Gitlin receives Appointment in Brown University MCB Department
The Brown University Appointments Committee recently approved Dr. Jonathan Gitlin’s appointment as Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry. He joins Marko Horb and Joel Smith as Bell Center faculty in Brown’s MCB, which is the largest on-campus department in the Division of Biology and Medicine. To learn more about the [...]
Steven Zottoli Joins the Bell Center
The faculty and staff of the Eugene Bell Center for Regenerative Biology & Tissue Engineering welcome Dr. Steven Zottoli, Howard B. Schow ’50 Professor of Biology at Williams College, as Adjunct Senior Scientist. Dr. Zottoli’s main research question is: after complete damage to their spinal cords, mammalian vertebrates do not regain function below the wound site. [...]
Jonathan Gitlin, new Acting Director of the Bell Center
We are very pleased that Jonathan Gitlin has generously agreed to serve as Director of the Bell Center. Jonathan has a long and distinguished career in academic medicine, and is widely known for his mentoring of faculty members. He will be joining the Bell Center as a senior research scientist while maintaining a joint appointment [...]
MBL Scientists Find Genes Linked to Human Neurological Disorders in Sea Lamprey Genome
Discovery will accelerate research on Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and spinal cord injury Printable version (pdf) MBL, WOODS HOLE, Mass.— Scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have identified several genes linked to human neurological disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and spinal cord injury, in the sea lamprey, a vertebrate fish whose whole-genome sequence [...]