Collaboration sets course for future joint endeavours to explore molecular connections between ocean and humankind
The MoU improves collaborators’ ability to work together on several levels, making it easier to team up to study complex interactions between molecules, plants, and animals.
Whether it’s tracking the impacts of widespread microplastics, understanding plankton ecosystems in the context of climate change, or cataloguing the ocean’s microbes, EMBL and the Tara Ocean Foundation have been collaborating with one another since the schooner Tara set out on the Tara Oceans expedition in 2008, led by EMBL alumnus Eric Karsenti as the expedition’s scientific director. Now they’ve formalised this relationship with a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that will further expand their ability to take on collaborative projects.