By Jeanie Chung Margaret Gardel, the Horace B. Horton Professor in the Department of Physics [at the University of Chicago], found her area of study through a series of serendipitous events. Her graduate research at Harvard focused on filamentous actin, a polymer found within cells in multicellular organisms. In living cells actin drives cell motion
MBL Director Nipam Patel took his passion for teaching into the MBL Physiology course this year, showing the students advanced techniques for imaging a new life as it unfolds (as he has done for 19 years – and running! — in the MBL Embryology course). One of the students who leapt at the chance to
The ink-stained lab coats on these MBL Physiology course students tell a story! Last week, using local squid provisioned by the MBL collecting boat, the students recreated the exciting discovery of kinesin in squid neurons in the early 1980s at MBL. Kinesins are a large and important family of motor proteins that perform critical biological
By Stephanie McPherson The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is pleased to announce the recipients of the inaugural E.E. Just Fellowship Awards, which enable outstanding undergraduates to attend one of the MBL’s acclaimed Advanced Research Training Courses. The two recipients are Natasha Baas-Thomas, who majored in biology at Reed College, and Isa Alvarez, who studied history
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