The Hockaday School Visits MBL | Hockaday@MBL
In November, students from The Hockaday School headed to Woods Hole for our Anatomy and Development of Marine Vertebrates and Invertebrates course.
Secret Life of the ‘Platisphere’ Exposed | Microscopy and Analysis
By Rebecca Pool Using novel epifluorescence imaging developed at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, researchers have unravelled the structure of the microbial communities that coat microplastic trash in the world’s oceans. To study the ‘Platisphere’ – microscopic communities on plastic marine debris – Linda Amaral-Zettler from MBL and the Royal Netherlands Institute for
A New Point of View at Marine Biological Laboratory | The College, University of Chicago
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
Wanted: Scientists Trained in Convergence Science | The Lasker Foundation
Note: The path-breaking Physiology Course is one of several research training programs in quantitative biology offered at the Marine Biological Laboratory. Others include Physical Biology of the Cell and University of Chicago’s QBio Bootcamp @MBL. MBL also offers courses in quantitative microscopy, including Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy, Optical Microscopy and Imaging in the Biomedical
Baby Cephalopods’ First Moments | Nature | PBS
np_core_post_headers_video The Marine Biological Laboratory is “one of the few places where you can see octopuses hatching from the egg,” as shown in this clip from “Octopus: Making Contact,” a Nature/PBS documentary that premiered on Oct. 2. Bret Grasse, MBL’s manager of cephalopod operations, appears earlier in the episode, along with some of the more
Celebrating a Half-Century of Revolutionary Scientific Research | UChicago News
By Stephan Benzkofer Fifty years ago, scientists at the University of Chicago sought to break through traditional academic barriers to revolutionize the field of biology. They created the Committee on Evolutionary Biology, which has been a driving force behind impactful scientific inquiry at the University of Chicago ever since. To this day, its deeply interconnected graduate
Disco Octopus, Cosmic Pretzel and More: October’s Best Science Images | Nature
The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team. By Emma Stoye Octopus embryo. This microscope image of a California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides) embryo was one of the top 20 images in Nikon’s Small World photomicrography contest. It was entered by biologists Martyna Lukoseviciute of the University of Oxford, UK, and Carrie Albertin
Deep Carbon, Deep Insights into Research Funding | AGU Blogosphere
Note: Mitchell Sogin, MBL Distinguished Senior Scientist, co-chairs the Deep Life Community in the Deep Carbon Observatory. By Kasia Kornecki These days, most researchers know very well that in order to get funding, it’s helpful to already have funding. The solemn reality of the grant cycle is that solid preliminary results and immediate applications are
Poet of the Sea, 1940s–1950s | The Scientist Magazine
By Ashley Yeager The sea, Rachel Carson once wrote, is the “great mother of life.” Most know Carson for Silent Spring, an environmental manifesto that accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation on pesticides. The book, published in 1962, contributed to the initiation of a federal ban on the use of the synthetic organic compound
Getting the Microbe Story, Straight From the Mouth｜Knowable Magazine
By Eryn Brown If you’ve ever brushed your teeth or swished some mouthwash, they’ve been in your sight: the hundreds of billions of microorganisms — mostly bacteria — that live in the average human mouth. Dangling from the hard palate, burrowed in the nooks and crannies of the tongue and intertwined in the plaque on teeth are