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Annual Report 2006
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annual report 2006
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55, 59, 60, 61, 64, 69, 70, 72, 75, 80, 88
Back cover: P. Smith, L. Collis, H. Li, and E. Jonas
Table of Contents: P. Oldham
p. 3: D. Lee (artist’s rendering)
p. 5: (bottom, left) J. Cherry
p. 6: K. Patal; K. Wiens
p. 7: E. Heart and L. Collis
p. 8: (top) D.J. Patterson, L. Amaral-Zettler, and V. Edgcomb, MBL micro*scope; (bottom right) Royal NIOZ
p. 9: S. Murray, M. Hoppenrath, J. Larsen, and D.J. Patterson, MBL micro*scope
p. 12, 13: C. Lowe
p. 14: (bottom) B. de Sainte Phalle
p. 17: (top) S. Bordenstein; (bottom) Dennis Kunkel, Inc. and S. Bordenstein. Colored by D. Patterson
p. 19: J. Hobbie
p. 20: (top, and bottom left) J. Hobbie
p. 21: J. Loomer
p. 22: C. Neill
p. 24: M.A. and M. Alliegro
p. 25: (left to right) M.A. Alliegro; M Alliegro; Rensselaer/Kris Qua
p. 31: H. Luther
p. 32: M. Shribak and S. Inoué
p. 33: (top, left to right) A. Kuzirian; R. Hanlon
p. 36: (top) L. Lui
p. 37: H. Li, E. Jonas, L. Collis, and P. Smith
p. 38: M. Brown
p. 42: MBL micro*scope
p. 47: A. Goldman
p. 51: J. Cherry
p. 57: D. Scanlon
p. 58: NOAA
p. 65: (top) E. Haeckel; M. Person
p. 67: C. O. Whitman
p. 71: E. Haeckel
p. 73: (top) R. Hanlon; S. Peters
p. 74: Y. Kumai
p. 77: P. van Burren
p. 82: S. Livingstone
p. 85: K. Wiens
p. 86: (top) L. Kerr-Lobel; S. Casper
p. 90: A. Keledjian
p. 92: A. Reyes-Preito
p. 93: S. Livingstone
p. 94: J. Doucette
p. 95: K. Patel
p. 99: S. Donovan
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contents
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letter from the chairman
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report of the director & ceo
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mbl collaborations
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research
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education
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mblwhoi library
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gifts
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governance & administration
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electrifying research that could help diabetes
revealing unfathomable microbial diversity
lessons from a cape cod harbor
unraveling the mysteries of the origins of human evolution
financials
report of the director and ceo letter from the chairman of the board
Dear Friends,
I am pleased to share with you the 2006 Annual Report of the Marine Biological
Laboratory. As you’ll see, the past year was one of discovery, growth, and transition for
this remarkable institution.
Last summer we bid farewell to Bill Speck, who led the MBL well for 6 years and guided
us through an important strategic planning process that has positioned the institution
for future success. My colleagues on the Board and I thank Bill for his efforts and
dedication and wish him all the best in his new endeavors. I’m pleased that Bill has
agreed to continue to serve the MBL as an honorary member of the Board of Trustees.
In June 2006 the Board appointed Gary Borisy the MBL’s 13th director and 3rd CEO. Gary
is a renowned cell biologist who brings a wealth of scientific expertise and administrative
experience to the position. Gary knows the MBL well, having spent time here at various
points in his career conducting summer research, collaborating with resident and
summer scientists, and participating in some of the MBL’s summer educational programs.
We are fortunate to have attracted such a talented and well-respected scientist to lead the
MBL. It was with great pleasure that my wife Valerie and I decided to make a significant
gift to the laboratory in conjunction with Gary’s arrival, knowing that it will be used to
further strengthen this very special institution.
I’m delighted that Gary has already begun putting some of these funds to good work:
helping support the MBL’s participation in the exciting Encyclopedia of Life project,
renovating laboratory space for new scientists in the Bay Paul Center, and recruiting a
new director to the Ecosystems Center.
The members of the Board and I look forward to working with Gary and with all of
you as we continue to implement the MBL’s visionary strategic plan and prepare for an
exciting future.
Best wishes,
John W. Rowe, M.D.
report of the director and ceo
report of the director and ceo
I am honored to have been selected to serve as Director and CEO of the Marine
Biological Laboratory. The MBL is a very special place, and I am pleased to be a part of
this important institution at what I think is an especially exciting time in the laboratory’s
history.
The past nine months have been a wonderful whirlwind for me and my wife, Sally
Casper. Since arriving in July, we’ve had the pleasure of meeting many members of
the MBL family at a number of events in Woods Hole, on Cape Cod, and around the
country. Everywhere I go I hear the quintessential MBL “story”: how someone fell in
love with doing science (or their future spouse) at the MBL; how an MBL course changed
a student’s life; how a certain scientific interaction or collaboration at the MBL changed a
career. I know from my own personal experience just how transforming the MBL can be
to a scientist, regardless of age or professional rank.
Gary G. Borisy
In addition to traveling and talking with MBL stakeholders at all levels of the institution,
much of my time in recent months has been spent learning about the complexities of
day-to-day operations, attending seminars, visiting courses and conferences, meeting
with staff and faculty, and developing a financial, programmatic, and fundraising plan
for the next decade.
Setting the Stage
Before my tenure began, considerable work had
already been completed to position the MBL
for continued success. I owe a great debt of
gratitude to my predecessor, Bill Speck, for all
his efforts over the past several years, especially
in the area of strategic planning. The Strategic
Plan that he, John Dowling, and many members
of the MBL Community worked on so tirelessly
has provided an important roadmap for the
institution’s future. I congratulate everyone for
their efforts and heartily endorse the plan.
Many of the recommendations outlined in the
plan were already in the process of being implemented before my arrival: the expansion
of the Board of Trustees, the appointment of a Chief Academic and Scientific Officer,
the creation of a joint graduate program and affiliation with Brown University, and the
development of a campus master plan.
report of the director and ceo Another major recommendation, the renovation of the Whitman building, was also
on the drawing board. In April of 2006, the MBL borrowed $34 million at extremely
favorable rates, enabling us to retire both a 2000 bond and an old note and providing
approximately $18.8 million to spend on new capital projects. About $11 million of
that has been spent this past year on the renovation of the Whitman building, which
opened its doors this May. The renovation process went remarkably smoothly, given
that our contractors had a mere nine months to gut and renovate a 34,000 square foot
building. Our director of facilities and special projects, Richard Cutler and his staff are
to be congratulated for their efforts to keep the project on track and within budget.
The remaining bond funds have been used to support other capital projects at the MBL
including the renovation of laboratory space in Lillie, the renovation of the Swope Center
dining hall, the upgrading of cottages at Devil’s Lane and Memorial Circle, and the
reconstruction of a portion of the Lillie seawall.
The MBL also spent a great deal of time over the past two years refining its
communications efforts and retooling its portfolio of print and electronic publications.
In the past year we launched a new four-color magazine, MBL Catalyst, which will be
published twice a year. The magazine, which is distributed to 15,000+ MBL constituents,
has been extremely well received. We also began sending quarterly electronic newsletters
to Corporation members, faculty, and alumni, providing a regular behind-the-scenes
update on the activities of the laboratory. Most recently we refreshed our website,
www.mbl.edu, making it more graphically pleasing and easier to navigate. Initiatives like
these are extremely important as we prepare to present the MBL to a wider, often nonscientific audience.
One of the most exciting developments in the life of the MBL happened as I was ratified
in my appointment. Our new Chairman of the Board, John W. Rowe, announced at the
May 2006 meeting of the Board of Trustees that he and his wife Valerie would make a gift
of $5 million to the MBL to build capacity. This transformational gift may be used at the
discretion of the director to enhance existing, and create new, programs. It is the largest
gift made by an individual in the history of the institution, and I am grateful to Jack and
Valerie for their commitment and support.
In honor of this far-sighted gift, I’m delighted to announce that the newly renovated
Whitman building will be rededicated the Rowe Laboratory at a ceremony that will be
held on August 3, 2007, the same day as the annual meeting of the MBL Corporation. I
hasten to add that the Whitman name will continue to hold a special place at the MBL as
it will now be attached to our oldest and most distinctive building, the Candle House.
Artist’s rendering of
the completed Rowe
Laboratory
report of the director and ceo
Moving Forward
Although much progress has been made towards implementing the strategic plan, two areas need
special attention: strengthening and expanding our resident research programs and developing a
robust and sustainable financial plan for the future.
MBL senior staff and I have been analyzing the financial strengths and weaknesses of the MBL’s
various research, education, and housing/dining/conferencing sectors. It is clear from this analysis
that we need to build our endowment in all areas, increase our revenues where appropriate, and
explore ways our already lean institution can further streamline expenses.
I have also been consulting with scientists both at the MBL and elsewhere and giving much thought
to how best to strengthen and expand our resident research programs. Our programs in microbial
diversity and ecosystems ecology are outstanding. Finding opportunities to leverage the strengths
of both these programs to create new, differentiable, and exciting areas of research at the MBL are
critical as is developing other areas of research that can be done uniquely or to special advantage at
the MBL.
One new area that we are considering is regenerative biology, exploiting the exceptional properties of
marine organisms, taken together with the powerful new tools of genomics, advanced imaging, and
systems physiology.
As we all know, developing new programs and recruiting
and retaining the best scientists is a costly endeavor. And
building vital endowment for existing as well as new
programs is a challenge. Success in these areas will require
a major fundraising initiative over the next five to ten
years. To this end, and in conjunction with the financial
plan, we are developing a preliminary document that
describes our proposed areas of growth and investment at
the MBL. We are beginning to share it with stakeholders
as we take the first steps in assessing the institution’s
readiness to undertake a major fundraising campaign.
The MBL has enjoyed a celebrated past and I believe
that even greater things lie ahead. The path forward will
be challenging, but with a commitment from everyone
who cares about this laboratory, we can accomplish great
science and continue to imbue the next generation with a
passion for discovery.
I am proud and honored to have been chosen to serve this renowned and venerable institution and
look forward to working with you in the future.
—Gary G. Borisy
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MBL Collaborations
Scientific ideas don’t just turn into great discoveries overnight. They need care and feeding. They
need time to percolate. They need room to grow. And they need a place where they can roam freely
and interact with other great ideas.
It is often said that the MBL provides all of these necessities with sometimes thrilling results. In this
place that brings together biologists from numerous fields and countries, a chance meeting over lunch
could lead to research that helps tackle a disease. A student might learn something from a mentor that
will someday change our understanding of Earth’s natural systems. Or a conversation at a social event
or a lecture might help solve a longstanding biological puzzle.
The stories on the next few pages exemplify some of the remarkable collaborations that can
happen when great minds come together at the MBL. Read on to find out about:
• a cell physiologist and a bioelectronics engineer
• an environmental scientist and a student immersed
working toward a possible therapy for diabetics,
in a major study of an ailing harbor, and
• a microbiologist and an organic
• three biologists and a marine worm shedding light
biogeochemist revealing the ocean’s hidden
on nervous system development and human origins.
universe,
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Electrifying Research That Could Help Diabetics
In the MBL’s BioCurrents Research Center (BRC) in Lillie laboratory 214, Peter J.S. Smith
and Ronald Pethig are captivated by dozens of small spheres they are observing with a
video microscope. As if playing a game, they are moving the spheres, making them spin,
and stringing them together on command. But it’s much more than play. It’s research on
insulin-secreting cells that may one day prove helpful to diabetics.
Smith, a cell physiologist, and Pethig, a bioelectronics engineer,
began their collaboration last summer with the ultimate goal of
combining their skills and knowledge to engineer artificial islets of
Langerhans, the pancreatic cell clusters that regulate blood sugar
levels.
“What we are doing is actually very serious fun—studying the electrophysiological properties of cell cultures as we artificially transform
them to three-dimensional constructs that mimic islets of Langerhans
responsible for controlling the release of insulin into the blood,”
says Pethig. The work could eventually lead to the development of
implants for Type 1 diabetics, whose own islets are malfunctioning.
Peter J.S. Smith, director
of MBL’s BioCurrents
Research Center
Ronald Pethig, professor of
bioelectronics, University of Wales,
Bangor
With funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Dennis
Robinson Memorial Fund, as well as Pethig’s receipt of the first MBL
Eugene and Millicent Bell Endowed Tissue Engineering Fellowship,
Smith and Pethig spent two intensive months studying beta cells,
specialized cells that are among several cell types that make up islets.
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The two researchers, a Scot and an Englishman, met years ago at the MBL through their
mutual colleague, Jane McLaughlin. “Ron is a long-time MBL Corporation member who
worked with Albert Szent-Györgyi,” says Smith. “The work involved a close collaboration
with the MBL’s scientists, including Jane, and it was through her that we met.”
Smith and Pethig’s recent tissue engineering project was a natural extension of that
meeting. They began their work by probing the electrical characteristics of the beta cells
to learn how to manipulate them. By applying different strengths and radio frequencies
of electrical fields to the cells, they discovered they could make the cells spin and move
them in an organized way. “We are able to electrically ‘tune-in’ to different cells,” says
Pethig.
By summer’s end, he and Smith had perfected their cell-moving abilities to achieve a
scientific first: the use of microelectrodes to assemble a simple three-dimensional beta
cell structure equal in size to an islet of Langerhans. These so-called “pseudo islets” are
the first step toward creating fully functional artificial islets.
This summer, Smith and Pethig will continue their work. “With the progress made
last year we intend to explore ways to test the organization and viability of the pseudo
islets,” says Smith. The scientists will also use the specialized tools available in the MBL’s
BRC to study the ionic, metabolic, and chemical dynamics in the spaces between the
cells. “We will then consider the problems behind aggregating complex populations of
cells like those in human islets,” he adds.
Both researchers attribute much of their recent success to the MBL’s ability to promote
cross-disciplinary collaboration among its scientists, coupled with the BRC’s unique
suite of instrumentation and expertise. “The BRC by its very nature is committed to
an extensive collaborative program that brings together over 40 visiting investigators
annually,” says Smith. “Each one contributes a pearl to the collective intellectual
wealth.”
“In the tissue engineering project, for example, our accumulated expertise in the
handling and testing of beta cell function for insulin release and diabetes research is
melded with our expertise in electronic design, electrochemistry, signal processing, and
biophysics.”
“What we are doing in Peter’s lab is a marriage of exquisite electrochemical probe
technologies developed at the MBL with those of micro- and nano-technologies that I
bring from my lab at the University of Wales,” adds Pethig.
“I know of nowhere else where such a marriage could take place, and where I could be involved
in something as exciting as the possibility of creating new cell-based assays for drugs, or the
engineering of islet implants, to alleviate diabetes. If only the summers could last all year!”
The scientists caution that it will likely take many summers before their research can be
applied to alleviating diabetes. “There’s still a lot we don’t know about even normal islet
function,” Smith says. “But thanks to the MBL and its funders, we can continue to make
steady progress.”
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Revealing Unfathomable
Microbial Diversity
Whales, dolphins, and fish are all well and good. But if you ask Mitch Sogin
and Jan de Leeuw who the sea’s important players are, they’ll tell you it’s the
microscopic creatures that really matter. “Microbes make up 90 to 98 percent
of the marine biomass,” says Sogin, “and we are totally dependent on them
for our existence.”
Sogin, a microbiologist and molecular evolutionist, and de Leeuw, an organic
biogeochemist with worldwide connections in the field of oceanography,
are co-directors of the International Census of Marine Microbes (ICoMM),
a global effort to study the vast biodiversity of the world’s smallest marine
organisms. Launched in 2004, the project is important because microbes are
critical to sustaining Earth’s habitability. And though scientists estimate that
there are approximately 100,000 microbes in each milliliter of water, they
haven’t had a means of accurately assessing the exact biodiversity of marine
microbes. Until now.
Mitchell L. Sogin,
director of the MBL’s
Josephine Bay Paul
Center for Comparative
Molecular Biology and
Evolution
Jan W. de Leeuw,
senior scientist,
Molecular Biogeology,
Royal Netherlands
Institute for Sea
Research
Thanks to funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Census
of Marine Life, the ICoMM collaboration is changing all that. In addition
to bringing together Sogin and de Leeuw, who were introduced by Sloan
program manager Jesse Ausubel, the project has brought together U.S.
and European scientists and oceanographers from around the world. “The
benefit,” says Sogin, “has been to open up exciting new areas of research in
molecular microbial ecology.”
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One example of this work is a seminal study Sogin and several colleagues published
last summer in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Using new “tag
sequencing” DNA analysis techniques Sogin developed at the MBL, the scientists
discovered thousands of new bacteria in eight deep-ocean samples. “Our observations
greatly exceeded all previous estimates of bacterial diversity in the ocean and revealed
that marine microbial diversity may be some 10 to 100 times greater than expected,”
says Sogin. The study made international headlines and waves in the scientific
community. It also paved the way for an even broader study that is currently getting
underway.
“The MBL, as part of the ICoMM collaboration, has secured $1.5 million in funding
from the W.M. Keck Foundation to analyze our next samples at 1,200 sites in a variety
of ocean environments over the next two years,” says de Leeuw, whose colleagues are
collecting the samples.
“The research performed under Mitchell’s guidance applies very advanced technologies. This combined with
innovating ideas, high motivations, and hard work by a very talented group of young investigators has led to
successful grant proposals, which are helping us make significant progress.”
The new funding, for example, recently underwrote the MBL’s purchase of cuttingedge, high throughput genetic sequencing equipment that will enable Sogin and his
ICoMM collaborators to conduct his specialized DNA analysis of the new samples
quickly and accurately.
“The support of the Keck Foundation is a great endorsement of our pioneering
efforts to study microbial diversity,” says MBL director and CEO Gary G. Borisy. “The
addition of critical instrumentation to the Bay Paul Center’s W.M. Keck Ecological and
Evolutionary Genetics Facility—and the foundation’s support of research that is key
to understanding marine microbial populations—will bring this science to a whole
new level.”
In fact, the research will likely facilitate the discovery of untold numbers of previously
undiscovered organisms. “Our goal is to learn as much as possible about the diversity
and function of marine microbes,” says Sogin. “They play key roles in planetary
processes, but are taken for granted because they aren’t visible to the naked eye.
They are the engines of our biosphere, they are the primary catalysts of energy
transformation, they are important to the food web, and they are comparable to a
composite super-organism that responds in specific ways to environmental change,
and we need to understand how they work,” he says.
Through their collaborative efforts, Mitch Sogin and Jan de Leeuw are helping to
reveal a hidden universe of little-known microbes, while solving what Sogin calls a
“mega-science problem.” The work may also help change the world’s perception of the
smallest—and most under-appreciated—creatures in the sea.
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Lessons from a Cape Cod Harbor
On a crisp fall day, Ecosystems Center scientist Anne Giblin and Brown
University undergraduate Craig McGowan are working in a picturesque
field site in Falmouth, Massachusetts, just a few miles from the MBL.
Surrounded by white sand and feathery cordgrass, they collect water, algae,
and sediment samples from West Falmouth Harbor as part of a major, multiinstitution study aimed at understanding how coastal and estuarine systems
like this one are impacted by rapid increases in nitrogen pollution.
It’s not surprising that scientists like Giblin and McGowan are drawn to
West Falmouth Harbor. In recent years, this beautiful shellfish habitat
and popular recreation area has experienced a large increase in nitrogen
pollution from both household septic systems and a sewage treatment plant
located in the watershed. “Although the harbor still looks healthy, the rapid
nitrogen increases are causing suffocating algae growth that has tipped
this ecosystem into the danger zone,” says Giblin, one of the project’s lead
investigators.
In fact, nitrogen inputs to the harbor are expected to increase even
more over the next few years, as a plume of highly nitrate-contaminated
groundwater from Falmouth’s wastewater treatment facility reaches the
shore.
These unusual environmental circumstances offer the perfect opportunity
to study the mechanisms behind changes in an ecosystem during different
stages of so-called nitrogen enrichment. “Because the nitrogen inputs are
well documented, the harbor serves as a model system to study how shallow
ecosystems respond to and recover from too much nitrogen,” Giblin notes.
With the support of a $1.7 million grant from the National Science
Foundation, the study is led by MBL adjunct scientist Robert Howarth of
Cornell University and involves scientists from the Ecosystems Center,
Cornell University, and the University of Virginia. They, along with students
like McGowan, have been studying this ailing ecosystem since 2004 and
will continue this work through 2009. “West Falmouth Harbor has a lot
to teach us about shallow systems that haven’t been widely studied,” says
Giblin. “They are very sensitive to disruption by increased nutrient levels,
especially nitrogen.”
Anne Giblin, senior scientist at
the MBL’s Ecosystems Center
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One person who is learning a lot is McGowan. In an introduction to environmental
science many students only dream about, he has been working in West Falmouth Harbor
since fall of 2005. He first encountered the site as a student in the MBL’s Semester in
Environmental Science (SES) program, an intensive, 16-week undergraduate course with
heavy emphasis on hands-on field experiences. Intrigued by the nitrogen problems in the
harbor, he did his final SES project on the subject, then decided to do his Brown senior
thesis on it.
With Giblin as his advisor, he returned as a Boston University Marine Program Research
Experience for Undergraduates intern, and collected sediment samples to help him
determine how nitrogen loading in the inner harbor is impacting different sections of the
ecosystem.
Craig McGowan, senior environmental
science major at Brown University
“Working with students like Craig is always fun, not only because of the energy and
enthusiasm they bring, but also because it benefits the research,” says Giblin. “Students
often get interested in topics that you might not have investigated without their curiosity,
and this can lead to new insights.”
While finishing his thesis and preparing to graduate, McGowan noted that his
experiences with the MBL and Giblin have been invaluable in shaping his education.
“I would never been able to get the same intense scientific experience if I had remained at
Brown during the fall of 2005,” he reports. “What I find interesting about West Falmouth
Harbor is that it is basically a real-time experiment being played out in front of us as the
wastewater inputs increase and affect the system.”
The good news is that relief is in sight for West Falmouth Harbor. “Fortunately the town
of Falmouth has implemented advanced wastewater treatment, and nitrogen loads to the
harbor will begin to decrease,” says Giblin. Although the slow movement of groundwater
means the nitrogen reduction won’t be obvious for about a decade, both she and
McGowan are eager to see how the estuary responds to the change.
“Shallow systems like this one are very valuable as habitats for fish, shellfish, and
recreation, yet most of our understanding of how systems respond to increased nitrogen
pollution comes from deeper systems which respond differently,” Giblin says. “In shallow
systems it may take longer for pollution to tip the balance, but then there is a dramatic
decline and it is harder to repair the damage at that point.“
“Our ultimate goal in documenting the demise and subsequent cleanup of West Falmouth
Harbor is to demonstrate that early intervention is critical to protecting shallow harbors
from nitrogen pollution before it takes its toll.”
“Working with students
like Craig is always fun,
not only because of the
energy and enthusiasm
they bring, but also
because it benefits the
research,” says Giblin.
“Students often get
interested in topics that
you might not have
investigated without their
curiosity, and this can
lead to new insights.”
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Unraveling the Mystery of the Origins
of Human Evolution
Last August, when most professors were returning to university life, Marc
Kirschner, John Gerhart, and Christopher Lowe were gearing up for a monthlong scientific collaboration far from the ivy-covered walls of academia.
Like many scientists seeking the perfect research setting, the threesome was
headed to the MBL to continue an ongoing exploration of the distant origins
of human evolution.
For intensive research like this, biologists often choose the MBL for its
distraction-free environment and supportive scientific community. But there
is something more that draws Kirschner, Gerhart, and Lowe to Woods Hole
each year, and that is its close proximity to what could be an evolutionary
holy grail: a population of marine worms that is filling in many of the gaps in
our understanding of the differences between invertebrates like seastars and
vertebrates like humans.
Marc Kirschner (left), professor and chair,
Department of Systems Biology, Harvard
Medical School
Christopher Lowe (center), assistant professor,
Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy,
University of Chicago
John Gerhart (right), professor, Graduate
School Division of Cell & Developmental Biology,
University of California, Berkeley
“The mystery of where our phylum, the chordates, emerged from a group of
bilaterian ancestors around 600 million years ago has fascinated biologists
for 150 years,” says Kirschner. “[Scientists] William Bateson and Thomas
Hunt Morgan pointed to a little-known sister phylum for the chordates called
hemichordates as providing crucial clues, and the best studied member of
that obscure group is the acorn worm.” The clues lie in genetic characteristics
the worms share with both invertebrates and vertebrates.
Following in the footsteps of the late Arthur and Laura Colwin—MBL
scientists who experimented with acorn worms in the sixties to better
understand evolution and fertilization—Kirschner, Gerhart, and Lowe
have studied these organisms together at the MBL for the past six years.
“Most venerable hypotheses about the origins of chordates go back to
hemichordates, but get necessarily very sketchy at this juncture due to lack of
information about hemichordates,” notes Gerhart.
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A major goal of his collaboration with Kirschner and Lowe is to fill this gap. The researchers
have been operating at the molecular level to unravel the basic regulatory network of genes
that was present in the ancestor of chordates, and much of this work centers on the acorn
worm.
The MBL has provided a solid infrastructure for the project. “It combines an excellent
lab environment with the animal expertise and collection knowledge to help us find and
work with unusual and phylogenically critical research organisms,” says Lowe. He has
been pondering chordate evolution since 2000, when he was a postdoc with Kirschner
and Gerhart, two leading evolutionary biologists of our time. They invited him to join
their MBL collaboration a year after they first began contemplating the acorn worm.
His involvement in the project has twice been supported by the MBL’s Laura and Arthur
Colwin Fellowship.
The three collaborators began by focusing on the early origins of the central nervous
system. “Hemichordates have a nerve net rather than a central nervous system, but much
of the basic regulatory network that is involved in partitioning the vertebrate brain into
forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain are involved in patterning the hemichordate nerve
net,” says Lowe. “The same genetic networks that pattern complex vertebrate brains are
also involved in patterning simple nerve nets. This gives us a unique way of comparing
body plans that was previously impossible from morphological analyses.”
Once the similarities between the genetic networks of hemichordates and chordates are
fully demonstrated, hemichordates like the acorn worm will be useful as simple systems
to help scientists learn how nervous systems are assembled. “Vertebrates have duplicated
many of the gene families involved in brain development, often showing overlapping or
redundant roles, which makes functional studies difficult,” says Lowe. “Hemichordates
have single copies of most of these genes, making analysis of their functional roles more
straightforward.”
