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August 2008

Date: Event:

08/01/08 MBL Corporation Meeting - 9:30 AM, Lillie Auditorium - view meeting agenda

Friday Evening Lecture - "The Great Ideas of Biology" - Sir Paul M. Nurse, The Rockefeller University; 2001 Nobel Laureate - 8:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium

08/02/08 Biology of Parasitism course ends

08/03/08 Methods in Computational Neuroscience course starts

Molecular Biology of Aging course starts

Physiology course ends

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

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

08/06/08 Molecular Mycology course starts

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



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.


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

NeuroImaging Seminars – "Multimodal imaging of synaptic circuits and odor processing in the mouse olfactory bulb" - Venki Murthy, Harvard University - Speck Auditorium, 8:00 PM


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



Workshop in Molecular Evolution ends


08/10/08 MBL Gala - Featuring the Tokyo String Quartet - 5:30 PM, Meigs Room, Swope



Zebrafish Development & Genetics course starts



Neurobiology course ends



Neural Systems & Behavior course ends


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

08/13/08 MBLWHOI Library Summer Event - "DNA Replication: A Celebration of Elegance" - Dr. Matthew Meselson - 4:00 PM, Bay Reading Room, MBLWHOI Library

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

NeuroImaging Seminars – "Serial block-face electron microscopy: staining, imaging, analyzing" - Winfried Denk, Max Planck Institute - Speck Auditorium, 8:00 PM


08/15/08 Young Scientist Symposium - 10:00 AM, Speck Auditorium.

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


08/16/08 Neuroinformatics course starts


08/17/08 Fundamental Issues in Vision Research course starts


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

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


08/20/08-
08/22/08
Colloquium on the Biology of Aging - Sponsored by The Ellison Medical Foundation and the MBL

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

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


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

Special Seminar, Fundamentals in Vision Research - "Functional Microarchitecture of the Visual Cortex" - R. Clay Reid, Harvard Medical School - 8:00 PM, Candle House 104


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



Molecular Mycology course ends


08/23/08 Molecular Biology of Aging course ends


08/24/08 Zebrafish Development & Genetics course ends

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

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


08/30/08 Fundamental Issues in Vision Research course ends


08/31/08 Methods in Computational Neuroscience course ends



Neuroinformatics course ends