The MBL is proud and inspired to see so many familiar faces in this list, compiled by Cell Mentor/Cell Press! Among them are MBL Fellows Daniel Colón-Ramos and Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado; the late Joe L. Martinez Jr., co-founder of the MBL SPINES course; Veronica G. Martinez Acosta, co-director of the Biological Discovery in Woods Hole
Catherine Dulac of Harvard University/HHMI, a Whitman scientist at MBL in 2018, is one of four recipients of the prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. Dulac was recognized for her work identifying brain circuits that control parenting behavior. September 10, 2020 – San Francisco – The Breakthrough Prize Foundation today announced the esteemed recipients of
The new Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation at the University of Chicago comprises a collaborative group of mathematicians and statisticians from UChicago, Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who seek to bring powerful mathematical ideas to bear on key contemporary scientific and technological challenges. IMSI is funded
The Chicago Immunoengineering Innovation Center has launched at the University of Chicago, with a focus on developing new technologies to treat diseases, including cancer, autoimmune disorders, and, most recently, COVID-19. Based at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, the new center will catalyze fundamental and translational research in immunology, serving as a hub for engineers,
MBL Society Members Thoru Pederson and James P. Collins, who also co-directs the MBL-ASU History of Biology seminars, are among 14 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
Otto Myerhof received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1922 for describing the “relationship between consumption of oxygen and metabolism of lactic acid in muscle.” After fleeing Nazi Germany, he was offered a position at the University of Pennsylvania and began spending summers at the MBL as a researcher (1941) and Library Researcher
Giro Miesenböck, an alumnus of the MBL’s Optical Microscopy and Imaging in the Biomedical Sciences course (1994), is a co-recipient of the 2020 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine for conducting fundamental research in the development of optogenetics, a revolutionary tool in neuroscience research. Miesenböck, who is based at the University of Oxford, shares
This series features MBL community members who in some way are addressing the coronavirus crisis. Suggestions for future profiles may be sent here. By Diana Kenney From their Bay Area home, Amanda Martinez and Rob McGinnis read news reports, with growing unease, on the dire lack of protective gear for medical workers as COVID-19 raced
Twelve members of the MBL’s research, education, and alumni communities have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of their “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.” Election to the Academy is widely considered a mark of excellence in science, and is one of the highest honors a scientist can attain.
Promega supports the MBL in a variety of ways, including donating molecular cell biology resources to the MBL courses through the Scientific Vendor Partnership program. By Shelley K. Mesch A Promega Corp. product received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to be used in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s test for