The scientists made significant progress last fall in working out new ways of manipulating
gene function in hemichordates, including the use of siRNA, a tool that enables certain
genes to be silenced to learn more about their roles in hemichordate development.
“At the MBL we have been able to forge critical collaborations from an excellent array of
researchers with a broad range of skills,” says Lowe. “MBL has developed a critical mass
of people who generally are interested in the field of Evolution of Development. We have
been going there since 2000 and will keep coming back.”
“[The MBL] combines
an excellent lab
environment with the
animal expertise and
collection knowledge
to help us find and
work with unusual and
phylogenically critical
research organisms,”
says Lowe.
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The MBL is a unique institution with a renowned impact on biological and
environmental science. It is a place where new fields of science are born, where the next
generation of leaders are trained, and where fundamental research discoveries are made.
It’s a place where scientists can give free reign to their intellectual curiosity and where
interdisciplinary collaboration is fostered to a degree that is unheard of at other research
centers.
The MBL has a resident research staff of more than 120 scientists and students, which
expands in the summer to approximately 1000 scientists and advanced students from 200
institutions around the world.
In the Whitman Center for Summer and Visiting Research, investigators are pushing the
limits of cell biology and neuroscience, reproductive research and tissue engineering,
and immunology and vision research to gain information essential to solving medical
mysteries like diabetes, hearing loss, epilepsy, infertility, cancer macular degeneration, and
Parkinson’s disease.
At the Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution,
scientists are exploring disease-causing microorganisms that affect humans and other
species, analyzing the composition and distribution of water-borne pathogens like those the
flourished after Hurricane Katrina, and using advanced genome analysis to show the world
just how diverse bacteria are in the deep ocean.
Across campus at the Ecosystems Center, scientists are using a variety of tools, including
GIS mapping and mathematical modeling, to examine life on a larger scale. A world leader
in climate change and environmental research since its founding in 1975, the center
studies aquatic, terrestrial, polar, and tropical environmental systems around the globe and
continues to provide the fundamental science underpinnings that decision- and policymakers need to help society address, mitigate, and ultimately adapt to our changing planet.
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josephine bay paul center for comparative
molecular biology and evolution
The Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution
(BPC) explores the evolution and interaction of genomes of diverse organisms that
play significant roles in environmental biology and human health. Its members
integrate the powerful tools of genome science, molecular phylogenetics, and
molecular ecology to advance our understanding of how living organisms are related
to each other, to provide the tools to quantify and assess biodiversity, and to identify
genes and metabolic processes of ecological and biomedical importance. Projects
span all evolutionary timescales, ranging from deep phylogenetic divergence of
ancient eukaryotic and prokaryotic lineages, to ecological analyses of how members
of diverse communities contribute and respond to environmental change. The center
hosts research initiatives that investigate 1) the diversity of the Archaea, Bacteria, and
Eukarya in marine environments, 2) the occurrence and persistence of pathogens
in the oceans, 3) the relationship between microbial population structures and
biogeochemical processes in “extreme” environments, 4) why sexual recombination
is necessary for the evolutionary success of multicellular life, 5) the evolution of
eukaryotes and their genomes with an emphasis on protists, 6) the influence of
symbiosis and their phage on genome evolution, 7) the evolution and diversity of
metabolic pathways in bacteria, 8) the role of transposable elements in genome
evolution, 9) the molecular evolution of asexual rotifers, and 10) calcium channels in
parasitic worms.
The National Institutes of Health provides major funding to investigate genome
evolution and gene expression in the human parasites Giardia, Trypanosoma, and
Schistosoma; the influence of endosymbiotic relationships on bacterial genome
evolution; the evolutionary consequence of asexuality in simple metazoans; the
relationships between diverse eukaryotic genera through genome-wide comparisons
of expressed genes; and marine-related studies of human disease through the Woods
Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health. The National Science Foundation provides
support for molecular evolution studies of endosymbionts; development of digital
resources for describing microbial diversity; and molecular evolution studies of rotifer
and microsporidial genomes. The National Aeronautic and Space Administration
supports the Josephine Bay Paul Center’s membership in the astrobiology community,
while the Department of Energy continues to support our bioinformatics initiative that
focuses on annotation and evolution of gene families in the metal-reducing microbe
Shewanella oneidensis.
DIRECTOR
Mitchell L. Sogin
SENIOR SCIENTISTS
Stephen L. Hajduk
David J. Patterson
Monica Riley
Mitchell L. Sogin
ASSOCIATE SCIENTISTS
Robert M. Greenberg
Jennifer Wernegreen
ASSISTANT SCIENTISTS
Seth Bordenstein
David Mark Welch
Andrew McArthur
Robert Sabatini
ASSOCIATE RESEARCH SCIENTIST
Hilary G. Morrison
ASSISTANT RESEARCH SCIENTISTS
Linda Amaral Zettler
Irina Arkhipova
Margrethe Serres
ADJUNCT SCIENTISTS
Robert C. Campbell, EMD Serono Research Institute
Matthew Meselson, Harvard University
Roger Milkman, University of Iowa
Robert Prendergast, Johns Hopkins University
William Reznikoff, University of Wisconsin
Mary Beth Saffo, Harvard University
Andreas P. Teske, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Harold Zakon, University of Texas
VISITING INVESTIGATOR
Anton Post, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
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Bay Paul Center staff, continued
POSTDOCTORAL
SCIENTISTS
Sedrick Anderson
Verena Brand
Joe Consiglio
Erika del Castillo
Ashita Dhillon
Daniel Golden
Heather M.H. Goldstone
Kristin E. Gribble
Julie A. Huber
Melissa Lerch
Jessica Mark Welch
Elizabeth McCliment
Shanta Messerli
William Morgan
Laila Nahum
Torsten Ochsenreiter
Vicenta Salvador-Recatala
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Susan Huse
SENIOR RESEARCH
ASSISTANTS
Rudo Kieft
Phillip Neal
RESEARCH ASSISTANT III
Andrew Grimm
Kasia Hammar
RESEARCH ASSISTANT II
Dilrukshi Ekanayake
Leslie Graham
Abby Laatsch
Adam Lazarus
Bruce Luders
RESEARCH ASSISTANT I
Matthew Beverly
Sarah Biber
Michael Cipriano
Courtney DiPaolo
Joanna Green
Seth N. Kauppinen
Michelle Marshall
William Morgan
Jennifer Rocca
Catherine Sweeney
Susanna Theroux
Daniela Wilmot
Courtney Zecher
PUBLIC OUTREACH COORDINATORS
Michele Bahr, Astrobiology
Sarah Rae Bordenstein, BPC
Microbiology
TECHNICAL ASSISTANT
Morgan Mandigo
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
Phyllis Doheny, Center Administrator
Richard Fox, Sr. Research Assistant,
System Administration
Patricia Halpin, Staff Coordinator
Jonathan Neff, Sr. Research
Assistant, System Administration
Katherine Newhall, Staff Assistant
Tara Nihill, Center Administrator
Kara Ryan, Staff Assistant
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Shanda Birkeland, Brown University
MBL Graduate Student
Joshua Drew, Boston University
Lorin Jakubek, Brown University
MBL Graduate Student
Erica Lasek-Nesselquist, Brown
University-MBL Graduate Student
April Shiflett, Brown University-MBL
Graduate Student
Justin Widener, Brown University
MBL Graduate Student
STUDENT HELPER
Polina Bulygina
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT
Kevin Lin
Continuing support from the G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation underpins
growth and stability of the Center, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
supports an International Census of Marine Microbes (ICoMM) project, which
seeks to organize the international community in its effort to understand
the diversity and role of microbes throughout the world’s oceans. This past
year the William M. Keck Foundation awarded scientists in the BPC funds to
purchase a new massively parallel DNA sequencing technology that has led to
a remarkable discovery of unanticipated microbial diversity in the oceans that
exceeds all previous reports by at least 10-100 fold.
Educational activities are also integral to the Josephine Bay Paul Center. In
addition to hosting graduate students and participating in the Brown-MBL
Graduate Program, center scientists are involved in the MBL’s Parasitology
and Microbial Diversity courses as well as the renowned Workshop
on Molecular Evolution. Center scientists also reach out to K-12 and
undergraduate educators, offering two microbiology-based workshops for
teachers annually.
Publications
Adams, CD; Schnurr,
B; Marko, JF; Reznikoff,
WS. 2006. Pulling apart
catalytically active Tn5
synaptic complexes
using magnetic tweezers.
J Mol Biol 367(2): 319327. Epub 2006 Dec 28.
PMID: 17257617
Adams, CD; Schnurr,
B; Skoko, D; Marko, JF;
Reznikoff, WS. 2006.
Tn5 transposase loops
DNA in the absence of
Tn5 transposon end
sequences. Mol Microbiol
2006 Oct 26; PMID:
17074070
Amaral-Zettler, LA;
Cole, J; Laatsch, AD;
Nerad, TA; Anderson,
OR; Reysenbach, A-L.
2006. Vannella epipetala
n. sp. isolated from the
leaf surface of Spondias
mombin (Anacardiaceae)
growing in the dry forest
of Costa Rica. J Eukaryotic
Microbiol 53(6): 522-530.
Arkhipova, IR. 2006.
Distribution and
phylogeny of Penelopelike elements in
eukaryotes. Syst Biol
55(6): 875-885.
Bach, W; Edwards, KJ;
Hayes, JM; Huber, JA;
Sievert, SM; Sogin, ML.
2006. Energy in the dark:
Fuel for life in the deep
ocean and beyond. Eos
87(7): 73, 78.
Baldo, L; Bordenstein,
SR; Wernegreen,
JJ; Werren, JH.
2006. Widespread
recombination
throughout Wolbachia
genomes. Mol Biol Evol
23(2): 437-449.
Baldo, L; DunningHotopp, J; Bordenstein,
SR; Biber, SA: Jollie, K;
Tettelin, H; Maiden M;
Hayashi, C; Werren,
JH. 2006. A multilocus
sequence typing system
for the endosymbiont
Wolbachia. Applied
Environ Microbiol 72(11):
7098-7110.
Biddle, JF; Lipp, JS;
Lever, MA; Lloyd, KG;
Sørensen, KB; Anderson,
R; Fredricks, HF; Elvert,
M; Kelly, TJ; Schrag, DP;
Sogin, ML; Brenchley,
JE; Teske, A; House, CH;
Hinrichs, K-U. 2006.
Heterotrophic Archaea
dominate sedimentary
subsurface ecosystems
off Peru. PNAS 103(10):
3846-3851.
Bordenstein, SR;
Marshall, ML; Fry, AJ;
Kim, U; Wernegreen,
JJ. 2006. The tripartite
associations of
bacteriophage,
Wolbachia, and
arthropods. PLoS
Pathogens 2(5): 384-393.
Cantarel, BL; Morrison,
HG; Pearson, W.
2006. Exploring the
relationship between
sequence similarity and
accurate phylogenetic
trees. Mol Biol Evol
23(11): 2090-2100.
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Viral Hitchhiker Inhibits Wolbachia Bacteria’s Ability to Proliferate
Research May Aid Battle Against Insect-Borne Diseases
Scientists studying the widespread symbiotic bacteria Wolbachia have long been
interested in its ability to proliferate. One way it does this is by hijacking sperm
of its insect hosts and genetically tricking them to bear more infected females, the
only sex that transmits the bacteria. An MBL study published in the May 18, 2006,
issue of PLoS Pathogens, demonstrates that a virus common to Wolbachia cells
may be a key inhibitor of the cellular process that allows Wolbachia to manipulate
insect reproduction.
Because Wolbachia are found in about 75 percent of the world’s insects, the
discovery could impact the development of virally delivered bio-control tools
for insects that transmit pathogens to humans or harm agriculture. It might also
enable the design of alternative therapies for debilitating illnesses such as river
blindness and elephantiasis, whose pathologies are caused by Wolbachia bacteria
living in the parasitic worms associated with these diseases.
The research, led by Seth Bordenstein, an assistant scientist in the MBL’s Program
in Global Infectious Diseases, shows that a virus known as WO-B interferes
with Wolbachia’s ability to cause cytoplasmic incompatibility, the reproductive
manipulation of its insect host.
Until now, scientists believed the virus was somehow inducing this process. But
viruses pirate cells to reproduce, often killing the cells as a result. So Bordenstein
and his colleagues hypothesized that by preying on Wolbachia cells, the WO-B
virus might reduce the incidence of cytoplasmic incompatibility in a host, not
promote it.
Using DNA analysis and electron microscopy, the scientists quantified the number
of WO-B viruses and Wolbachia cells in the testes of a common host: the fruit-flysized jewel wasp, Nasonia vitripennis. The researchers found that
the virus was indeed associated with reduced bacterial growth.
Then they bred the wasps and confirmed fewer incidences of
cytoplasmic incompatibility in relation to the reduced presence
of the bacteria and increased presence of the virus.
“We’re excited about these findings because there is a great
deal of interest in deciphering the genetic and cytological
mechanisms of cytoplasmic incompatibility,” says Bordenstein.
“We know very little about the virus, but understanding and
using it may pave the way for future strategies to control insectborne diseases.”
Funding for this work was supported by grants from the NASA Astrobiology Institute and
National Institutes of Health, as well as with funding from the Ellison Medical Foundation and
support from a National Research Council Research Associates Award.
“...the discovery
could impact the
development of virally
delivered bio-control
tools for insects that
transmit pathogens
to humans or harm
agriculture.”
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Clelland, E; Kohli,
G; Campbell, RK;
Sharma, S; Shimasaki,
S; Peng, C. 2006. Bone
morphogenetic protein
15 in the zebrafish ovary:
cDNA cloning, genomic
organization, tissue
distribution and role
in oocyte maturation.
Endocrinology 147:201209.
D’Andrea, WJ; Lage, M;
Martiny, JBH; Laatsch,
AD; Amaral-Zettler,
LA; Sogin, ML; Huang,
Y. 2006. Alkenone
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Davids, BJ; Reiner, DS;
Birkeland, SR; Preheim,
SP; Cipriano, MJ;
McArthur, AG; Gillin,
FD. 2006. A new family
of giardial cysteine-rich
non-VSP protein genes
and a novel cyst protein.
PLoS ONE, 1, e44.
Dyhrman, ST; Haley,
ST; Birkeland, SR;
Wurch, LL; Cipriano,
MJ; McArthur, AG.
2006. Long-SAGE
(serial analysis of
gene expression) for
gene discovery and
transcriptome profiling
in the widespread
marine coccolithophore
Emiliania huxleyi. Applied
Environ Microbiol 72:
252-260.
Faulkner, SD; Oli,
MW; Kieft, R; Cotlin,
L; Widener, J; Shiflett,
A; Cipriano, MJ;
Pacocha, SE; Birkeland,
SR; Hajduk, SL;
McArthur, AG. 2006.
In vitro generation of
human HDL resistant
Trypanosoma brucei
brucei. Eukaryot Cell 5:
1276-1286.
Gladyshev, EG;
Meselson, M;
Arkhipova, IR. 2006.
A deep-branching
clade of retroviruslike retrotransposons
in bdelloid rotifers.
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Golden DE; Hajduk, SL.
2006. The importance
of RNA structure in RNA
editing and a potential
proofreading mechanism
for correct guide RNA:
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Goldstone, HM;
Stegeman, JJ. 2006. A
revised evolutionary
history of the CYP1A
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Goldstone, HM;
Stegeman, JJ.
2006. Molecular
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Greenberg, RM. 2006.
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A; Marks, NJ, eds. CABI,
Oxfordshire, UK.
Gribble, KE; Anderson,
DM. 2006. Molecular
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dinoflagellates,
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Diplopsalis, and
Preperidinium
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42: 1081-1095.
Hajduk, SL. 2006.
Perspective: Timing
sexual development of
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Huber, JA; Butterfield,
DA; Johnson, HP; Baross,
JA. 2006. Microbial life
in ridge flank crustal
fluids. Environ Microbiol
88: 88-99.
Huber, JA; Butterfield,
DA; Baross, JA.
2006. Diversity
and distribution
of subseafloor
Thermococcales
populations in diffuse
hydrothermal vents
at an active deepsea volcano in the
northeast Pacific Ocean.
J. Geophys. Res. 111:
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Hutchison, L; Mustard, J;
Gendrin, A; FernándezRemolar, D; Amils, R;
Amaral-Zettler, L. 2006.
Finding mineralogically
interesting targets
for exploration from
spatially coarse visible
and near IR spectra.
Earth Planetary Sci Lett
252: 201-214.
Inagaki, F; Nunoura,
T; Nakagawa, S; Teske,
A; Lever, M; Lauer, A;
Suzuki, M; Takai, K;
Delwiche, M; Colwell,
FS; Nealson, KH;
Horikoshi, K; D’Hondt,
SL; Jørgensen, BB.
2006. Biogeographical
distribution and
diversity of microbes in
methane-hydrate bearing
deep marine sediments
on the Pacific Ocean
Margin. PNAS 103(8):
2815-2820.
Jeziorski, MC; Greenberg,
RM. 2006. Voltage-gated
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other platyhelminths:
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Kohn, AB; Lea, J;
Moroz, LL; Greenberg,
RM. 2006. Schistosoma
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fluorescent indicator to
detect nitric oxide and
related species in living
parasites. Experimental
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Kubota, A; Iwata, H;
Goldstone, HM; Kim, EY;
Stegeman, JJ; Tanabe, S.
2006. Cytochrome P450
1A4 and 1A5 in common
cormorant (Phalacrocorax
carbo): Evolutionary
relationships and
functional implications
associated with dioxin
and related compounds.
Toxicol Sci 92(2): 394408.
Ley, RE; Harris, JK;
Wilcox, J; Spear, JR;
Miller, SR; Bebout, BM;
Maresca, JA; Bryant,
DA; Sogin, ML; Pace,
NR. 2006. Unexpected
diversity and complexity
from the Guerrero
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microbial mat. Applied
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72: 3685-3695.
Messerli, SM; Prabhakar,
S; Tang, Y; Maymood,
U; Giovannini, M;
Weissleder, R; Bronson,
R; Martuza, R; Rabkin,
S; Breakefield, XO.
2006. Treatment of
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Messerli, SM; Greenberg,
RM. 2006. Cnidarian
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M; Preisfeld, A; Larsen,
J; Yoshimatsu, S;
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CO-DIRECTORS
John E. Hobbie
Jerry M. Melillo
SENIOR SCIENTISTS
Linda A. Deegan
Anne E. Giblin
John E. Hobbie
Charles S. Hopkinson
Jerry M. Melillo
Bruce J. Peterson
Edward B. Rastetter
Gaius R. Shaver
the ecosystems center
ASSOCIATE SCIENTISTS
Christopher Neill
Joseph J. Vallino
SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTISTS
Paul Colinvaux
Paul A. Steudler
The Ecosystems Center was founded in 1975 as a year-round research program of the
PROGRAM DIRECTOR, SES
Kenneth Foreman
MBL. Its mission is to investigate the structure and functioning of ecological systems,
predict their response to changing environmental conditions, apply the resulting
knowledge to the preservation and management of natural resources, and educate both
future scientists and concerned citizens.
RESEARCH ASSOCIATES
Benjamin Felzer
David W. Kicklighter
The center operates as a collegial association of scientists. Because the complex nature
of modern ecosystems research requires a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach,
center scientists work together on projects, as well as with investigators from other
centers at the MBL and from other institutions, combining expertise from a wide range of
disciplines. Together, they conduct research to answer a variety of questions at field sites
ranging from Arctic Alaska, Sweden, and Russia to Brazil; and from the temperate forests
of New England to the estuaries of the eastern United States.
POSTDOCTORAL SCIENTISTS
Jennifer Bowen
Joaquin E. Chaves
Deanne Drake
Lora Harris
Jacqueline E. Mohan
Yuriko Yano
Highlights from 2006 include a first-of-its-kind report by Ecosystems Center senior
scientist Bruce Peterson and his colleagues that provided a big-picture analysis of the
50-year freshening trend in the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans. Their findings revealed
that fresh water increases from Arctic Ocean sources appear to be highly linked to a
fresher North Atlantic. The study also showed that increasing precipitation and river
discharge contributed the most fresh water (~20,000 cubic kilometers) to the Arctic Ocean
and high-latitude North Atlantic. Sea ice reduction provided another ~15,000 cubic
kilometers of fresh water, followed by ~2,000 cubic kilometers from melting glaciers.
Fresher northern ocean waters could potentially cause a cooling of northern Europe
within this century, because they may disrupt the gigantic ocean conveyor belt known
as the Thermohaline Circulation. Peterson’s study provides climate and ocean circulation
researchers with new information that could greatly aid their work.
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Jane Tucker, Senior Research Assistant
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Laura E. Wittman, Research Assistant
Also in 2006 Ecosystems Center postdoctoral scientist Jacqueline Mohan reported that
when poison ivy is exposed to the levels of CO2 expected in the atmosphere by the
middle of the century, it is twice as prolific. Not only that, the version of urushiol, the
compound that causes the dreaded itchy rash, was more allergenic in the CO2-enhanced
plots. Mohan’s study was part of a CO2 enrichment experiment at Duke University,
where extra carbon dioxide was pumped into 100-foot diameter circular plots of forest.
Her results are significant beyond our desire to avoid blistering rashes. Poison ivy is a
type of woody vine that smothers saplings in forests around the world. If carbon dioxide
increases woody vine growth, and woody vines strangle young trees, the effect on future
forests could be considerable.
ADJUNCT SCIENTISTS
Zoe Cardon, University of Connecticut
Maureen Conte, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences
Robert Howarth, Cornell University
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New Method Confirms Importance of Fungi in Arctic Nitrogen Cycle
Technique Could be Applied to All Nitrogen-Poor Ecosystems
A new method to calculate the transfer of nitrogen from Arctic mushrooms to plants is shedding light on
how much nitrogen soil fungi give their plant hosts and how much sugar the plants donate to the fungi
in return. The analytical technique, developed by MBL Distinguished Scientist John Hobbie and his son,
Erik Hobbie of the University of New Hampshire, proves that fungi provide up to 90% of the nitrogen that
Arctic trees and shrubs need to grow. According to the researchers, the same dependence on fungi is likely
to be true in forests worldwide.
It has long been known when soil nitrogen
is in short supply, mycorrhizal fungi (those
living symbiotically on the roots of plants)
transfer nutrients to their host plants in
exchange for plant sugars derived from
photosynthesis, but the rates of transfer
have never been quantified in the field.
John and Erik Hobbie’s study, published in
the April 2006 issue of the journal Ecology,
quantifies the role of mycorrhizal fungi in
nitrogen cycling for the first time through
measurements of the natural abundance
of nitrogen isotopes in soils, mushrooms,
and plants. The researchers tested their
technique using data from the Arctic
LTER (Long Term Ecological Research) site
near Toolik Lake, Alaska, in the northern
foothills of the Brooks Range.
Previous research has found that when
mycorrhizal fungi in the soil take up
nitrogen and transfer it to small trees and
shrubs, the heavy nitrogen isotope, nitrogen-15, is reduced in abundance in the plants and enriched in
the fungi. Using a mass balance approach, an accounting of material entering and leaving a system, the
researchers quantified the transfer of nitrogen and found that 61 to 86% of the nitrogen in plants at the
site entered through fungal symbionts.
“Previous studies at this Arctic site have found a large range of nitrogen isotope content in plants and
attributed the range to plants tapping into several different sources of nitrogen in the soil,” says John
Hobbie. “Our study indicates that the differences can be attributed mainly to the presence or absence of
symbiotic mycorrhizal fungi.”
The researchers’ new technique is shedding light
not only on the nitrogen cycle in Arctic tundra
ecosystems, but can be applied to other nitrogenpoor ecosystems. “In the future, studies of plant
nitrogen supply in all nitrogen-poor ecosystems
must include these important transfers between
plants and fungi,” says Hobbie.
This research was funded by the National Science
Foundation.
Erik (left) and John Hobbie
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Ecosystems Center staff, continued
VISITING SCIENTISTS AND SCHOLARS
Peter Berg, University of Virginia
Neil Bettez, Cornell University
Luc Claessens, University of California, San Diego
Thomas Duncan, Nichols College
James Galloway, University of Virginia
Melanie Hayn, Cornell University
Ketil Koop-Jakobsen, Boston University Marine Program
Aimlee Laderman, Yale University
Roxanne Marino, Cornell University
Karen McGlathery, University of Virginia
BROWN-MBL GRADUATE STUDENTS
Marselle Alexander-Ozinskas
Angela Allen
Gillian Galford
Seeta Sistla
CONSULTANTS
Francis P. Bowles, Research Systems Consultant
Carlos Eduardo P. Cerri, Universidad de São Paulo
Lee W. Cooper, University of Tennessee
V. V. Gordeev, Russian Academy of Sciences
Carmella R. Lombardi, Independent Consultant
Michael Sutherland, Sutherland & Associates
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
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MBL Establishes Research
Endowment to Honor
John Hobbie
While John Hobbie retired as Ecosystems
Center co-director in June, 2006, he has
stayed on at the MBL as Distinguished
Scientist, an honor he shares with only
one other MBL colleague, Shinya Inoué.
That’s good news for Hobbie’s co-workers,
who appreciate his creative mind. “John is
always thinking critically and not accepting
the status quo,” says MBL Senior Scientist
Anne Giblin. “It’s always great fun to get
into a scientific discussion with him.”
Hobbie continues to oversee the Long Term Ecological Research project at Toolik
Lake and is editing a book that synthesizes what scientists have learned there.
“It’s important to put this work into a big picture and see how it compares to
other places’ research,” he says. He has edited four other books and written over
140 research articles on his work.
To honor his many contributions to science, the MBL established the John E.
Hobbie Scientific Research Endowment. This is a discretionary fund to be used
to explore emerging areas of ecology, to fill gaps in support of existing research
programs, and to further Hobbie’s vision of collaboration and excellence in
ecosystem science (see p. 87).
Publications
Borken, W; Davidson,
EA; Savage, K; Sundquist,
ET; Steudler, P. 2006.
Effect of summer
throughfall exclusion,
summer drought, and
winter snow cover on
methane fluxes in a
temperate forest soil. Soil
Biol Biochem 38(6): 13881395.
Cerri, CEP; Piccolo,
MC; Feigl, BJ; Paustian,
K; Cerri, CC; Victoria,
RL; Melillo, JM. 2006.
Interrelationships among
soil total C and N,
microbial biomass, trace
gas fluxes, and internal
N-cycling in soils under
pasture of the Amazon
region. J Sustainable Ag
27(4): 45-69.
