Eric Schwartz, director of the MBL September Course “Observing Proteins in Action: How to Design and Build Your Own Instruments,” has received a Quantrell Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching from the University of Chicago. The Quantrell Awards are believed to be the oldest prize of their kind in the nation. The MBL September Courses,
“One thing that might not show up on brochures about the MBL’s Semester in Environmental Science (SES) program is one of the most important: As a student, you are given the chance to join this enclave of awesome scientists. They know your name, what you did for your independent project, and what sorts of science
Lauren Johnson—student of Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas—was awarded the MBL Associates Prize for Excellence in Independent Research in the Semester in Environmental Science (SES). The prize, sponsored by Friends of the MBL, was awarded based on her presentation at the 23rd annual SES student research symposium, which was held at the MBL in
By Diana Kenney Can the “Woods Hole magic” – that intangible something that MBL students for decades have tried to describe — be recreated in a distant locale? “Yes,” it appears, given the passionate response to the MBL Practical Course on Developmental Biology held last January in Quintay, Chile. “This has been one of the
Martyna Lukoseviciute shares the story behind her octopus embryo image — which has won several international awards — and the unexpected lessons she has learnt from it. Today I would like to share the multi-layered story behind this beautiful image that I captured, on my birthday, at last summer’s wonderful Embryology Course in the Marine
By Kevin Holden The soaring popularity of CRISPR has enabled researchers to expand biological research beyond mice and study different animal models. In fact, the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, hosts a 6-week course in developmental biology every summer where students are now applying CRISPR to understand the biology of animals. We chat with Dr. Erin Jarvis, Research
In November, students from The Hockaday School headed to Woods Hole for our Anatomy and Development of Marine Vertebrates and Invertebrates course.
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 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
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