From The Ecosystems Center:
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced the election of 203 new Fellows and 24 new Foreign Honorary Members. Those elected include Jerry M. Melillo, MBL Senior Scientist and Co-Director of The Ecosystems Center. MBL Whitman investigator Avram Hershko was named a Foreign Honorary Member.
From the Bay Paul Center:
Bay Paul Center Director and MBL Senior Scientist Mitch Sogin has been awarded the 2007 American Society for Microbiology (ASM) USFCC/J. Roger Porter Award. This award, supported by the United States Federation for Culture Collections (USFCC) and the ASM, recognizes Mitch for his lifetime contributions to microbial diversity and for his leading-edge work in development of an environmental microbial diversity survey. Mitch received his award this month during the 107th General Meeting of the ASM in Toronto where he also delivered the USFCC/J. Roger Porter Award Lecture. ASM is the world’s oldest and largest life science organization and has more than 43,000 members worldwide.
Julie Huber, an assistant scientist in the laboratory of Mitch Sogin, has received a $40,000 fellowship as part of the L’Oreal USA Fellowships for Women in Science Program.The fellowship is a national program aimed to annually recognize, reward, and support five young women researchers in the U.S. who are pursuing careers in the life and physical/material sciences, as well as mathematics, engineering and computer science.
From the BioCurrents Research Center:
BioCurrents Research Center Director Peter J.S. Smith was appointed an Honorary Professor in the School of Electronic Engineering, University of Wales, Bangor.
From the Bordenstein Laboratory:
Lo, N., C. Paraskevopoulos, K. Bourtzis, S.L. O’Neill, J.H. Werren, S.R. Bordenstein, and C. Bandi. (2007) Taxonomic status of the intracellular bacterium Wolbachia pipientis. International Journal of Systematics and Evolutionary Microbiology 57: 654-657.
Sanogo, Y.O., S.L. Dobson, S.R. Bordenstein, and R.J. Novak. (2007) Disruption of the Wolbachia surface protein gene wspB by a transposable element in mosquitoes of the Culex pipiens complex (Diptera: Culicidae). Insect Molecular Biology 16(2): 143-154.
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From the Conte Laboratory:
Adjunct Associate Scientist Maureen Conte was elected to the Fleet Improvement Committee, UNOLS (the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System). The FIC is currently working on the Fleet Improvement Plan, which provides recommendations concerning the future size and configuration of the U.S. oceanographic research fleet. She was also awarded American Geophysical Union’s “Editor’s Citation for Excellence in Refereeing,” for service to the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.
Conte’s summer REU student, Jasmine Crumey (an undergraduate at Albany State University) received the “Outstanding Student Paper” award by AGU’s Biogeosciences Division for her oral presentation about her REU research results at the December AGU meeting in San Francisco.
From the Hanlon Laboratory:
Senior Scientist Roger Hanlon was inducted into The Boston Sea Rovers, one of the oldest and most distinguished dive clubs in America dedicated to increasing awareness and appreciation of the marine environment on March 4. Roger also presented a talk at The Sea Rover’s 53rd Annual Underwater Clinic in Boston that weekend. The annual clinics include seminars covering every aspect of scuba diving and the marine environment, detailed workshops on advanced diving techniques, a world-class evening film festival, and the largest display of dive equipment and services in New England. There are approximately 90 members of the organization, however only about a dozen (including Robert Ballard and Sylvia Earle) are scientists.
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