Chan, ASK; Steudler, PA.
2006. Carbon monoxide
uptake kinetics in
unamended and longterm nitrogen-amended
temperate forest soils.
FEMS Microbiol Ecol
57(3): 343-354.
Chapin, FS III;
Woodwell, GM;
Randerson, JT; Lovett,
GM; Rastetter, EB;
Baldocchi, DD; Clark,
DA; Harmon, ME;
Schimel, DS; Valentini,
R; Wirth, C; Aber, JD:
Cole, JJ; Goulden, ML;
Harden, JW; Heimann,
M; Howarth, RW;
Matson, PA; McGuire,
AD; Melillo, JM;
Mooney, HA; Neff, JC;
Houghton, RA; Pace, ML:
Ryan, MG; Running, SW;
Sala, OE; Schlesinger,
WH; Schulze, E-D. 2006.
Reconciling carbon cycle
terminology: A search
for consensus. Ecosystems
9(7): 1041-1050.
Chen, H; Tian, H; Liu,
M; Melillo, J; Pan, S;
Zhang, C. 2006. Effect
of land-cover change
on terrestrial carbon
dynamics in the
southern United States. J
Environmental Quality 35:
1533-1547.
Claessens, L; Hopkinson,
C; Rastetter, E; Vallino, J.
2006. Effect of historical
changes in land use and
climate on the water
budget of an urbanizing
watershed. Water
Resources Res 42(3): Art.
No. W03426.
Clemmensen,
K; Michelsen, A;
Jonasson, S; Shaver,
G. 2006. Increased
ectomycorrhizal fungal
abundance after longterm fertilization and
warming of two arctic
tundra ecosystems. New
Phytologist 171: 391-404.
Conte, MH; Sicre, M-A;
Ruhlemann, C; Weber,
JC; Schulte, S; SchulzBull, D; Blanz, T. 2006.
Global temperature
calibration of the
alkenone unsaturation
index (UK’37) in surface
waters and comparison
with surface sediments.
Geochem Geophys
Geosys 7, doi:10.1029/
2005GC001054.
Dennen, KO; Johnson,
CA; Otter, ML; Silva, SR;
Wandless, GA. 2006. 15N
and non-carbonate 13C
values for two petroleum
source rock reference
materials and a marine
sediment reference
material. U.S. Geological
Survey Open File Report
2006-1071.
Drake, DC; Naiman, RJ;
Bechtold, JS. 2006. Fate
of nitrogen in riparian
forest soils and trees:
A 15N tracer study
simulating salmon
decay. Ecology 87: 12561266.
Euskirchen, ES; McGuire,
AD; Kicklighter, DW;
Zhuang, Q; Clein, JS;
Dargaville, RJ; Dye, DG;
Kimball, JS; McDonald,
KC; Melillo, JM;
Romanovsky, VE; Smith,
NV. 2006. Importance
of recent shifts in soil
thermal dynamics on
growing season length,
productivity, and
carbon sequestration in
terrestrial high-latitude
ecosystems. Global
Change Biol 12(4): 731750.
Farber, S; Costanza, R;
Childers, DL; Erickson,
J; Gross, K; Grove, M;
Hopkinson, CS; Kahn,
J; Pincetl, S; Troy, A;
Warren, P; Wilson, M.
2006. Linking ecology
and economics for
ecosystem management.
BioScience 56(2): 121-133
Fedorko, E; Pontius, G;
Aldrich, S; Claessens,
L; Hopkinson, C;
Wollheim, W. 2006.
Spatial distribution of
land-type in regression
models of pollutant
loading. J Spatial Hydrol
5: 61-80.
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Publications, continued
Feigl, B; Cerri, C;
Piccolo, M; Noronha,
N; Augusti, K; Melillo,
J; Eschenbrenner, V;
Melo, L. 2006. Biological
survey of a lowproductivity pasture in
Rondônia state, Brazil.
Outlook on Agriculture
35(3): 199-208.
Grimm, N; Covich, A;
Melillo, J. 2006. A vision
for ecology’s future:
Where are we today?
Frontiers in Ecology and
the Environment 4(3):
115.
Harris, LA; CM; Duarte,
Nixon, SW. 2006.
Allometric laws and
prediction in estuarine
and coastal ecology.
Estuaries and Coasts 29:
340-344.
Lezberg, AL; Buresch,
K; Neill, C; Chase, T.
2006. Mechanical land
clearing to promote
establishment of coastal
sandplain grassland and
shrubland communities.
Restoration Ecol 14(2):
220-232.
Logan, J; Haas, H;
Deegan, L; Gaines, E.
2006. Turnover rates of
nitrogen stable isotopes
in the salt marsh
mummichog, Fundulus
heteroclitus, following a
laboratory diet switch.
Oecologia 147(3): 391395.
Lü, A; Tian, H; Liu,
M; Liu, J; Melillo,
JM. 2006. Spatial and
temporal patterns of
carbon emissions from
forest fires in China
from 1950 to 2000.
J Geophys Res 111.
D05313, doi:10.1029/
2005JD006198
Machas, R; Santos,
R; Peterson, B. 2006.
Elemental and stable
isotope composition of
Zostera noltii (Horneman)
leaves during the early
phases of decay in a
temperate mesotidal
lagoon. Estuarine, Coastal
and Shelf Sci 66(1-2):
21-29.
Hobara, S; McCalley,
C; Koba, K; Giblin,
AE; Weiss, MS; Gettel,
GM; Shaver, GR. 2006.
Nitrogen fixation in an
arctic tundra watershed:
A key atmospheric N
source. Arctic, Antarctic
and Alpine Research 38(3):
363–372.
Hobbie, J; Hobbie, E.
2006. 15N in symbiotic
fungi and plants
estimates nitrogen and
carbon flux rates in
Arctic tundra. Ecology 87:
816-822.
McClelland, JW; Dery,
SJ; Peterson, BJ; Holmes,
RM; Wood, EF. 2006. A
pan-arctic evaluation
of changes in river
discharge during the
latter half of the 20th
century. Geophysical
Res Lett 33(6): Art. No.
L06715.
Medeiros, PM;
Conte, MH; Weber,
JC; Simoneit, BRT.
2006. Sugars as source
indicators of biogenic
organic carbon in
aerosols collected
above the Howland
Experimental Forest,
Maine. Atmospheric
Environment 40: 16941705.
Morrall, DD; Christman,
SC; Peterson, BJ;
Wollheim, WM;
Belanger, SE. 2006.
Utility of stable
isotopes (13C and
15
N) to demonstrate
comparability
between natural and
experimental streams
for environmental risk
assessment. Ecotoxicology
and Environmental Safety
65(1): 22-35.
Neill, C; Elsenbeer,
H; Krusche, AV;
Lehmann, J; Markewitz,
D; Figueiredo, RD.
2006. Hydrological
and biogeochemical
processes in a changing
Amazon: Results from
small watershed studies
and the large-scale
biosphere-atmosphere
experiment. Hydrological
Processes 20(12): 24672476.
Neill, C; Deegan, LA;
Thomas, SM; Haupert,
CL; Krusche, AV;
Ballester, VM; Victoria,
RL. 2006. Deforestation
alters the hydraulic
and biogeochemical
characteristics of small
lowland Amazonian
streams. Hydrological
Processes 20(12): 25632580.
Neill, C; Piccolo, MC;
Cerri, CC; Steudler,
PA; Melillo, JM. 2006.
Soil solution nitrogen
losses during clearing of
lowland Amazon forest
for pasture. Plant and Soil
281(1-2): 233-245.
Peterson, BJ; McClelland,
J; Curry, R; Holmes, RM;
Walsh, JE; Aagaard, K.
2006. Trajectory shifts in
the Arctic and subarctic
freshwater cycle. Science
313(5790): 1061-1066.
Prowse, TD; Wrona, FJ;
Reist, JD; Gibson, JJ;
Hobbie, JE; Lévesque,
LMJ; Vincent, WF.
2006. Climate change
effects on hydroecology
of Arctic freshwater
ecosystems. Ambio 35(7):
347-358.
Prowse, TD; Wrona, FJ;
Reist, JD; Gibson, JJ;
Hobbie, JE; Lévesque,
LMJ; Vincent, WF. 2006.
Historical changes
in Arctic freshwater
ecosystems. Ambio 35(7):
339-346.
Shaver, G; Giblin, A;
Nadelhoffer, K; Thieler,
K; Downs, M; Laundre,
J; Rastetter, E. 2006.
Carbon turnover in
Alaskan tundra soils:
Effects of organic matter
quality, temperature,
moisture and fertilizer. J
Ecol 94: 740-753.
Shaver, GR. 2006. Spatial
heterogeneity past,
present, and future. Pp.
443-449 in Ecosystem
Function in Heterogeneous
Landscapes, Lovett,
GM; Jones, CG; Turner,
MG; Weathers, KC, eds.
Springer-Verlag, New
York.
Street, LE; Shaver,
GR; Williams, M; van
Wijk, MT. 2006. What
is the relationship
between changes in leaf
area and changes in
photosynthetic CO2 flux
in arctic ecosystems? J
Ecol doi: 10.1111/ j.13652745.2006.01187.
Torres, R; Fagherazzi,
S; van Proosdij, D;
Hopkinson, C. 2006. Salt
marsh geomorphology:
Physical and ecological
effects on landform.
Estuarine, Coastal and
Shelf Sci 69(3-4): 309310.
Walker, MD; Wahren,
CH; Hollister, RD;
Henry, GHR; Ahlquist,
LE; Alatalo, JM; BretHarte, MS; Calef, MP;
Callaghan, TV; Carroll,
AB; Epstein, HE;
Jonsdottir, IS; Klein,
JA; Magnusson, B;
Molau, U; Oberbauer,
SF; Rewa, SP; Robinson,
CH; Shaver, Gr; Suding,
KN; Thompson, CC;
Tolvanen, A; Totland,
O; Turner, PL; Tweedie,
CE; Webber, PJ;
Wookey, PA. 2006. Plant
community responses to
experimental warming
across the tundra biome.
PNAS 103(5): 1342-1346.
Williams, M; Street, LE;
van Wijk, M; Shaver,
GR. 2006. Identifying
differences in rates of
carbon exchange among
vegetation types along
an Arctic toposequence.
Ecosystems 9: 288-304.
Wollheim, WM,
Vörösmarty, CJ;
Peterson, BJ; Seitzinger,
SP; Hopkinson, CS. 2006.
Relationship between
river size and nutrient
removal. Geophysical
Research Letters 33(6):
Art. No. L06410.
Wrona, FJ; Prowse, TD;
Reist, JD; Hobbie, JE;
Lévesque, LMJ; Vincent,
WF. 2006. Key findings,
science gaps and policy
recommendations.
Ambio 35(7): 411-415.
Wrona, FJ; Prowse,
TD; Reist, JD; Hobbie,
JE; Lévesque, LMJ;
Vincent, WF. 2006.
Climate impacts on
Arctic freshwater
ecosystems and fisheries:
Background, rationale
and approach of the
Arctic Climate Impact
Assessment (ACIA).
Ambio 35(7): 326-329.
Wrona, FJ; Prowse, TD;
Reist, JD; Hobbie, JE;
Lévesque, LMJ; Vincent,
WF. 2006. Climate
change effects on
aquatic biota, ecosystem
structure and function.
Ambio 35(7): 359-369.
Wrona, FJ; Prowse,
TD; Reist, JD; Hobbie,
JE; Lévesque, LMJ;
Macdonald, RW;
Vincent, WF. 2006.
Effects of ultraviolet
radiation and
contaminant-related
stressors on Arctic
freshwater ecosystems.
Ambio 35(7): 388-401.
Zhuang, QL; Melillo, JM;
Sarofim, MC; Kicklighter,
DW; McGuire, AD;
Felzer, BS; Sokolov, A;
Prinn, RG; Steudler, PA;
Hu, SM. 2006. CO2 and
CH4 exchanges between
land ecosystems and the
atmosphere in northern
high latitudes over the
21st century. Geophys
Res Lett 33(17): Art. No.
L17403.
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whitman center
The summer of 2006 was a period of great excitement as plans for the remodeling of the Whitman building,
home of the Whitman Center for Summer and Visiting Research, were finalized. In honor of Jack and Valerie
Rowe’s recent gift of $5 million to build capacity at the MBL, the Whitman building will be rededicated as the
Rowe Laboratory during the summer of 2007.
Work on the renovation project was initiated the day after Labor Day. Prior to the construction work, all
Whitman Investigators were required to remove their equipment and supplies from their laboratories. With an
enormous amount of help from a dedicated staff, and the cooperation of all Whitman Investigators and their
colleagues, this was accomplished in time for the demolition work to begin as scheduled. Whitman Investigators
can expect to find a modern, state-of-the-art research laboratory when they return in the spring of 2007.
From the research perspective, the summer of 2006 was a great success. The center welcomed 115 principal
investigators with an additional 183 research associates, including graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
These 298 Whitman scientists came from 149 institutions and 23 countries, making the Whitman Center the
world’s melting pot for the biomedical sciences.
A few highlights from the past summer include the work of Whitman Investigator John Harrington, professor
and dean of the School of Science and Engineering at SUNY New Paltz. Harrington hopes to one day develop
a red blood cell substitute that would make matching blood types for transfusions irrelevant. Harrington is
especially interested in hemoglobin, the chemical in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to the
tissues where it is needed. At the MBL, Harrington studies the chemical properties of hemoglobin from the
lugworm to understand why it has a more stable structure than mammalian hemoglobin. Understanding what
properties make it more stable could lead to developing safe substitutes, reducing the problems that result from
blood shortages and mismatched blood types.
Kansas University Medical Center professor of molecular medicine David Albertini spent his summer at the MBL
studying the eggs of starfish and sea urchins to learn more about embryonic stem cells. The use of embryonic
stem cells has received a lot of attention lately, but scientists actually have a limited understanding of just what
stem cells are and where they come from. At the MBL, Albertini uses both imaging and molecular analysis to
study how eggs are built and maintained. Albertini also studies various crab species to understand the effects of
certain environmental toxins on developing eggs. His research could lead to better understanding of infertility,
ovarian cancer, birth defects related to the mother’s age, and the derivation of embryonic stem cells.
Joshua Zimmerberg, chief of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development’s Laboratory of
Cellular and Molecular Biophysics, spent the summer of 2006 at the MBL investigating the “stalk hypothesis”
using sea urchin eggs and the nerve cells of squid as models. When an electrical signal reaches the end of a nerve
cell, it causes small packages of neurotransmitters to fuse with the membrane. The packages, called vesicles,
release these neurotransmitters into the space between nerve cells, where they can pass the signal on to the
next nerve cell. Because the fusion happens to quickly, Zimmerberg believes that the vesicles must be partially
attached to the membrane before the electrical signal even arrives. He is testing the hypothesis that the vesicles
are connected to the membrane via a stalk-like structure. When the electrical signal arrives, the stalk opens,
allowing the neurotransmitters to flow into the space between nerve cells. If this hypothesis is accurate, it could
shed light on other membrane fusion events like those that occur after a sperm enters an egg and when flu
viruses enter cells.
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MBL Scientists Find Evidence of RNA in Organelle Essential
to Cell Division
Surf clam egg study may change thinking about centrosomes
Despite more than a century of study, scientists know relatively little about the inner
workings of centrosomes—organelles essential to cell division in humans and animals.
Now research by Whitman Investigators studying surf clams at the MBL shows that
centrosomes may contain ribonucleic acid (RNA), the molecule that translates genes into
proteins.
The research, published June 13, 2006, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
suggests that centrosomes may carry at least some of their own genetic machinery and
offers new opportunities to answer long-held questions about centrosome function,
heredity, and evolution.
Funding for this research was
provided by grants from the
National Institute of General
Medical Sciences.
Centrosomes play a key role in cell division. When the process begins, a single centrosome
copies itself and the two organelles migrate to the cell’s edges, where they help tease
apart the chromosomes, and assure genetic stability from cell to cell. In fact, centrosome
instabilities have been linked to tumor malignancies, so answering basic questions about
how these organelles work may ultimately aid cancer research.
The clam centrosome study, led by MBL Whitman investigator Mark Alliegro of Louisiana
State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC), in collaboration with Mary Anne
Alliegro of LSUHSC and Robert Palazzo of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, detected five
RNA sequences in clam eggs that appear to be unique to the centrosome. “The implications
are broad and I expect there will be lively discussion on their meaning for topics from cell
DIRECTOR
Goldman, Robert, Northwestern University, Feinberg
School of Medicine
WHITMAN INVESTIGATORS
Albertini, David, Kansas University Medical Center
Alliegro, Mark, Louisiana State University Health
Sciences Center
Araneda, Ricardo, Columbia University
Armstrong, Peter, University of California
Augustine, George, Duke University Medical Center
Baker, Robert, New York University School of Medicine
Bass, Andrew, Cornell University
Bassett, Joshua, New York University School of Medicine
Bearer, Elaine, Brown University
Beauge, Luis, Instuto de Investigacion Medica m. y
M. Ferreyra, Argentina
Bennett, Michael, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bodznick, David, Wesleyan University
Boyer, Barbara, Union College
Brady, Scott, University of Illinois at Chicago
Brainerd, Elizabeth, Brown University
Burger, Max, Novartis International, Switzerland
Castello, Maria, Instituto de Investigaciones Biologicas
Clemente Estable, Uruguay
Chang, Fred, Columbia University
Chappell, Richard, Hunter College of the City University
of New York
Clay, John, National Institutes of Health
Cohen, William, Hunter College
Cohen, Lawrence, Yale University School of Medicine
Colin, Sean, Roger Williams University
Costello, John, Providence College
Crawford, Karen, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
De Weer, Paul, University of Pennsylvania
Douglass, Adam, Harvard University
Edds-Walton, Peggy, Loyola University Chicago
Enders, Eva, Fisheries and Oceans, Canada
Fall, Christopher, University of Illinois Chicago
Fay, Richard, Loyola University Chicago
Fields, Douglas, National Institutes of Health
Fischbach, Gerald, Columbia University
Fishman, Harvey, University of Texas Medical Branch
Fleidervish, Ilya, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Israel
Fort, Alfredo, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Frost, William, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine
and Science
Gabbiani, Fabrizio, Baylor College of Medicine
Gadsby, David, Rockefeller University
Gan, Wen-Biao, New York University
Gatson, Joshua, University of North Texas Health
Science Center
Gerhart, John, University of California
Glanzman, David, University of California, Los Angeles
Gomez, Maria, Boston University School of Medicine
Green, William, University of Chicago
Grice, Dorothy, University of Medicine and Dentistry
Harrington, John, State University of New York at
New Paltz
Hershko, Avram, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology,
Israel
Highstein, Stephen, Washington University School of
Medicine
Hines, Michael, Yale University
Holmgren, Miguel, Porter Neuroscience Research Center
Holstein, Gay, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Horowitz, Mia, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Jeffery, William, University of Maryland
Johnston, Daniel, University of Texas at Austin
Jonas, Elizabeth, Yale University
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Mark Alliegro
Mary Anne Alliegro
Robert Palazzo
division to eukaryotic evolution. At this point we know very little about their function or origins, but we are confident
they represent a special set of transcripts,” says Alliegro.
The findings are likely to spark debate among biologists who have contemplated how these organelles self replicate.
Although the consensus is that centrosomes lack DNA, the question of whether they contain RNA has never been
adequately answered. “The RNA question has always been controversial, but we couldn’t close the door on it,” says
Palazzo. “This is the first really good evidence that nucleic acid co-purifies with the centrosome, which means it is
physically present.”
Many MBL scientists use locally abundant marine organisms like surf clams (Spisula solidissima) and their eggs as
research models. Clam eggs are simple versions of human cells, and biologists who study cell division value them
for several reasons. They develop fast, entering meiosis within less than a quarter hour after fertilization, and, once
fertilized, divide synchronously every 30 to 50 minutes—providing billions of biochemically identical cells to study.
Using a technique Palazzo developed at the MBL, the collaborators were able to isolate relatively large quantities of clam
centrosomes. Skills developed in Alliegro’s laboratory were then used to extract a unique set of RNAs and demonstrate
their association with centrosomes biochemically and in situ.
“The next step will be to determine what role these RNAs might play in centrosome replication, the cell cycle, or the
development of organisms,” Alliegro says. Meanwhile, the scientists hope their paper will alert researchers working in
other model systems that centrosomal RNA might exist and that it could be playing an important role in life processes.
Kaczmarek, Leonard, Yale University School of Medicine
Kaplan, Ilene, Union College
Kaupp, Ulrich, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Khodjakov, Alexey, Wadsworth Center
Kittelberger, James, Cornell University
Konnerth, Arthur, Technical University Munich, Germany
Korzan, Wayne, Stanford University
Kreitzer, Matthew, Indiana Wesleyan University
Lafer, Eileen, University of Texas Health Science Center at
San Antonio
Landgraf, Matthias, The University of Cambridge,
United Kingdom
Laskin, Jeffrey, University of Medicine and Dentistry,
New Jersey
Laufer, Hans, University of Connecticut
Lauzon, Robert, Union College
Levic, Snezana, University of California, Davis
Llinàs, Rodolfo, New York University School of Medicine
Lowe, Christopher, University of Chicago
Lytton, William, The State University of New York Health
Science Center
Magee, Jeffrey, Louisiana State University Health Science
Center
Martinez, Joe, University of Texas San Antonio
Mellon, DeForest, University of Virginia
Mensinger, Allen, University of Minnesota Duluth
Miller, Andrew, Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, China
Miyake, Katsuya, Medical College of Georgia
Nadim, Farzan, Rutgers University
Palazzo, Robert, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Pant, Harish, National Institute of Neurological Disorders
and Stroke, NIH
Perozo, Eduardo, University of Chicago
Pethig, Ronald, University of Wales, Bangor, United
Kingdom
Pines, Jonathon, University of Cambridge, United
Kingdom
Post, Anton, Hebrew University, Israel
Quintero, Omar, Franklin and Marshall College
Rabbitt, Richard, University of Utah
Razin, Ehud, Hebrew University Medical School, Israel
Rhodes, Paul, Stanford University
Rhodes, Heather, Boston University
Rieder, Conly, Wadsworth Center
Ripps, Harris, University of Illinois College of Medicine
Rome, Lawrence, University of Pennsylvania
Ross, William, New York Medical College
Savage, Rob, Williams College
Shepherd, Jason, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Silver, Robert, Wayne State University School of Medicine
Sloboda, Roger, Dartmouth College
Sluder, Greenfield, University of Massachusetts Medical
School
Soares, Daphne, University of Maryland
Spiegel, Melvin, Dartmouth College
Spiegel, Evelyn, Dartmouth College
Stein, Wolfgang, Universitaet Ulm, Germany
Sturley, Stephen, Columbia University Medical Center
Swedlow, Jason, University of Dundee, United Kingdom
Theobald, Jamie, Lund University, Sweden
Tong, James, University of California, Irvine
Vaughan, Kevin, University of Notre Dame
Verdecia, Mark, The State University of New York,
Stony Brook
Walters, Edgar, University of Texas Medical School at
Houston
Weidner, Earl, Louisiana State University
Zakon, Harold, The University of Texas
Zimmerberg, Joshua, National Institutes of Health
Zottoli, Steven, Williams College
26 research
fellowships
MBL 2006 research
fellows
MBL Research Fellowships
Eighteen scientists received fellowships totaling $303,867 to
conduct research at the MBL in 2006.
Ricardo Araneda, Columbia University
“Noradrenergic modulation of granule cell inhibitory activity in
the olfactory bulb”
Supported by the Erik B. Fries Fellowship.
Eva Enders, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
“Effects of turbulent flow on the lateral line system of fishes”
Supported by the MBL Associates and the Baxter Postdoctoral Fellowships.
Ilya Fleidervish, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“The role of late sodium channels in dynamic control of neuronal
integration”
Supported by the Gruss Lipper Family Foundation.
Fabrizio Gabbiani, Baylor College of Medicine
“Characterization of local membrane properties and action
potential backpropagation within the dendritic tree of a looming
sensitive neuron”
Supported by the Stephen W. Kuffler, Herbert W. Rand, H. Burr
and Susie Steinbach, and the G.F. Fuortes Memorial Fellowships.
OTHER RESEARCH PERSONNEL
Abbott, Emily, Providence College
Acquaviva, Claire, Gurdon Institute, United Kingdom
Alber, Merryl, University of Georgia
Alliegro, Mary Anne, Louisiana State University Health
Sciences Center
Angueyra, Juan manuel, Boston University School of
Medicine
Aronowicz, Jochanan, University of Chicago
Art, Jonathan, University of Illinois at Chicago
Atagi, Yuka, University of Illinois at Chicago
Ausborn, Jessica, University of Ulm, Germany
Banghart, Matthew, University of California, Berkeley
Banta, Gary, Roskilde University, Denmark
Benjamin, Sigi, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Berg, Peter, University of Virginia
Bermingham, Mairead, National University of Ireland
Bettez, Neil, Cornell University
Boal, Jean, Millersville University
Brandon, Christopher, Rosalind Franklin University of
Medicine and Science
Breton, Sylvie, Massachusetts General Hospital
Maria Gomez, Boston University School of Medicine
“Mechanisms of extra-synaptic neurotransmitter release”
Supported by the MBL Associates, Frank R. Lillie, Lucy B. Lemann, Ann E.
Kammer Fellowships.
Mia Horowitz, Tel Aviv University
“Imaging EHDs and their interacting proteins”
Supported by the Gruss Lipper Family Foundation.
William Jeffery, University of Maryland
“Evolutionary origin of neural crest stem cells”
Supported by the Frederik B. and Betsy G. Bang Fellowship and the Laura
and Arthur Colwin Endowed Summer Research Fellowship.
