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Volume 12, No. 2, Summer 02 | Return to Table of Contents
Awards Given to Top Presentations at the 2002 MBL General Scientific Meetings
On the recommendation of the Science Council, the MBL reinstated the MBL Award for outstanding presentations at the Laboratory’s annual General Scientific Meetings. The award in each category consists of a crystal clock and a $300 cash prize.
This year 56 presentations were given during the Meetings, which were held August 12 to 14 in the Lillie Auditorium. After peer-review of all papers and talks, four awards and two honorable mentions were presented in the following categories:
Senior Investigator: Peter Armstrong, Margaret Armstrong, R. L. Pardy, Alice Child and Norman Wainwright, “Histochemical demonstration of lipopolysaccharide in the cell wall of a eukaryote, the green alga Chlorella”
Junior Investigator: Michael Smotherman, “Acetylcholine mediates excitatory input to chromatophore motoneurons in the squid, Loligo pealei”
Graduate Student: Beate Mittmann, “Early neurogenesis in the horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus and its implication for arthropod relationships”
Undergraduate Student: Jane La Du, Deana Erdner, Sonya Dyhrman, and Don Anderson, “Molecular approaches to understanding population dynamics of the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense”
Student Honorable Mentions: Jeremy M. Testa, Matt Charette, Edward Sholkovitz, Matt Allen, Adam Rago, and Craig Herbold, “Dissolved iron cycling in the subterranean estuary of a coastal bay: Waquoit Bay, Massachusetts”
D. E. Arnolds, S. J. Zottoli, C. E. Adams, S. M. Dineen, S. Fevrier, Y. Guo, and A. J. Pascal, “Physiological effects of tricaine on the supramedullary/dorsal neurons of the cunner, Tautogolabrus |
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