A vivid image of a spider embryo created by Tessa Montague in the 2017 MBL Embryology course has taken 5th place in Nikon’s 2018 “Small World” Competition. Montague, then a graduate student at Harvard University, worked with Embryology course faculty member (and now MBL director) Nipam Patel to prepare the embryo for photomicrography. It must
MBL Distinguished Scientist Jerry Melillo, MBL Trustee James Galloway of University of Virginia, and MBL Fellow Robert Howarth of Cornell University are among the 40 signatories to this statement issued by the Climate and Land Use Alliance. Statement from Scientist Signatories “The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will issue a new report soon on
Congratulations to Clifford Brangwynne of Princeton University/Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), who has been named a 2018 MacArthur Fellow (see video). In 2009 in the MBL Physiology course, Brangwynne, Anthony Hyman and colleagues discovered a new way for living cells to organize their components: Liquid-liquid phase separation, akin to oil separating from water. This turned
The iconic whaling ship model that, since the mid-1960s, has jutted out toward Water Street from the façade of the Marine Biological Laboratory’s (MBL) Candle House is back in place, after a complete overhaul. Myron Hartford of North Falmouth restored and repainted the model ship, which is a replica of the Charles W. Morgan, a
MBL Senior Scientist Rudolf Oldenbourg has received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to co-present a national workshop on “Enabling Biological Discovery Through Innovations in Imaging and Computation.” The workshop will be held at the Marine Biological Laboratory on November 26-28, 2018. The agenda is here. The workshop was inspired by major transformations
Tasuko Honjo of Kyoto University, a 1972 alumnus of the MBL Embryology Course, and James P. Allison of University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The two were selected “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation.” Read more … Source:
By Jamie Ducharme A new study suggests that humans might have more in common with octopuses than it appears: they both respond to at least one psychoactive drug in a similar, sociable way. Scientists from Johns Hopkins University and the Marine Biological Laboratory on Cape Cod found that, just like humans, notoriously reserved (and sometimes
This comprehensive article on cephalopod neurobiology features interviews with MBL Senior Scientists Roger Hanlon and Joshua Rosenthal and Prof. Clif Ragsdale of University of Chicago. By Elizabeth Finkel In 2008 the staff at Sea Star Aquarium in Coburg, Germany, had a mystery on their hands. Two mornings in a row, they had arrived at work
Anne Giblin, Interim Director of the MBL Ecosystems Center, has received funding for a study on “Oil Spills as Stressors in Coastal Marshes: The Legacy and the Future.” The grant is a sub-award from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON), which has been tracking the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the
MBL Director Nipam Patel has given Imagine Science Films numerous video clips of animal development in a variety of species –butterfly, frog, squid — many of them captured in the MBL Embryology course. “We do things that are so visually stunning,” says Patel. “The more people that see it, the better.” By Roberta Kwok In