• Hydrothermal Vents: Hot Spots of Microbial Diversity
  New analysis aids in discovery of thousands of deep-sea microbes.
  
  
• Giardia Genome Unlocked
  Scientists describe highly infectious parasite that often afflicts children and hikers.
  
  
• New Cell Culturing Method Pumps Up the Volume for Hearing Loss Researchers
  Breakthrough will likely accelerate research aimed at cures for hearing loss.
  
  
• Restoration Of Globally-Rare Sandplains To Begin On Martha’s Vineyard
  Project could lead to region-wide restoration, reducing threat to dozens of species.

• Bay Paul Center Assistant Scientist Julie Huber interviewed on Science Friday (NPR) Huber discusses deep sea biodiversity on weekly science talk show.
  
  
• MBL veteran was early voice on global warming (Cape Cod Times)
  Jerry Melillo, co-director of the MBL's Ecosystems Center, authored key portions of early reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that predicted the effects of global warming.
  
  
• Human parasite genome reveals long past (Reuters)
  Scientists say bug that infects kids and nature lovers goes way back.

MBL Dedicates Rowe Laboratory
The former Whitman building was officially rededicated the Rowe Laboratory on August 3, 2007, in recognition of the historic $5 million capacity-building gift made to the MBL in 2006 by Chairman of the Board John W. Rowe and his wife Valerie. The newly renovated, 34,000 square foot, state-of-the-art laboratory opened its doors on schedule this spring, welcoming 110 principal investigators and an additional 184 scientists and students from 146 institutions and 16 countries to new laboratories. The Rowe Laboratory is home to the Whitman Center, the MBL's international program for summer and visiting research.

Remarks were made by MBL Director & CEO Gary Borisy, MBL Whitman Center Director Robert Goldman, and MBL Chairman of the Board Jack Rowe. The event concluded with a ribbon cutting ceremony and open house. Click to view the Quicktime slideshow.

• The October issue of The Biological Bulletin is now available on the Bulletin’s web site. This month’s “Editor’s Pick,” which is available free without a subscription, is an article by Shuichi Shigeno, Takenori Sasaki, and Gerhard Haszprunar, “Central nervous system of Chaetoderma japonicum (Caudofoveata, Aplacophora): implications for diversified ganglionic plans in early molluscan evolution.”
  
  
• The journal is pleased to announce that Carol Schachinger has been promoted to the position of Managing Editor. Carol assumed her new responsibilities in September.
  
  
• The Editorial Board is honored to welcome Lynn Margulis, of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, as an Associate Editor. Dr. Margulis is one of the world’s pre-eminent systems biologists. Her work on symbionts is seminal to biology.
  
  
• The Biological Bulletin wishes to thank the following companies for advertising in recent issues:
  • Molecular Devices (MetaMorph* 7 imaging software)
  • Sutter Instrument (MPC-200 Multi-manipulator system)
  • Zeiss (Axio Observer LSM 5 DUO PALM MicroBeam)
  • Olympus America, Inc. (DSU spinning disk confocal microscope)

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• The MBL is the recipient of the 2007 Distinguished Service Award from the Association for Neuroscience Departments and Programs (ANDP). The ANDP, which represents 250 neuroscience programs in North America, will present the award at their fall meeting on November 3 in San Diego.
  
  
• MBL Distinguished Scientist Shinya Inoué to have book of his work published - The Collected Works of Shinya Inoué: Microscopes, Living Cells, Dynamic Molecules is scheduled to be published by World Scientific Publishing this winter. The book includes a collection of Dr. Inoué's major published (and a few unpublished) articles on the historic and biophysical attributes of dynamic microtubules and their roles in cell division, as well as methods for studying them directly in living cells. It also includes articles on Dr. Inoué's contribution to microscope development over the past 60 years and contains a wide collection of high quality photo-micrographs as well as an appended DVD featuring Power Points and video movies of active living cells.
  
  
• 1980 Embryology course alum Mark Roth has been awarded a 2007 MacArthur Fellowship, known informally as a "genius grant."
  

Please share your news and awards with us. E-mail them to ghebert@mbl.edu.

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• 11/16: SES Distinguished Scientist Speaker Series - "Science, Public Policy and Economics of Clean Energy in the Commonwealth" - Ian Bowles, Secretary of the Environment and Energy, State of Massachusetts - 3:00, Speck Auditorium
  
  
• 11/27: Ecosystems Center Seminar - "Nitrogen cycling in a dammed estuary: Lessons from the Parker River" - Anne Giblin, MBL - 12:15 PM, Speck Auditorium
  
  
• 12/4: Ecosystems Center Seminar - "Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) in estuarine and marine sediments" Jeremy Rich, Center for Environmental Studies, Brown University - 12:15 PM, Speck Auditorium
  
  
• 12/7: Falmouth Forum Series - "Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder" - David Weinberger, Author, consultant and Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society - 7:30 PM, Lillie Auditorium
  
  
• 12/11: Ecosystems Center Seminar - "Use of the maximum entropy production principle for modeling microbial biogeochemistry" - Joe Vallino, MBL - 12:15 PM, Speck Auditorium
  
  
• 12/18: Ecosystems Center Seminar - "Changing views of a changing Arctic tundra" - Gus Shaver, MBL - 12:15 PM, Speck Auditorium