The 2026 GMGI Science Forum
About this event
The Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute’s annual day-long programme of researchers presenting their latest work in genomics and marine biology. The keynote is given by Heidi Sosik of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, titled “Tales of Life and Death in the Ocean from Automated Imaging-in-Flow Cytometry”. Speakers come from Rutgers, the Marine Biological Laboratory, WHOI, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Bigelow Laboratory, MITRE, GMGI, the University of Rhode Island and Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station.
What to expect
- Keynote by Heidi Sosik (WHOI) on automated imaging-in-flow cytometry
- Debashish Bhattacharya (Rutgers) on biomarkers of coral heat stress and disease
- Chris Murray (WHOI) on molecular fish ecophysiology and responses to climate change and pollution
- Nick Record (Bigelow Laboratory) on the future of the ocean
- Nick Rotker (MITRE) and Tim O’Donnell (GMGI) on a virtual living ocean powered by environmental DNA
- Further talks on sponge signalling, RNA recoding, bacterial extracellular vesicles, cartilage tissue engineering, and stem cells and ageing in a colonial chordate
- Questions: scienceforum@gmgi.org
Date and time
5 November 2026
08:00 to 17:00 local time (Gloucester, MA).
Location and format
In person, Cruiseport Gloucester, 6 Rowe Square, Gloucester, MA, USA.
Registration