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| 08/01/08 |
MBL Corporation Meeting - 9:30 AM, Lillie Auditorium - view meeting agenda |
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Friday Evening Lecture - "The Great Ideas of Biology" - Sir Paul M. Nurse, The Rockefeller University; 2001 Nobel Laureate - 8:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium |
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| 08/02/08 |
Biology of Parasitism course ends |
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| 08/03/08 |
Methods in Computational Neuroscience course starts |
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Molecular Biology of Aging course starts |
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Physiology course ends |
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| 08/04/08 |
Monday Night Neuroscience Seminars - "Synaptic specificity in the retina" - Joshua Sanes, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University - Speck Auditorium, 8:00 PM |
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| 08/05/08 |
Seminar sponsored by the new Cellular Dynamics Program - "Imaging Dynamic Protein Interactions in the Living Cell Nucleus" - Richard N. Day, Associate Professor, Departments of Internal Medicine and Cell Biology, University of Virginia - 4:00 pm, Lillie 103 |
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| 08/06/08 |
Molecular Mycology course starts |
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Neural Systems & Behavior Seminars - "Retinal circuit and computation for differential motion sensitivity" - Stephen Baccus, Stanford University School of Medicine - in collaboration with the Methods in Computational Neuroscience Course - 8:00 PM, Speck Auditorium |
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Ice Cream Social and Children's Games - Join us for a delicious old-fashioned ice cream sundae and play some fun, old-fashioned outdoor games including a three-legged race, wheelbarrow race, egg & spoon relay race, and water balloon toss. (If it rains we'll play indoor games inside the MBL Club.) - 6:30 PM, MBL Club - Free for members, Non-members: adults, $5; kids 12 and under, $3. |
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| 08/07/08 |
The Walter Massey Family Lectureship - "The Rise and Fall of REST, Creating the Nervous System" - Gail Mandel, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University - 4:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium |
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NeuroImaging Seminars – "Multimodal imaging of synaptic circuits and odor processing in the mouse olfactory bulb" - Venki Murthy, Harvard University - Speck Auditorium, 8:00 PM |
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| 08/08/08 |
Friday Evening Lecture - Distinguished Alumni Lecture - "Delaying the Degenerative Diseases of Aging" - Bruce N. Ames, University of California, Berkeley; Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute - 8:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium |
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Workshop in Molecular Evolution ends |
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| 08/10/08 |
MBL Gala - Featuring the Tokyo String Quartet - 5:30 PM, Meigs Room, Swope |
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Zebrafish Development & Genetics course starts |
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Neurobiology course ends |
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Neural Systems & Behavior course ends |
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| 08/11/08 |
Whitman Investigators Brown Bag Lunch Meeting - Bob Goldman, Director, Whitman Center for Visiting Research and Josh Hamilton, Chief Academic and Scientific Officer invite all MBL Whitman Investigators - 12:00 PM, Speck Auditorium |
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| 08/13/08 |
MBLWHOI Library Summer Event - "DNA Replication: A Celebration of Elegance" - Dr. Matthew Meselson - 4:00 PM, Bay Reading Room, MBLWHOI Library |
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| 08/14/08 |
"New Hope for Haiti" - A talk presented by The Haiti Fund - Learn about the plight of the Haitian people and how the Haiti Fund has developed innovative projects to help reforest the barren countryside, create sustainable agriculture, and launch aquaculture projects in conjunction with the MBL to develop a local food source. 7:00 PM, Highfield Hall, 56 Highfield Drive, Falmouth |
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NeuroImaging Seminars – "Serial block-face electron microscopy: staining, imaging, analyzing" - Winfried Denk, Max Planck Institute - Speck Auditorium, 8:00 PM |
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| 08/15/08 |
Young Scientist Symposium - 10:00 AM, Speck Auditorium. |
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Friday Evening Lecture - "Meeting the Climate-Change Challenge: What Do We Know? What Should We Do?" - John P. Holdren, Woods Hole Research Center - 8:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium |
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| 08/16/08 |
Neuroinformatics course starts |
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| 08/17/08 |
Fundamental Issues in Vision Research course starts |
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| 08/19/08 |
The Ruth Sager Lecture in Genetics - "Forward Genetics in the Mouse: Embryonic Patterning Meets Cell Biology" - Kathryn Anderson, Sloan Kettering Institute - Lillie Auditorium, 8:00 PM |
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Special Seminar, Fundamentals in Vision Research - "Genetic Control of Eye Development from Flatworms to Humans" - Walter Gehring, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland - 8:00 PM, Candle House 104 |
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08/22/08 |
Colloquium on the Biology of Aging - Sponsored by The Ellison Medical Foundation and the MBL |
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| 08/20/08 |
"FRET-ing about insulin release from the pancreas: What NOS has to do with it" - Mark A. Rizzo, University of Maryland at Baltimore, Cellular Dynamics Imaging Program candidate - 12:00 Noon, Lillie 103 |
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Special lecture in conjunction with the Colloquium on the Biology of Aging - "An Informatics Macroscope for the Biology of Aging" - Indra Neil Sarkar, MBLWHOI Library - Lillie Auditorium, 3:15 PM |
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| 08/21/08 |
NeuroImaging Seminars – "Recording membrane potential with light: opening the gate to dendritic spine signal integration analysis." - Dejan Zecevic, Yale University - Candle House, 8:00 PM |
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Special Seminar, Fundamentals in Vision Research - "Functional Microarchitecture of the Visual Cortex" - R. Clay Reid, Harvard Medical School - 8:00 PM, Candle House 104 |
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| 08/22/08 |
Friday Evening Lecture - "Universal Genetic Programs of Animal Longevity" - Gary Ruvkun, Harvard Medical School, co-director MBL Biology of Aging Course - 8:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium |
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Molecular Mycology course ends |
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| 08/23/08 |
Molecular Biology of Aging course ends |
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| 08/24/08 |
Zebrafish Development & Genetics course ends |
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| 08/25/08 |
Special Seminar, Fundamentals in Vision Research - "Collagen XVIII/Endostatins and Macular Degeneration" - Bjorn R. Olsen, Harvard Medical School - 8:00 PM, Candle House 104 |
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| 08/27/08 |
Special Seminar, Fundamentals in Vision Research - "How the Visual System Got Its Stripes" - Barbara Chapman, University of California Davis - 8:00 PM, Candle House 104 |
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| 08/30/08 |
Fundamental Issues in Vision Research course ends |
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| 08/31/08 |
Methods in Computational Neuroscience course ends |
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Neuroinformatics course ends |
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