MBL, WOODS HOLE, MA—Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and MBL Whitman Center researcher Ron Vale spent much of the summer of 2011 directing his colleagues in a series of videos for iBioSeminars, a free, open-access, educational resource Vale founded in 2007 that has blossomed into a treasure trove for anyone interested in the life sciences. The filming process was featured on the MBL blog in August.
Vale confers with iBio's videographer/digital editor Isaac Conway-Stenzel. Photo by Diana Kenney
iBioSeminars are videos of the world’s best biologists lecturing on topics of their expertise. Some are seminar length, while others are insightful nuggets just a few minutes long. They can be downloaded and used by professors, scientists, journalists, historians of science, or just perused by anyone seeking enlightenment on contemporary biology. A companion to the lectures is iBioMagazine, which has short videos that highlight "the human side of research," according to Vale.
This summer at MBL, Vale videotaped a whole gallery of "stars" in biology, many of whom were on campus to teach, lecture or conduct research. So far, Roger Hanlon's and Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa's videos are on the website, and Matthew Masalson was in iBioMagazine. The following videos will be posted soon: Gary Borisy, Shinya Inoué, of the MBL; Ed Taylor of University of Chicago; Jack Szostak, Matthew Meselson, Tim Mitchison, Andrew Murray, Xiaowei Zhuang, and Scott Edwards of Harvard University; Nancy Knowlton of Smithsonian Institution; Hugh Huxley of Brandeis University; Avram Hershko of the Technion in Haifa, Israel; and Melissa Moore of UMass Medical School.
iBio Seminars is funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the American Society for Cell Biology, and the University of California-San Francisco.
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