Brush, Mark, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Bungert-Pluemke, Stefanie, Forschungszentrum Juelich,
Germany
Burbach, J., Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience,
The Netherlands
Buxbaum, Joseph, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Chorev, Edith, Hebrew University, Israel
Chubb, Charlie, University of California, Irvine
Coble, Trevor, Cape Cod Community College
Cole, Luke, University of Virginia
Conley, Michael, Brown University
Cooke, Fay, University of Cambridge
Cameron, Lisa, University of North Carolina
Cao, Mian, Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, China
Carmi, Irit, Hebrew University Medical School, Israel
Casaletti Luciana University of Notre Dame
Case, Lindsay, Franklin and Marshall
Castagna, Carolyn, Union College
Cavin, Julie, North Carolina State University
Chang, Lynne, Northwestern University Medical School
Chang, Donald, Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, China
Chen, Xiaobing, National Institutes of Health
Cheung, Yuk, Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, China
Chiao, Chuan-Chin, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Chitwood, Raymond, The University of Texas
Chludzinski, John, National Institutes of Health
D’Alessio, Giuseppe, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Darras, Sébastien, Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique, France
Dechat, Thomas, Northwestern University Medical School
Di Fiore, Barbara, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Di Polo, Reinaldo, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones
Científicas, Venezuela
DiMaio, Michael, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dorn, Jonas, Scripps Research Institute
Ellis-Davies, Graham, Drexel University College of Medicine
Elso de Berberian, Graciela, Instituto de Investigacion
Medica M. y M. Ferreyra, Argentina
Eriksson, John, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland
Estevez, Maureen, Boston University
Evans, Teresa, Case Western Reserve University
Evers, Jan Felix, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Matthew Kreitzer, Indiana Wesleyan University
“Regulation of hydrogen flux from cone and rod
horizontal cells”
Omar Quintero, Franklin and Marshall College
“Myosin 19 in a novel myosin involved in mitochondrial
movement”
Supported by the Herbert W. Rand, Lucy B. Lemann, and
Erik B. Fries Fellowships.
Supported by the Robert Day Allen, E. E. Just, and Laura
and Arthur Colwin Endowed Summer Research Fellowships.
Matthias Landgraf, The University of Cambridge
“Imaging the development of neural activity patterns
during the acquisition of embryonic motor behavior”
Daphne Soares, University of Maryland
“Regeneration in the visual system of the blind cave fish
Astyanax mexicanus”
Supported by the Evelyn and Melvin Spiegel Fellowship and
the Laura and Arthur Colwin Endowed Summer Research
Fellowship.
Supported by the MBL Associates, James A. and Faith Miller
Fellowship, and the Plum Foundation John E. Dowling
Fellowship.
Katsuya Miyake, Medical College of Georgia
“Resealing of plasma membrane disruptions in sea
urchin eggs”
Jason Swedlow, University of Dundee
“Tracking kineotchores in living cells”
Supported by the Laura and Arthur Colwin Endowed
Summer Research Fellowship.
Ronald Pethig, University of Wales, Bangor
“Construction and studies of artificially engineered
pancreatic beta-cell assemblies”
Supported by the Eugene and Millicent Bell Fellowship.
Jonathon Pines, University of Cambridge
“The role of cyclin-Cdks in cell division”
Supported by a Nikon Fellowship.
Anton Post, Hebrew University
“Niche adaptation and evolution of marine
cyanobacteria”
Supported by the Laura and Arthur Colwin Endowed
Summer Research Fellowship.
Kevin Vaughan, University of Notre Dame
“Isoform-specific targeting of cytoplasmic dynein in
neurons”
Supported by the Laura and Arthur Colwin Endowed
Summer Research Fellowship.
Harold Zakon, The University of Texas
“Cloning of myogenic genes from highly derived
muscles of fish”
Supported by the Laura and Arthur Colwin Endowed
Summer Research Fellowship.
Supported by the Gruss Lipper Family Foundation.
Faszewski, Ellen, Wheelock College
Feitl, Karla, Providence College
Fera, Andrea, National Institutes of Health
Ferdie, Meredith, University of Virginia
Fernandez, Xavier, University of Barcelona, Spain
Flannery, Richard, Yale University
Floyd, Suzy, The Wellcome Trust and Cancer Research,
United Kingdom
Foisner, Roland, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Follett, Christopher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Forger, Daniel, University of Michigan
Frederickson, Cathleen, Neurobiotex, Inc.
Frederickson, Christopher, Neurobiotex, Inc,
Freeman, Robert Jr., Harvard Medical School
Gainer, Harold, National Institutes of Health, NINDS
Galbraith, Catherine, National Institutes of Health
Galbraith, Jim, National Institutes of Health
Gidmark, Nick, Brown University
Gilland, Edwin, New York University School of Medicine
Goda, Makoto, Kyoto University, Japan
Goldman, Anne, Northwestern University Medical School
Goldsmith, Juliet, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Gordon, Marion, Rutgers University
Gould, Robert, University of Illinois at Chicago
Grant, Philip, National Institutes of Health
Gray, Joshua, Rutgers University
Grigsby, Ross, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Gross, David, University of Massachusetts
Gruenbaum, Yosef, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Gutnick, Michael, The Hebrew University, Israel
Hardwick, Marie, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Harrington, John, University of California
Heck, Diane, Rutgers University
Hegaret, Helene, University of Connecticut
Hernanez, Mari-Luz, Universite de Nice-Sophia Antipolis,
France
Herrmann, Harald, German Cancer Research Center,
Germany
Hill, Susan, Michigan State University
Himic, Lisa, Friedrich Miescher-Institut, Switzerland
Hines, Margaret, Boston University
Homma, Ryota, Yale University
Hong, Min, New York Medical College
Huang, Ling, Purdue University
Hume, Andrew, University of Virginia
Hurley, Imogen, The University of Chicago
Ingoglia, Nicholas, UMDNJ - New Jersey Medical School
Ioannidis, Panos, University of Athens, Greece
Jacobson, Nikohl, University of Massachusetts
Kajiwara, Yuji, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Kaltenbach, Jane, Mount Holyoke College
Karlin, Arthur, Columbia University
Kashikar, Nachiket, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
Kettunen, Petronella, University of California, Los Angeles
King, Emma, University of Dundee, United Kingdom
King, Curtis, University of Utah
Klaassen, Laurus, University of Texas Health Sciences Center,
Houston
Kong, May-Chuin, Hunter College
Koop, Lars, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research, United Kingdom
Krueger, August, Hunter College
Kuhns, William, Hospital for Sick Children, Canada
Kwan, Kristen, University of Utah
Lafer-Sousa, Rosa, Wellesley College
Lafer-Sousa, Luis, Keystone School
LaFountain, James, University at Buffalo
Lahr, Malia, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Continued
28 research
Dart Scholars Program in Learning
and Memory
Four scientists were named Dart Scholars in
Learning and Memory in 2006. Sponsored by a
generous grant from Dart Neuroscience, these
awards bring top scientists in the field of learning
and memory together to conduct research at the
MBL for the summer.
Albert and Ellen Grass Faculty
Grant Program
Four investigators were awarded Grass Faculty
Awards at the MBL in 2006. The goal of this
Program is to take advantage of the collaborative
environment of the MBL and bring together
neuroscientists at the Assistant or Associate
Professor level from different institutions to
work together to conduct specific research in
neuroscience.
Farzan Nadim of NJIT/ Rutgers University and Wolfgang
Stein of Universitaet Ulm, collaborated on a project titled
“Proprioceptive feedback to a motor pattern generating
network.”
William Frost, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine
and Science
“Optical recording studies of learning and memory in the
marine mollusk Tritonia diomedea”
Wen-Biao Gan, New York University
“The role of visual experience in dendritic spine plasticity”
David Glanzman, University of California, Los Angeles
“Development of the zebrafish into a model organism
for the cellular and molecular analysis of nonassociative
memory”
Daniel Johnston, University of Texas, Austin
“Changes in dendritic excitability as a substrate for
learning”
Elizabeth Jonas of Yale University and James Tong
of the University of California, Irvine, collaborated on
a project titled “Mitochondrial code for learning and
memory.”
LaMontagne, Michael, McNeese State University
Lasser-Ross, Nechama, New York Medical College
Lewin, Katherine, Duke University Medical Center
Lien, Molly, Hope College
Lindon, Catherine, Gurdon Institute, United Kingdom
Lipshultz, Hannah, Cornell University
Liu, Katherine, University of Washington
Lizunov, Vladimir, National Institutes of Health
Lloyd-Knight, Karena, Millersville University
Loo, Matthew, University of Rhode Island
Lugo, Prospero, Hunter College
Lyons, Jacob, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Mahl, Ursula, Cornell University
Malchow, Robert, National Science Foundation
Manita, Satoshi, New York Medical College
Mann, Mary Anne, Columbia University
Marcewicz, Lauren, Hunter College
Maresca, Thomas, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
Marino, Roxanne, Cornell University
Matsusaka, Takahiro, The Gurdon Institute, United Kingdom
McGlathery, Karen, University of Virginia
Millett, Andrew, Roger Williams University
Miniowitz, Shirly, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology,
Israel
Molloy, Christopher, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson
Medical School
Montgomery, John, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Moore, John, Duke University Medical Center
Morfini, Gerardo, University of Illinois at Chicago
Mosley, Janet, Wesleyan University
Murata, Yasunobu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nakajima, Kazuhiro, Oiwake Chyou, Japan
Nasi, Enrico, Boston University School of Medicine
Needleman, Daniel, Harvard Medical School
Ngai, Lily, Hunter College
Nicaise, Ghislain, Universite de Nice-Sophia Antipolis,
France
Nobrega, Derek, Brown University
Nowroozi, Bryan, Brown University
Pappas, George, University of Illinois at Chicago
Paydarfar, David, University of Massachusetts
Medical School
Pekkurnaz, Gulcin, National Institutes of Health
Petukhova, Tatyana, National Institutes of Health
Pigino, Gustavo, University of Illinois at Chicago
Pollema, Sarah, University of Illinois at Chicago
Popovic, Marko, Belgrade University
Porter, Iain, University of Dundee, United Kingdom
Posch, Markus, University of Dundee, United Kingdom
Pyie, Aung, Hunter College
Rakowski, Robert, Ohio University
Ratner, Nancy, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Redenti, Stephen, Hunter College
Rinkwitz, Silke, Carl of Ossietzky University, Germany
Rosenkranz, Amiel, University of Texas-Austin
Roy, Paula, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
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Friday Evening Lecture Series
June 23, Sarah W. Bottjer, University of Southern California
“Neural Strategies for Learning During Sensitive Periods of
Development”
June 30, Lang Lecture, Cori I. Bargmann, The Rockefeller
University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
“Genes, Behavior, and the Sense of Smell”
July 7, Porter Lecture, Susan Wente, Vanderbilt University
Medical Center
“The Dynamics of Nucleocytoplasmic Transport and Nuclear
Pore Complexes”
July 14, Distinguished Alumni Lecture, Clare M.
Waterman-Storer, The Scripps Research Institute
“Microscopes and Motility: Systems Integration in
Directed Cell Migration”
July 20-21, Forbes Lectures, Huda Y. Zoghbi, Baylor
College of Medicine/Howard Hughes Medical Institute
“Genetic and Biochemical Approaches to Polyglutamine
Neurodegenerative Disorders” & “Rett Syndrome and Related
Disorders: Where Genetics Meets Epigenetics”
July 28, Glassman Lecture, Marlene Belfort, Wadsworth
Center, New York State Department of Health
“Gene, Interrupted” Introns and Inteins in Evolution,
Biotechnology, and Medicine”
August 4, Jane Maienschein, Arizona State University
“From Transplantation to Translation: Stem Cells in History”
August 11, Linda A. Deegan, MBL
“Disappearing Streams: The Hidden Casualty of Deforestation in
the Amazon”
August 18, Helen M. Blau, Stanford University School
of Medicine
“Nuclear Reprogramming by Cell Fusion” Sa, John, Corredale High School
Schiminovich, Samuel, Columbia University
Shakarjian, Michael, UMDNJ/Robert Wood Johnson
Medical School
Shnyrova, Anna, National Institutes of Health
Shum, Winnie, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School
Silva, Francisca, Boston University
Simmons, Tiffany, Millersville University
Smarandache, Carmen, University of Ulm, Germany
Sousa, Rui, University of Texas Health Science Center at
San Antonio
Staudinger, Michelle, University of Massachusetts
Amherst
Steinacker, Antoinette, University of Puerto Rico
Struenker, Timo, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
Sugimori, Mutsuyuki, New York University School of
Medicine
Grass Fellows
Eleven young scientists were awarded fellowships by the Grass Foundation to conduct
research in neuroscience at the MBL during the summer of 2006. The program was
directed by Catherine Carr, University of Maryland. Jennifer Morgan, Bowdoin College,
was associate director.
Joshua Pope Bassett, Ph.D., New York
University School of Medicine
“Identifying the site of velocity storage
integration: A comparative approach using
species with distinct oculomotor behaviors”
J. Matthew Kittelberger, Ph.D., Cornell
University
“The midbrain preiaqueductal gray and vocal
patterning in a teleost fish”
Wayne J. Korzan, Ph.D., Stanford University
“Behavioral and hormonal responses to
agonistic interaction in the toadfish”
María Esmeralda Castelló Gómez, Ph.D.,
Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas
Clemente Estable
“Comparative study of the fast
electrosensory pathway of electric fish: A
multilevel approach”
Snezana Levic, University of California, Davis
“Spontaneous action potential activity in
developing vertebrate hair cells: Control of
pattern and efficacy of synaptic transfer”
Adam D. Douglass, University of California,
San Francisco
“Optical studies of neuronal connectivity
and plasticity in the retinotectal system of
zebrafish”
Heather J. Rhodes, Ph.D., Boston University
“Searching for the central pattern generator
in the vocal system of Xenopus laevis”
Jason Shepherd, Johns Hopkins School of
Medicine
“The role of BCL-2 family proteins in postsynaptic transmission and plasticity”
Alfredo Gustavo Fort, B.Sc., M.Sc.,
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
“Gap junction subunit trafficking via
microtubule-dependent motor systems”
Joshua W. Gatson, M.S., University of North
Texas/Health Science Center at Fort Worth
“The role of the androgen receptor in
estrogen-induced neuroprotection”
Tauhata, Sinji, University of Notre Dame
Tokumaru, Hiroshi, Tokushima Bunri University, Japan
Tullius, Thomas, Boston University
Tully, Benjamin, Rutgers University
Turner, Caroline, Cornell University
Tyler, Anna, Cornell University
Tytell, Michael, Wake Forest University School
of Medicine
Unguez, Graciela, New Mexico State University
Vaughan, Patricia, University of Notre Dame
Walsh, Jessica, Columbia University
Wang, Jean, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine
and Science
Wang, Weihong, University of South Carolina
Wong, Tina, Williams College
Mark Verdecia, Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook
“Brittlestar fluorescence as a unique longterm indicator of in vivo neuronal activity”
Yamada, Atsuko, Hokkaido University, Japan
Yu, Eunah, New York University School of Medicine
Zakevicius, Jane, University of Illinois College of Medicine
Zecevic, Dejan, Yale University School of Medicine
Zhang, Jinghua, Columbia University
Zukin, Suzanne, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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Armstrong, MT;
Theg, SM; Braun, N;
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RL; Armstrong, PB. 2006.
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for lipid A (endotoxin) in
eukaryote chloroplasts.
FASEB J 20(12): 21452146.
Augustine, GJ; Morgan,
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Jin, S; Prasad, K; Lafer,
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Collis, LP; Sun,
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Bowdoin College
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California, University of, Davis
California, University of, Irvine
California, University of, Santa Barbara
Cape Cod Community College
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
Chicago, University of
Columbia University
Columbia University Medical Center
Connecticut, University of
Connecticut, University of, Health Center
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
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Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia, University of
Harvard Medical School
Harvard University
Hope College
Hunter College
Idaho Neurologic Institute
Illinois, University of, at Chicago
Illinois, University of, Champaign-Urbana
Indiana Wesleyan University
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Kansas University Medical Center
Keystone School
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I; Ros, R; Anselmetti,
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Grant, P; Zheng, Y; Pant,
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Omosun, Y; Palenchar,
JB; Prickett, S; Punkosdy,
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Wang, Q; Menon, AK;
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Gupton, SL; Collings,
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Millersville University
Minnesota, University of, Duluth
Mississippi, University of, Southern
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
National Institutes of Health
National Science Foundation
New Jersey, University of Medicine and Dentistry
New York Medical College
New York University School of Medicine
North Carolina, University of
North Carolina State University
Northwestern University Medical School
Notre Dame, University of
Ohio University
Louisiana State University
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Loyola University Chicago
Pennsylvania, University of
Porter Neuroscience Research Center
Puerto Rico, University of
Purdue University
Providence College
Maryland, University of
Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts, University of
Massachusetts Medical School, University of
McNeese State University
Medical College of Georgia
Michigan State University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rhode Island, University of
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Kapoor, TM; Lampson,
MA; Hergert, P;
Cameron, L; Cimini, D;
Salmon, ED; McEwen,
BF; Khodjakov, A.
2006. Chromosomes
can congress to the
metaphase plate before
biorientation. Science
311(5759): 388-391.
Khodjakov, A; Rieder,
CL. 2006. Imaging the
division process in living
tissue culture cells.
Methods 38(1): 2-16.
Lucero, A; Stack, C;
Bresnick, AR; Shuster,
CB. 2006. A global,
MLCK-dependent
increase in myosin
II contractility
accompanies the
metaphase-anaphase
transition in sea urchin
eggs. Mol Biol Cell 17(9):
4093-4104.
Magidson, V; Chang,
F; Khodjakov, A. 2006.
Regulation of cytokinesis
by spindle-pole bodies.
Nature Cell Biol 8(8):
891-893.
Meijering, E; Smal,
I; Danuser, G. 2006.
Tracking in molecular
bioimaging. IEEE Signal
Processing 23(3): 46-53.
Mensinger, AF, Tubbs,
ME. 2006. Effects of
temperature and diet on
the growth rate of Year 0
oyster toadfish, Opsanus
tau. Biol Bull 210(1):
64-71.
Morfini, G; Pigino, G;
Szebenyi, G; You, Y;
Pollema, S; Brady, ST.
2006. JNK mediates
pathogenic effects of
polyglutamine-expanded
androgen receptor on
fast axonal transport.
Nature Neurosci 9(7):
907-916.
Scripps Research Institute
South Carolina, University of
St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Stanford University
State University of New York Downstate
State University of New York, New Paltz
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Texas Health Science Center, University of
Texas Medical Branch, University of
Texas, University of
Texas, University of, Austin
Texas, University of, Houston
Texas, University of, San Antonio
Texas Health Science Center, University of, North
Tufts University
Union College
Utah, University of
Vermont, University of
Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences
Virginia, University of
Wadsworth Center
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine
Washington, University of
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Novak, AE; Jost, MC; Lu,
Y; Taylor, AD; Zakon,
HH; Ribera, AB. 2006.
Gene duplications and
evolution of vertebrate
voltage-gated sodium
channels. J Mol Evolution
63(2): 208-221.
Paydarfar, D; Forger, DB;
Clay, JR. 2006. Noisy
inputs and the induction
of on-off switching
behavior in a neuronal
pacemaker. J Neurophysiol
96(6): 3338-3348.
Rome, LC. 2006. Design
and function of superfast
muscles: New insights
into the physiology of
skeletal muscle. Ann Rev
Physiol 68: 193-221.
Rome, LC; Flynn,
L; Yoo, TD. 2006.
Biomechanics—Rubber
bands reduce the cost
of carrying loads. Nature
444(7122): 1023-1024.
Satpute-Krishnan, P;
DeGiorgis, JA; Conley,
MP; Jang, M; Bearer, EL.
2006. A peptide zipcode
sufficient for anterograde
transport within amyloid
precursor protein. PNAS
103(44): 16532-16537.
Shinohara, M;
Mikhailov, AV; AguirreGhiso, JA; Rieder, CL.
2006. Extracellular
signal-regulated kinase
1/2 activity is not
required in mammalian
cells during late G2 for
timely entry into or exit
from mitosis. Mol Biol
Cell 17(12): 5227-5240.
Silver, RB. 2006.
Enzymes necessary
for production of
leukotriene B4 are
located on perinuclear endoplasmic
reticulum, and are not
intranuclear, at the time
of the leukotriene B4
evoked calcium signal
required for cell division.
Prostaglandins and Other
Lipid Mediators 79(1-2):
164-164.
Strunker T; Weyand
I; Bonigk W; Van Q;
Loogen A; Brown JE;
Kashikar N; Hagen V;
Krause E; Kaupp UB.
2006. A K(+)-selective
cGMP-gated ion channel
controls chemosensation
of sperm. Nature Cell
Biology E-first. 10.1038/
ncb1473
Vucinic, D; Cohen, LB;
Kosmidis, EK. 2006.
Interglomerular centersurround inhibition
shapes odorant-evoked
input to the mouse
olfactory bulb in vivo. J
Neurophysiol 95(3): 18811887.
Zakon, HH; Lu, Y;
Zwickl, DJ; Hillis,
DM. 2006. Sodium
channel genes and the
evolution of diversity
in communication
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Convergent molecular
evolution. PNAS 103(10):
3675-3680.
Wheaton College
Wheelock College
Williams College
Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Venezuela
Kyoto University, Japan
Yale University
Yale University School of Medicine
Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universtiy, Germany
Lund University, Sweden
FOREIGN INSTITUTIONS REPRESENTED
Medical College of Vienna, Austria
Athens, University of, Greece
Auckland, University of, New Zealand
Barcelona, University of, Spain
Nagasaki University, Japan
Napoli “Federico II,” Universita di, Italy
National University of Ireland, Ireland
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Novartis International AG, Switzerland
Cambridge, University of, United Kingdom
Carl von Ossietzky University, Germany
Center for Multidisciplinary Studies, Serbia
Dundee, University of, United Kingdom
Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
Gurdon Institute, The, United Kingdom
Hebrew University, Medical School, Israel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Hokkaido University, Japan
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Hospital for Sick Children, Canada
Instituto de Investigacion Medica “Mercedes y Martin
Ferreyra,” Argentina
Oiwake Chyou, Japan
Roskilde University, Denmark
Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, The Netherlands
Technical University Munich, Germany
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Tokushima Bunri University, Japan
Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland
Universitaet Ulm, Germany
Universite de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France
Wales, University of, Bangor, United Kingdom
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, United Kingdom
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DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST, Shinya Inoué
SENIOR SCIENTIST, Rudolf Oldenbourg
ASSOCIATE RESEARCH SCIENTIST, Michael Shribak
POSTDOCTORAL SCIENTIST, Brigitte de Saint Phalle
RESEARCH ASSISTANT III, Grant Harris
PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR, Jane MacNeil
BROWN/MBL GRADUATE STUDENT, Alex Valm
architectural dynamics in
living cells program
The Architectural Dynamics in Living Cells Program (ADLC),
established at the MBL by Shinya Inoué in 1992, continues the
pioneering research and educational activities in biophysical
inquiries directly in living cells that Inoué started at Princeton
University and the MBL in 1949. The program focuses on
architectural dynamics in living cells: the timely and coordinated
assembly and disassembly of macromolecular structures essential
for the proper functioning and differentiation of cells, the
spatial and temporal organization of these structures, and their
physiological and genetic control.
The program is also devoted to the development and application
of powerful new imaging tools that permit such studies directly
in living cells and functional cell-free extracts. Program members
have special expertise in the use of polarized light for analyzing
the local arrangement of molecular bonds and fine structure
in biological systems. Unique instruments being developed
by program members include the universal light microscope,
centrifuge polarizing microscope, liquid-crystal based LCPolScope and orientation independent DIC microscope. Biological
phenomena currently under investigation include mitosis/meiosis
and related motility, microtubule-centrosome interaction,
cytoskeletal rearrangements in endothelial cells upon leukocyte
attachment, and cellular springs that produce nano-Newton force
in Vorticella. The Architectural Dynamics in Living Cells Program
is an active component of the MBL’s resident cell research group
and promotes interdisciplinary research and training among its
resident core researchers, visiting investigators, and collaborating
manufacturers.
During 2006, program members published articles and made
presentations on: a) the use of the LC-PolScope in live cell
imaging, b) orientation-independent DIC microscopy, c) analysis
of the rapid stalk contraction in Vorticella, d) liquid-crystal
VISITING INVESTIGATORS
Danielle Cook France, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peter Domenicali, Cambridge Research and Instrumentation
David Fletcher-Holmes, Cambridge Research and Instrumentation
Susan Gerbi, Brown University
Makoto Goda, RIKEN Harima Institute, Hyogo, Japan
Joseph Hoffman, Yale University School of Medicine
Ted Inoué, New Hope, Pennsylvania
Paul Kasili, Cambridge Research and Instrumentation
Robert Knudson, Technical Video, Ltd., Port Townsend, Washington
James LaFountain, University at Buffalo
Marc Levoy, Stanford University
Issei Mabuchi, University of Tokyo
Kazuhiro Nakajima, Kyoto University
Yi-Ren Ng, Stanford University
ordering in solutions of bacterial flagella, e) mechanisms of
chromosome positioning during meiosis in insect spermatoctyes,
f) mapping birefringence in three dimensions using a microlens
array in the LC-PolScope optical path, and g) imaging
birefringence in real time. All of these projects continue to be
advanced by program members. In addition, students of the
Physiology course and many visitors (see Visiting Investigator list)
took advantage of the special instrumentation for exploratory
projects, including stratification of the cytosol in red blood cells
(centrifuge polarizing microscope), birefringence of the cell wall
of red blood cell ghosts, analysis of filament alignment in f-actinbased comet tails of Listeria, light field imaging using microlens
arrays, (all LC-PolScope). Program members also lectured in the
Physiology and Microscopy courses offered at the MBL.
Publications and Patent
Barry, E; Hensel, Z; Dogic, Z; Shribak,
M; Oldenbourg, R. 2006. Entropydriven formation of a chiral liquidcrystalline phase of helical filaments.
Phys Rev Lett 96: Art. No. 018305.
Hoffman, JF; Inoué, S. 2006. Directly
observed reversible shape changes
and hemoglobin stratification
during centrifugation of human and
Amphiuma red blood cells. PNAS
103(8): 2971-2976.
Inoué, S. 2006. In memory of Hidemi
Sato. Biol. Cell. 98(10): e1-e2.
Shribak, M; Inoué, S. 2006.
Orientation-independent DIC
microscopy. Applied Optics 45(3): 460469.
Shribak M; Inoué, S. 2006.
Orientation-independent differential
interference contrast microscopy.
Pp. 1768-1769 in 2006 Proceedings of
Microscopy and Microanalysis, C. Lyman
et al., eds. Cambridge University Press.
Shribak, M; Oldenbourg, R; Cronin,
PJ; Hoyt, CC; and Miller, PJ.
2006. Instantaneous polarization
measurement system and method.
U.S. Patent, Number 7,079,247,
Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods
Hole, MA.
Oldenbourg, R. 2006. Polarized
light field microscopy for biology:
The simultaneous recording off
spatial (orthoscopic) and directional
(conoscopic) polarized light images to
analyze the birefringent fine structure
of living cells. In the 9th International
Conference on Optics Within Life
Sciences, A. Chiou, editor. Taipei,
Taiwan.
