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The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience is a research institute of the University of Florida.
The Lab’s mission is to use marine organisms in basic biological research, and to apply, where possible,the novel results of this research to problems of human health, natural resources and the environment; to train future experimental biologists; and to contribute to public education and to the formulations of the policy in basic research and marine science.