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Research in the Malamy lab is focused on epithelial wound healing in the emerging model system Clytia hemisphaerica.

06/30/2026

https://www.mbl.edu/news/jellyfish-can-heal-wounds-minutes-scientists-want-their-secrets

A decade ago this summer, at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Jocelyn Malamy watched jellyfish cells “walk” toward each other to close a wound for the first time. An associate professor in Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago, Malamy had received transparent, dime-si...

06/23/2026

New paper out in MBoC! Open access.

Epithelial wound healing is an essential process in multicellular organisms, primarily driven by lamellipodia-based crawling, purse-string contraction, and collective cell migration. One or more of these mechanisms participate in healing a wound, yet the choice, sequence, and coordination of these p...

08/12/2025

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/swarm-jellyfish-shuts-french-nuclear-plant-2025-08-11/

Four reactors at France's Gravelines nuclear power plant were shut down late Sunday due to a swarm of jellyfish in the cooling systems, operator EDF said on Monday, likely due to rising water temperatures because of global warming.

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