Congratulations to MBL alumni Leah Guthrie and Guillaume Urtecho, two of 21 Hanna Gray Fellows selected by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 2020. The Hanna Gray Fellows are exceptional early-career scientists who will each receive up to $1.4 million over four years in support of their research. Guthrie, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University,
Jewel Plummer Cobb (1924-2017) was the first woman of color to obtain a Ph.D. in biology in the United States. In 1949, while still in graduate school, Cobb was named an independent investigator at the MBL, and she returned to MBL for several subsequent summers as a Library Reader. She was a member of the
2018 Grass Fellow Alex Schnell writes about her collaboration with MBL Senior Scientist Roger Hanlon and others, recently published in Proc. Royal Soc. B. By Alexandra Schnell When I enter the marine laboratory in the morning, there’s always a chance I’m about to get soaked. You see, our crankiest common cuttlefish, called Franklin, has recently
Note: This groundbreaking study was a collaboration between five laboratories, including scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory, which hosted much of the research. By Usha Lee McFarling Using Facebook-like algorithms, a bespoke microscope, and hefty doses of patience, a team of scientists has determined the brain structure of one of biology’s most powerful model organisms,
cache hit 2001:single/related:ade9b98e6bedb35a586885f936c458ae empty By Jennifer Ouellette Certain species show a remarkable ability to delay gratification, notably great apes, corvids, and parrots, while other species do not (such as rodents, chickens, and pigeons.) Add the cuttlefish to the former category. Scientists administered an adapted version of the Stanford marshmallow test to cuttlefish and found that
The University of Chicago’s Board of Trustees has named Paul Alivisatos as the University’s 14th president. An accomplished leader in higher education and a world-renowned scientist, Alivisatos, 61, is currently executive vice chancellor and provost at the University of California, Berkeley.
As the MBL takes a leading role in developing new and emerging research organisms such as squid, butterflies, axolotls, etc., there is a growing need for optical microscopes that can image large embryos/organisms for several hours to days, without harming them due to light exposure. To meet this need, the MBL recently received a grant
category By Brian Dowd content The Edgartown Great Pond Foundation (GPF) is teaming up with the Woods Hole-based Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) to support the foundation’s ecosystem monitoring program at Chilmark Pond, Edgartown Great Pond, and Tisbury Great Pond. The scientific partnership will enhance the foundation’s existing programs on Edgartown Great Pond and its collaboration
Millie Hughes-Fulford was an alumna of the MBL Physiology course (1987) and Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy course (1999). By Richard Sandomir Millie Hughes-Fulford, NASA’s first female payload specialist, who conducted biomedical experiments on the physical toll of spaceflight on humans on board the space shuttle Columbia in 1991, died on Feb. 2 at her
MBL scientists Joshua Rosenthal and Caroline Albertin are featured in this article. By Rachel Nuwer Humans are more closely related to dinosaurs than they are to octopuses. Our lineage split from that of cephalopods—the spineless class that includes octopuses, squids and cuttlefish—half a billion years ago. Octopus brains lack any of the major anatomical features