Where Discovery Begins: MBL and EVIDENT Help Train the Next Generation of Researchers | Evident Scientific
Every summer, the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, hosts advanced research training courses that give students and early-career researchers hands-on access to the tools, techniques, and scientific environments used in modern biological research.
Through its partnership with the MBL, Evident provides advanced microscopy and imaging systems—including the FLUOVIEW™ FV5000 and IXplore™ IX85 SpinXL confocal systems and the APEXVIEW™ APX100 benchtop fluorescence system—to support live-cell imaging, time-lapse observation, and hands-on experimentation across select courses.
Access to these advanced imaging tools helps students see biological processes more clearly, ask stronger research questions, and build skills they can carry into future scientific work.
The MBL’s advanced research training courses are designed to move beyond lectures and predetermined laboratory exercises. Students work alongside faculty members, teaching assistants, and microscopy specialists on open-ended questions whose answers may not yet be known.
“The MBL advanced research training courses are really incredible vehicles for training the next generation of scientists and for discovery,” said Cliff Brangwynne, co-director of the MBL Physiology course and a faculty member at Princeton University. “It’s not just education. It’s education through doing.”