Duke University Medical School doctoral student Briana Davis (alumna, MBL Zebrafish Development and Genetics, 2019) and her advisor John Rawls (course director, MBL Frontiers in Host-Microbe Interactions, 2015) have been awarded a Gilliam Fellowship from Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). The fellowships, which provide $50K per year for up to three years, seek to increase
This new MBL research was featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered” on July 30. Listen to the segment here. By Nell Greenfieldboyce Scientists report this week that they have disabled a pigmentation gene in a squid called Doryteuthis pealeii. Their success shows that cephalopods—which include squid and octopuses–can finally be studied using the same kind
Research from the MBL laboratories of Nipam Patel and Carrie Albertin is featured in the July issue of µChicago, the university’s monthly science e-newsletter. Sign up here to subscribe. Nature is painted with pigments—molecules that produce color by absorbing certain wavelengths and reflecting others. Chlorophyll is the pigment that makes plants green; melanin is a
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,
Recent research from MBL scientist Jennifer Morgan‘s lab is highlighted in this blog post at the journal eNeuro. Morgan studies the mechanisms that underlie Parkinson’s disease and several other neurodegenerative disorders, using the lamprey as a research model organism. Morgan also directs the MBL’s Eugene Bell Center for Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering. By Rosalind
By Patricia Daukantas In the laboratory, some photosensitive corals exhibit their own version of the observer effect: Exposing them to enough light for researchers to view them at microscopic scales changes the rates at which they grow and interact with symbiotic organisms such as algae. Scientists, however, want the coral polyps in their aquariums to
A new system that allows MBLWHOI Library patrons to comprehensively search the library’s holdings went live on July 8. Called PRIMO, it facilitates searching across collections: journal articles, books, the MBL and WHOI archives and even the Woods Hole Open Access Server repository. Searches can also extend to a global network of millions of records
By Emily Fishbein WOODS HOLE, MASS. — On Massachusetts’ Cape Cod, more than 9 out of 10 locals are white. The prestigious science community in the village of Woods Hole reflects a similar racial breakdown. On June 10, some 300 locals and scientists marched past the village’s six marine and coastal science laboratories, demanding racial equity
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