Vision
Make Maine a national leader in transformative environmental genetic research, innovation, outreach, and training for the sustainability and wellbeing of natural and human ecosystems and the people that depend on them.
Mission
Foster broad-based environmental genetics collaborations, partnerships, and infrastructure that contribute to the sustainability of current and future natural resource industries and agriculture, improve human health and wellbeing, and prepare a technologically skilled workforce.
Message from the Director
Welcome to the website of the Maine Center for Genetics and the Environment, or MCGE as we often call it. The Maine Center for Genetics in the Environment (MCGE) was formed in 2019 as a sustainability element of the NSF EPSCoR RII Track-1 Maine-eDNA Program (NSF #OIA-1849227). The center was founded around a vision to make Maine a national leader in transformative environmental genetic research, innovation, outreach, and training for the sustainability and wellbeing of natural and human ecosystems and the people that depend on them. I like to say that environmental genetics is a scientific bridge…
Maine Research News
- Walk into any grocery store and you will find aisle after aisle of food wrapped in a host of different plastics. Concern about chemicals and […]
- Newsweek featured a University of Maine report on hazing amid recent footage of an incident at the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity at the University of […]
- Matthew Magnani, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Maine, was featured in The Debrief for his research into whether generative artificial intelligence models […]
- Gayle Zydlewski, director of the Maine Sea Grant College Program at the University of Maine, was featured in Mount Desert Islander’s article on the approved […]
- A panel discussion with members of the Island Soundscape Project and Maine Coast Heritage Trust will take place at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20, at […]
- University of Maine professor of higher education Elizabeth Allan is the recipient of the 2026 George D. Kuh Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature and/or […]
- University of Maine alumna Camille Ross, who works as an associate research scientist at the New England Aquarium, was featured in Popular Science for her […]
- A powerful new scientific engine has arrived on the University of Maine campus — one capable of transforming how researchers across the state study everything […]
