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2011 Friday Evening Lectures
The MBL's 2011 Friday Evening Lecture Series continues on June 24 with Dr. Roberto Kolter, who will give an overview of how microbial activities have shaped our planet in a talk titled A Microbial Perspective of Life on Earth. Click here for the full FEL schedule.
Events
June 20:
The MBL Club opens for the season
June 24:
Friday Evening Lecture - Microbial Diversity Course 40th Anniversary Lecture - "A Microbial Perspective of Life on Earth" - Roberto Kolter, Harvard Medical School - 8:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium
June 27:
The Kensal E. van Holde Lectureship in Physiology - “How do big cells solve geometry problems?” - Timothy Michison, Harvard University School of Medicine - Lillie Auditorium 9:00 AM
July 20:
Special Summer Falmouth Forum - "Escaping Melodramas: Reflections on the U.S. Public Health Service Unethical Research Studies in Tuskegee and Guatemala" - Susan Reverby, Wellesley College - 7:30 PM, Lillie Auditorium
July 31:
The 2011 MBL Gala featuring the Tokyo String Quartet with Haochen Zhang
For full event listings, visit our online calendar.
2011 MBL Scientific Photography Contest Accepting Submissions
The MBL Scientific Photography Contest deadline is October 15. Visit the website for details.
New MBL Exhibit Features Photography of Robert Allen
The MBL invites the public to view “Robert Allen’s Woods Hole,” the latest in a series of exhibits from the archives of the MBLWHOI Library. The exhibit is free and open to the public. It hangs in MBL’s Swope Conference Center, 5 North Street, Woods Hole.
MBL Club Opening June 20
The MBL Club opens for its 92nd summer on Monday, June 20. Come back for another season of folk singing, yoga, tennis, Coastal Explorers program, or movie nights. Special events include a magic show with Christopher Bolter, stories with Jackson Gillman, and a Birds of Prey-Raptor Show with Marla Isaac of New England Reptile and Raptor. Visit the MBL Club website for details.
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Jerry Melillo Named Chairman of National Climate Assessment Committee
Jerry M. Melillo, Distinguished Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), has been named chairman of a joint public-private sector committee that will produce the next National Climate Assessment report for the United States... More>>>
MBL Gala
The 2011 MBL Gala will take place on July 31 and feature both the renowned Tokyo String Quartet and Haochen Zhang, winner of the 2009 Van Cliburn Piano Competition. Zhang will join the quartet to play the Schumann Piano Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 44 in the second half of the program. Television dessert chef Lisa Rafael of Delicious Desserts will provide her dessert creations and a special prize at the post-concert Champagne reception.
Musical Program:
Haydn Quartet in G Major, Op. 77, No. 1
Ives String Quartet No. 1, "A Revival Service"
Intermission
Schumann Piano Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 44
Click here for more details.
Associates News
The MBL Associates Annual Meeting and Brunch will be held on Sunday, June 26 at 9:30 AM at the Landfall Restaurant in Woods Hole. MBL President and Director Gary Borisy will share the latest news about the laboratory and a new slate of officers will be presented into nomination for election. For more information contact the Associates Office, 508.289.7281 or sjoslin@mbl.edu.
Coming in July – a special Summer Falmouth Forum! Susan Reverby, Professor of Women's Studies at Wellesley College and an historian of American women, medicine, and nursing will present a talk titled Escaping Melodramas: Reflections on the U.S. Public Health Service Unethical Research Studies in Tuskegee and Guatemala on Wednesday, July 20 at 7:30 PM in Lillie Auditorium.
 At the MBL Gift Shop
Just in – a new tee shirt celebrating the MBL’s illustrious history and continuing relationship with Nobel Prize-winning scientists! Names, award years and the titles of their discoveries are listed inside the letters MBL. “Over 50 and Counting” is an organic cotton tee. Come see our other new tees, toys and gifts.
Gift Shop hours for June: Tuesday through Saturday, 11 am to 4 pm. You can shop online anytime at giftshop.mbl.edu.
The Biological Bulletin
 The image on the cover of the April 2011 issue of The Biological Bulletin shows the gill filaments of a bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus) infected with the larvae of the paper pondshell (Utterbackia imbecillis), a unionid mussel. Unionids are freshwater species that, unlike most mussels, have a parasitic stage.
The Biological Bulletin is now on Facebook. Please go to the journal’s web site at http://www.biolbull.org, click on the Facebook icon, and “friend” us.
We thank Sutter Instrument for advertising in this issue.
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