 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Return to Table of Contents
 Robert Goldman Appointed
Director of Whitman Center
Long-time MBL summer investigator Robert Goldman has been appointed the first director of the newly established Whitman Center for Visiting Research at the MBL.
“I am delighted that Bob has accepted my invitation to serve a three-year term as Director of the Whitman Center,” Bill Speck announced in the fall of 2003. “As Chairman of the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at Northwestern University Medical School, Bob brings a wealth of research, administrative, and fundraising experience to this position. Bob’s duties as Whitman Center Director will include overseeing the renovation planning process and assisting me and the Development staff in raising the funds required to carry out our renovation and expansion plans.”
Goldman has been a summer investigator at the MBL since 1977, has served on the MBL’s Board of Trustees, and directed the Physiology course in the mid 1980s. He currently co-directs the Science Journalism Program at the MBL, which provides hands-on laboratory and field experiences for mid-career science writers, editors, and producers. A cell biologist, Goldman uses eggs from the surf clam Spisula in his research on the interactions of nuclear lamins and chromatin found in the nucleus. Mutations in the gene that produces lamins were recently linked to the rare yet devastating disorder, progeria, which causes premature aging in children.
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
