UNIONDALE, NY / ACCESS Newswire / July 21, 2025 / Marquis Who's Who honors Allen R. Place for excellence in biology and education.

A respected professional, Dr. Place is an expert in elucidating molecular mechanisms, which involves identifying and understanding specific biological processes that permit organisms to adapt to unique diets, environments and interactions (symbiosis). His work focuses on biology at a microscopic level, with his research crossing traditional boundaries in favor of a comparative approach, whether this be at the molecular, cellular or organismal level.

Dr. Place is the associate director for research and a professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES). He is also director of the United States Harmful Algal Bloom-Control Technologies Incubator (HAB-CTI), a NOAA-funded initiative to develop control strategies of harmful algae.

About Dr. Place

Before his current position, Dr. Place served as an associate professor at the University of Maryland from 1987 to 2001 and as an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania from 1980 to 1987. His work included investigating the toxic algae Karlodinium, which caused major fish die-offs in the late 1990s. After identifying the cause of some of these fish kills, he presented his findings to Maryland state agencies that curbed public concerns regarding potential risks to humans and ecological health.

Dr. Place believes that current knowledge around biological processes is too strongly influenced by one's willingness to accept the rat, mouse or cell line as a model system. His research is centered on the following question: What are the fundamental structures and functions of living systems that can be adaptively modified to permit an organism to exploit the diversity of habitats observed in nature?

Recognized for Contributions

Throughout his career, Dr. Place has achieved significant milestones alongside his colleagues. He contributed to the development of patented methods for enriching live feed with essential nutrients for fish larvae and, in 2001, secured a patent for a recirculating aquaculture system that enables high-yield fish production.

Dr. Place has received various awards, such as the UMCES President's Award for Excellence in Application of Science in 2012 and the UMBI Regent's Award for Public Service in 2009. In 2005 and 2008, he was a UMBI Regent's Award Candidate for Research/Scholarship/Creative Activity. He has received recognition for his biological research and diverse approaches to addressing many practical problems. For example, he identified the causes of toxic algal blooms and discovered how they can be controlled to formulate sustainable foods for cultivating fish in aquaculture.

Dr. Place's extensive academic background has been instrumental to his success. In 1973, he earned a bachelor's degree in earth and planetary science from Johns Hopkins University. He continued his education at Johns Hopkins, where he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in biochemistry in 1979 and participated in a postdoctoral fellowship from 1978 to 1980. His doctoral dissertation, "The Lactate Dehydrogenase Allozymes of Fundulus heteroclitus (Lin.) A Study in Molecular Evolution," was completed in 1979.

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