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
Spotlight on the little-studied but widespread marine fungi! The Moore Foundation sponsored a workshop at MBL on the topic, resulting in two recent papers in Current Biology, including this “Marine Fungi Primer.” MBL Fellow Amy Gladfelter of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, organized the workshop. By Amy S. Gladfelter, Timothy Y. James and Anthony
By Mollie Rappe It’s a bitter cold morning in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. By 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 22, the temperature has risen to 17 degrees. Factor in the 20-mph winds that whip into the small Cape Cod village from the waters of Vineyard Sound, and the temperature with wind chill registers 0 degrees —
Applications for several of the MBL Advanced Research Training courses, including the Embryology Course, are due February 1, 2019. By Anneke Kakebeen I evaluate experiences by this basic philosophy: Some things are a good experience, some are a good story. When I’m lucky, sometimes they are both. My summer at #Embryo2018 had all three scenarios. The
A photo taken in the MBL Embryology Course is one of Science’s picks! By Emily Petersen Our Science Visuals team reviewed the most striking photographs we published this year. Here are the ones that moved us the most. Read more … Caption: The transition from single cell to multicell organisms—a major step in evolution—may not
Rob Phillips of Caltech talks about starting over at age 40, popular science writing he admires, the “mysterious treasures” he sees in nature, the beauty of mathematics, and the numbers in biology he likes best. Phillips co-founded and co-directs the “Physical Biology of the Cell” course at MBL. The interview was conducted by student Kulyash
Congratulations to three MBL alumni who are among the new Hanna Gray Fellows announced by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) in September. These recent PhD and MD/PhD recipients will continue their training as postdoctoral fellows, and each will receive up to $1.4 million in funding over eight years, with mentoring and active involvement in the
By Tyler Moore Bellevue University I had the wonderful opportunity to spend two weeks studying in the Gene Regulatory Networks for Development course at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The course was led by Dr. Scott Barolo (U Michigan Medical School) and Dr. Isabelle Peter (Cal Tech) with contributions from many
A vivid image of a spider embryo created by Tessa Montague in the 2017 MBL Embryology course has taken 5th place in Nikon’s 2018 “Small World” Competition. Montague, then a graduate student at Harvard University, worked with Embryology course faculty member (and now MBL director) Nipam Patel to prepare the embryo for photomicrography. It must
Congratulations to Clifford Brangwynne of Princeton University/Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), who has been named a 2018 MacArthur Fellow (see video). In 2009 in the MBL Physiology course, Brangwynne, Anthony Hyman and colleagues discovered a new way for living cells to organize their components: Liquid-liquid phase separation, akin to oil separating from water. This turned