When the influential A. Murat Eren (Meren) decided to offer an online beginners’ course on microbes and computational ways to study them, the responsive was explosive: 2,000 people registered in the first 24 hours. With creative planning using both Zoom and YouTube, Meren’s team found a way for all to interactively participate. Meren is an
In this delightful podcast, MBL Fellow Hari Shroff delves into memories (fond and not so much) of his childhood in England; his lifelong interest in tool building, “by luck” taking a post-doc in the lab of Eric Betzig and helping to develop a microscopy technology that went on to win a Nobel Prize; the uncertainties
Mentoring people from underrepresented groups in science is part of the DNA of the MBL’s Summer Program in Neuroscience, Ethics and Success (SPINES). So it is most fitting that the course’s co-director from 2017-2019, Carmen S. Maldonado-Vlaar of the University of Puerto-Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, has been honored for her mentorship of women in neuroscience.
A glowing bat and a curled chameleon, both imaged by MBL Embryology Course students, are among the top 20 winners of the 2020 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition, a leading forum for showcasing life as seen through a light microscope. The chameleon, which placed 8th, was taken by 2019 Embryology course students Allan Carrillo-Baltodano and
Polina V. Lishko of University of California, Berkeley, a recent faculty member in the MBL Frontiers in Reproduction (FIR) course, has received a 2020 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, commonly known as a “Genius Award.” Lishko studies “the cellular processes that guide mammalian fertilization and [are] opening new avenues for contraception and treatment of infertility,” the Foundation
The “Microbiomes Across Environments” is one of three courses being offered this year as part of the UChicago Autumn Quarter at MBL. The “Microbiomes Across Environments” course has just started at the Marine Biological Laboratory! All through the Fall term, nine undergraduate students from the University of Chicago will be learning in Woods Hole (Massachusetts)
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded today to three scientists, including one MBL alumnus, “for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus.” They are Harvey J. Alter of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Michael Houghton of the University of Alberta, and Charles M. Rice (MBL Physiology course, 1973, 1975) of Rockefeller
When MBL Director Nipam Patel was in high school in El Paso, Texas, an offer came his way that not only deepened his interest in nature and science, it paved the way for a successful research career. “I had the opportunity to do research at University of Texas, Austin, through a National Science Foundation-sponsored summer
MBL Fellow Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado of the Stowers Institute has published an exciting paper in Science describing genetic mechanisms that can explain why some vertebrates can regenerate body parts while others — such as humans — cannot. In the Twitter thread below, Sánchez Alvarado explains the genesis of the research discovery, including how he first
By Diana Kenney For the past 23 summers, young neuroscientists from underrepresented groups have participated in an outstanding training opportunity at the MBL, the Summer Program in Neuroscience, Excellence, and Success (SPINES). Like many MBL course alumni, SPINES alumni are a strongly bonded group who credit the course with having had a major impact on