The Bar Harbor Group

Since 1998, leading U.S. and Canadian researchers who are active in the fields of neuroscience, aging, cardiovascular disease, cancer, eye health and other health-related areas have met annually in Bar Harbor, Maine, at the Wild Blueberry Research Summit. The scientists, known collectively as “The Bar Harbor Group,” meet to share their research findings and to explore opportunities for future collaboration. In the years since the Summit began, research interest in Wild Blueberries has grown steadily. Focus on the fruit’s antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects remains strong, while new areas of investigation are opening up, including childhood obesity and the impact of children’s diets in the prevention of disease as well as longevity.

Members of the Bar Harbor Group include:

James A. Joseph, Ph.D.
Neuroscience Laboratory, USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Boston, MA

Barbara Shukitt-Hale, Ph.D.
Neuroscience Laboratory, USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Boston, MA

Ronald Prior, Ph.D.
USDA-ARS, Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center

Mary Ellen Camire, Ph.D.
Dept. of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Maine, Orono

Dorothy Klimis-Zakas, Ph.D.
Professor of Clinical Nutrition, University of Maine, Orono

Don Ingram, Ph.D.
National Institute on Aging Laboratory on Experimental Gerontology

Amy Howell, Ph.D.
Marucci Center for Blueberry Cranberry Research, Rutgers University

Willy Kalt, Ph.D.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Nova Scotia

Jane MacDonald, M.S.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Nova Scotia

Mary Ann Lila, Ph.D.
Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Marva Sweeney-Nixon, Ph.D.
Dept. of Biology, University of Prince Edward Island

Mark Smith, Ph.D.
Institute of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University