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marine resources programs
The Marine Resources Center (MRC) is a national facility for the development and use of aquatic organisms in basic biological research, aquaculture,
and fisheries science. Our research programs focus on biological processes integrated at the level of the whole organism.
Program in Sensory Biology, Behavioral Ecology,
and Population Genetics
The mechanisms of camouflage in cephalopods continue to be studied. The central
hypothesis is that the wide range of cephalopod camouflage patterns fall into just three
pattern categories, and that cuttlefish (and cephalopods in general) might be using a
simple visual cue for each of these three camouflage pattern types. Using artificial as well
as natural backgrounds, we have identified key visual cues that control this complex
system.
By taking spectrometer measurements of cuttlefish and squid skin at various levels of
magnification, we are beginning to understand how color change is accomplished.
Pigmented reflectance, transmission, and filtering of light in addition to structural
reflectance, polarization, and light scattering confirm the complex nature of color change
in cephalopods.
MANAGER, MARINE RESOURCES CENTER
AND DIRECTOR, SCIENTIFIC AQUACULTURE
PROGRAM
Scott Lindell
SENIOR SCIENTIST
Roger Hanlon
ASSOCIATE SCIENTISTS
Gabriele Gerlach
Alan Kuzirian
ASSOCIATE SCIENTIST/VETERINARIAN
Roxanna Smolowitz
ASSISTANT RESEARCH SCIENTIST
Steven Roberts
ADJUNCT SCIENTISTS
Mary Beth Saffo, Harvard University
Nadav Shashar, Hebrew University
Continued
Collaborative behavioral, biochemical, and electrophysiological studies using the sea
slug Hermissenda continued with the anti-cancer drug, bryostatin (now in stage-2 human
oncology testing). Work in 2006 showed that even short-term exposure to bryostatin
resulted in long-term memory formation in associative conditioned animals. Protein
kinase C (PKC) activity measurements demonstrated a concurrent long-term elevation
of PKC activation in trained animals. Immunocytochemical studies further revealed
that both long-term and short-term bryostatin priming caused a selective translocation
into, and increase in, PKC in the nuclei of neurons of conditioned animals. These results
suggest a possible mechanism for the increased levels of protein synthesis we reported
earlier. This research continues to suggest possible beneficial effects for bryostatin’s use
with Alzheimer’s disease, other dementias, and possible learning deficiencies.
New collaborative research shows that many fish species can discriminate odors in ocean
currents and that some species use home reef scent to return to the reefs where they were
born. The homing behavior of reef fishes could support population isolation and genetic
divergence that may ultimately lead to the formation of new species.
Chemical signals may also play an important role in reproduction in fish. We showed for
the first time in a teleost fish, the zebrafish (Danio rerio), that females can use waterborne
pheromones to suppress reproduction by other females. Male pheromones not only
stimulated female reproduction but also increased the quality and viability of eggs.
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Marine Resources Programs Staff, cont.
ADMINSTRATIVE AND SUPPORT STAFF
Barbara Burbank, Program Administrator
James Dimond, Diver/Marine Specimen Collector
Edward Enos, Aquatic Resources Division Superintendent
Carma Gilcrist, Research Assistant
William Grossman, Marine Specimen Collector/Diving Safety Officer
William Klimm, Licensed Boat Captain, R/V Gemma
William Mebane, Aquaculture and Engineering Division Superintendent
Janice Simmons, Animal Health Technician/Internship Coordinator
Daniel Sullivan, Boat Captain/Life Support Technical Assistant
Erika Woods, Research Assistant
VOLUNTEERS
Tess Casey, AmeriCorp Member
Jean Lemeiux, Retired Senior Volunteer Program
Don Meyers, MRC Volunteer
Leo Stanford, Senior AmeriCorp Member
Eric Sweeney, AmeriCorp Member
Frank Valentine, MRC Volunteer
INTERNS
Dorothy Bassett, Cape Cod Community College
Nichole Bissett, Cape Cod Community College
Brittany Burke, Roger Williams College
Trevor Coble, Cape Cod Community College
Brian Taylor, Massachusetts Maritime Academy
LABORATORY OF ROGER HANLON
STAFF
Roger Hanlon, Senior Scientist
Alexandra Barbosa, PhD Student, Universidade do Porto
Kendra Buresch, Research Assistant III
Justin Grubich, Postdoctoral Investigator
Sarrah Kaye, Research Assistant
Dawn LoBaugh, Masters Student, University of Alaska
Lydia Mathger, Research Associate
VISITING INVESTIGATORS
Philip Alatalo, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Jean Geary Boal, Millersville University
Charlie Chubb, University of California, Irvine
Chuan-Chin Chiao, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Philip McFadden, Oregon State University
Daniel E. Morse, University of California, Santa Barbara
Daniel-Eric Nilsson, Lund University
Daniel Osorio, University of Sussex
INTERNS
Meg Gardner, Roger Williams College
Margo Hines, Boston University Marine Program
Christopher Williams, Massachusetts Maritime Academy
LABORATORY OF ALAN KUZIRIAN
STAFF
Alan Kuzirian, Associate Scientist
Herman Epstein, Investigator, Emeritus, Brandeis University
INTERNS
Josiah Coffey, Cape Cod Community College
Ian Oldenburg, Carnegie-Mellon University
Christopher Ridel, Roger Williams College
Program in Scientific Aquaculture
Investigations into the role of marine snow as a reservoir/vector for
pathogenic mechanisms are being conducted. Specifically we are looking
at the association of Quahog Parasite Unknown (QPX) and Dermo with
the disease they cause in hard clams and eastern oysters, respectively, and
if increases are correlated with increased amounts of the agent in marine
snow.
Epizootic shell disease occurs in up to 70% of the American Lobsters along
the coast of New England and results in significant economic loss to the
fishing industry. While we have identified a potential bacterial cause of the
disease, further examination into the pathogenesis of lobster shell disease
and comparison with shell disease in other crustaceans is on going.
We are investigating how hard clam strain and seasonal temperature effect
the occurrence of QPX caused disease in poikilothermic hard clams using
transmission studies as well as molecular evaluation of hemocyte function
differences between infected and uninfected animals.
Using a yeast two-hybrid system, proteins interacting with myostatin are
being studied to understand the functional role myostatin plays in fish
growth and development. Several novel gene products have been identified
that could be involved in the regulation of muscle growth in fish. Another
focus of the lab is shellfish and how they respond to environmental
stressors. Specifically, we have been able to examine gene expression profiles
of oysters exposed to varying level of disease, temperature, and mechanical
stress in order to better understand mechanisms associated with increased
survival.
We continued our scientific project to develop fish diets from native
vegetation in Haiti. Our accomplishments include construction and
operation of a greenhouse in Woods Hole to conduct year-round
experiments, including exploring different systems for growing tilapia
that encourage natural food growth to supplement fish diets as well as
maintaining sustainable water quality.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Community-based
Restoration Program and the towns of Truro and Provincetown funded our
work to plant 100,000 sea clams in sand flats that have been hard-hit by
over-fishing. We had help from local high school students, volunteers, and
college interns. Clams were planted in areas that are naturally protected
by large boulders from dredging and will be protected by the towns as
broodstock sanctuaries.
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Publications
Behrmann-Godel, J;
Gerlach, G; Eckmann,
R. 2006. Kin- and
population recognition
in sympatric Lake
Constance perch
(Perca fluviatilis): Can
assortative shoaling
drive population
divergence? Behav Ecol
Sociobiol 59: 461-468.
Berkins, I; Smolowitz,
R. 2006. Handling of
pathological samples
from invertebrates.
Pp.263-274 in
Invertebrate Medicine, G.
Lewbart, ed. Blackwell
Publishing, Ames, Iowa.
Buresch, KC; Gerlach,
G; Hanlon, RT. 2006.
Multiple genetic stocks
of the longfin inshore
squid Loligo pealeii in
the NW Atlantic: Stocks
segregate inshore in
summer, but aggregate
offshore in winter. Mar
Ecol Progress Ser 310:
263-270.
Diner, E; Smolowitz,
R; Gomez-Chiarri, M;
Leavitt, D; Roberts, S.
2006. Assessing disease
tolerance in the eastern
oyster using gene
expression. J Shellfish Res
25: 660.
Foote, KG; Hanlon,
RT; Iampietro, PJ;
Kvitek, RG. 2006.
Acoustic detection
and quantification of
benthic egg beds of the
squid Loligo opalescens
in Monterey Bay,
California. J Acoustic Soc
Am 119(2): 1-12.
Ford, S; Smolowitz,
R. 2006. Infection
dynamics of an oyster
parasite in its newly
expended range. Mar
Biol. Published online
15 Sept. 2006 by
Springer Verlag.
Gast, RJ; Cushman,
E; Moran, DM;
Uhlinger, KR; Leavitt,
D; Smolowitz, R.
2006. DGGE-based
detection method
for Quahog Parasite
Unknown (QPX) from
environmental samples
and clam tissues.
Diseases of Aquatic
Organisms 70: 115-122.
Gast, RJ; Moran, DM;
Uhlinger, K.; Leavitt,
DR; Smolowitz, R. 2006. Detection and
distribution of Quahog
Parasite Unknown in
the coastal marine
environment. J. Shellfish
Res 25: 738.
Gauger, E; Smolowitz,
R; Uhlinger, K; Casey, J;
Gomez-Chiarri, M. 2006.
Vibrio harveyi and other
bacterial pathogens
in cultured summer
flounder, Paralichthys
dentatus. Aquaculture 260:
10-20.
Lyons, MM; Smolowitz,
R; Dungan, C;
Roberts, SB. 2006.
Development of a realtime quantitative PCR
assay for the hard clam
pathogen, Quahog
Parasite Unknown
(QPX). Diseases of
Aquatic Organisms 72:
45-52.
Mathger, LM; Hanlon,
RT. 2006. Anatomical
basis for camouflaged
polarized light
communication in
squid. Biol Lett 2(4):
494-496.
Gerlach, G. 2006
Pheromonal regulation
of reproductive success
in female zebrafish: Male
enhancement and female
suppression. Animal Behav
72: 1119-1124.
Mathger, LM; Barbosa,
A; Miner, S; Hanlon, RT.
2006. Color blindness
and contrast perception
in cuttlefish (Sepia
officinalis). Vision Res 46:
1746-1753.
Gerlach, G; Lysiak, N.
2006. Kin recognition
in zebrafish based on
phenotype matching.
Animal Behav 71: 13711377.
Roberts, SB; Smolowitz,
R; Romano, C. 2006. Characterization of
differentially expressed
genes from QPX: insight
into possible virulence
mechanisms. J. Shellfish
Res 25: 769. Hodgins-Davis, A;
Roberts, SB; Cowan, D;
Atema, J; Avolio, C; De
Faveri, J; Gerlach, G.
2006. Characterization of
SSRs from the American
lobster, Homarus
americanus.
Mol Ecol Notes doi:
10.1111/j.14718286.2006.01597.x
Klemme, I; Eccard, JA;
Gerlach, G; Horne, T;
Ylönen, H. 2006. Multiple
paternity in bank voles
(Clethrionomys glareolus):
The role of male
dominance. Ann Zoologici
Fennici 43: 248 – 257.
Kuzirian, AM; Epstein,
HT; Nelson, TJ;
Gagliardi, CJ; Nelson, TJ;
Sakakibara, M; Taylor,
C; Scioletti, AB; Alkon,
DL. 2006. Bryostatin
enhancement of memory
in Hermissenda. Bio Bull
210: 201-214.
Lindell, S; Walton,
B; Simmons, J. 2006.
Hybridization between
two different genera of
clams, Spisula solidissima
and Mulinia lateralis,
and early growth trials. J
Shellfish Res 25(2): 667.
Lyons, MM; Roberts, SB;
Dungan, C; Smolowitz, R.
2006. Quantification of
quahog parasite unknown
(QPX) in environmental
samples. J. Shellfish Res
25: 751.
Rodgers, BD; Roalson,
EH; Weber, GM; Roberts,
SB; Goetz, FW. 2006. A
proposed nomenclature
consensus for the
myostatin gene family.
AJP- Endocrinology and
Metabolism doi:10.1152/
ajpendo.00395.2006.
Saffo, MB. 2006.
Symbiosis: The way of
all life. Pp. 325-339 in
Life as We Know It, J.
Seckbach, ed. Springer
Verlag, Amsterdam.
Smolowitz, R. 2006. A
review of QPX disease
emphasizing initiation
and progression. J.
Shellfish Res 25: 775.
Smolowitz, R. 2006.
Juvenile Oyster Disease
(JOD) in Crassostrea
virginica: Synthesis
of knowledge and
recommendations. J.
Shellfish Res 25: 683.
Smolowitz, R. 2006.
Gastropods. Pp.65-78 in
Invertebrate Medicine, G.
Lewbart, ed. Blackwell
Publishing, Ames, Iowa.
LABORATORY OF GABRIELE GERLACH
STAFF
Gabriele Gerlach, Associate Scientist
Andrea Hodgins-Davis, Research Assistant
Vanessa Miller-Sims, Boston University Marine Program, Ph.D. Student
Kristina Zilinskas, Boston University Marine Program, Masters Student
INTERNS
Carla Aviolo, University of Sydney
Michael Bennie, MIT
Jacqueline De Faveri, University of Guelph
Rebecca Hannah, University of Vermont
Brad MacDonald, Boston College
Alanna Purdy, Dartmouth College
Celia Schunter, James Cook University
LABORATORY OF STEVEN ROBERTS
STAFF
Steven Roberts, Assistant Research Scientist
Christina Romano, Research Assistant
Raquel Sussman, Investigator
INTERNS
Rosalind Bogan, Brown University
Whitney Eng, Brown University
Zachary Schiller, Tufts University
LABORATORY OF ROXANNA SMOLOWITZ
STAFF
Roxanna Smolowitz, Veterinarian and Associate Scientist
Jacqueline De Faveri, Research Assistant
VISITING INVESTIGATOR
Julie Cavin, North Carolina State University, College of Veterinary
Medicine
GRADUATE STUDENT
Maille Lyons, University of Connecticut
INTERNS
Molly Lien, Hope College
LABORATORY OF SCOTT LINDELL
STAFF
Scott Lindell, Marine Resources Center Manager and Director,
Scientific Aquaculture Program
Nick Warren, Research Assistant
INTERNS
Matt Loo, University of Rhode Island
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molecular physiology program
The Molecular Physiology Program (MPP) is comprised of resident, visiting, and
adjunct scientists whose common interests lie in the molecular bases of cellular
physiology. Resident laboratories include those of Dr. Peter Smith, Dr. Robert Greenberg,
and the BioCurrents Research Center (BRC).
The BRC is a competitively funded resource of the National Institutes of Health. It is
a national and international leader in the application of microsensor technologies
to biological and biomedical systems at the cellular and tissue level. It has been
instrumental in the development of sensor signal processing that permits the chemical
profiling of subcellular microdomains. It provides unique instrumentation for
characterizing ionic and molecular motion through the boundary layers surrounding
single cells. In 2006 there was exceptional progress made towards a new approach to
single ion channel characterization and the ability to define areas of ATP production
within a single cell.
Dr. Greenberg’s group studies structure and function of voltage-gated calcium channels
from the human blood fluke, Schistosoma mansoni, a platyhelminth parasite that causes
schistosomiasis. His presence has expanded the molecular capabilities of the MPP.
The extensive collaborative programs at the BioCurrents Research Center, directed by Dr.
Peter Smith, have seen particularly exciting new studies this year in cell motility with
Dr. Ken Robinson (Purdue) and in defining a new action for anti-apoptotic proteins in
metabolic regulation with Drs. Liz Jonas and Len Kaczmarek (Yale). Dr. Sylvie Breton
(Harvard) also continues her work with the center on male infertility.
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DIRECTOR
Peter J.S. Smith
Publications
PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR
Tiffany Van Mooy
ADJUNCT SCIENTISTS
George Holz, New York University
Lin Liu, University of Southern Florida
Ron Pethig, University of North Wales
Jella Atema, Boston University
Maria Gomez, Boston University
Enrico Nasi, Boston University
BIOCURRENTS RESEARCH CENTER
Adams, DS; Robinson,
KR; Fukumoto, T; Yuan,
S; Albertson, CR; Yelick,
P; Kuo, L; McSweeney,
M; Levin, M. 2006. Early,
H+-V-ATPase-dependent
proton flux is necessary
for consistent left-right
patterning of nonmammalian vertebrates.
Development 133: 16571671.
Dai Y; Wang L; Wang
H; Liu Y; Li N; Lyu Q;
Keefe DL; Albertini
DF; Liu L. 2006.
Fate of centrosomes
following somatic cell
nuclear transfer (SCNT)
in bovine oocytes.
Reproduction 131(6):
1051-1061.
Greenberg, RM.
2006. Praziquantel:
Mechanism of action.
in Parasitic Flatworms:
Molecular Biology,
Biochemistry, Immunology
and Physiology, Maule, A;
Marks, NJ, eds. 269-281,
CABI, Oxfordshire, UK.
Heart, E; Corkey,
RF; Wikstrom, JD;
Shirihai, OS; Corkey,
BE. 2006. Glucosedependent increase
in mitochondrial
membrane potential,
but not cytoplasmic
calcium, correlates with
insulin secretion in
single islet cells. Am J
Physiol Endocrinol Metab
290(1): E143-E148.
Jeziorski, MC;
Greenberg, RM. 2006.
Voltage-gated calcium
channel subunits
from platyhelminths:
Potential role in
praziquantel action. Int J
Parasitol 36(6): 625-632.
Keefe, DL; Marquard,
K; Liu, L. 2006. The
telomere theory of
reproductive senescence
in women. Curr Opin
Obstet Gynecol 18(3):
280-285.
Kohn, AB; Lea, JM;
Moroz, L; Greenberg,
RM. 2006. Schistosoma
mansoni: Use of a
fluorescent indicator to
detect nitric oxide and
related species in living
parasites. Exp Parasitol
113(2): 130-133.
Kuzirian, AM; Epstein,
HT; Gagliardi, CJ;
Nelson, TJ; Sakakibara,
MM; Taylor, CC;
Scioletti, AB; Alkon,
DL. 2006. Bryostatin
enhancement of
memory in Hermissenda.
Biol Bull 210(3): 201-214.
Lew, RR; Levina, NN;
Shabala L; Anderca, MI;
Shabala SN. 2006. Role
of a mitogen-activated
protein kinase cascade
in ion flux-mediated
turgor regulation in
fungi. Eukaryot Cell 5(3):
480-487.
Messerli, SM; Birkeland,
SR; Bernier, J;
Cipriano, MJ; Morgan,
W; McArthur, AG;
Greenberg, RM. Nitric
oxide-dependent
changes in Schistosoma
mansoni gene expression.
Mol Biochem Parasitol
150: 367-370.
Messerli, S; Greenberg,
RM. 2006. Cnidarian
toxins acting on voltagegated ion channels. Mar
Drugs 4: 70-81.
Messerli, MA; Robinson,
KR; Smith, PJS. 2006.
Electrochemical sensor
applications to the
study of molecular
physiology and analyte
flux in plants. In Plant
Electrophysiology - Theory
and Methods. Alexander
G. Volkov, ed. Springer
Sections 4.1–4.5.
Navarro, PA; Liu, L;
Ferriani, RA; Keefe, DL.
2006. Arsenite induces
aberrations in meiosis
that can be prevented
by coadministration of
N-acetylcysteine in mice.
Fertil Steril 85(1): 11871194.
Smith, PJS; Remsen,
D. 2006. Using
Pharmabase to perform
pharmacological
analyses of cell function.
In Current Protocols
in Bioinformatics:
Cheminformatics,
Baxevanis, A; Davison,
D; Page, R; Petsko, G;
Stormo, G; Stein. L, eds.
John Wiley and Sons.
Supplement 13, Section
14.2, 14.2.1-14.2.17.
Twig, G; Graf, SA;
Wikstrom, JD;
Mohamed, H; Haigh,
SE; Elorza, A; Deutsch,
M; Zurgil, N; Reynolds,
N; Shirihai, OS. 2006.
Tagging and tracking
individual networks
within a complex
mitochondrial web with
photoactivatable GFP.
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol
291(1): C176-84.
DIRECTOR
Peter J.S. Smith
PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR
Tiffany Van Mooy
RESEARCH ASSISTANT SCIENTISTS
Mark Messerli
Emma Heart
POST DOCTORAL SCIENTIST
Leon Collis
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Richard Sanger
BIOINFORMATICS COORDINATOR
Tamara Clark
RESEARCH ASSISTANTS
Daniel Bogorff
Robert Lewis
Craig Hamilton
SUMMER INTERNS
Michael Dacey
James Pringle
Robert Smith
LABORATORY OF ROBERT
GREENBERG
ASSOCIATE SCIENTIST
Robert Greenberg
POSTDOCTORAL SCIENTISTS
Shanta Messerli
Vincenta Salvador-Rectala
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Will Morgan
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laboratory of barbara furie and bruce furie
ADJUNCT SCIENTISTS
Barbara C. Furie, Harvard Medical School
Bruce Furie, Harvard Medical School
VISITING SCIENTIST
Johan Stenflo, University of Lund, Sweden
ASSISTANT RESEARCH SCIENTIST
Mark Brown
VISITING RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Leisa Stenberg, Harvard Medical School
γ−Carboxyglutamic acid is a calcium-binding amino acid that is found in the
conotoxins of the marine cone snail, Conus. This laboratory investigates the vitamin
K-dependent biosynthesis of this amino acid in Conus and other marine invertebrates.
This satellite laboratory relates closely to the main laboratory, the Center for
Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research, at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
The marine cone snail is the sole invertebrate known to contain the vitamin Kdependent amino acid, γ−carboxyglutamic acid (Gla) although many members of
animal phyla have the gene that expresses the vitamin K-dependent carboxylase,
the enzyme that synthesizes this amino acid. During the past year, novel conotoxins
containing γ−carboxyglutamic acid were cloned and characterized. We have cloned
and compared the γ−glutamyl carboxylase from vertebrates and invertebrates—the
enzyme required to synthesize γ−carboxyglutamic acid—and demonstrated marked
sequence similarity despite evolutionary divergence of mollusks and vertebrates
over 500 million years ago. These results indicate that the vitamin K-dependent
biosynthesis of Gla is a highly conserved function in the animal kingdom. We are
identifying novel Gla-containing proteins in invertebrates and hemichordates to
understand why this enzymatic machinery has been conserved during evolution.
Publications
Czerwiec, E; Kalume, DE;
Roepstorff, P; Hambe,
B; Furie, B; Furie, BC;
Stenflo, J. 2006. Novel
γ−carboxyglutamic acidcontaining peptides from
the venom of Conus
textile. FEBS J 273:27792788.
Hansson, K; Thamlitz,
AM; Furie, B; Furie, BC;
Stenflo, J. 2006. A single
γ−carboxyglutamic
acid residue in a novel
cysteine-rich secretory
protein without a
propeptide. Biochemistry
45:12828-12839.
education
education
The MBL’s renowned educational program, with offerings for advanced graduate students, undergraduates,
K-12 teachers, and even journalists, flourished in 2006. The three-year-old Brown-MBL Graduate Program in
Biological and Environmental Science continued to blossom. Our first student defended her thesis in 2006,
and five new students were added to our roster.
The Semester in Environmental Science Program for undergraduates, offered by the MBL’s Ecosystems
Center, celebrated its 10th anniversary and welcomed 18 students from 14 institutions.
In the MBL’s hallmark summer and special topics programs, 428 students from 277 institutions and 30
countries participated in our discovery-oriented, cutting edge courses taught by world’s best scientists. Our
courses’ 764 faculty members, staff, and lecturers represented 255 institutions and 20 countries.
In 2006, Richard Harland and Joel Rothman completed their five-year term as
co-directors of the Embryology course. Under their guidance this long-standing
course has continued to grow in stature and reputation. Meg Phillips (UT
Southwestern) joined Patricia Johnson as co-director of Biology of Parasitism.
Phillips is very familiar with the MBL, having taught in the course for several
years. She has also served as an organizer of the Molecular Parasitology Meeting
at the MBL. Cecilia Moens (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and HHMI)
completed her term as co-director of the Zebrafish course. Chi-Bin Chien
(University of Utah) will join Mary Mullins in 2007 as co-director of this course.
We are grateful to all of our faculty members for their dedicated service to
the MBL.
Students from the 2006 Physiology course presented 15 abstracts at the Annual
Meeting of American Society for Cell Biology (December 2006) based on their research in the course. This is
testimony to the quality of students, faculty, and the material that is being taught in this course.
NIH funding was renewed for five years for the SPINES and Zebrafish courses, and for an additional three
years for the Molecular Mycology course. In addition, renewed support was received from the Burroughs
Wellcome Fund for the Frontiers in Reproduction course for three years and from the Gordon & Betty
Moore Foundation to the Microbial Diversity course for an additional year. We also welcome back support
from Pfizer and Merck for the Molecular Mycology course.
