Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution

The Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution was officially established at the Marine Biological Laboratory in January of 1997. RESEARCH at the Center explores the evolution and interaction of genomes of diverse organisms that play significant roles in environmental biology and human health. Projects span all evolutionary time scales, from deep phylogenetic divergence of ancestral prokaryotic and eukaryotic lineages to ecological analyses of how members of diverse communities contribute and respond to environmental change. The Center is part of the Brown University - Marine Biological Laboratory Graduate Program in Biological and Environmental Sciences.