The Hockaday School Visits MBL | Hockaday@MBL
In November, students from The Hockaday School headed to Woods Hole for our Anatomy and Development of Marine Vertebrates and Invertebrates course.
A New Point of View at Marine Biological Laboratory | The College, University of Chicago
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, MBL Neurobiology Course Alumna, Receives MacArthur Fellowship
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
“The Most Beautiful Experiment of the Year” | @NavishWadhwa
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
A Bootcamp in Working Hard + Enjoying Woods Hole | UChicago Division of Biological Sciences
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
New UChicago Students Discover Woods Hole in Career Exploration Visit
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
Supporting Microscopists at Woods Hole | CoolLED
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
Grand Central Station Inside a Crustacean! | @OMIBS_MBL
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
Accidentally Becoming A Biophysicist, Via a Stop at MBL | The University of Chicago Magazine
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
In the Physiology Course, Watching a Butterfly Emerge | @davislaundon
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