MBL Director of Education Linda Hyman is co-author of a new paper in PLOS Biology reporting that graduate students who take part in professional development opportunities unrelated to their lab work did not delay their time to graduation or their rate of manuscript publication. One of the institutions that collaborated on the study, University of
It’s great to be back! Dyche Mullins, a longtime faculty member in the MBL Physiology course, shared these images of his return to the MBL on his Facebook page. “I would be hard pressed to think of a better way to end a year and a half of confinement and anxiety than doing a few
A new study in Nature Ecology and Evolution can trace some of its roots back to MBL’s 2019 Physical Biology of the Cell (PBoC) course. By Jean Vila, Alvaro Sanchez, and Chang-Yu Chang For over 10,000 years humans have been using artificial selection to breed plants and animals with desirable traits. Just as there are
An image of Drosophila eye discs and brain lobes taken during the MBL Practical Course on Developmental Biology in Quintay, Chile, in 2020 is the cover photo for the latest issue of Development. The image, taken by Tonatiuh Molina Villa, was selected by popular vote on The Node, an international community site for developmental biologists.
On April 26, the “Doodle” on Google’s homepage celebrated the scientific impact of reproductive biologist and MBL alumna Anne McLaren. McLaren, who would have turned 94 this year, was a faculty member and scientific course consultant for the former MBL Microbiology course in 1984. She also received the first Pioneer Award in 1998 from the
The MBL’s spring and summer educational season has begun! We are excited to see the campus coming alive again, after months of careful planning. On March 21, the season started when 12 University of Chicago undergraduates arrived for their MBL Spring Quarter. This program builds on the success of the inaugural MBL Autumn Quarter – which
Cell division in bacteria is a fundamental and medically important process, but how it works on the molecular level remains enigmatic. Recently, the MBL Physiology course hosted a collaboration that managed to fit an important piece into the puzzle of bacterial cell division. Led by Physiology faculty Ethan Garner of Harvard University, the group’s results
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,
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
The MBL Practical Course in Developmental Biology in Quintay, Chile, will be held Jan. 5-17, 2022. The course is primarily intended for Latin American students, but all may apply. At the end of the course, two students will receive the Quintay Prize, which includes a full fellowship to attend the MBL Embryology course (Woods Hole)