An octopus’s garden! WBUR and Science Friday’s video producer Luke Groskin talks all-things cephalopods with Carrie Albertin and Bret Grasse, both from the Marine Biological Laboratory, and aquarist Bill Murphy from the New England Aquarium. This “Cephalopod Week” event was held at WBUR Cityspace on June 24.
Day in and day out for 13 years, scientists slowly dripped fertilizers into a pristine section of salt marsh north of Boston. They were simulating, in a controlled experiment, the pollution that marshes in densely populated areas receive from sewage, lawn fertilizer, and other human sources. By the time they stopped dripping the nutrients —
This is the latest discovery to emerge from the HHMI-MBL Summer Institute, a large, interdisciplinary collaboration held at the MBL between 2013-2017. By Peter Thorley University of Warwick Two proteins that act as a ‘clutch’ in cells to put them in gear and drive our immune response have been identified for the first time. A
MBL Director Nipam Patel took his passion for teaching into the MBL Physiology course this year, showing the students advanced techniques for imaging a new life as it unfolds (as he has done for 19 years – and running! — in the MBL Embryology course). One of the students who leapt at the chance to
Science Friday wrapped up its “eight-day squid-and-kin appreciation extravaganza,” Cephalopod Week, by interviewing MBL Hibbitt Fellow Carrie Albertin, who gives Ira Flatow “a tour of the complex genomes of octopuses, and how understanding cephalopod genetics could lead to greater insights into human health.” … Read more and hear broadcast … Source: Closing Out The Cephalo-Party
The Microbiome Center, a joint initiative of the MBL, the University of Chicago, and Argonne National Laboratory, has announced the successful applicants for its inaugural Pilot Projects Funding Call. The focus of these ~$20K grants is to provide seed monies for microbial research projects that will help investigators generate the data needed for larger funding
By Paul Caine University of Chicago paleontologist Neil Shubin takes us behind some of the most recent stories making headlines in the world of science. Stories include … Hydra revealed Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Marine Biological Laboratory and Columbia University believe they may have achieved a world first by mapping the full-body muscle
The ink-stained lab coats on these MBL Physiology course students tell a story! Last week, using local squid provisioned by the MBL collecting boat, the students recreated the exciting discovery of kinesin in squid neurons in the early 1980s at MBL. Kinesins are a large and important family of motor proteins that perform critical biological
.entry-header By Johanna Mayer We wish could ask cephalopod scientists questions for eight days straight, but the next best thing is an hour-long reddit AMA. Roger Hanlon (of MBL), Louise Allcock, and Mike Vecchione are authors of Octopus, Squid, and Cuttlefish: A Visual, Scientific Guide to the Oceans’ Most Advanced Invertebrates—and they know a lot
MBL Director of Research David Mark Welch talked with Science Friday host Ira Flatow about the ubiquitous microbial world and its interactions with climate. We may refer to Earth as “our planet,” but it really belongs to the microbes. All the plants and animals on Earth are relatively new additions to the planetary ecosystem. But