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MBL Summer Fellows
Nineteen scientists received fellowships totaling $302,675 to conduct research at the MBL during the summer and fall of 2005.
Angel Alonso, Ph.D.*
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
“On the role of dendritic Ca dynamics and electrogenesis in the generation of ‘persistent activity in entorhinal cortex neurons”
Supported by the Herbert W. Rand and the James A. and Faith Miller Fellowships.
Guo-Qiang Bi, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh
“Intracellular calcium dynamics in spike-timing-dependent plasticity”
Supported by the Lucy B. Leman, Erik B. Fries, and John O. Crane Fellowships.
John W. Fleeger, Ph.D.
Louisiana State University
“Benthic food webs in Plum Island Estuary”
Supported by the Herbert W. Rand Fellowship.
Ilya Fleidervish, Ph.D.
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
“The role of late sodium channels in dynamic control of neuronal integration”
Supported by the Gruss Lipper Foundation Fellowship.
Maria Gomez, Ph.D.
Boston University School of Medicine
“Mechanisms of extra-synaptic neurotransmitter release”
Supported by the MBL Associates and the Ann E. Kammer Fellowships.
Mia Horowitz, Ph.D.
Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel
“Studies on the function and intracellular localization of EHDs”
Supported by the Gruss Lipper Foundation Fellowship.
William R. Jeffery, Ph.D.
University of Maryland
“Evolutionary origin of neural crest stem cells”
Supported by the Laura and Arthur Colwin Endowed Summer Research Fellowship.
Edward R. Leadbetter, Ph.D.
University of Connecticut
“Marine sporocytophaga?” and “Pigmented marine endospore-forming bacteria”
Supported by the John O. Crane Fellowship and the Elisabet Samuelsson Director’s Discretionary Fund.
Christopher J. Lowe, Ph.D.
University of Chicago
“Origins and evolution of chordate brain patterning: Insights from hemichordates”
Supported by the Laura and Arthur Colwin Endowed Summer Research Fellowship
Dannel McCollum, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts Medical School
“Genetic and cytological characterization of lagging chromosomes in S. pombe”
Supported by the Laura and Arthur Colwin Endowed Summer Research Fellowship.
Robert L. Morris, Ph.D.
Wheaton College
“Coordination of ciliogenic and mitotic cycles during embryogenesis”
Supported by the Evelyn and Melvin Spiegel and Laura and Arthur Colwin Endowed Summer Research Fellowships.
Miguel Navarro, Ph.D.
Instituto de Parasitologia CSIC, Granada, Spain
“Nuclear compartment-alization of transcriptional domains in trypanosome”
Supported by the Laura and Arthur Colwin Endowed Summer Research Fellowship.
Eduardo A. Perozo, Ph.D.
University of Virginia
“Novel ion channels from marine prokaryotes via ecosystem-wide targeted PCR of hyperthermophilic communities”
Supported by the MBL Associates, Stephen W. Kuffler, Frank R. Lillie, H. Burr and Susie Steinbach, and Charles R. Crane Fellowships.
Anton Post, Ph.D.
Hebrew University, Eilat, Israel
“Niche adaptation and evolution of marine cyanobacteria: Biodiversity and environmental genomics”
Supported by the Gruss Lipper Foundation Fellowship.
David Rand, Ph.D.
Brown University
“Co-evolution of nuclear and mitochondrial proteins”
Supported by the William T. Golden Endowed Director’s Discretionary Fund.
Anthony Ricci, Ph.D.
LSU Medical Center
“Calcium regulation of hair cell mechano-electric transduction”
Supported by the MBL Associates, Charles R. Crane, Lucy B. Leman, G. F. Fuortes Memorial, Plum Foundation John E. Dowling, H. Keffer Hartline, and Edward F. MacNichol, Jr., Fellowships.
Charles B. Shuster, Ph.D.
New Mexico State University
“Coordination of mitosis and cytokinesis in animal cells”
Supported by Robert Day Allen and Baxter Postdoctoral Fellowships.
Jason Swedlow, Ph.D.
University of Dundee
“Mechanistic studies of the human mitotic centromere”
Supported by a Nikon Fellowship.
Kevin T. Vaughan, Ph.D.
University of Notre Dame
“Novel regulatory targets during cytoplasmic dynein-mediated transport”
Supported by the Laura and Arthur Colwin Endowed Summer Research Fellowship.
Albert and Ellen Grass Faculty Grant Program
Eight investigators received Grass Faculty Awards at the MBL in 2005. The goal of this program is to take advantage of the collaborative environment of the MBL and bring together neuroscientists at the assistant or associate professor level from different institutions to work together to conduct specific research in neuroscience.
- Leonardo Belluscio, Ph.D., an investigator with the National Institutes of Health and Rory McQuiston, Ph.D. an assistant professor in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond conducted a research project titled “Odorant activation of juxtaglomerular neurons in the mammalian olfactory bulb: Contributions to olfactory sensory processing.”
- William N. Green, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Physiology at the University of Chicago and John Marshall, Ph.D. an associate professor in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and Biotechnology at Brown University continued their research titled “Targeting and trafficking of glutamate receptors by PDZ domain proteins.”
- Richard Kramer, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley and Sonia Gasparini, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Neuroscience Center at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, conducted research titled “Remote photic control of dendritic excitability with light-activated ion channels.”
- Mark Warchol, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Stefan Heller, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary at Harvard Medical School conducted a project titled “Identification and isolation of stem cells from the vertebrate inner ear.”
Dart Scholars Program in Learning and Memory
Six scientists were named Dart Scholars in Learning and Memory in 2005. Sponsored by a generous grant from the Dart Neuroscience Limited Partnership, these awards bring top scientists in the field of learning and memory together to conduct research at the MBL for the summer.
- Elaine Bearer, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology and Brown University
“Molecular mechanisms of fast anterograde transport”
- Paul Forscher, Ph.D.
Yale University
“Role of calcium in regulation of cytoskeletal protein dynamics during axon growth and guidance”
- William Frost, Ph.D.
Chicago Medical School
“Optical recording studies of learning and memory in the marine mollusk Tritonia diomedea”
- David L. Glanzman Ph.D.
University of California in Los Angeles
“Development of the zebrafish into a model organism for the cellular and molecular analysis of non-associative memory”
- Daniel Johnston, Ph.D.
University of Texas
“Changes in dendritic excitability as a substrate for learning”
- Jeff Lichtman, Ph.D.
Harvard University
“Synaptic circuits in fluorescent mice: Axonal arbor morphology and circuit analysis in branbow multispectral neurons”
* The MBL was saddened to learn of the passing of Dr. Alonso early this summer.
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