April 6, 2013
Biological Discovery in Woods Hole
MBL, WOODS HOLE, MA— Shark expert Dr. Greg Skomal, author of The Shark Handbook, and senior fisheries expert with Massachusetts Marine Fisheries, will give a free talk for grade-school students titled “The Great White Shark in New England: Jaws or Wildlife Treasure?” on Thursday, April 18at 3:00 PM in the MBL’s (Marine Biological Laboratory) Lillie [...]
Printable version (pdf) CONTACT: Susan Joslin, Marine Biological Laboratory, 508-289-7281; sjoslin@mbl.edu MBL, WOODS HOLE, MA— Novelist Julia Glass, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, will discuss her writing life during the lecture, “Inside the Head of a Novelist,” Friday, April 5at 7:30 PM in the MBL’s Lillie Auditorium 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole. [...]
Discovery will accelerate research on Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and spinal cord injury Printable version (pdf) MBL, WOODS HOLE, Mass.— Scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have identified several genes linked to human neurological disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and spinal cord injury, in the sea lamprey, a vertebrate fish whose whole-genome sequence [...]
MBL, WOODS HOLE, MA—Dr. Bruce J. Peterson, a senior scholar at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) has been selected by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) to receive the 2013 Alfred C. Redfield Lifetime Achievement Award. The award honors the career achievements of an aquatic scientist whose work is recognized for [...]
Printable version (pdf) CONTACT: Susan Joslin, Marine Biological Laboratory, 508-289-7281; sjoslin@mbl.edu MBL, WOODS HOLE, MA—Best-selling biographer, Justin Martin, will present a talk titled, “Frederick Law Olmsted: The Accidental Renaissance Man,” as part of the MBL Falmouth Forum series, Friday, March 1 at 7:30 PM in the MBL’s Lillie Auditorium, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole. The [...]
Printable version (pdf) CONTACT: Susan Joslin, Marine Biological Laboratory, 508-289-7281; sjoslin@mbl.edu MBL, Woods Hole, MA – Dr. John Hobbie, a Distinguished Scientist and Senior Scholar at the MBL’s (Marine Biological Laboratory) Ecosystems Center, will share his long and intimate knowledge of the Alaskan tundra in the third and final talk in the “Science Before Supper” [...]
Printable version (pdf) CONTACT: Susan Joslin, Marine Biological Laboratory, 508-289-7281; sjoslin@mbl.edu MBL, Woods Hole, MA – The MBL Associates invite middle-school students to explore “life under the lens” at a free school vacation week activity at the MBL (Marine Biological Laboratory), Wednesday, February 20 from 10:00 to 11:30 AM in the Loeb Laboratory, 18 MBL [...]
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