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May 2026

Research on seal susceptibility featured in UMaine News

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This week, UMaine News featured some of the great research happening in our lab, being led by Jamie Fogg, a senior in Marine Biology, a Maine Top Scholar, and a recipient of the Center for Undergraduate Research Fellowship.  Jamie’s research this year has focused on understanding why harp seals appear more resistant to disease than harbor seals, through an investigation of the genetic diversity at an immune system gene that is part of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC).  You can read more about Jamie’s research here:

https://umaine.edu/news/2026/04/why-are-some-seals-more-resistant-to-disease-a-umaine-student-investigates/

Photo of Jamie Fogg, wearing a lab coat, in front of lab equipment.