April 2004, Vol. 13, No. 4 | Return to Table of Contents

Summer Fellows

Twenty-two scientists have been awarded fellowships to conduct research at the MBL this summer.

Jan Ellenberg
EMBL, Heidelberg
Meiotic Chromosome Dynamics in Echinoderms

Simone Englender, Lipper Fellow
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Study of Synphilin-1 Function and its Contribution to Parkinson’s Disease

John Henson, MBL Associates Fellow Dickinson College
Cytoskeletal Mechanisms Underlying Retrograde Flow and Spindle Assembly in Sea Urchin Eggs

Eileen Lafer
University of Texas, San Antonio
Basic Mechanisms Underlying Neurotransmission

Mathew Larkum, Nikon Fellow
University of Berne
Characterization of the Active Dendritic Properties of the Pyramidal Cells of Turtle Cortex

Alex Levine, Lipper Fellow
Hebrew University
The Role of Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species in Mating Behavior of Zebrafish

Donald Lovett
The College of New Jersey Physiological Significance of Methyl Farnesoate in Osmoregulation by Crabs

Eduardo Perozo
University of Virginia
Identification and Characterization of Novel Ion Channels from Marine Prokaryotes

Ehud Razin, Lipper Fellow
Hebrew University
Lysyl tRNA Synthase and Ap4A: New Roles in the Regulation of the Activity of Transcription Factors

Charles Schuster
Colwin Fellow
New Mexico State University
Spatio-temporal Regulation of Cytokinesis in Echinoderm Embryos

Herman Wolosker
Lipper Fellow
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Role of Endogenous D-serine in the Brain

Grass Faculty Awards

Helmut Koester
Baylor College of Medicine and
Jackie Schiller, Technion
Active Dendritic Integration in Cortical Sensory Processing In Vivo

Stefan Heller
Harvard Medical School and
Jeffrey Corwin
University of Virginia
Quiescent Stem Cells in the Mouse Utricle

Jasmina Jovanovic
University of London and
Sabine Hilfiker
CSIS, Spain
Dissecting the Roles of Protein Phosphorylation in Vesicle Tafficking and Secretion

William Green
University of Chicago and John Marshall,
Brown University
Targeting and Trafficking of Glutamate Receptors by PDZ Domain Proteins


Dart Scholars

Mark Yeckel
Yale University
Endoplasmic Reticulum as a Sensor for Neuronal Activity

Jeff Lichtman
Harvard University
Axonal Arbor Morphology and Plasticity in the Developing Brain

Dan Johnston
Baylor College Of Medicine
Calcium Imaging in Hippocampal Neurons