By Diana Kenney After six years of microscope development at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Shalin Mehta moved in July to Chan Zuckerberg (CZ) Biohub, an independent, nonprofit medical research institute based in San Francisco. CZ Biohub is a philanthropic effort initiated by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, pediatrician Priscilla Chan, last year.
The MBLWHOI Library is a founding institution of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This post is a brief look at how two of the Library’s most recent Catherine N. Norton Fellows, Beatrice Steinart and Sean Cohmer, have used books from BHL’s collection to support their research. By Matthew Person In 2016, Beatrice Steinert, recent recipient
While doing research at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts, Sindy Tang learned of a remarkable organism: Stentor coeruleus. It’s a single-celled, free-living freshwater organism, shaped like a trumpet and big enough to see with the naked eye. And, to Tang’s amazement, if cut in half it can heal itself into two healthy
By Alison Crawford A panel of journalists and scientists hunkered down at the MBL on June 7-8 to evaluate more than 2,000 images and videos of nature, vividly magnified by light microscopy — from chemical compounds to luminous biological specimens. The task at hand was to select the winners of the 42nd Nikon Small World
The M.I.T. Knight Science Journalism Fellows spent Thursday, May 4, discovering MBL research. By KSJ@MIT After lunch, it was time for cuttlefish. So 13 of us — the 2016-17 KSJ fellows, a spouse, and staff members — crowded around a pair of tray-like tanks at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, to watch
Neil Shubin, interim co-director of the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Robert R. Bensley Distinguished Service Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy and Associate Dean for Academic Strategy at the University of Chicago, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society. Founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743, the APS is the nation’s oldest learned society. Read more
MBL Society member Rita Colwell, a world-renown microbiologist, will receive one of the top awards in science and technology, the 2017 Vannevar Bush Award. Colwell is a member of the MBL President’s Scientific Advisory Council, a former MBL Trustee (2012-2015), and she served on the faculty of the MBL Microbiology course (now Microbial Diversity) in
Six scientists affiliated with the Marine Biological Laboratory are among the 228 people recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). The inductees include some of the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, artists, as well as civic, business, and philanthropic leaders. Congratulations to: Jeremy M. Berg, American Association for the Advancement
Alan Alda, Neil Shubin of University of Chicago/MBL, and journalist Claudia Dreifus will discuss “How Science Can Save Us/How We Can Save Science,” April 9 at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. The event will be live-streamed. By Claudia Dreifus On a cold Chicago night in February, 2014, I watched the actor/director/writer Alan
By UChicago News In the past, scientists have estimated that up to half of all species on earth could face extinction by the end of the century if steps are not taken to improve conservation and change human practices. That was part of the backdrop for a workshop on biological extinction held recently at the