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summer courses
Biology of Parasitism: Modern Approaches
June 7 – August 5, 2006
COURSE DIRECTORS
Johnson, Patricia, University of California, Los Angeles
Phillips, Meg, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
FACULTY
Allen, Judith, University of Edinburgh
Goldberg, Daniel, Washington University
Hunter, Christopher, University of Pennsylvania
Scherf, Artur, Institut Pasteur
Smith, Deborah, University of York
Striepen, Boris, University of Georgia
LECTURERS
Artis, David, University of Pennsylvania
Bangs, Jay, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Barragan, Antonio, Karolinska Institute
Belkaid, Yasmine, National Institutes of Health, NIAID
Burleigh, Barbara, Harvard School of Public Health
Elmendorf, Heidi, Georgetown University
Englund, Paul, Johns Hopkins Medical School
Engstler, Markus, University of Munich
Gamarro, Francisco, Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina
Guy, R. Kip, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Haldar, Kasturi, Northwestern University
James, Anthony, University of California, Irvine
Kamhawi, Shaden, National Institutes of Health
Kim, Kami, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
MacDonald, Andrew, University of Edinburgh
McFadden, Geoff, University of Melbourne
McKerrow, James, University of California, San Francisco
Nussenzweig, Victor, New York University School of Medicine
Prigge, Sean, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Rathod, Pradip, University of Washington
Renia, Laurent, Institut Cochin/INSERM
Roos, David, University of Pennsylvania
Rudenko, Gloria, University of Oxford
Scott, Phillip, University of Pennsylvania
Shapiro, Theresa, Johns Hopkins University
Sher, Franklin, National Institutes of Health, NIAID
Sinai, Anthony, University of Kentucky
Soldati, Dominique, University of Geneva
Tachezy, Jan, Charles University
Tannich, Egbert, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine
Tarleton, Rick, University of Georgia
Ward, Gary, University of Vermont
Waters, Andrew, Leiden University Medical Center
Wirth, Dyann, Harvard School of Public Health
TEACHING ASSISTANTS
Brown, Mark, University of California, Los Angeles
Chen, Feng, University of Pennsylvania
Drew, Mark, Washington University School of Medicine
Dzierszinski, Florence, University of Pennsylvania
Malmquist, Nicholas, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Nair, Meera, University of Pennsylvania
Price, Helen, University of York
Schneider, Rachel, University of California, Los Angeles
van Dooren, Giel, University of Georgia, Athens
Viebig, Nicola, Institut Pasteur
Wilson, Emma, University of Pennsylvania
COURSE ASSISTANTS
Cohen, Megan, Brown University
Levasseur, Kathryn, Harvard University
STUDENTS
Akaragwe, Ateh, University of Buea, Cameroon
Alencar, Bruna, UNIFESP Brazil
Bowyer, Paul, Imperial College London
Chene, Arnaud, Karolinska Institute
Ganter, Markus, University of Heidelberg
Goytia, Maira, Institut Pasteur
Gregg, Beth, University of Pennsylvania
Martins, Rafael, UNIFESP Brazil
McCoubrie, Joanne, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research
Proellocks, Nick, Monash University
Ralston, Katherine, University of California, Los Angeles
Ranjit, Najju, Queensland Institute of Medical Research
Regmi, Sandesh, Southern Methodist University
Reifur, Larissa, Michigan State University
Sturm-Worner, Angelika, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine
Weinkopff, Tiffany, University of Georgia
Embryology
June 10 - July 23, 2006
COURSE DIRECTORS
Harland, Richard, University of California, Berkeley
Rothman, Joel, University of California, Santa Barbara
FACULTY
Amacher, Sharon, University of California, Berkeley
Bronner-Fraser, Marianne, California Institute of Technology
Collazo, Andres, House Ear Institute
Ettensohn, Charles, Carnegie Mellon University
Felix, Marie-Anne, Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS
Fraser, Scott, California Institute of Technology
Henry, Jonathan, University of Illinois
Krull, Catherine, University of Michigan
Lambert, David, University of Rochester
Levine, Michael, University of California, Berkeley
Maddox, Paul, University of California, San Diego
Maddox, Amy, University of California, San Diego
Martindale, Mark, University of Hawaii
Monsoro-Burq, Anne-Helene, Institut Curie, Paris
Niswander, Lee, University of Colorado at Denver and HSC
Patel, Nipam, HHMI / University of California, Berkeley
Perry, Kim, University of Illinois
Sanchez Alvarado, Alejandro, HHMI / University of Utah School
of Medicine
Schupbach, Trudi, Princeton University
Seaver, Elaine, University of Hawaii
Sherwood, David, Duke University
Telford, Max, University College London
Trainor, Paul, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Wessel, Gary, Brown University
Wieschaus, Eric, Princeton University
Yelon, Deborah, New York University School of Medicine
Zeller, Robert, San Diego State University
LECTURERS
Davidson, Eric, California Institute of Technology
Degnan, Bernie, University of Queensland
Keller, Raymond, University of Virginia
Krumlauf, Robb, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
McGinnis, William, University of California, San Diego
McMahon, Andrew, Harvard University
Pourquie, Olivier, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Rothenberg, Ellen, California Institute of Technology
Sanes, Joshua, Harvard University
Stern, Claudio, University College London
Tabin, Clifford, Harvard Medical School
TEACHING ASSISTANTS
Anderson, Jennifer, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Baker, Clare, University of Cambridge
Bradham, Cynthia, Duke University
Brown, C. Titus, California Institute of Technology
Chang, Chenbei, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Cone, Angela, San Diego State University
Daggett, David, University of California, Berkeley
Dill, Kariena, University of Hawaii
Extavour, Cassandra, University of Cambridge
Fletcher, Russell, University of California, Berkeley
Gaber, Zachary, University of Michigan
Jennings, Joya, University of Utah
Jones, Natalie, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Joshi, Pradeep, University of California, Santa Barbara
education
Juliano, Celina, Brown University
Linker, Claudia, University College London
Liubicich, Danielle, University of California, Berkeley
Matus, David, University of Hawaii
Maves, Lisa, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Modrell, Melinda, University of California, Berkeley
Ober, Elke, National Institute for Medical Research
Oliveri, Paola, California Institute of Technology
Pang, Kevin, University of Hawaii
Passamaneck, Yale, Weill Cornell Medical College
Peyrot, Sara, University of California, Berkeley
Sandell, Lisa, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Zinzen, Robert, University of California, Berkeley
COURSE COORDINATOR
Cherry, Jonathan, Washington State University
COURSE ASSISTANTS
Dworschak-Simpson, Sierra, University of California, Santa Barbara
Hardee, Steven, University of California, Santa Barbara
McAllister, Sarah, University of Michigan Health System
McCluskey, Caroline, Roger Williams University
STUDENTS
Agca, Cavit, LSU Health Sciences Center
Davison, Angus, University of Nottingham
Dayel, Mark, University of California, Berkeley
Delon, Isabelle, Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge
Dray, Nicolas, CNRS France
Gentsch, George, Biozentrum, University of Basel
Gillis, William, University of Oregon
Guerin, Colleen, University of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey
Haigo, Saori, University of California, Berkeley
Kobberup, Sune, Barbara Davis Center, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
LeClair, Elizabeth, DePaul University
Linn, Stephanie, University of Michigan
Materna, Stefan, California Institute of Technology
Nie, Shuyi, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Norris, Rachel, University of Connecticut Health Center
Park, Tae Joo, University of Texas at Austin
Payne, Sarah, California Institute of Technology
Rasmussen, Stacy, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Rink, Jochen, Max Planck Institute
Schmitt, Christian, University of Erlangen Germany
Simoes-Costa, Marcos, Heart Institute University of Sao Paulo
Stigloher, Christian, GSF-Research Center
Wanner, Sarah, University of Minnesota
Wright, Melissa, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Yang, Xiaojie, Northeastern University
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Microbial Diversity
June 17 - August 3, 2006
COURSE DIRECTORS
Metcalf, William, University of Illinois
Schmidt, Thomas, Michigan State University
FACULTY
Goodrich-Blair, Heidi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hartzell, Patricia, University of Idaho
Leadbetter, Jared, California Institute of Technology
Pohlschroder, Mechthild, University of Pennsylvania
LECTURERS
Bassler, Bonnie, Princeton University
Cavanaugh, Colleen, Harvard University
Chisholm, Penny, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Davies, Julian, University of British Columbia
Delong, Edward, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Haselkorn, Robert, University of Chicago
Hughes-Martiny, Jennifer, Brown University
Katz, Laura, Smith College
Konopka, Allan, Purdue University
Kuenen, Gijs, Delft University of Technology
Lenski, Richard, Michigan State University
Lovley, Derek, University of Massachusetts
Marx, Christopher, Harvard University
Moran, Mary Ann, University of Georgia
Pace, Norman, University of Colorado at Boulder
Polz, Martin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Schmidt, Susan, Michigan State University
Stahl, David, University of Washington
Stetter, Karl, Universitaet Regensberg
Suttle, Curtis, University of British Columbia
Teal, Tracy, California Institute of Technology
Teske, Andreas, University of North Carolina
Warnecke, Falk, Joint Genome Institute
Wolfe, Ralph, University of Illinois
Zinder, Stephen, Cornell University
TEACHING ASSISTANTS
Griffin, Benjamin, University of Illinois
Huang, Jean, California Institute of Technology
Ju, Kou-San, University of California, Davis
Pritchett, Matthew, University of California, San Diego
Simmons, Sheri, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Walsh, David, Dalhousie University
COURSE COORDINATOR
Antonopoulos, Dionysios, Michigan State University
COUNTRIES REPRESENTED (faculty)
INSTITUTIONS REPRESENTED (faculty)
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Czech Republic
France
Germany
India
Israel
Italy
Japan
Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
The Netherlands
United Kingdom
United States of America
Uruguay
Aberdeen, University of
Agence Régionale de l’Hospitalisation
Alabama, University of, at Birmingham
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Alberta, University of
American Psychological Association
Amgen
AMOLF
APUA
Arizona State University
Arizona, University of
Barcelona, Universitat Autonoma de
Baylor College of Medicine
Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine
Biozentrum, University of Basel
Boston College
Boston University
Brandeis University
Bridgewater State College
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
British Columbia, University of
Brown University
Buenos Aires, Universidad de
Calgary, University of
California Institute of Technology
California State University, San Marcos
California, University of, Berkeley
California, University of, Davis
California, University of, Los Angeles
California, University of, Riverside
California, University of, San Diego
California, University of, San Francisco
California, University of, Santa Barbara
California, University of, School of Medicine, San Francisco
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School
Cambridge, University of
Carnegie Institution
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
education
Cooper, Brenton, University of Utah
Feldman, Daniel, University of California, San Diego
Fortune, Eric, Johns Hopkins University
French, Kathleen, University of California, San Diego
Frye, Mark, University of California
Golowasch, Jorge, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Gronenberg, Wulfila, University of Arizona
Johnson, Bruce, Cornell University
Knierim, James, University of Texas Medical School, Houston
Krahe, Rudiger, McGill University
Kristan, William, University of California, San Diego
Levine, Joel, University of Toronto at Mississauga
MacLeod, Katrina, University of Maryland
Maler, Leonard, University of Ottawa
Mauk, Michael, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Mehren, Jennifer, The Rockefeller University
Mesce, Karen, University of Minnesota
Moore, Christopher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Norris, Brian, California State University, San Marcos
Reiser, Michael, California Institute of Technology
Reyes, Alex, New York University
Schmidt, Marc, University of Pennsylvania
Simon, Jonathan, University of Maryland
Stein, Wolfgang, University of Ulm
Szczupak, Lidia, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Truman, James, University of Washington
Trussell, Larry, Oregon Health & Science University
Vosshall, Leslie, The Rockefeller University
Wenning-Erxleben, Angela, Emory University
STUDENTS
Allers, Elke, Max Planck Institute Bremen
Byrne, Meghan, University of California, Berkeley
Caiazza, Nicky, California Institute of Technology
Chait, Remy, Harvard University
Ettwig, Katharina, Radboud University, Nijmegen
Flood, Beverly, University of Southern California
Green, Abigail, University of Texas at Austin
Hogewoning, Sander, Delft University of Technology
Juhler, Susanne, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Kocar, Benjamin, Stanford University
Koenig, Jeremy, Dalhousie University
Lee, Zarraz, Michigan State University
Levine, Naomi, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
MacDonald, Luke, Princeton University
Martinez, Eduardo, Harvard University
Monds, Russell, Dartmouth Medical School
Quintana, Erika, CIIEMAD-IPN
Weitz, Joshua, Princeton University
Wells, George, Stanford University
Woebken, Dagmar, Max Planck Institute Bremen
Neural Systems and Behavior
June 10 - August 6, 2006
COURSE DIRECTORS
Bottjer, Sarah, University of Southern California
Dickinson, Michael, California Institute of Technology
LECTURER
MacIver, Malcolm, Northwestern University
Oertel, Donata, University of Wisconsin Medical School
Pearson, Keir, University of Alberta
FACULTY
Arbeitman, Michelle, University of Southern California
Blitz, Dawn, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Brecht, Michael, Erasmus MC
Calabrese, Ronald, Emory University
Chacron, Maurice, University of Oklahoma
TEACHING ASSISTANTS
Altenau, Brie, University of Southern California
Ashmore, Robin, University of Pennsylvania
Awatramani, Gautam, University of British Columbia
Azanchi, Reza, University of Toronto at Mississauga
Charles River Laboratories
Charles University
Chicago, University of
Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Chungnam National University
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Cincinnati, University of
City College of New York
CNRS-University Paris V
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Colorado, University of
Colorado, University of, at Boulder
Colorado, University of, at Denver Health Sciences Center
Columbia University
Connecticut, University of
Connecticut, University of, Health Center
Cornell University
Curis Inc.
Duke University
Duke University Medical Center
Dundee, University of
Georgia, University of
Georgia, University of, Athens
GlycoFi, Inc.
École Normale Supérieure
Edinburgh, University of
Emory University
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Erasmus MC
European Commission
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
Harvard School of Public Health
Harvard University
Hawaii, University of
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
House Ear Institute
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hunter College
Dalhousie University
Dartmouth Medical School
Delft University of Technology
Geneva, University of
George Washington University Medical Center
Georgetown University
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Flanders Institute for Biotechnology
Florida State University
Florida, University of
FOM Institute AMOLF
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Friedrich Miescher Institute
Idaho, University of
Illinois, University of
Illinois, University of, at Chicago
Illinois, University of, at Urbana-Champaign
Indiana University
Institut Cochin/INSERM
Institut Curie
Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS
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Brown, Heather, University of Washington
Dacks, Andrew, University of Arizona
Duistermars, Brian, University of California, Los Angeles
Evers, Jan Felix, University of Cambridge
Hedrich, Ulrike, University of Ulm
Hill, Andrew, University of Chicago
House, David, University of California, San Diego
Kalmbach, Brian, University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Kaun, Karla, University of Toronto at Mississauga
Marin, Elizabeth, University of Washington, Seattle
Middleton, Jason, University of Ottawa
Raksin, Jonathan, University of Pennsylvania
Rao, Geeta, University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Ritt, Jason, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robie, Alice, California Institute of Technology
Schiff, Max, New York University
Siegel, Jennifer, University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Skowronski-Lutz, Ethan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tobin, Anne-Elise, Brandeis University
COURSE ASSISTANTS
Calabrese, Evan, Emory University
Fatigati, Nina, Case Western Reserve University
Mazzilli, Sarah, Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Stearns, Marissa, Kenyon College
STUDENTS
Agrawal, Neha, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Altshuler, Doug, University of California, Riverside
Amador, Ana, University of Buenos Aires
Bouchard, Kristofer, University of California, San Francisco
Caruso, Valeria, SISSA
Clark, Damon, Harvard University
de Marchena, Jacqueline, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Heinze, Stanley, University of Marburg
Hinterwirth, Armin, University of Washington
Leininger, Elizabeth, Columbia University
Institut Pasteur
Institute for Molecular Pathology
Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina
Integrative Bioinformatics
Iowa State University
Iowa, The University of
Italian National Research Council (CNR)
Johns Hopkins Medical School
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
Joint Genome Institute
Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA
Kansas, University of, Medical Center
Kansas, University of, School of Medicine
Karolinska Institute
Kentucky, University of
Kenyon College
King’s College London
Konstanz, University of
Marguet, Stephan, Rutgers University
Nelson, Greg, Salk Institute
Paulk, Angelique, University of Arizona
Phillips-Portillo, James, University of Arizona
Salazar, Vielka, Florida International University
Tian, Jianghong, University of Virginia
Westmark, Sandra, University of Cologne, Germany
White, Rachel, University of Pennsylvania
Wright, Michael, Emory University
Yaksi, Emre, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
Neurobiology
June 3 - August 5, 2006
COURSE DIRECTORS
McCleskey, Edwin, Oregon Health & Science University
Nishi, Rae, University of Vermont
FACULTY
Avery, Leon, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Birren, Susan, Brandeis University
Commons, Kathryn, Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medicine
Dalva, Matthew, University of Pennsylvania
Diaz, Elva, University of California, Davis
Galbraith, Jim, National Institutes of Health
Galligan, James, Michigan State University
Honda, Christopher, University of Minnesota
Isaacson, Jeffry, University of California, San Diego
Khodakhah, Kamran, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Kravitz, Edward, Harvard Medical School
Kuner, Thomas, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
Kuwada, John, University of Michigan
Micheva, Kristina, Stanford University School of Medicine
Misgeld, Thomas, Harvard University
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Leiden University Medical Center
Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute
Maryland, University of
Maryland, University of, School of Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts, University of
Massachusetts, University of, Amherst
Massachusetts, University of, Medical School
Max Planck Institute
Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research
Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and
Genetics, MBL
McGill University
Medical College of Georgia
Medical Research Council
Medical University South Carolina
Meharry Medical College
Melbourne, University of
Michigan State University
Michigan, University of
Michigan, University of, Health System
Microbia
Minnesota, University of
Minnesota, University of, Duluth
Minnesota, University of, Twin Cities
Monell Chemical Senses Center
Montevideo School of Medicine, Uruguay
Montréal, Université de
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Munich, University of
National Evolutionary Synthesis Center
National Eye Institute
National Institute for Medical Research
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
National Institute of Mental Health
National Institute of Neurologic Disorder and Stroke
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine
National Marine Fisheries Service
education
Pereda, Alberto, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Siwicki, Kathleen, Swarthmore College
Smith, Stephen, Stanford University
Terasaki, Mark, University of Connecticut Health Center
Thompson, Wesley, University of Texas at Austin
Wenk, Heather, Oregon Health & Science University
Williams, John, Oregon Health & Science University
Zimmerberg, Joshua, National Institutes of Health
LECTURERS
Anderson, David, HHMI / California Institute of Technology
Bean, Bruce, Harvard Medical School
Cepko, Connie, Harvard Medical School
Connors, Barry, Brown University
Constantine Paton, Martha, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
De Weer, Paul, University of Pennsylvania
Denk, Winfried, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
Frank, Eric, Tufts University School of Medicine
Galbraith, Catherine, National Institutes of Health
Harris, Kristen, Medical College of Georgia
Holt, Jeffrey, University of Virginia
Horvitz, Robert, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jorgensen, Erik, University of Utah
Kuhn, Bernd, Princeton University
Lisman, John, Brandeis University
Livingstone, Margaret, Harvard Medical School
Llinas, Rodolfo, New York University School of Medicine
Macklis, Jeffrey, Harvard University
Oertner, Thomas, Friedrich Miescher Institiute
Rubin, Lee, Curis, Inc
Sanes, Joshua, Harvard University
Scanziani, Massimo, University of California, San Diego
Schier, Alexander, Harvard University
Slepchenko, Boris, University of Connecticut Health Center
Stuart, Ann, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Wollmuth, Lonnie, SUNY at Stony Brook
Yasuda, Ryohei, Duke University Medical Center
Zenisek, David, Yale University
New Jersey Institute of Technology
New Mexico, University of
New York University
New York University School of Medicine
New York, State University of
New York, State University of, at Stony Brook
New York, State University of, Downstate
New York, State University of, Upstate Medical University
Nice, University of
North Carolina, University of
North Carolina, University of, Chapel Hill
Northwestern University
Notre Dame, University of
Oberlin College
Oklahoma, University of
Oklahoma, University of, Health Sciences
Oregon Health and Science University
Oregon, University of
Oregon, University of, Zebrafish International Resource
Center
TEACHING ASSISTANTS
Anderson, Todd, Stanford University
Cachope, Roger, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Certel, Sarah, Harvard Medical School
Chou, Jennifer, University of Vermont
Curti, Sebastian, Montevideo School of Medicine, Uruguay
Cushman, Kenneth, Oregon Health & Science University
Darcy, Daniel, University of California, San Diego
Godinho, Leanne, Harvard University
Gonzales, Eric, Oregon Health and Science University
Groh, Alexander, Max Planck Institue for Medical Research
Hruska, Martin, University of Vermont
Kalashnikova, Evgenia, University of California, Davis
Lenart, Peter, Institute for Molecular Pathology
McClelland, Andrew, University of Pennsylvania
Osaka University
Ottawa, University of
Oxford, University of
Pennsylvania, University of
Pennsylvania, University of, School of Medicine
Pfizer
Pittsburgh, University of
Pittsburgh, University of, School of Medicine
Princeton University
Puerto Rico, University of
Purdue University
Queen’s University
Queensland, University of
Regensberg, Universitaet
Reproductive Science Center
Rochester, University of
Rockefeller University, The
Roger Williams University
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Rutgers University
Salk Institute
San Diego State University
São Paulo, University of, Brazil
School of Biotechnology
Scripps Research Institute, The
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute
Sensor Technologies
Skirball Institute
Smith College
South Florida, University of
Southern California, University of
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
St. Lawrence University
Stanford University
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Swarthmore College
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Moreira, Jorge, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Naidoo, Vinogran, Michigan State University
Pekkurnaz, Gulcin, National Institutes of Health
Poo, Cindy, University of California, San Diego
Quillinan, Nidia, Oregon Health and Science University
Riegel, Art, Oregon Health and Science University
Simpson, Julie, University of Vermont
You, Youngjai, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Zhang, Yanping, Friedrich Miescher Institute
Zuo, Yi, University of Texas at Austin
COURSE ASSISTANTS
Child, Erin, Oberlin College
Liljestrand, Amy, Mount Holyoke College
STUDENTS
Bellani, Rudy, The Rockefeller University
Clark, Brian, New York University School of Medicine
Dzakpasu, Rhonda, University of Michigan
Huntwork, Sarah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Li, Xiang, Case Western Reserve University
Lundby, Alicia, University of Copenhagen
Mease, Rebecca, University of Washington
Palmer, Lucy, Australian National University
Ricoy, Ulises, University of Texas, San Antonio
Soiza-Reilly, Mariano, University of Buenos Aires
Sürmeli, Gülsen, Columbia University
Yanik, Fatih, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Texas, University of
Texas, University of, at Austin
Texas, University of, at Houston
Texas, University of, at San Antonio
Texas, University of, Health Science Center at San Antonio
Texas, University of, Medical School, Houston
Texas, University of, Southwestern Medical Center
Toronto, University of, at Mississauga
Tufts University School of Medicine
Tufts-New England Medical Center
Tulane University School of Medicine
Ulm, University of
University College London
Utah, University of
Utah, University of, School of Medicine
Vanderbilt Medical Center
Vanderbilt University
Vermont, University of
Virginia, University of
Physiology: Modern Cell Biology using Microscopic,
Biochemical and Computational Approaches
June 10 - July 29, 2006
COURSE DIRECTORS
Mitchison, Tim, Harvard University Medical School
Vale, Ron, University of California, San Francisco
FACULTY
Brenner, Michael, Harvard University
Dogterom, Marileen, FOM Institute AMOLF
Foe, Victoria, University of Washington
Hyman, Anthony, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Lippincott-Schwartz, Jennifer, National Institutes of Health
McIntosh, Richard, University of Colorado
Mullins, Roland, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Odell, Garrett, University of Washington
Phillips, Rob, California Institute of Technology
Simons, Kai, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Spudich, James, Stanford University School of Medicine
Stuurman, Nico, HHMI / University of California, San Francisco
van Oudenaarden, Alexander, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Walter, Peter, University of California, San Francisco
Waterman-Storer, Clare, Scripps Research Institute
Yanagida, Toshio, Osaka University
LECTURERS
Barkai, Naama, Harvard University
Bassler, Bonnie, Princeton University
Field, Christine, Harvard Medical School
Gertler, Frank, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harrison, Stephen, Harvard Medical School
Inoué, Shinya, Marine Biological Laboratory
Khodjakov, Alexey, Wadsworth Center
Kondev, Jane, Brandeis University
Laub, Michael, Harvard University
Rapoport, Tom, HHMI / Harvard Medical School
Sabatini, David, Whitehead Institute
Wadsworth Center
Washington State University
Washington University
Washington University School of Medicine
Washington, University of
Washington, University of, Seattle
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Wellesley College
Wheaton College
Whitehead Institute
Williams College
Wisconsin, University of
Wisconsin, University of, Madison
Wisconsin, University of, Medical School
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Yale University
York, University of
Zurich, University of
COUNTRIES REPRESENTED (students)
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Cameroon
Canada
Chile
Czech Republic
Denmark
France
Germany
Hungary
India
Israel
Italy
Japan
Mexico
New Zealand
Norway
education
COURSE ASSISTANTS
Dobro, Megan, Bridgewater State College
Guimaraes, Geoff, Bridgewater State College
Sheetz, Michael, Columbia University of New York
Taylor, Edwin, Northwestern University Medical School
Waters, Jennifer, Harvard Medical School
Whitesides, George, Harvard University
Zheng, Yixian, HHMI / Carnegie Institution
TEACHING ASSISTANTS
Altman, David, Stanford University
Amodaj, Nenad, University of California, San Francisco
Brandman, Onn, Stanford University
Campbell, Christopher, University of California, San Francisco
Churchman, Stirling, Stanford University
Endres, Nick, University of California, San Francisco
Garcia, Hernan, California Institute of Technology
Garner, Ethan, University of California, San Francisco
Germain, David, National Institutes of Health
Goshima, Gohta, University of California, San Francisco
Grayson, Paul, California Institute of Technology
Greenan, Garrett, Max Planck Institute
Groen, Aaron, Harvard Medical School
Gupton, Stephanie, Scripps Research Institute
Kaufmann, Benjamin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology /
Harvard University
Kueh, Hao Yuan, Harvard University
Laan, Liedewij, FOM Institute AMOLF
Lapidot, Smadar, Integrative Bioinformatics
Mueller-Reichert, Thomas, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell
Biology and Genetics
