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July 2008

Date: Event:

07/01/08 Tuesday Night Seminar Series - Brad Shuster, New Mexico State University - "Defining the cleavage plane in echinoderm embryos" - 8:00 PM, Speck Auditorium

07/02/08 The Richard G. Kessel Lecture in Embryology - "Comparative Genomics and the Tempo and Mode of Metazoan Evolution" - Daniel Rokhsar, UC Berkeley and Joint Genome Institute - 9:00 AM, Speck Auditorium

Neural Systems & Behavior Seminars - "Variability, Compensation, Homeostasis and Neuromodulation in the Control of Circuit Function" - Eve Marder, Brandeis University - 8:00 PM, Speck Auditorium

Rainforest Reptile Show - MBL Club

07/03/08 Friday Evening Lecture - Porter Lecture - "From Membranes to Molecules. A Morphologist View of How Muscle Controls Calcium Movements" - Clara Franzini-Armstrong, University of Pennsylvania - 8:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium - Note: Thursday Lecture

07/04/08 MBL Holiday - Independence Day

07/05/08 The Nancy S. Rafferty Lectureship - "Early Morphogenesis of the Amphibian Embryo" - Ray Keller, University of Virginia - 9:00 AM, Speck Auditorium

07/07/08 Monday Night Neuroscience Seminars - "Sex and Smell: Molecular Architecture of Pheromone Signaling in Mammals" - Catherine du Lac, Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Speck Auditorium, 8:00 PM

07/08/08 Tuesday Night Seminar Series - David Odde, University of Minnesota - "The role of microtubule motors in budding yeast chromosome congression" - 8:00 PM, Speck Auditorium

07/09/08 Neural Systems & Behavior Seminars - "Sensory Systems and Predatory Behavior of Shrews and Moles" - Kenneth Catania, Vanderbilt University - 8:00 PM, Speck Auditorium

Whitman Society Reception (by invitation)

07/10/08 NeuroImaging Seminars – "How the ribbon synapse of rods and cones transmits the light response" - Rich Kramer, University of California, Berkeley - Speck Auditorium, 8:00 PM

07/11/08 Friday Evening Lecture - Distinguished Alumni Lecture - "The Microbial Basis for Life on Earth" - Thomas M. Schmidt, Michigan State University, co-director MBL Microbial Diversity Course - 8:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium

07/12/08 Microbial Diversity Symposium - From Metagenomes to Single Cell Microbiology

SPINES ends

07/14/08 The Arthur K. Parpart Lectureship - "Skin Stem Cells: At the Interface Between Biology and Medicine" - Elaine Fuchs, Rockefeller University, HHMI Investigator - Lillie Auditorium, 4:00 PM

Monday Night Neuroscience Seminars - "Optical Imaging of Single Neurons in Visual Cortex" - Clay Reid, Harvard Medical School - Speck Auditorium, 8:00 PM

07/15/08 Tuesday Night Seminar Series - Prasad Jallepalli, Sloan Kettering Institute - "Dissecting the Polo kinase-gated circuitry for cell division using chemical genetics" - 8:00 PM, Speck Auditorium

07/16/08 Neural Systems & Behavior Seminars - "Decision-making systems in the rodent: A journey from neurophysiology to clinical relevance through computation" - A. David Redish, University of Minnesota - 8:00 PM, Speck Auditorium

07/17/08-
07/18/08
Friday Evening Lectures - Forbes Lectures - Susan K. McConnell, Stanford University - 07/17: "Assembling a Neural Circuit: Transcriptional Control of Brain Wiring During Development"; 07/18: "Building a Brain During Development" - 8:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium

07/19/08 The S. Meryl Rose Lectureship - "Animal Diversity: Evolutionary Developmental Biology" - Dr. Richard Behringer, University of Texas - 9:00 AM - Speck Auditorium

07/21/08 The Gertrude Forkosh Waxler Lectureship - "Friday Night at the Kidd: How Budding Yeast Cells Score a Mate" - Andrew Murray, Harvard University - 4:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium

Monday Night Neuroscience Seminars - "Using quantitative fluorescent speckle microscopy to understand the integration of actin dynamics and adhesion during cell migration" - Clare Waterman, NIH - Speck Auditorium, 8:00 PM

07/22/08 Tuesday Night Seminar Series - Min Zhao, UC Davis - "Electric cue predominates in directing cell migration in epithelial wound healing" - 8:00 PM, Speck Auditorium

Embryology Course Lecture - "Calcium Waves in Development" - Lionel Jaffe, MBL - 8:00 PM Lillie Auditorium

07/23/08 A special benefit for the Falmouth Forum Endowment featuring New York Times columnist David Pogue

Neural Systems & Behavior Seminars - The Masakazu Konishi Endowed Lectureship in Neural Systems and Behavior - "Assembling a Circuit for Olfactory Behavior" - Cori Bargmann, Rockefeller University - 8:00 PM, Speck Auditorium

07/24/08 The Tay Hayashi Lectureship in Cell Physiology - "Getting In and Out of Mitosis" - Tim Hunt, Cancer Research UK - 9:00 AM, Lillie Auditorium

NeuroImaging Seminars – "Analysis of synaptagmin 2 function at the rat calyx of Held using novel adenoviral vectors" - Sam Young, Max Planck Institute - Speck Auditorium, 8:00 PM

07/25/08 The Gail and Elkan Blout Lecture - "The Amazing Travel of Malaria Sporozoites" - Victor Nussenzweig, New York University School of Medicine - Candle House 104, 8:30 AM

First Annual Woods Hole Artisans’ Summer Fair - 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM - Waterfront Park, Water Street, Woods Hole. Rain date is Wednesday, July 30. Sponsored by the MBL.

Friday Evening Lecture - "Butterfly Wings and Snail Shells: Evolution in Action" - Nipam H. Patel, University of California, Berkeley; co-director MBL Embryology Course - 8:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium

07/27/08 Embryology course ends

Workshop in Molecular Evolution begins

07/28/08 “Sea Songs and Stories” with Jackson Gillman - 7:00 PM, MBL Club

Monday Night Neuroscience Seminars - "Genomic dark matter in the nervous system" - Soren Impey, Oregon Health & Science University - Speck Auditorium, 8:00 PM

07/29/08 Memorial service for Dr. Harlyn Halvorson, director emeritus of the MBL - Church of the Messiah, 22 Church St., Woods Hole, 11:00 AM

Tuesday Night Seminar Series - David Sharp, Albert Einstein College of Medicine - "Centrosomes and chromosome motility" - 8:00 PM, Speck Auditorium

07/30/08 Neural Systems & Behavior Seminars - "Merging mind and machines: Neural interface systems for humans with paralysis" - John Donoghue, Brown University - 8:00 PM, Speck Auditorium

07/31/08 NeuroImaging Seminars – "Active dendritic conductances dynamically regulate GABA release from thalamic interneurons" - Wade Regehr, Harvard University - Speck Auditorium, 8:00 PM

Microbial Diversity course ends