Martyna Lukoseviciute shares the story behind her octopus embryo image — which has won several international awards — and the unexpected lessons she has learnt from it. Today I would like to share the multi-layered story behind this beautiful image that I captured, on my birthday, at last summer’s wonderful Embryology Course in the Marine
By Kevin Holden The soaring popularity of CRISPR has enabled researchers to expand biological research beyond mice and study different animal models. In fact, the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, hosts a 6-week course in developmental biology every summer where students are now applying CRISPR to understand the biology of animals. We chat with Dr. Erin Jarvis, Research
In November, students from The Hockaday School headed to Woods Hole for our Anatomy and Development of Marine Vertebrates and Invertebrates course.
By Ege Yalcindag, ’21 I covered my eyes with my hands, at first too afraid to look. “That is so gorgeous,” I heard Jessica Mark Welch say. Mark Welch is a microbiologist who uses fluorescent probes to generate images of bacteria, such as those on our teeth. These images help her investigate the structure and composition
Vanessa Ruta of Rockefeller University, who kick-started her neuroscience career as a student in the MBL Neurobiology course in 2000, is one of 26 MacArthur Fellows recently announced by The MacArthur Foundation. The MacArthur Fellowship is a $625,000 award given to talented individuals with no strings attached. Ruta investigates how stimuli shape the function of neural
In this Twitter thread, Navish Wadhwa of Harvard tells a wonderful story of scientific discovery, including crucial assistance at just the right time from Rob Phillips of CalTech, whom Navish met in the MBL Physiology course. Wadhwa’s paper recently received the Meselson Prize for “the most beautiful experiment of the year,” given annually by Harvard’s
That rumble of excited conversation on campus last week was the sound of 102 University of Chicago graduate students engaged in a boot camp on quantitative and professional skills for biological scientists. First-year students in the Division of Biological Sciences participated in the QBio@MBL Bootcamp, working hard while having time to explore the magnificent natural
By Jane Marks First-year undergraduates from the University of Chicago kicked off a four-day Career Exploration visit to the MBL last week with a panel discussion about many of the opportunities in Woods Hole. The panelists described the missions of the MBL, Sea Education Association, and the Northeast Fisheries Science Center as well as their
The partnership between MBL and commercial vendors is critical to the success of the MBL’s courses, particularly the Advanced Research Training Courses. Starting with four vendors in 1970, this partnership has grown to 155 vendors loaning over $24 million in equipment, software, and supplies each year, effectively making MBL one of the largest demo centers
Peering inside marine organisms with high-powered microscopes: The students in Optical Microscopy and Imaging in the Biomedical Sciences are amazed! Absolutely gorgeous movie of a crustacean (we think) captured with phase contrast! Looks like a grand central station inside it! @MBLScience @zeiss_micro pic.twitter.com/Q8byurJAFJ — Optical Microscopy (@OMIBS_MBL) August 22, 2019