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Summer 2004 Events
The MBL sponsored many special events during summer 2004 including,
symposia, concerts, lecture series, meetings, receptions, dinners, and art exhibits.
Council of Visitors Meeting
The MBL Council of Visitors are ambassadors for the MBL, charged with promoting the Lab in their home cities. At the 2004 annual meeting on campus, members attended a program given by experts in the neurobiology of learning and memory, and had some hands-on experience with Aplysia californica, the sea slug that is a model for this type of research.
Whitman Society Reception
The 2004 annual reception honoring members of the Whitman Society was the best attended ever. Despite occasional drizzle, guests enjoyed the smooth jazz of Four Guys in Tuxes and the hospitality of the National Academy of Science’s Jonsson Center. The Whitman Society recognizes those who contribute $1,000 or more to the MBL Annual Fund each year. (At left, Carroll Pierce, Evelyn Lipper, John Dowling, and JeJe Pierce)
Rodolfo Llinás Gives First Distinguished Lectureship on Mind, Brain, and Human Experience
Dr. Rodolfo Llinás (left) was the inaugural speaker in a new distinguished lectureship on mind, brain, and human experience sponsored by long-time MBL friend Marius Robinson (right), an MBL alumnus and current member of the MBL Council of Visitors. In his talk — titled “Of Neurons, Networks and Cognition: Is Subjectivity Beyond Science?”— Dr. Llinás presented an original view of the evolution and nature of mind. He is professor and chairman of the Department of Physiology and Neuroscience and the Thomas & Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience at New York University School of Medicine.
Imaging Cellular and Molecular Dynamics—A symposium honoring Dr. Shinya Inoué
The MBL celebrated Dr. Shinya Inoué’s recent award of the International Prize for Biology with a symposium held in his honor on July 9, 2004. The event, sponsored by the member companies of the Optical Imaging Association (OPIA), included talks by 12 leading researchers in the field of imaging cellular and molecular dynamics, and a special lecture by Dr. Inoué.
Keith Porter Endowed Lectureship Established
In spring 2004, the Keith R. Porter Endowment for Cell Biology established an endowed lecture fund to support an annual Friday Evening Lecture (FEL) at the MBL named the Keith Porter Lecture. Dr. Porter’s impact on the field of cell biology and the MBL are significant and indelible. Dr. Porter first visited the MBL in 1937 as a summer investigator. From 1975 to 1977, he served as Director of the MBL. Dr. Porter was a MBL Trustee from 1976 to 1980, a member of the Executive Committee, and a lifetime member of the MBL Corporation.
The inaugural Keith Porter Lecture was given by Dr. Ron Vale (left). Dr. Vale is the William K. Hamilton Distinguished Professor of Anesthesia and Chair of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology Program at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Dr. Vale conducted research at the MBL as a graduate student in the early 1980s, and is recognized for his shared discovery of the molecular motor, kinesin.
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