBD)

The MBL’s Semester in Biological Discovery (SBD) will be starting in the spring of 2024 as a 13-week program that provides an intensive, immersive research experience in discovery-driven biological sciences modeled on the MBL’s world-renown Advanced Research Training Courses.

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The Keck Facility

The Keck Facility at the Josephine Bay Paul Center (JBPC) is equipped for Next-Gen sequencing. While the JBPC has priority use of the facility, it is available to other outside users within the Woods Hole community.

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New Publications

Giacomini J. J., Torres-Morales J., Tang J., Dewhirst F. E., Borisy G. G., Mark Welch J. L. (2024). Spatial ecology of Haemophilus and Aggregatibacter in the human oral cavity.. Microbiology Spectrum. 12:e0401723. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.04017-23

Möller L., Vainshtein Y., Meyer B., Neidhardt J., Eren A. M., Sohn K., Rabus R. (2024). Rich microbial and depolymerising diversity in Antarctic krill gut..Microbiology Spectrum. 12:e0403523. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.04035-23

Yu M. K., Fogarty E. C., Eren A. M. (2024). Diverse plasmid systems and their ecology across human gut metagenomes revealed by PlasX and MobMess.Nature Microbiology. 9:830-847. doi: 10.1038/s41564-024-01610-3

McMaken C. M., Gribble K. E. (2024). A free and user-friendly software protocol for the quantification of microfauna swimming behavior. Biotechniques. doi: 10.2144/btn-2024-0001

Rees J. M., Palmer M. A., Gillis J. A. (2024). Fgf signalling is required for gill slit formation in the skate, Leucoraja erinacea. Developmental Biology. 506:85-94. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2023.11.008

Vineis J. H., Reznikoff W. S., Antonopoulos D. A., Koval J., Chang E., Fallon B. R., Paul B. G., Morrison H. G., Sogin M. L. (2024). A novel conjugative transposon carrying an autonomously amplified plasmid. Mbio. 15:e02787-e02723. doi: 10.1128/mbio.02787-23

Doré H., Eisenberg A. R., Junkins E. N., Leventhal G. E., Ganesh A., Cordero O. X., Paul B. G., Valentine D. L., O’Malley M. A., Wilbanks E. G. (2024). Targeted hypermutation of putative antigen sensors in multicellular bacteria. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America. 121:e2316469121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2316469121

Mullowney M. W., Fiebig A., Schnizlein M. K., McMillin M., Rose A. R., Koval J., Rubin D., Dalal S., Sogin M. L., Chang E. B., Sidebottom A. M., Crosson S. (2024). Microbially catalyzed conjugation of GABA and tyramine to bile acids.Journal Of Bacteriology. 206:e00426-e00423. doi: 10.1128/jb.00426-23

 

 

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