Closing of Kewalo Marine Laboratory
Add story link to stumble uponKewalo Marine Laboratory in Hawaii ,which is home for many famous evolutionary and developmental biologists like Mark Martindale ,Michael G. Hadfield and Elaine Seaver is being planned to be shut down by University of Hawaii.Its really shocking to hear this news and its a real shame for all marine biology enthusiasts.They are planning to shut one of two marine units in the university only to invest more money in the cancer research unit.Its really sad to hear these kinds of news everywhere in the world ,where funds for fundamental research is being cut at the expense of performing applied research.Agreed that cancer research is also very vital but not comprising one of the best marine institute in the world.Really dont understand what going on in the minds of people who wants to shut Kewalo’s unit because it was so productive in last few years and some great work is still going on.Mark Martindale is the director of this institute and he needs no introduction says
“Closing a productive marine laboratory in Hawaii is simply ill-advised by all rational measures,”
I am a huge fan of Mark Martindale’s work ,who is trying to understand early pattern formation in metazoans and he contributed immensely in this field.In my earlier posts I discussed about Homeobox genes in Ctenophores , Anal evolution using Acoel development ,phylogenomics across metaozaons species ,which are the some of the excellent work from Martindale’s lab.
By closing a very productive institute these people are sending a wrong message across to scientists, students working there and also to all evo devo family.It will be a painful sight for students and scientists to see their work place being demolished.Hope sense prevails and great work in Kewalo continues for many more years.
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Thanks for bringing attention to the pathetic closing of one of the greatest marine labs in the US. When I was a PhD student at Harvard I did most of my research at Kewalo since the lab was not only more equipped for molecular studies of marine life than my Harvard lab, but the professors and post-docs drawn to Kewalo are of the highest caliber. Unlike many other marine labs that harbor outdated research, what goes on at Kewalo is state of the art. And there’s the Nature and Science publications to prove it. Not only will UH be making an economic error in allowing the destruction of this phenomenal place, but biology as a whole takes a great step back. Understanding how organisms — the great majority of them being marine– evolve and develop impacts every scientific field, including medicine.
Yeah true as u said closing of Marine lab in Kewalo will be a big loss to the field of biology……..really dont make sense also ,closing an important marine station ……….which is doing some landmark work in understanding marine organisms and evolution………i dont know whats happening in the filed now a days………..
Are they serious to close it? I really admire the works of Pr. Martindale on evo-devo and deep phylogeny!
I am getting my PhD next March, and actually thinking to ask for a possibility to work as a posdoc at his lab ….. *sigh*
Is the decision to demolish the lab REALLY final?!
Yeah so far it looks like that ……..they might close the Kewalo.. one of the two marine labs in hawaii……and might shift the labs to some other place…….but its still not known when it will be done…….some protests are going on……….hope they dont close this great institute………even i wanted to apply for post doc next year in this lab……..
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