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MBL Catalyst, Volume 1, Number 1, Fall 2006
Full magazine (PDF format)
President & CEO: Gary G. Borisy
Editor-in-Chief: Pamela Clapp Hinkle
Guest Science Editor: Thoru Pederson
Editor/Writer: Andrea Early
Contributors: Karen Wiens, Beth Ready Liles, Gina Hebert
Art Direction: Lasater/Sumpter Design, Inc.
Supplemental Material
Photo Descriptions and Credits
- Inside front cover: Pamela Clapp Hinkle at the MBL’s Toolik Lake field site in Alaska, Molly Murray
- Table of Contents page: (Top) Eel pond panorama, Tom Kleindinst; (Center) Maria Gomez in the MBL’s zebrafish room, Tom Kleindinst; (Bottom) Fluorescent light micrograph of two mouse fibroblast cells, showing their nuclei (green), actin (blue) and microtubule cytoskeleton (yellow), which supports the cell's structure, allows the cell to move and divide, and assists in the transport of organelles and vesicles within the cell, Torsten Wittmann, UCSF
- P. 2-3: MBL director and CEO Gary Borisy from atop the Redfield building in Woods Hole, Tom Kleindinst
- P. 3: (Left) Pipetting scientist, Tom Kleindinst; (Center) Astrolithium microbe, courtesy of MBL micro*scope (http://starcentral.mbl.edu/microscope/portal.php) and D. Patterson, L. Amaral Zettler, M. Peglar, T. Nerad; (Right) MBL boat captain William Klimm III with marine organisms, Tom Kleindinst
- P. 4: (Left) Mitchell Sogin, director of the MBL’s Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution examines a bacteria culture, Tom Kleindinst; (Right) Cell division in a newt lung epithelial cell. The mitotic spindle (green), and its associated chromosomes (blue), forms within a cage of keratin filaments (red) that surrounded the former nucleus. Image by Conly L. Rieder.
- P. 5: (Left) Isolated rat nerve cell stained with fluorescent probes that specifically recognize dopamine transporters (green) and cell membrane pores called sodium channels (red). The image, obtained at the MBL’s confocal microscopy facility, shows that both proteins are present in the cell membrane (combined image: yellow = red+green), where they are hypothesized to interact, leading to the release of dopamine. Image by Maria Gomez; (Center) Squid, Karen Crawford; (Right) Gary Borisy, image by Tom Kleindinst
- P 6: (Center): Bacterial community, courtesy of MBL micro*scope (http://starcentral.mbl.edu/microscope/portal.php) and S. J. Giovannoni, E. F. DeLong, T. M. Schmidt, N. R. Pace
- P. 7: Arctic research at the MBL’s Toolik Lake field station in Alaska, James Laundre
- P. 8: Zebrafish, Gabriele Gerlach
- P 9: Maria Gomez in the MBL’s zebrafish rearing room, Tom Kleindinst
- P. 10-11: Fluorescent light micrograph of two mouse fibroblast cells, showing their nuclei (green), actin (blue) and microtubule cytoskeleton (yellow), which supports the cell's structure, allows the cell to move and divide, and assists in the transport of organelles and vesicles within the cell, Torsten Wittmann, UCSF
- P. 11: Clare Waterman-Storer and biceps tattoo, Tom Kleindinst
- P.12-13: Various images of Robert Goldman, Tom Kleindinst
- P. 13: Scientific collaboration is a signature part of the MBL experience, Tom Kleindinst
- P. 14: (Top) MBL advanced-level science courses, such as the Biology of Parasitism, attract scientists from around the world, Tom Kleindinst; (Left) Arthrospira microbe courtesy of MBL micro*scope (http://starcentral.mbl.edu/microscope/portal.php)and B. Andersen and D. J. Patterson
- P. 15: (Inset) The vorticella (as viewed with the LCPolScope) has a tiny spring that is, gram for gram, the most powerful known engine in biology, Danielle Cook France; (Main image) MBL distinguished scientist Shinya Inoué takes his Centrifugal Polarizing Microscope for a spin, Tom Kleindinst
- P. 16: Robert Carlin
- Back cover: Toolik Lake, Alaska, Laura Broughton
Illustration Descriptions and Credits
- P. 2: Cells have features extending to within and beyond the plasma membrane. One result is the existence of complex mosaics of morphological and surface charge domains that impart dielectric properties. Thus, when cells are placed in non-uniform electric fields they can become more or less polarized than the surrounding medium and exhibit positive or negative dielectrophoresis. Forces then act upon the cells allowing them to be manipulated and moved in a controlled manner. Illustration: Tamara Clark (http://www.tamaraclark.com/about.html)
- P. 3: Red blood cells, Tamara Clark
- P. 14: Trypanosome parasites in red blood, Tim Gunther (http://www.gunthergraphics.biz/html/home.htm)
News & Notes
Papers cited:
- Unfathomable Microbial Diversity in the Deep Ocean
Sogin, ML; Morrison, HG; Huber, JA; Mark Welch, D; Huse, SM; Neal, PR; Arrieta, JM; and Herndl, GJ. Microbial diversity in the deep sea and the underexplored "rare biosphere". Proc Natl Acad Sci 103 (2006): 12115-12120
- How Our Seas Became Less Salty
Peterson, BJ; Holmes, RM; McClelland, JW; Vörösmarty, CJ; Lammers, RB; Shiklomanov, AI; Shiklomanov, IA; Rahmstorf, S. Increasing River Discharge to the Arctic Ocean. Science 298 (2006): 2171-2173
- New Method to Measure Nitrogen Transfer by Fungi
Hobbie, JE; Hobbie, EA. N-15 in symbiotic fungi and plants estimates nitrogen and carbon flux rates in Arctic tundra. Ecology. 87 (2006): 816-822.
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MBL Moment
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Memorabilia
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