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This volume offers a comprehensive history of the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL), one of the major marine laboratories in the United States and a leader in using marine organisms to study fundamental physiological concepts. Beginning with its founding as the Harpswell Laboratory of Tufts University in 1898, David H. Evans follows its evolution from a teaching facility to a research center for distinguished renal and epithelial physiologists. He also describes how it became the site of major advances in cytokinesis, regeneration, cardiac and vascular physiology, hepatic physiology, endocrinology and toxicology, as well as studies of the comparative physiology of marine organisms. Fundamental physiological concepts in the context of the discoveries made at the MDIBL are explained and the social and administrative history of this renowned facility is described.

Feature:

An exciting document for former, current and future scientists and friends of the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL)

Provides a scientific genealogy of the MDIBL

Combines research, administrative and social histories of the MDIBL

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This volume offers a comprehensive history of the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL), one of the major marine laboratories in the United States and a leader in using marine organisms to study fundamental physiological concepts. Beginning with its founding as the Harpswell Laboratory of Tufts University in 1898, David H. Evans follows its evolution from a teaching facility to a research center for distinguished renal and epithelial physiologists. He also describes how it became the site of major advances in cytokinesis, regeneration, cardiac and vascular physiology, hepatic physiology, endocrinology and toxicology, as well as studies of the comparative physiology of marine organisms. Fundamental physiological concepts in the context of the discoveries made at the MDIBL are explained, and the social and administrative history of this renowned facility is described

Contents:

1. Beginnings at Harpswell, Maine

2. Early Years on Mount Desert Island: The First Generation

3. The Second Generation: MDIBL in the 1930s

4. Wartime and the Early Postwar Years: Bust and Boom at the MDIBL

5. MDIBL in the Postwar: The Third Generation

6. Mid Century: The Third Generation Redux

7. Year-Round Operation: The First Attempt

8. Research in the Seventies: The Fourth Generation

9. MDIBL in the 1980s: Doors Close, Doors Open

10. Research in the 1980s: The Fifth Generation

11. The Centennial Decade of the MDIBL

12. Research in the 1990s: Molecular Biology Comes to the MDIBL

13. The MDIBL in the Early 21^st Century: A New Beginning

14. Research in the Early 21^st Century: The Year-Round Research Program Comes of Age