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Honors and Awards
- The Ellison Medical Foundation has awarded MBL summer investigator Robert Goldman a Senior Scholar Award in Aging. The prestigious award is designed to provide established investigators significant support for innovative basic biological research programs relevant to understanding aging processes and age-related diseases and disabilities. Goldman uses eggs from the surf clam Spisula in his research on the interactions of proteins called lamins and chromatin found in the nucleus. Goldman will use the four-year, approximately $1 million Senior Scholar Award to fund his studies on Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome, which causes premature aging in children, and other human diseases linked to lamins. Goldman is Director of the Whitman Center for Visiting Research at the MBL and Chairman of the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at Northwestern University Medical School. He has been a summer investigator at the MBL since 1977, has served on the MBL’s Board of Trustees, and directed the Laboratory’s Physiology course in the mid 1980s. Goldman also currently co-directs the MBL’s Science Journalism Program.
- MBL summer investigator Robert Palazzo has been appointed director of the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Palazzo will oversee Rensselaer’s priorities in biotechnology research, coordinating and developing the Center’s research programs and core facilities, and facilitating strategic growth opportunities. Palazzo received his bachelor’s degree in biology and doctorate in biological sciences from Wayne State University; he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Virginia and the Marine Biological Laboratory, where he continues to participate in collaborative research each summer. Palazzo recently served as chair of the Science Council and, in that role, was an ex officio member of the Board of Trustees. He also co-directs, with Kerry Bloom, the Biomedical Hands-On Laboratory course for science journalists at the MBL each summer.
- MBL Corporation Member David Glanzman was one of eight noted investigators who recently received the prestigious Senator Jacob Javits Award in the Neurosciences, which provides up to seven years of research funding from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). The award, which honors the late U.S. Senator Jacob Javitz, is presented to investigators who have demonstrated exceptional scientific excellence and productivity in research areas supported by the NINDS and who are expected to conduct cutting-edge research over the next seven years.
Glanzman is professor of Physiological Science and Neurobiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Using the marine snail Aplysia to study the cellular and molecular mechanisms of learning and memory, Glanzman has focused his research mainly on two simple forms of learning: classical conditioning and sensitization. His award will fund a series of innovative experiments that will combine behavioral, electrophysiological, pharmacological, and molecular techniques in investigating the roles of postsynaptic glutamate receptors in classical conditioning. The work will provide new insights into the mechanisms of neural plasticity.
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