This fall on the MBL campus, the week-long QBio Bootcamp for University of Chicago graduate students will be held for the fifth time. The intensive training session in quantitative biology—combined with a responsible research course taught later in the academic year—prepares students in the Biological Sciences Division with the programming, statistics, and documentation practices they
Each spring, striped bass begin a 600+ mile migration from as far south as coastal North Carolina to Cape Cod and further north. As the striped bass arrive in Woods Hole in early May, their coastal ecosystem comes to life as many migrating predator and prey species join resident members of a complex food web.
Our second annual Undergraduate Practicum in Bioluminescence held at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in beautiful Woods Hole, Massachusetts, was a huge success! In late March 2019, our NeuroNex Technology Hub hosted 13 undergraduates from colleges and universities across the United States and Canada … Students attended morning lectures on the biology, chemistry and physics
The Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy course, founded by MBL Distinguished Scientist Shinya Inoué in the early 1980s, just wrapped up for 2019. Visit their Twitter feed for an eyeful of beautiful images created by students! A wonderful close to #aqlm2019 — Alexey Khodjakov giving the Shinya Inoue endowed lectureship. At the Captain Kidd no
Secondary-school science teachers interested in incorporating genome editing into their classrooms and curricula are invited to attend a pilot workshop at MBL, to be held June 9-13, 2019. Participants will receive hands-on training and scientific background in CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing using the frog Xenopus, a well-established model organism in biomedical research. The workshop is led by MBL
Congratulations to Francisco Bezanilla of University of Chicago, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz of Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and 7 other MBL-affiliated scientists who have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. All were elected to the Academy’s Biological Sciences division. These scholars join the
Spotlight on the little-studied but widespread marine fungi! The Moore Foundation sponsored a workshop at MBL on the topic, resulting in two recent papers in Current Biology, including this “Marine Fungi Primer.” MBL Fellow Amy Gladfelter of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, organized the workshop. By Amy S. Gladfelter, Timothy Y. James and Anthony
By Mollie Rappe It’s a bitter cold morning in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. By 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 22, the temperature has risen to 17 degrees. Factor in the 20-mph winds that whip into the small Cape Cod village from the waters of Vineyard Sound, and the temperature with wind chill registers 0 degrees —
Applications for several of the MBL Advanced Research Training courses, including the Embryology Course, are due February 1, 2019. By Anneke Kakebeen I evaluate experiences by this basic philosophy: Some things are a good experience, some are a good story. When I’m lucky, sometimes they are both. My summer at #Embryo2018 had all three scenarios. The
A photo taken in the MBL Embryology Course is one of Science’s picks! By Emily Petersen Our Science Visuals team reviewed the most striking photographs we published this year. Here are the ones that moved us the most. Read more … Caption: The transition from single cell to multicell organisms—a major step in evolution—may not