Welcome to the new home of OGL news posts! We’ve redesigned our Newsletter to show you stories more often, with a brief overview in the email and the full story here. We always welcome your thoughts and questions in the Comments section.
We hope you enjoy this new way of exploring the latest activities at OGL!
By Akancha Singh, Rosie Poulin, and Dan Distel Last month, an international team of researchers led by OGL collaborator Mercer Brugler from the University of South Carolina published the complete mitochondrial genomes of two deep-sea black corals in ZooKeys1. This...
Make your donations to OGL go twice as far! Thanks to an anonymous donor, all contributions to the Ocean Genome Legacy (OGL) Endowed Fund between now and April 11 will be matched dollar for dollar up to $20,000! The OGL Endowed Fund ensures that OGL and...
Ever wonder what it’s like to work in a marine research lab like Ocean Genome Legacy (OGL)? Let’s follow OGL’s newest student research assistant, co-op Mia Bender, COS‘25, through her week to find out! This week, Mia has been dissecting lobsters to preserve...
Ocean Genome Legacy is thrilled to thank Cell Signaling Technology (CST), a biotechnology company headquartered in Danvers, Massachusetts, for awarding OGL a prestigious Annual Environmental and Social Responsibility Grant. This grant will support OGL’s long running...
This week, a publication by Ocean Genome Legacy researchers and colleagues announced the discovery of Vadumodiolus teredinicola, a new species of marine mussel. This discovery includes several exciting firsts! Left: Vadumodiolus teredinicola in life position within...
By: Jay Krithivas, Hannah Appiah-Madson, and Dan Distel The ocean is home to a staggering amount of biodiversity. Among the 33 currently accepted branches on the tree of animal life, 15 are entirely marine, while only one is exclusively terrestrial. Currently,...
We all know that protein is essential to life and that our muscles, vital organs, and enzymes—the tiny molecular machines that drive life’s processes—are all made of protein. In fact, your body contains about 20,000 different proteins, each with its own unique...
Behold the mighty Bobbit worm, striking from the seafloor! Image Credit: Daniel Kwok CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 It’s October again and that means one thing: it’s the time of year for ghosts, goblins, and spooky monsters. Fantastical creatures like these might make the real world...
Did you know that 75–90% of the estimated 1–2 million species living in the world’s ocean remain undiscovered and undescribed? Together, these species constitute the ocean’s taxonomic dark matter—the critical portion of life’s diversity hidden beneath the waves. To...
Staghorn corals (Acropora cervicornis) were once among the most dominant reef-building corals in the Caribbean. However, starting in the mid-1980s, these iconic corals began a steep decline. Due to climate change and a mysterious bacterial plague known as “white band...