May 24, 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Roger Hanlon to Discuss Camouflage in Ocean Animals at “Science Before Supper” Talk, January 17

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MBL, Woods Hole, MA – MBL Senior Scientist Roger Hanlon, Director of the Program in Sensory Physiology and Behavior, will explore camouflage used by marine animals at the next “Science Before Supper” talk, Thursday, January 17 at 5:00 PM at the Falmouth Public Library’s Hermann Foundation Meeting Room, 300 Main Street, Falmouth.  His talk, “Color [...]

Christopher Neill Named Director of MBL Ecosystems Center

Printable version (pdf) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 5, 2012 CONTACT: Gina Hebert, Marine Biological Laboratory, 508-289-7725; ghebert@mbl.edu MBL, WOODS HOLE, MA—Christopher Neill, a senior scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) and director of the Brown-MBL Partnership, has been named Director of the MBL Ecosystems Center. The Ecosystems Center is the environmental research division of [...]

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, [...]

Gary Borisy Announces Plans to Retire as MBL President and Director

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Cape Cod Times article October 22, 2012 Dear Friends and Colleagues, I am writing to let you know of my intention to retire as President and Director of the MBL at the end of this year. It has been my great privilege and honor to lead the MBL for the past six and one-half years [...]

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 [...]