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Corazon’s Damsel or Pomacentrus vatosoa, a new species of damselfish. Photo: Y.K. Tea

Scientists Identify New Species of Damselfish

The seaweed Digenea simplex on the beach. Photo credit: Dr. Toshiaki Teruya from the University of Ryukyus, Japan

Scientists Develop New Production Method for Seaweed Chemical Used in Brain Research

Scripps marine ecologist Jennifer Smith

Around the Pier: Usurp the Burp

Photo of the Week: Whorl of Wonder

Scripps Student Spotlight: Matthew Costa

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About MBRD

The Marine Biology Research Division (MBRD) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (University of California, San Diego campus) consists of research laboratories in the fields of cell and developmental biology, ecology and evolutionary biology, microbiology and physiology of marine organisms.

There are opportunities for Visiting Scholars, postdoctoral fellows and postgraduate students within the more than 20 laboratories, which are mainly housed at Hubbs Hall.

MBRD News

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at Ocean Sciences Meeting
Highlights from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Scripps graduate student Matthew Costa. Photo: Octavio Aburto-Oropeza

Scripps Student Spotlight: Matthew Costa
Biological oceanography graduate student is studying wetlands inhabited by productive and salt-tolerant trees called mangroves
Jennifer Smith in lab

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