Munro, Edwin, University of Washington
Needleman, Daniel, Harvard University
Ott, Carolyn, National Institutes of Health
Patterson, George, National Institutes of Health
Reck-Peterson, Samara, University of California, San Francisco
Sivaramakrishnan, Sivaraj, Northwestern University
Springer, Michael, Harvard Medical School
Thorn, Kurt, Harvard University
Tischer, Christian, AMOLF
Tsang, John, Harvard University
Weibel, Douglas, Harvard University
Wollman, Roy, University of California, Davis
Portugal
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
The Netherlands
Uganda
United Kingdom
United States of America
Venezuela
INSTITUTIONS REPRESENTED (students)
Aarhus University, Denmark
Aberdeen, University of
Adelaide, University of
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Alabama, University of, Birmingham
Alaska Native Medical Center
Alaska, University of, Fairbanks
Albany Medical College
STUDENTS
Applewhite, Derek, Northwestern University
Bettencourt-Dias, Mónica, University of Cambridge
Brangwynne, Clifford, Harvard University
Brawley, Crista, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Breshears, Laura, University of Minnesota
Dohmann, Esther, Tuebingen University
Dumont, Sophie, Harvard University
Gradinaru, Cristian, Stanford University
Hentrich, Christian, EMBL Heidelberg
Hough, Loren, University of Colorado, Boulder
Kilburn, Chandra, University of Colorado, Boulder
Knowles, Michelle, Oregon Health & Science University
Lichten, Catherine, McGill University
McClean, Megan, Harvard University
McCloskey, Thomas, University of California, Santa Barbara
Partensky, Peretz, University of California, San Francisco
Pruefer, Franz, Mexican National Cancer Institute
Rericha, Erin, University of Maryland
Sen, Shaunak, California Institute of Technology
Shroff, Hari, University of California, Berkeley
Toprak, Erdal, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Tseng, Boo Shan, The Rockefeller University
Uehara, Ryota, University of Tokyo
Ursell, Tristan, California Institute of Technology
van Zon, Jeroen, Imperial College London
Yasutis, Kimberly, University of Virginia
Zhou, Jasmine, University of Southern California
Zuccolo, Michela, Institut Curie, Paris
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Alpena Regional Medical Center
American Health Informatics Association
American Museum of Natural History
Arizona State University
Arizona, University of
Arizona, University of, Health Sciences Library
Auburn University
Australian National University
Banner Good Samaritan Family Practice Research
Barbara Davis Center, University of Colorado at Denver and
Health Sciences Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Bernhard-Nocht-Institute
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Biozentrum, University of Basel
Bologna, University of
Boston University
Brandeis University
British Antarctic Survey
British Columbia, University of
Brown University
Buck Institute for Age Research
Buea, University of, Cameroon
Buenos Aires, University of
Calgary, University of
California Institute of Technology
California, University of, Berkeley
California, University of, Davis
California, University of, Los Angeles
California, University of, Riverside
California, University of, San Diego
California, University of, San Francisco
California, University of, Santa Barbara
Cambridge, University of
Canterbury, University of
Case Western Reserve University
CEFYBO-CONICET Buenos Aires
Charles University, Prague
Chicago, University of
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, The
Children’s National Medical Center
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Analytical and Quantitative
Light Microscopy
May 4 - May 12, 2006
COURSE DIRECTORS
Sluder, Greenfield, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Wolf, David, Sensor Technologies
FACULTY
Cardullo, Richard, University of California
Heintzmann, Rainer, King’s College London
Hinchcliffe, Edward, University of Notre Dame
Inoué, Shinya, MBL
Murray, John, University of Pennsylvania
Mycek, Mary-Ann, University of Michigan
Salmon, Edward, University of North Carolina
Silver, Randi, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Straight, Aaron, Stanford Medical School
Swedlow, Jason, University of Dundee
Waters, Jennifer, Harvard Medical School
TEACHING ASSISTANTS
Krzywicka-Racka, Anna, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Uetake, Yumi, University of Massachusetts Medical School
COURSE COORDINATOR
Nordberg, Joshua, University of Massachusetts Medical School
CIIEMAD-IPN
Cincinnati, University of
City University of New York
Clemson University
CNRS France
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cologne, University of, Germany
Colorado State University
Colorado, University of, Boulder
Colorado, University of, Health Sciences Center
Columbia University
Complutense de Madrid, Universidad
Copenhagen, University of
Cornell University
Crete University
Dalhousie University
Dartmouth Medical School
Delft University of Technology
DePaul University
Duke University
Duke University Eye Center
Duke University Medical Center
STUDENTS
Ackerman, William, The Ohio State University
Artym, Vira, National Institutes of Health / NIDCR
Cavnar, Peter, Florida State University
Durcan, Thomas, University of Notre Dame
Eckerdt, Frank, HHMI / University of Colorado Health Science Center
Ferenz, Nick, University of Massachusetts
Gall, Walter, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Green, Chad, University of California, San Diego
Jensen, Jan, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Kelly, David, University of Edinburgh
Kelly, Felice, The Rockefeller University
Kiang, Lee, The Rockefeller University
Lacefield, Soni, Harvard University
LaGrassa, Tracy, Columbia University
Li, Yongbiao, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Liliensiek, Sara, University of Wisconsin
Long, Scott, University of Arizona
Magidson, Valentin, Wadsworth Center
Ninio, Shira, Yale University School of Medicine
Noda, Naoki, University of Tokyo
Ong, Hwei Ling, National Institutes of Health / NIDCR
East Carolina University
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Edinburgh, University of
EMBL Heidelberg
Emory University
Eötvös Lorand University Hungary
Erlangen, University of, Germany
Fac Pharmacy, Lisbon
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
First 5 Tulare County
Florida International University
Florida State University
Florida, University of
Food and Drug Administration
Freiburg, University of
Friedrich Miescher Institute
Fundacion Instituto Leloir Argentina
Genome Sciences Centre
George Washington University
Georgia State University
Georgia, University of
Georgia,University of, Athens
Ghent University
Goettingen, University of
GSF- Research Center
Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
Harbor Health Services
Harvard Medical School
Harvard University
Hebrew Senior Life Beth Israel
Heidelberg, University of
Henry Ford Hospital
Hertie Institute Tuebingen
Humboldt University
IBIO-UP University Vigo
Illinois, University of, at Chicago
Illinois, University of, College of Medicine
Illinois, University of, Urbana-Champaign
Imperial College London
Innsbruck, University of
Ott, Carolyn, National Institutes of Health
Pelletier, Vincent, McGill University
Pereira, António, Institute for Molecular & Cell Biology, Portugal
Price, Jeffrey, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Rajasekaran, Sigrid, University of California, Los Angeles
Ramshesh, Venkat, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Schwartz, Matthew, University of Washington
Skotheim, Jan, The Rockefeller University
Song, Zhao-Hui, University of Louisville
Trombetta, Eduardo, Yale University School of Medicine
Zhou, Guofei, Northwestern University
BioMedical Informatics l
May 28 – June 4, 2006
COURSE DIRECTOR
Cimino, James, Columbia University
FACULTY
Lindberg, Donald, National Library of Medicine
Ackerman, Michael, National Library of Medicine
Ash, Joan, Oregon Health and Science University
Bakken, Suzanne, Columbia University
Canese, Kathi, National Library of Medicine
Cimino, Christopher, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Dematos, Chris, MBL
Goldberg, James, University of Nice
Hammond, William, Duke University
Hripcsak, George, Columbia University
Johnson, Kevin, Vanderbilt University
Kingsland, Lawrence, National Library of Medicine
Kukafka, Rita, Columbia University
McCray, Alexa, Harvard Medical School
Mitchell, Joyce, University of Utah
Norton, Catherine, MBL
Purcarea, Octave, European Commission
Remsen, David, MBL
Royall, Julia, National Library of Medicine
Thierry, Jean-Pierre, Ageuce Regionale de l’Hospitalisation
Institut Curie, Paris
Institut Pasteur, France
Institute for Molecular & Cell Biology, Portugal
Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion
Instituto Nacional de Perinatologia
Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas
Jackson Laboratory, The
James Madison University
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Kalispell Regional Medical Center
Kansas University Medical Center
Karolinska Institute
Kings College London
Lausanne, University de
LECA
Louis Pasteur University IBMC
Louisiana State University
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
education
STUDENTS
Alligood, Elaine, VA Technology Assessment Program
Baisden, Jamie, Medical College of Wisconsin
Becker, Michael, Mercy Suburban Hospital
Brown, Steven, Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center
Cahall, Molly, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Chavarri, Vanina, Alpena Regional Medical Center
Clancy, Patrick, The New York Academy of Medicine
Conaty-Buck, Susan, James Madison University
Drabier, Renee, University of Connecticut Health Center
Egan, Laurel, St. James Healthcare
Jackson, Kimberly, Spelman College
Kelley, Rhona, Southern Illinois University
Kittrie, Elizabeth, Arizona State University
Lian, Timothy, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
March, Zachary, University of Missouri-Columbia
Morgen, Evelyn, University of Connecticut Health Center
Nace, G. Stephen, University of Illinois College of Medicine
Ngadiman, Sutini, Vassar Brothers Medical Center
Nix, Mary, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Potter, Shannon, Vanderbilt University
Reidhead, Charles, Whiteriver Indian Health Services
Roberts, John, Harbor Health Services
Rogers, Kendall, University of New Mexico
Schneider, Elizabeth, Massachusetts General Hospital
Sheffield, Cindy, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Sischo, William, University of California, Davis
Stier, Jeffrey, Sound Shore Medical Center of Westchester
Stoddart, Mark, Albany Medical College
Wessel, Thomas, Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System
Zhu, Shenjun, Meharry Medical College
BioMedical Informatics II
September 24 - October 1, 2006
COURSE DIRECTOR,
Cimino, James, Columbia University
FACULTY
Al-Ubaydli, Mohammad, National Library of Medicine
Dematos, Chris, MBL
Louisville, University of
Loyola University Medical Center
Lund University
Makerere University Uganda
Marburg, University of
Maryland, University of
Maryland, University of, College Park
Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts, University of
Massachusetts, University of, Amherst
Max Planck Institute
Max Planck Institute Bremen
Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
Max Planck Institute, Tuebingen
McGill University
Medical College of Wisconsin
Medical Research Council
Medical University Chariet, Berlin
Medical University of South Carolina
Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey, University of
Meharry Medical College
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Mercy Suburban Hospital
Mexican National Cancer Institute
Miami, University of
Michigan State University
Michigan, University of
Michigan, University of, Ann Arbor
Minnesota, University of
Missouri, University of, Columbia
Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs
Monash University
Montana State University
Montréal, Université de
Morehouse School of Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Munich, University of
Museum Victoria, Australia
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
National Institutes of Health
New Mexico, University of
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Friedman, Charles, National Library of Medicine
Jirjis, Jim, Vanderbilt Medical Center
Kingsland, Lawrence, National Library of Medicine
Kukafka, Rita, Columbia University
Lindberg, Donald, National Institutes of Health
Masys, Daniel, Vanderibilt University
McCray, Alexa, Harvard Medical School
Nahin, Annette, National Library of Medicine
Nesbitt, Thomas, University of California, Davis
Norton, Catherine, MBL
Remsen, David, MBL
Rosenbloom, Samuel, Vanderbilt University
Shortliffe, Edward, Columbia University
Starren, Justin, Columbia University
Stead, William, Vanderbilt University
STUDENTS
Adams, Heidi Sue, Kalispell Regional Medical Center
Ajayi, Richard, Weirton Medical Center
Baer, Rebecca, South Dakota State University
Bailey, Robert, University of New Mexico Health Sciences
Bloomrosen, Meryl, American Health Informatics Association
Brown, Teri, First 5 Tulare County
Bulgarelli, Nancy, Henry Ford Hospital
Dorsch, Josephine, University of Illinois at Chicago
Fiks, Alexander, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Girling, Marguerite, Alaska Native Medical Center
Goldstein, Mary, Stanford University
Haake, Anne, Rochester Institute of Technology
Henderson, Cynthia, Morehouse School of Medicine
Herwehe, Jane, Louisiana State University
Johnson, Yvette, Baylor College of Medicine
Kramer, Sandra, University of Arizona Health Sciences Library
Marcus, Eugenia, Newton Wellesley Hospital
O’Shea, Noreen, Union County Health Foundation
Parker, Jaqui, Thomson Micromedex
Russell, Roger, East Carolina University
Stockwell, David, Children’s National Medical Center
Sydelko, Bette, Wright State University
Toigo, Theresa, Food and Drug Administration
Willson, Douglas, University of Virginia Health Sciences
New Mexico, University of, Health Sciences
New South Wales, University of
New York Academy of Medicine, The
New York Botanical Garden
New York University School of Medicine
New York, State University of, Upstate Medical University
Newton Wellesley Hospital
North Carolina, University of, Chapel Hill
North Dakota State University
Northeastern University
Northern Kentucky University
Northwestern University
Notre Dame, University of
Nottingham, University of
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oberlin College
Ohio State University, The
Oregon Health & Science University
Oregon, University of
Oslo, University of
Frontiers in Reproduction
May 7 - June 18, 2006
COURSE DIRECTORS
Albertini, David, University of Kansas Medical Center
Ascoli, Mario, The University of Iowa
DeMayo, Francesco, Baylor College of Medicine
FACULTY
Bagchi, Indrani, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Christenson, Lane, University of Kansas Medical Center
Conti, Marco, Stanford University
Cooke, Paul, University of Illinois
Cross, James, University of Calgary
Dobrinski, Ina, University of Pennsylvania
Ducibella, Thomas, Tufts-New England Medical Center
Fazleabas, Asgi, University of Illinois
Heckert, Leslie, University of Kansas Medical Center
Hunt, Joan, University of Kansas Medical Center
Jaffe, Laurinda, University of Connecticut Health Center
Kaiser, Ursula, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Keri, Ruth, Case Western Reserve University
Koos, Robert, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Liu, Lin, University of South Florida
Matzuk, Martin, Baylor College of Medicine
McClure, Michael, Environmental Protection Agency
Mehlmann, Lisa, University of Connecticut Health Center
Niklaus, Andrea, University of California, Los Angeles
Nurminsky, Dmitry, Tufts University School of Medicine
Overstrom, Eric, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Rowan, Brian, Tulane University School of Medicine
Schultz, Richard, University of Pennsylvania
Stein, Paula, University of Pennsylvania
Trimarchi, James, Brown University
Wells, Dagan, Yale University
Yao, Humphrey, University of Illinois
Zeleznik, Anthony, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pennsylvania, University of
Pennsylvania, University of, School of Medicine
Perinatology National Institute
Pittsburgh, University of
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Pretoria, University of
Princeton University
Purdue University
Queens College, City University of New York
Queen’s University
Queensland Institute of Medical Research
Radboud University Nijmegen
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, University of
Rockefeller University, The
Rutgers University
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
São Paulo, University of
Sao Paulo, University of, Heart Institute
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, The
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
SISSA, Italy
Sound Shore Medical Center of Westchester
South Dakota State University
Southern California, University of
Southern Illinois University
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Southern Methodist University
Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System
Spelman College
St. James Healthcare
St. Louis University
Stanford University
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Texas A&M University
Texas, University of, Austin
Texas, University of, El Paso
Texas, University of, Health Science Center
education
Kazi, Armina, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Li, Zeng-Shan, Tulane University School of Medicine
Li, Quanxi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lima, Christine, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
McGinnis, Lynda, University of Kansas Medical School
Norris, Rachael, University of Connecticut Health Center
Ratzan, William, University of Connecticut
Runft, Linda, Amgen
Strakova, Zuzana, University of Illinois at Chicago
Wang, Jie, Baylor College of Medicine
Zeng, Wenxian, University of Pennsylvania
Zhang, Ruina, Baylor College of Medicine
COURSE COORDINATORS
Cherry, Jonathan, Washington State University
Mebane, Dorianne, MBL
LECTURERS
Edwards, Dean, Baylor College of Medicine
Guillette, Louis, University of Florida
Jameson, Larry, Northwestern University
Keefe, David, University of South Florida
Kumar, T. Rajendra, University of Kansas Medical Center
Markoulaki, Styliani, Whitehead Institute
Mayo, Kelly, Northwestern University
Summers, Michael, Reproductive Science Center
Sutherland, Ann, University of Virginia
TEACHING ASSISTANTS
Andric, Nebojsa, University of Iowa
Barrett, Susan, University of Kansas Medical Center
DeMayo, Janet, Baylor College of Medicine
DiNapoli, Leo, Duke University
Eklund, Joshua, University of Kansas Medical Center
Freudzon, Marina, University of Connecticut
Galet, Colette, University of Iowa
Hermann, Brian, University of Pittsburgh
Huntress, Victoria, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Ibanez, Elena, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Jeong, Jaewook, Baylor College of Medicine
Texas, University of, San Antonio
Texas, University of, Southwestern Dallas
Thomson Micromedex
Tokyo, University of
Tuebingen University
Tufts University
UNIFESP Brazil
Union County Health Foundation
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
University College London
Utah, University of
VA Technology Assessment Program
Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Vassar Brothers Medical Center
Vermont, University of
Victoria, University of
Vigo, University of
Virginia, University of
Virginia, University of, Health Sciences
COURSE ASSISTANTS
Bowen, Jeffery, Bridgewater State College
Gustafson, Alden, Bridgewater State College
STUDENTS
Aisemberg, Julieta, CEFYBO-CONICET Buenos Aires
Avila, Euclides, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutricion
Bainbridge, Shannon, Queen’s University
Buffone, Mariano, University of Pennsylvania
Burnett, Lindsey, Arizona State University
Garcia, Rocio, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutricion
Holmes, Rebecca, Cornell University
Jaimez-Melgoza, Ruth, University of Pennsylvania
Jensen, Jani, University of Texas Health Sciences Center
Lewis, Shaye, Texas A&M University
Maseelall, Priya, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Paczkowski, Melissa, Purdue University
Patrick, Lindsay, Queen’s University
Rathi, Rahul, University of Pennsylvania
Sferruzzi-Perri, Amanda, University of Adelaide
Sherwin, Robert, University of Cambridge
Tubbs, Christopher, The University of Texas at Austin
Vega-Sánchez, Rodrigo, Instituto Nacional de Perinatologia
Vitale, Alejandra, Cornell University
Zaga-Clavellina, Verónica, Perinatology National Institute
Wadsworth Center
Wake Forest University
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research, The
Washingon, University of
Washington University in St. Louis
Wayne State University
Weirton Medical Center
Weizmann Institute of Science
Western Australia, University of
Whiteriver Indian Health Services
Williams College
Wisconsin, University of
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Wright State University
Yale University School of Medicine
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Fundamental Issues in Vision Research
August 13 - August 26, 2006
COURSE DIRECTORS
Masur, Sandra, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Papermaster, David, University of Connecticut Health Center
FACULTY
Anderson, David, University of Connecticut Health Center
Barlow, Robert, SUNY Upstate Medical University
Beebe, David, Washington University
Berson, Eliot, Harvard Medical School
Bok, Dean, University of California
Born, Richard, Harvard Medical School
Colley, Nansi, University of Wisconsin
Deretic, Dusanka, University of New Mexico
Friedlander, Martin, The Scripps Research Institute
Gordon, Marion, Rutgers University
Horwitz, Joseph, Jules Stein Eye Institute, University of California, Los Angeles
LaVail, Jennifer, University of California, San Francisco
Liberman, Ellen, National Institutes of Health / NEI
Moritz, Orson, University of British Columbia
Simon, Sanford, The Rockefeller University
Stepp, Mary Ann, George Washington University Medical Center
Strettoi, Enrica, Italian National Research Council
Summers Rada, Jody, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences
Tam, Beatrice, University of British Columbia
LECTURERS
Barres, Ben, Stanford University School of Medicine
Chen, Jeannie, University of Southern California
Cline, Hollis, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Dowling, John, Harvard University
Elio, Raviola, Harvard Medical School
Gehring, Walter, Biozentrum, University of Basel
Horton, Jonathan, University of California, San Francisco
John, Simon, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Lang, Richard, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Masland, Richard, Harvard Medical School
McConnell, Susan, Stanford University
Moses, Marsha, Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Niederkorn, Jerry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Wensel, Theodore, Baylor College of Medicine
COURSE ASSISTANT
Anastassov, Ivan, Hunter College
STUDENTS
Alvarez-Delfin, Karen, Florida State University
Blenkinsop, Timothy, New York University School of Medicine
Curtis, Leigh, University of Texas Health Science Center
Elshatory, Yasser, University of Rochester
Fraser, Claire, The Rockefeller University
Ganesan, Prema, University of California, Berkeley
Gilliam, Jared, Baylor College of Medicine
Haeri, Mohammad, SUNY Upstate Medical University
Hamm, Lisa, University of British Columbia
Kayser, Matthew, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Li, Yiang Kaccie, University of California, Berkeley
Liao, Sophie, University of Michigan
Lobanova, Ekaterina, Duke Eye Center
Nair, Kayarat, The Jackson Laboratory
Nakamura, Rei, University of Miami
Narayan, Malathi, Medical College of Wisconsin
Onorati, Marco, Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa
Pool, Angela, University of California, Los Angeles
Rajagopal, Ramya, Washington University, St. Louis
Ramos, Renata, University of Arizona
Tall, Edward, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Tucker, Budd, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Vazquez-Chona, Felix, University of Utah
Wiley, Luke, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Yin, Jia, Wayne State University
Methods in Computational Neuroscience
July 30 - August 27, 2006
COURSE DIRECTORS
Ermentrout, Bard, University of Pittsburgh
White, John, Boston University
FACULTY
Abbott, Larry, Columbia University
Bialek, William, Princeton University
Bower, James, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Dan, Yang, University of California, Berkeley
de Ruyter, Rob, Indiana University
Fee, Michale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Frank, Loren, University of California, San Francisco
Gelperin, Alan, Monell Chemical Senses Center
Guetig, Robert, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Gutkin, Boris, Ecole Normale Supierior
Hirsch, Judith, University of Southern California
Kath, William, Northwestern University
Kopell, Nancy, Boston University
Laughlin, Simon, University of Cambridge
Linster, Christiane, Cornell University
Miller, Kenneth, Columbia University
Moore, Lee, CNRS-University Paris V
Rinzel, John, New York University
Sejnowski, Terrence, Salk Institute
Sen, Kamal, Boston University
Seung, H. Sebastian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Smith, Jeffrey, National Institutes of Health / NINDS
Solla, Sara, Northwestern University
Sompolinsky, Haim, Hebrew University
Tank, David, Princeton University
Wilson, Charles, The University of Texas at San Antonio
education
LECTURERS
Ferster, David, Northwestern University
Hines, Michael, Yale University
Johnston, Daniel, The University of Texas at Austin
Lisman, John, Brandeis University
Mertz, Jerome, Boston University
Sigvardt, Karen, University of California, Davis
Spruston, Nelson, Northwestern University
TEACHING ASSISTANTS
Lillis, Kyle, Boston University
Mehaffey, W. (William), University of Calgary
Moldakarimov, Samat, University of Pittsburgh
Reid, Ashlan, University of Pennsylvania
Witten, Ilana, Stanford University
COURSE COORDINATOR
Bettencourt, Jonathan, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
STUDENTS
Barak, Omri, Weizmann Institute of Science
Berger, Thomas, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Brandt, Sebastian, Washington University in St. Louis
Creutzig, Felix, Humboldt University
Dacher, Matthieu, Arizona State University
Elliott, Taffeta, University of California, Berkeley
Fernandez, Fernando, University of Calgary
Fritz, Jonathan, University of Maryland
Gürel-Kazanci, Fatma, University of Pittsburgh
Huang, Wendy, University of California, San Francisco
Huh, Dongsung, University of California, San Diego
Jehee, Janneke, University of Rochester
Kimmel, Daniel, Stanford University
Kinkhabwala, Amina, Cornell University
Kozhevnikov, Alexay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kramer, Mark, Boston University
Kurian, Mini, Arizona State University
Macke, Jakob, Max Planck Institute, Tuebingen
McGinley, Matthew, Oregon Health and Science University
Mukamel, Eran, Stanford University
Muller, Asa, Friedrich Miescher Institute
Munro, Erin, Tufts University
Pandarinath, Chethan, Cornell University
Velez, Mariel, Stanford University
Molecular Biology of Aging
July 30 - August 19, 2006
COURSE DIRECTORS
Austad, Steven, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Ruvkun, Gary, Massachusetts General Hospital
FACULTY
Bronikowski, Anne, Iowa State University
Curran, Sean, Massachusetts General Hospital
Kennedy, Brian, University of Washington
Lambert, Adrian, Medical Research Council
Samuelson, Andrew, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard University
Tissenbaum, Heidi, University of Massachusetts
Wang, Meng, Massachusetts General Hospital
Xu, Jinling, Massachusetts General Hospital
LECTURERS
Bartke, Andrzej, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Campisi, Judith, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Driscoll, Monica, Rutgers University
Guarente, Lenny, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Helfand, Stephen, Brown University
Kenyon, Cynthia, University of California, San Francisco
Lindquist, Susan, Whitehead Institute
Richardson, Arlan, The University of Texas Health Science Center at
San Antonio
Sinclair, David, Harvard Medical School
Tatar, Marc, Brown University
Tower, John, University of Southern California
TEACHING ASSISTANTS
Podlutsky, Andrej, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Podlutskaya, Natalia, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
COURSE ASSISTANT
Russo, Joanne, Bridgewater State College
STUDENTS
Bonkowski, Michael, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Cavanaugh, Jane, University of Pittsburgh
Cumbers, John, Brown University
Gomez, Christian, Loyola University Medical Center
Karasik, David, Hebrew Senior Life Beth Israel
Laska, Magdalena, Aarhus University, Denmark
Lomb, David, University of Rochester
Midzak, Andrew, Johns Hopkins University
Miller, John, Buck Institute for Age Research
Morissette, Michael, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard
Medical School
Nambu, John, University of Massachusetts
Rezával, Carolina, Fundacion Instituto Leloir Argentina
Ruzanov, Peter, Genome Sciences Centre
Santoro, Aurelia, University of Bologna
Schreader, Barbara, University of Massachusetts
Sun, Liou, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Tadesse, Serkalem, University of Freiburg
Walton, Clare, The Rockefeller University
Wolff, Suzy, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Yedidia, Jonathan, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs
Molecular Mycology
August 8 - August 25, 2006
COURSE DIRECTORS
Edwards, John, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Mitchell, Aaron, Columbia University
FACULTY
Cowen, Leah, Whitehead Institute
Del Poeta, Maurizio, Medical University South Carolina
Edwards, Carol, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Feldmesser, Marta, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Filler, Scott, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute
Heitman, Joseph, Duke University
Ibrahim, Ashraf, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Konopka, James, State University of New York
Mayorga, Maria, Microbia
Mylonakis, Eleftherios, Massachusetts General Hospital
Onyewu, Chiatogu, Duke University
Rhodes, Judith, University of Cincinnati
Steinbach, William, Duke University
White, Theodore, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute
LECTURERS
Alspaugh, Andrew, Duke University Medical Center
Andes, David, University of Wisconsin
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Askew, David, University of Cincinnati
Blankenship, Jill, Columbia University
Davidson, Robert, GlycoFi, Inc.
