Research

The microbiome is the entire community of microbes within a habitat and the surrounding environmental conditions. It holds arguably the most important and extraordinarily diverse forms of life on the planet, and sustains the biodiversity of life on...

MBA scientists have shown for the first time how skates make night-time forays into shallower water. This unique window on the fine details of fish behaviour was made possible by data from electronic tagging, and may influence the management of...

A detailed survey of marinas and rocky shores in south Devon and Cornwall have identified a link between populations of invasive seaweeds. Under certain conditions it seems that marinas facilitate the spread of the invasive kelp Wakame into natural...

Charlotte Walker, a PhD student based at the MBA as part of the SPITFIRE doctoral training partnership, has been awarded the prize for best student presentation at the 16th International Nannoplankton Association Meeting in Athens, Greece. The...

Zahra Alsaffar from the Red Sea Research Centre, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia received first prize for the best student poster presentation at the 52 nd European Marine Biology Symposium. Dr Matthew Frost who...

A new review article Evolutionary origin of synapses and neurons – Bridging the gap by Pawel Burkhardt, Research Fellow at the MBA and Professor Simon Sprecher from the University of Fribourg is online now. The review highlights the need to take an...

The functional roles that marine fungi fulfil are poorly understood, resulting in a lack of knowledge of their ecology and biology. This research, led by Michael Cunliffe, shows that some marine mycoplankton have a saprotrophic...

The most abundant organisms in the ocean are unicellular bacteria. Two species that occur in all oceans are Prochlorococcus marina – a photosynthetic cyanobacterium which produces ~25% of the oxygen on the planet each year – and ...

Recently colleagues from the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science (SAHFOS) were on board MBA Sepia to test a new piece of equipment, the ‘ocean indicator’. MBA Sepia assisted in the testing of the ocean indicator, towing...

A new paper published in the Proceedings of The Royal Society B Community responses to seawater warming are conserved across diverse biological groupings and taxonomic resolutions Scientific Abstract...