May 25, 2013

Christopher Neill Named Director of Ecosystems Center

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Printable version (pdf) CONTACT: Gina Hebert, Marine Biological Laboratory, 508-289-7725; ghebert@mbl.edu Christopher Neill, a senior scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) and the Phyllis and Charles M. Rosenthal Director of the Brown-MBL Partnership, has been named Director of the MBL Ecosystems Center. The Ecosystems Center is the environmental research division of the MBL. Center [...]

Joint Brown University/MBL Graduate Program Awards Four Ph.D.s in 2012

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Printable version (pdf) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 21, 2012 Contacts: Diana Kenney, Marine Biological Laboratory 508-289-7139 or 508-289-7423; dkenney@mbl.edu or comm@mbl.edu David Orenstein, Brown University 401-863-1862; David_Orenstein@brown.edu WOODS HOLE, Mass., and PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Three women successfully defended their Ph.D. dissertations in the Brown-MBL Partnership and Graduate Program in Biological and Environmental Sciences in the [...]

MBL Receives Gift of T. H. Morgan’s Nobel Prize Medal and Diploma

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Printable version (pdf) Three granddaughters of Thomas Hunt Morgan, the late MBL scientist, trustee, and pioneer of modern genetics, have donated his Nobel Prize medal and brilliantly colored diploma to the MBL Archives. In 1933, Morgan received the first Nobel Prize ever awarded in the field of genetics for his “discoveries concerning the role played [...]

Harvard Biologist Joan Ruderman is Named President and Director of the Marine Biological Laboratory

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Printable version (pdf) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 3, 2012, 1200 EST CONTACT: Diana Kenney, Marine Biological Laboratory, 508-289-7139; dkenney@mbl.edu Joan V. Ruderman Biosketch (pdf format) MBL, WOODS HOLE, Mass.—Joan V. Ruderman, Ph.D., has been named President and Director of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), an independent, nonprofit center for international research and education in biology, biomedicine, [...]

MBL and Stanford Scientists Receive 2012 Lasker Award For Basic Medical Research

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Printable version (pdf) Embargoed until 8 AM EST, September 10, 2012 CONTACT:  Diana Kenney, Marine Biological Laboratory, dkenney@mbl.edu; 508-289-7139 Lasker Foundation press kit Michael Sheetz, James Spudich, and Ron Vale cited for groundbreaking discoveries related to biological motors WOODS HOLE, Mass.—Scientists who invented new ways to study how “cargo” is moved within cells and, as [...]

Why Are Our Salt Marshes Falling Apart?

Salt marsh creeks at Plum Island Estuary, Massachusetts, are lined with lush, smooth cordgrass. The plant's below-ground roots and above-ground leaves build and maintain salt marshes. Credit: David S. Johnson

Printable version (pdf) CONTACT: Diana Kenney, Marine Biological Laboratory dkenney@mbl.edu; 508-289-7139; 508-685-3525 Video Interview with Linda Deegan at Plum Island Estuary: http://youtu.be/eP3hRkX03Q8 WOODS HOLE, Mass.—Salt marshes have been disintegrating and dying over the past two decades along the U.S. Eastern seaboard and other highly developed coastlines, without anyone fully understanding why. This week in the [...]

E-Paper Technology Takes Cue from Nature

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It’s Hot Down Here: How Some Microbes Make a Living in Undersea Volcanoes

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Traveling on a Woods Hole Passport: From Physiology to the World

2012 Physiology course participants. Credit: Dyche Mullins

The Poetry of Science

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