The Scientist profiles MBL Fellow Daniel Colón-Ramos of Yale School of Medicine, who is dedicated to understanding how neural connections (synapses) are formed and relate to behavior. Colón-Ramos frequently collaborates at the MBL with Hari Shroff of the NIH and Patrick La Rivière of University of Chicago. By Claudia Lopez-Lloreda As a Harvard undergraduate, Daniel
For more than 25 years, MBL Distinguished Scientist Jerry Melillo and his team have been conducting research in Harvard Forest—one of the longest-running climate change experiments on record. By Drew Pendergrass Ninety minutes west of Boston, up the road from a Benedictine monastery, lies what is perhaps the most studied forest on Earth. Since 1907,
Long-term research on climate change in the Arctic will be largely on hold this summer at Toolik Field Station in Toolik Lake, Alaska. “A major worry is not being able to collect data if some unusual event were to occur,” wrote MBL Senior Scientist Ed Rastetter. “The Arctic is undergoing rapid warming. For the most
react-text: 188 /react-textBy Barbara Moran react-empty: 262 react-empty: 263 Around this time last year, oceanographer Maureen Conte was on a research ship off the coast of Bermuda, hauling scientific instruments up out of the ocean. But so far this year, Conte, like many other scientists, is stuck at home. “Basically the entire U.S. research fleet
WBUR brings back videos of its most popular CitySpace stage shows, including MBL’s Brett Grasse and Carrie Albertin in “Cephalopod Movie Night”! “What do you want to watch tonight?” *scrolls for an hour* “Too…many…options…” *gives up and watches “Friends”* We at WBUR CitySpace empathize and we’re here to help whittle down the options. Since we
By Steven Withrow At the end of last year, the Falmouth Public Schools signed a formal partnership with several Woods Hole scientific organizations to give students and teachers new learning and professional development opportunities. Before the partnership could completely take shape, however, the coronavirus pandemic closed schools and forced students, teachers and scientists alike to
MBL Senior Scientist Joshua Rosenthal co-founded a company, Korro Bio, to explore the potential application to human therapeutics of RNA editing, which Rosenthal discovered occurs in cephalopods to an extraordinary degree. Below, Nature Biotechnology highlights Korro Bio as one of 10 biotech startups that are “pioneering cutting-edge approaches.” By Michael Eisenstein, Ken Garber, Caroline Seydel
By Ryan Spencer The rush-hour traffic has subsided and, overhead, planes fly with lessened frequency as the Earth, in its eons-old circumnavigation of the sun, brings the 2020 calendar careening toward April 22—Earth Day. The 50th anniversary of the international holiday will pass in relative silence this year on Cape Cod, without the traditional beach
In this video, the National Science Foundation highlights NSF-funded research by MBL Director Nipam Patel and Rachel Thayer of University of California, Berkeley, which was published recently in eLife. Credit: Dena Headlee, National Science Foundation, Office of Legislative and Public Affairs
MBL Senior Scientist Edward Rastetter talks to Mongabay about the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on field research at the MBL-led Arctic Long Term Ecological Research site in Toolik Lake, Alaska. By Liz Kimbrough The COVID-19 pandemic is giving “cancel culture” a new meaning. Weddings, graduations, academic conferences, sports events and birthday parties are all