By Marc Mayes and Alison Maksym Marc Mayes, a student in the Brown-Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) Graduate Program in Biological and Environmental Sciences, successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on July 27 at Brown University in Providence, R.I. Mayes’ dissertation was titled, “Forest nutrient cycling and remote sensing of land cover in Miombo Woodlands.” Mayes is
By Raleigh McElvery When it comes to explaining crab digestion, three-letter acronyms abound. Luckily, Neural Systems and Behavior course instructor David Schulz of the University of Missouri comes to Woods Hole to translate. Schulz aims to decipher not only the lexicon of crustacean feeding, but also how gene expression affects the neural network processes responsible.
Home from #physio2016 @MBLScience . I really can’t even begin to describe it, but it changed everything. pic.twitter.com/PhrIwnF5OX — Beth Bearce (@Carcinoginger) August 2, 2016
Neurobiology course student Nipun Basrur of Rockefeller University captured this portrait of fellow student Kristina Lippmann of University of Leipzig. Optical recordings of single action potentials @MBLScience #neuro2016 pic.twitter.com/fErEam8bzT — Nipun Basrur (@nipstah) July 21, 2016
Neural System and Behavior just added 2016 photos to its “Electric Fish” album:
By Bonnie Kircher MBL Embyology Course When you look across the fossil record at the evolution of life, an instinctual response is one of awe. How did natural selection, an entirely passive force, direct monkeys onto their hind legs or fish onto land? When comparing fish and tetrapods (limbed vertebrates) that are alive today, it’s
By Raleigh McElvery Barbed and globular, the sea urchin seems an unlikely research subject, yet it is one of the oldest and best established marine model organisms in biology. As students in the MBL Embryology course recently discovered, the ongoing role of the sea urchin in revealing how an embryo develops is entwined with the
Day 1 of the Physiology course @MBLScience. I built a TIRF scope– how cool is that?!? pic.twitter.com/fzgWaksuY9 — Beth Bearce (@Carcinoginger) June 14, 2016
As described in this video by iBiology, about 59 Hispanics, 33 African-Americans, and 0 Native Americans received a Ph.D. in neuroscience in the United States in 2012, compared with 600 white people. Changing this imbalance in the field is the goal of SPINES (Summer Program in Neuroscience, Ethics and Survival) at the MBL, which provides
This cover is actually a still from this great movie made by Connie Rich at the 2014 @MBLScience Embryology course https://t.co/HnyoUrjZvn — Development (@Dev_journal) May 3, 2016 Video caption: Drosophila embryo, stage 17, ventral view. DAPI (blue, nuclei), Elav (green, neuronal nuclei), Spalt (yellow, subset of neuron and muscle nuclei), BP102 (red, CNS axons),