Lab News

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/

Please join us in congratulating and celebrating Drs. Christina McCosker and Julia Clem who both successfully defended their PhD dissertations this week!

Jamie Fogg, a Cammen Lab undergraduate research assistant and a Maine Top Scholar, was invited on to the Maine State Science podcast to chat about some of the research she has been working on at UMaine!  From whale watch research with Allied Whale (College of the Atlantic) during a summer internship, to using environmental DNA (eDNA) to study gray seals in Cape Cod with the Cammen Lab, Jamie has participated in a wide range of research during her undergraduate career thus far.

Most recently, she was awarded a prestigious NOAA Hollings Scholarship, and this summer, she will be working at the Woods Hole Laboratory of NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service studying North Atlantic Right Whale passive acoustics.