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MBL Research
MBL Whitman Center researcher Ron Vale spent much of the summer of 2011 directing his colleagues in a series of videos for iBioSeminars, a free, open-access, educational resource. Several of the videos are now online.
Announcements
& Accolades
The Census of Marine Life (CoML) Scientific Steering Committee was awarded Japan's International Cosmos Prize. Jesse Ausubel was among the steering committee members accepting the award at an October 18 ceremony in Osaka.
Ralph Brinster, a student circa 1960 in the MBL FERGAP course, now Frontiers in Reproduction, was awarded the 2011 Presidential Medal of Science. Brinster, of the UPenn School of Veterinary Medicine, was honored for his research on the manipulation of the mammalian germline.
Former MBL Physiology course lecturer Eric Betzig was interviewed for the November issue of HHMI Bulletin. In it he talks about bringing his new microscope to the MBL, where it dazzled summer students and faculty.
Events
December 9
Bay Paul Center Seminar Series - "Dissecting the Mechanistic Basis of Evolutionary Constraint within Proteins" - Dan Weinreich, Brown University - 12:00 Noon, Candle House 104/105
December 12
Special Lecture - "Regeneration of Comb Plates in Ctenophores" - Sid Tamm, Boston University - 12:00 Noon, Candle House 104/105
December 13
Ecosystems Center Seminar - "Ecological and evolutionary impacts of altered trophic relationships under climate change in aquatic communities" - Ted Hart, University of Vermont, 12:15 PM, Speck Auditorium
December 14
Thesis Defense Seminar, "Systems-level analysis of multicellular microbial community structure" - Alex Valm, Brown-MBL program - 12:00 Noon, Candle House 104/105.
December 16
Semester in Environmental Science Student Project Symposium - 8:50 AM, Speck Auditorium
For full event and course listings, visit our online calendar.
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MBL Ecosystems Center Receives Three Major Grants For Collaborative Research
The MBL's Ecosystems Center and its partners recently received funding for three research projects:
MBL Part of New Northeast Climate Center Established at UMASS-Amherst
MBL and Partners Awarded Grant for Climate Change Research in Falmouth Salt Marshes
Researchers from MBL and WHOI Receive Grant for Collaborative Salt Marsh Study
2011 MBL Photography Contest Winners Announced
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 MBL Scientific Photography Contest!
1st Place: Michael Shribak and Irina Arkhipova for "VEPS Rotifer"
2nd Place: Blair Rossetti for "Mouse Gut Tile Scan"
3rd Place: Timothy Balmer and Bianca Jones for "Motor Neuron"
Honorable Mention:
S. Emil Ruff, George Bell, Yossi Yovel
To view the winning entries, please visit the MBL website. Visit the website for details.
Associates News
The 2011-2012 MBL Falmouth Forum season is now complete! Due to renovations being done in Lillie Auditorium this winter, four of our presentations will be held off-campus. Please check the MBL Falmouth Forum website for locations and more information. We hope to see you at some or all of the upcoming events.
MBL Gift Shop
It's just about time for our annual December 20% OFF Sale! The week of December 6th, you can take an extra 5% off all of our clothing. For the week of December 12th, it's 5% off all non-clothing. (In-store sale only.) The shop closes for the season this year on Friday, December 16th.
giftshop.mbl.edu.
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New Website Offers More Options for Online Giving
December is the time when most people make their charitable gifts and it's also when the MBL Annual and Alumni Funds receive up to 50% of yearly totals.
In the next week or so, MBL supporters will receive an appeal in the mail to make their gifts before the end of the fiscal year on December 31.
For those who don't want to wait, the new Catalyst Campaign website, connect.mbl.edu, provides a quick and easy way to make a gift online and offers more features than the previous site.
The site lets donors make a one-time gift, a tribute or memorial gift indicating those to be notified. You can also sign up for automatic monthly giving, a great way to support the MBL all year long. There is even the option to create your personal account to manage your contact information and make future transactions easier.
Also, for the first time, donors interested in some of the Catalyst Campaign's targeted fund drives -- for the Biology of Parasitism Course, the Neural Systems and Behavior Course, the Whitman Center Endowment and the Valois Tank Room -- have the option to make their gift online.
If you have any questions about the new site, please contact Kate Shaw at kshaw@mbl.edu.
The Biological Bulletin
 The cover image of the December 2011 issue of The Biological Bulletin represents a mature Drosophila melanogaster third instar larva in which class IV dendritic arborization sensory neurons are labeled in green by Green Fluorescent Protein. The background is an individual class IV da neuron labeled in red.
The journal website (www.biolbull.org) was recently upgraded from HTML- to XML-based web pages, improving navigation across the site and creating a more user-friendly experience.
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