Davis, Dana, University of Minnesota
Doering, Tamara, Washington University Medical School
Forche, Anja, University of Minnesota
Hogan, Deborah, Dartmouth Medical School
Munro, Carol, University of Aberdeen
Noble, Suzanne, University of California, San Francisco
Quinn, Cheryl, Pfizer
Ramsdale, Mark, University of Aberdeen
Schwartz, Julie, Charles River Laboratories
Spellberg, Brad, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Van Dijck, Patrick, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology
TEACHING ASSISTANTS
Kelly, Katy, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Samaniego, Chelsea, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute
Solis, Norma, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Subaran, Ryan, Columbia University
Xue, Chaoyang, Duke University
COURSE COORDINATOR
Rafkin, Wendy, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
STUDENTS
Berkes, Charlotte, University of California, San Francisco
Bubnick, Meggan, University of Cincinnati
Findley, Keisha, Duke University
Gerik, Kimberly, St. Louis University
Isaac, Dervla, University of California, San Francisco
Jacobsen, Mette, University of Aberdeen
La Fleur, Michael, Northeastern University
Malavazi, Iran, University of São Paulo
Martinez, Luis, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
McQuiston, Travis, Medical University of South Carolina
Mershon, Kileen, University of California, Los Angeles
Norice, Carmelle, Columbia University
Quintin, Jessica, Louis Pasteur University / IBMC
Tsao, Sarah, McGill University
Turnbull, Suzy, Imperial College London
Zaas, Aimee, Duke University
Zacchi, Lucia, University of Minnesota
Zhou, Huaijin, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Neural Development & Genetics of Zebrafish
August 13 - August 26, 2006
COURSE DIRECTORS
Moens, Cecilia, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Mullins, Mary, University of Pennsylvania
FACULTY
Chien, Chi-Bin, University of Utah
Clarke, Jon, University College London
Collazo, Andres, House Ear Institute
Durchanek, Rose, University of Oregon
Fadool, James, Florida State University
Fetcho, Joseph, Cornell University
Granato, Michael, University of Pennsylvania
Houart, Corinne, King’s College London
Kimmel, Charles, University of Oregon
Neuhauss, Stephan, University of Zurich
Peterson, Randall, Massachusetts General Hospital
Raible, David, University of Washington
Talbot, William, Stanford University
Wilson, Stephen, University College London
LECTURERS
Dowling, John, Harvard University
Woods, Ian, Harvard University
Yelon, Deborah, New York University School of Medicine
TEACHING ASSISTANTS
Bianco, Isaac, University College London
Burgess, Harold, University of Pennsylvania
Campbell, Douglas, University of Utah
Downes, Gerald, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Hardy, Melissa, University of Utah
Kemp, Hilary, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Kimmel, Reida, University of Oregon
Kishore, Sandeep, Cornell University
Leung, Yuk Fai, Harvard University
Liao, James, Cornell University
Little, Shawn, University of Pennsylvania
McGraw, Hillary, University of Washington
McLean, David, Cornell University
Olthoff, John, Cornell University
Sachidanandan, Chetana, Massachusetts General Hospital
Schneider, Valerie, University of Pennsylvania
Schoenebeck, Jeffrey, Skirball Institute
Yeh, Joanna, Massachusetts General Hospital
COURSE COORDINATOR
Gribble, Suzanna, University of Utah
COURSE ASSISTANTS
Avila, Robin, Boston College
Jones, Carrie, University of Oregon, Zebrafish International Resource Center
Lawrence, Christian, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Stewart-Swift, Caitlin, Wheaton College
STUDENTS
Bruses, Juan, Kansas University Medical Center
Drerup, Catherine, Northwestern University
Flowers, Parker, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Forlano, Paul, Oregon Health and Science University
Grover, Vandana, Vanderbilt University
education
Koyama, Minoru, Cornell University
Li, Wenhong, University of Texas Southwestern Dallas
Lu, Zhongmin (John), University of Miami
Monk, Kelly, Stanford University
Odermatt, Benjamin, Medical Research Council
Paquet, Dominik, University of Munich
Peres, João, Kings College London
Provost, Elayne, Johns Hopkins University
Sanger, Joseph, SUNY Upstate Medical University
Shen, Jun, Harvard University School of Medicine
Steet, Richard, University of Georgia, Athens
Walters, James, University of Pennsylvania
Mizuseki, Kenji, Rutgers University
Mueller, Kai-Markus, National Institutes of Health
Parikh, Hirak, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Putrino, David, University of Western Australia
Takahashi, Kazutaka, Massachusetts Institute of Technology / University of Chicago
Thomas, Sudhin, Cornell University
Tsuchiya, Naotsugu, California Institute of Technology
Vallentin, Daniela, Hertie Institute, Tuebingen
Visscher, Kristina, Brandeis University
Wang, Haibin, Cold Spring Harbor Lab
Zhang, Hao, Duke University Medical Center
Zhang, Yao, University of Pittsburgh
Neuroinformatics
August 12 - August 27, 2006
COURSE DIRECTORS
Brown, Emery, Massachusetts General Hospital
Kleinfeld, David, University of California, San Diego
Mitra, Partha, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
FACULTY
Andrews, Peter, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Barbas, Helen, Boston University
Bokil, Hemant, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Fall, Christopher, University of Illinois at Chicago
Fee, Michale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harris, Kenneth, Rutgers University
Iyengar, Satish, University of Pittsburgh
Kass, Robert, Carnegie Mellon University
Niyogi, Partha, University of Chicago
Purpura, Keith, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Richmond, Barry, National Institutes of Health / NIMH
Schiff, Nicholas, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Sornborger, Andrew, University of Georgia
Tchernichovski, Ofer, City College of New York
Thomson, David, Queen’s University
Ventura, Valerie, Carnegie Mellon University
LECTURERS
Eden, Uri, Boston University
Mehta, Samar, SUNY Downstate
Srinivasan, Lakshminarayan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Harvard University
TEACHING ASSISTANTS
Dayma, Yogesh, School of Biotechnology
Graham, Ryan, Queen’s University
Hajagos, Janos, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Saar, Sigal, City College of New York
Summer Program in Neuroscience,
Ethics & Survival
June 17 - July 15, 2006
COURSE ASSISTANT
Wagner, Julia, Mount Holyoke College
COURSE DIRECTORS
Martinez, Joe, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Townsel, James, Meharry Medical College
STUDENTS
Bartho, Peter, Rutgers University
Batista, Aaron, Stanford University
Curto, Carina, Rutgers University
de Hoz, Livia, Medical University Chariet Berlin
Fukushima, Makoto, University of Chicago
Gotthardt, Sascha, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
Hill, Daniel, University of California, San Diego
Jutras, Michael, Emory University
Kim, Sung-Phil, Brown University
Kulkarni, Jayant, Columbia University
Lipkind, Dina, City University of New York
Makosch, Gregor, University of Goettingen
Miura, Keiji, University of Tokyo
FACULTY
Berger-Sweeney, Joanne, Wellesley College
Bower, James, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Castaneda, Edward, Arizona State University
Desmond, Nancy, National Institute of Mental Health
Etgen, Anne, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Fox, Thomas (Tom), Harvard Medical School
Kravitz, Edward, Harvard Medical School
Lisman, John, Brandeis University
Mensinger, Allen, University of Minnesota Duluth
Pena de Ortiz, Sandra, University of Puerto Rico
Quinones-HInojosa, Alfredo, Johns Hopkins University
Savage, Robert, Williams College
Stuart, Ann, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Trujillo, Keith, California State University, San Marcos
Zottoli, Steven, Williams College
LECTURERS
Augustine, George, Duke University Medical Center
Dowling, John, Harvard University
Hildebrand, John, University of Arizona
Johnston, Daniel, The University of Texas at Austin
McCleskey, Edwin, Oregon Health and Science University
Nickerson, Kim, American Psychological Association
Zakon, Harold, University of Texas
TEACHING ASSISTANT
Bergstrom, Margot, University of Minnesota Duluth
COURSE COORDINATOR
Sikorski, Angela, The University of Texas at San Antonio
STUDENTS
Achanta, Pragathi, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Acosta, Jazmin, Arizona State University
Banuelos, Cesar, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Cervantes, Catalina, The University of Texas at Austin
Dowell, Leslie, Oberlin College / Vanderbilt University
Hayes, Crystal, Wake Forest University
King, ll, Stanley, University of Virginia
Lawson, Kera, Meharry Medical College
Martinez, Luis, Georgia State University
Mwebaza, Norah, Makerere University Uganda
Natividad, Luis, University of Texas, El Paso
Sosa-Machado, Yamaya, North Dakota State University
Workshop on Molecular Evolution
July 23 - August 4, 2006
COURSE DIRECTOR
Cummings, Michael, University of Maryland
FACULTY
Beerli, Peter, Florida State University
Bielawski, Joseph, Dalhousie University
Edwards, Scott, Harvard University
Felsenstein, Joseph, University of Washington
Kuhner, Mary, University of Washington, Seattle
Meyer, Axel, University of Konstanz
Miyamoto, Michael, University of Florida
Pearson, William, University of Virginia
Rand, David, Brown University
Ronquist, Fredrik, Florida State University
Swofford, David, Florida State University
Thompson, Steven, Florida State University
Turner, Paul, Yale University
Yoder, Anne, Duke University
Yokoyama, Shozo, Emory University
LECTURERS
Lewis, Paul, University of Connecticut
Voytas, Daniel, Iowa State University
Zwickl, Derrick, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center
TEACHING ASSISTANTS
Rodriguez-Ezpeleta, Naiara, Université de Montréal
Triant, Deborah, Purdue University
Yang, Eun Chan, Chungnam National University
COMPUTER STAFF
Kang, Chul Joo, University of Washington
Walkup, Elizabeth, University of Washington
COURSE COORDINATORS
Bazinet, Adam, University of Maryland
Conte, Matthew, University of Maryland
STUDENTS
Ari, Eszter, Eötvös Lorand University, Hungary
Aspen, Stephen, Colorado State University
Baele, Guy, Ghent University
Banta, Lois, Williams College
Barton, Hazel, Northern Kentucky University
Belcher, Rebecca, Auburn University
Boon, Eva, University of Groningen
Bouskill, Nicolas, Montana State University
Cameron, Chris, Université de Montréal
Cardenas, Leyla, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Christin, Pascal-Antoine, University de Lausanne
Coleman, Maureen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dohrmann, Martin, University of Goettingen
Eirin-Lopez, Jose Maria, University of Victoria
Faubet, Pierre, LECA
Frabotta, Laurence, Queens College-CUNY
Fritz-Laylin, Lillian, University of California, Berkeley
Fusaro, Abigail, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Gibbs, Lisle, The Ohio State University
Grubisha, Lisa, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Harlin-Cognato, April, Texas A&M University / Michigan State University
Hyndman, Kelly, University of Florida
Ingram, Colleen, American Museum of Natural History
Jungblut, Anne-Dorothee, University of New South Wales
Kieswetter, Charles, Boston University
Krasowski, Matthew, University of Pittsburgh
Kullberg, Morgan, Lund University
Lakner, Clemens, Florida State University
Liu, Hui, Rutgers University
Logares, Ramiro, Lund University
Malenke, Jael, University of Utah
Martinsen, Ellen, University of Vermont
Motley, Timothy, New York Botanical Garden
Munoz-Torres, Monica, Clemson University
Neel, Maile, University of Maryland, College Park
Osborn, Karen, University of California, Berkeley MBARI
Parfrey, Laura, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Parmakelis, Aris, Yale University / Crete University
Paul, John, University of Pittsburgh
Perez-Tris, Javier, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Pettengill, Jamie, University of Maryland, College Park
Piantadosi, Anne, University of Washington
Plowe, Christopher, University of Maryland
Rocha, Sara, IBIO-UP University Vigo
Rodriguez-Clark, Kathryn, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas
Russo, Isa-Rita, University of Pretoria
Saeb, Amr, The Ohio State University
Sands, Cheps, British Antarctic Survey
Shalchian-Tabrizi, Kamran, University of Oslo
Sotelo, Graciela, University of Vigo
Starostov, Zuzana, Charles University, Prague
Summerer, Monika, University of Innsbruck
Syme, Anna, Museum Victoria, Australia
Taveira, Nuno, Fac. Pharmacy Lisbon
Torres, Manuel, University of Georgia
Vamathevan, Jessica, University College London
Vazquez-Dominguez, Ella, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico
Voigt, Oliver, University Goettingen
Walters, Kathryn, George Washington University
Will, Margee, University of Canterbury
education
Brown-MBL Graduate Program in Biological
and Environmental Sciences
The Brown-MBL Graduate Program in Biological and Environmental Sciences
unites MBL and Brown University’s combined research and education
expertise in biology, biomedicine, and environmental sciences and offers
talented graduate students the chance to work with scientists at both
institutions.
Created in 2003, the affiliation takes advantage of the geographic
proximity of Brown and MBL, uniting their faculty expertise in biology
and medicine, particularly for molecular biology, genomics, ecosystems
studies, environmental science, neuroscience, and public health. Five new
first-year graduate students matriculated into the program in 2006, joining
10 students previously enrolled. In addition, one of the first students to be
enrolled in the program, April Shiflett, defended her doctoral thesis in 2006.
She will graduate in May 2007.
The Brown-MBL affiliation not only provides a one-of-a-kind training
experience for graduate students, but also a ripe environment for faculty
exchanges and research collaborations between the two institutions. The
affiliation enables MBL investigators and Brown faculty the opportunity
to pursue joint appointments at the two institutions. A joint appointment
for an MBL investigator allows a scientist to serve as a mentor in the joint
program or offer a course at Brown. An MBL appointment for a Brown
faculty member allows professors to conduct research at the MBL.
Ecosystems Center senior scientist Edward Rastetter taught an ecosystems
modeling course at the MBL during the Brown intersession in January 2006.
In addition, a number of MBL scientists participated in courses held at
Brown in 2006.
Brown Course
Biology of Emerging Microbial Diseases
MBL Scientists Participating
Microbial Pathogenesis
Robert Greenberg, Program in Molecular Physiology
Introduction to MCB Faculty Research
Cell and Molecular Biology
Mitchell Sogin, Bay Paul Center
Human Impacts on the Functioning
of Ecosystems
Benjamin Felzer, The Ecosystems Center
Chuck Hopkinson, The Ecosystems Center
Jerry Melillo, The Ecosystems Center
Christopher Neill, The Ecosystems Center
Bruce Peterson, The Ecosystems Center
Gaius Shaver, The Ecosystems Center
Robert Greenberg, Program in Molecular Physiology
Stephen Hajduk, Bay Paul Center
Robert Sabatini, Bay Paul Center
Mitchell Sogin, Bay Paul Center
Stephen Hajduk, Bay Paul Center
Robert Sabatini, Bay Paul Center
STUDENTS
Alexander-Ozinskas, Marselle, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Allen, Angela, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Crane, Meredith, Pathobiology
DiSalvo, Susanne, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry
Flight, Patrick, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Galford, Gilian, Geological Sciences
Heflin, Kattie, Pathobiology
Kroeker, Kristy, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Lasek-Nesselquist, Erica, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Nguyen, Vinh, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry
Shiflett, April, Pathobiology
Sistla, Seeta, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Stephens, Natalie, Pathobiology
Valm, Alex Pathobiology
Widener, Justin, Pathobiology
MBL SCIENTISTS with BROWN APPOINTMENTS
Amaral Zettler, Linda, Bay Paul Center
Bordenstein, Seth, Bay Paul Center
Deegan, Linda, The Ecosystems Center
Greenberg, Robert, Program in Molecular Physiology
Hajduk, Stephen, Bay Paul Center
Hobbie, John, The Ecosystems Center
Hopkinson, Chuck, The Ecosystems Center
Mark Welch, David, Bay Paul Center
McArthur, Andrew, Bay Paul Center
Melillo, Jerry, The Ecosystems Center
Neill, Christopher, The Ecosystems Center
Patterson, David, Bay Paul Center
Peterson, Bruce, The Ecosystems Center
Rastetter, Edward, The Ecosystems Center
Sabatini, Robert, Bay Paul Center
Shaver, Gaius, The Ecosystems Center
Smith, Peter J.S., Program in Molecular Physiology; BioCurrents
Research Center
Sogin, Mitchell, Bay Paul Center
Vallino, Joseph, The Ecosystems Center
Wernegreen, Jennifer, Bay Paul Center
BROWN FACULTY with MBL APPOINTMENTS
Bertness, Mark, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Hughes, Jennifer, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Rand, David, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Wessel, Gary, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry
Witman, John, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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other educational programs
Living in the Microbial World:
Teachers’ Workshop
DIRECTORS
Dorritie, Barbara, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, Massachusetts
Olendzenski, Lorraine, St. Lawrence University
FACULTY
Edgcomb, Virginia, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Gunnard, Jessie, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Visiting Scientists
Bebout, Brad, NASA Ames Research Center
Bermudes, David, Vion Pharmaceuticals
Dyer, Betsey, Wheaton College
Edgcomb, Virginia, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Edwards, Katrina, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
NASA Planetary Biology Internship Program
DIRECTORS
Margulis, Lynn, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dolan, Michael F., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
SPONSORS
Anbar, Ariel, Arizona State University
Cady, Sherry, Portland State University
Mancinelli, Rocco, NASA Ames Research Center
Trent, Jonathan, NASA Ames Research Center
Visscher, Pieter, University of Connecticut
INTERNS
Dahl, Tais, University of Copenhagen
Ionescu, Danny, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Oberwinkler, Tanya, Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry
Saint-Andre, Violaine, National Institute of Scientific Applications, Toulouse
Sallstedt, Therese, Stockholm University
Stephens, Elizabeth, University of Massachusetts
COURSE ASSISTANTS
Bahr, Michelle, MBL
Gotta, Emily, St. Lawrence University
PRESENTERS
Bebout, Brad, NASA Ames Research Center
Dyer, Betsey, Wheaton College
Edgcomb, Virginia, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Feldgarden, Michael, Tufts University
Huber, Julie, MBL
Leadbetter, Ed, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
TEACHER PARTICIPANTS
Allott, Jim, Potsdam Central School, New York
Armitage, Jim, Vicksburg High School, Mississippi
Blanco, Karla Martinez, St. Gertrude School, California
Campbell, Ann, Leacy High School, Colorado
Fajardo, Irene, St. Gertrude School, California
Flatley, Claire, St. Paul’s Secondary School, Dublin, Ireland
Generallo, Michael, St. Andrew’s School, Florida
Karel, Cindy, Lincoln Southeast High School, Nebraska
Kovacic, Roberta, Montville Public Schools, Connecticut
Laird, Patricia, Brentwood High School, Missouri
McCormack, Lorraine, St. Kilian’s National School, Dublin, Ireland
Morrow, Burke, Lincoln Northeast High School, Nebraska
Purdy, Amber, St. Andrew’s School, Florida
Russell, Allen, Robert H. Sperreng Middle School, Missouri
Sidman, Charles, St. Andrew’s School, Florida
Thoutt, Cynthia Stanley, Leacy High School, Colorado
education
Science Journalism Program
CO-DIRECTORS
Goldman, Robert, Northwestern University
Rensberger, Boyce, Knight Science Journalism Program, MIT
ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR
Hinkle, Pamela Clapp, MBL
BIOMEDICAL FACULTY
Bloom, Kerry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, co-director
Kornbluth, Sally, Duke University Medical Center, co-director
Bloom, Rachael, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lew, Danny, Duke University Medical Center
McCarthy Campbell, Erin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Nutt, Leta, Duke University Medical Center
ENVIRONMENT FACULTY
Foreman, Ken, MBL, co-director
Neill, Chris, MBL, co-director
McHorney, Rich, MBL
BIOMEDICAL FELLOWS
Coukell, Allan, WBUR
Kruglinski, Susan, Discover magazine
Mitchell, Natasha, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Robbins, Gary, Orange County Register
Rust, Susanne, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Wu, Corinna, AAAS Science Update
ENVIRONMENT FELLOWS
Airhart, Marc, Earth & Sky Radio Series
Caputo, Anton, San Antonio Express-News
Engel, Mary, Los Angeles Times
Hollingham, Richard, Freelance/BBC producer
Metzner, Jim, Pulse of the Planet
Murray, Molly, The News Journal
The 2006 Science Journalism
Program was supported by:
American Society for Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology
American Society for Cell Biology
FASEB
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
NASA
National Science Foundation—
Polar Programs
New York Times Company Foundation
Waksman Foundation for Microbiology
Semester in Environmental Science
Program
DIRECTOR
Foreman, Kenneth H.
Administrative Assistant
Dixie Berthel
FACULTY
Deegan, Linda A.
Foreman, Kenneth H.
Giblin, Anne E.
Hobbie, John E.
Hopkinson, Charles S., Jr.
Liles, George
Melillo, Jerry M.
Neill, Christopher
Peterson, Bruce J.
Rastetter, Edward B.
Shaver, Gaius R.
Vallino, Joseph J.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING ASSISTANTS
Bernhardt, Beth
Culbertson, Jennifer
Funk, Clara
Kwiatkowski, Bonnie
McHorney, Richard
Wittman, Laura
STUDENTS
Brouwer, Brook, O., Colorado College
Burnett Penn, Angela, Brandeis University
Daniels, William, C., Lawrence University
Eng, Whitney, M., Brown University
Henkes, Gregory, A., Bates College
Johnston, Cora, A., Hampshire College
Kaito, Yukari, Sarah Lawrence College
Kayfetz, Karen, R., Brown University
Keledjian, Amanda, J., Grinnell College
Kissel, Bianca, E., Connecticut College
Kumai, Yusuke, Vassar College
Lucey, Kaitlyn, S., Wellesley College
Morrell, Kimberly, A., Carleton College
Oleksyk, Stephanie, L., Clark University
Pincus, Susan, L., Mount Holyoke College
Robins, Lucy, A., Vassar College
van der Pol, Laura, K., Wellesley College
Vincent, Angela, M., Grinnell College
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scholarship awards
In 2006, the MBL awarded the following scholarships to more than 200 highly qualified students enabling them to
participate in our discovery-based courses.
Knowles, Michelle, Oregon Health & Science University
Lichten, Catherine, McGill University
Rericha, Erin, University of Maryland
Sen, Shaunak, California Institute of Technology
Shroff, Hari, University of California, Berkeley
Ursell, Tristan, California Institute of Technology
van Zon, Jeroen, Imperial College London
Burroughs Wellcome Fund—Biology of
Parasitism Course
Goytia, Maira, Institut Pasteur
McCoubrie, Joanne, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for
Medical Research
Ralston, Katherine, University of California, Los Angeles
Ranjit, Najju, Queensland Institute of Medical Research
Regmi, Sandesh, Southern Methodist University
Sturm-Worner, Angelika, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine
Weinkopff, Tiffany, University of Georgia
Burroughs Wellcome Fund—Physiology Course
The Bruce and Betty Alberts Endowed
Scholarship in Physiology
Pruefer, Franz, Mexican National Cancer Institute
Yasutis, Kimberly, University of Virginia
American Society for Cell Biology
Applewhite, Derek, Northwestern University
Bellani, Rudy, The Rockefeller University
de Marchena, Jacqueline, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
Dzakpasu, Rhonda, University of Michigan
Lewis, Shaye, Texas A&M University
Phillips-Portillo, James, University of Arizona
Rasmussen, Stacy, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Ricoy, Ulises, University of Texas, San Antonio
Wright, Michael, Emory University
American Society for Reproductive Medicine
Jensen, Jani, University of Texas Health Sciences Center
Sherwin, Robert, University of Cambridge
C. Lalor Burdick Scholarship
Burnett, Lindsey, Arizona State University
Payne, Sarah, California Institute of Technology
Scholars of The Bauer Center for Genomics
Research at Harvard
Brangwynne, Clifford, Harvard University
Dumont, Sophie, Harvard University
Bettencourt-Dias, Mónica, University of Cambridge
Gradinaru, Cristian, Stanford University
Hentrich, Christian, EMBL Heidelberg
Hough, Loren, University of Colorado, Boulder
Pruefer, Franz, Mexican National Cancer Institute
Toprak, Erdal, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Burroughs Wellcome Fund—Frontiers in
Reproduction Course
Aisemberg, Julieta, CEFYBO-CONICET Buenos Aires
Avila, Euclides, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutricion
Bainbridge, Shannon, Queen’s University
Buffone, Mariano, University of Pennsylvania
Burnett, Lindsey, Arizona State University
Garcia, Rocio, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutricion
Jaimez-Melgoza, Ruth, University of Pennsylvania
Lewis, Shaye, Texas A&M University
Maseelall, Priya, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Patrick, Lindsay, Queen’s University
Rathi, Rahul, University of Pennsylvania
Sferruzzi-Perri, Amanda, University of Adelaide
Sherwin, Robert, University of Cambridge
Tubbs, Christopher, The University of Texas at Austin
Vega-Sánchez, Rodrigo, Instituto Nacional de Perinatologia
Vitale, Alejandra, Cornell University
Zaga-Clavellina, Verónica, Perinatology National Institute
Max M. Burger Endowed Scholarship
Agca, Cavit, LSU Health Sciences Center
Dayel, Mark, University of California, Berkeley
education
Gary N. Calkins Memorial Scholarship
Juhler, Susanne, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Gerald D. & Ruth L. Fischbach Endowed
Scholarship
Mease, Rebecca, University of Washington
The Company of Biologists Ltd Scholarship
Dayel, Mark, University of California, Berkeley
Nie, Shuyi, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Stigloher, Christian, GSF-Research Center
Edwin Grant Conklin Memorial Fund
Koenig, Jeremy, Dalhousie University
Bernard Davis Fund
Hogewoning, Sander, Delft University of Technology
Juhler, Susanne, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Levine, Naomi, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Quintana, Erika, CIIEMAD-IPN
William F. and Irene C. Diller Memorial Fund
Lee, Zarraz, Michigan State University
Eugene Floyd DuBois Memorial Fund
Uehara, Ryota, University of Tokyo
Mac V. Edds, Jr. Endowed Scholarship Fund
Schmitt, Christian, University of Erlangen Germany
The Ellison Medical Foundation—
Molecular Biology of Aging Course
Bonkowski, Michael, Southern Illinois University School
of Medicine
Cavanaugh, Jane, University of Pittsburgh
Cumbers, John, Brown University
Gomez, Christian, Loyola University Medical Center
Karasik, David, Hebrew Senior Life Beth Israel
Laska, Magdalena, Aarhus University, Denmark
Lomb, David, University of Rochester
Midzak, Andrew, Johns Hopkins University
Miller, John, Buck Institute for Age Research
Morissette, Michael, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/
Harvard Medical School
Nambu, John, University of Massachusetts
Rezával, Carolina, Fundacion Instituto Leloir Argentina
Ruzanov, Peter, Genome Sciences Centre
Santoro, Aurelia, University of Bologna
Schreader, Barbara, University of Massachusetts
Sun, Liou, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Tadesse, Serkalem, University of Freiburg
Walton, Clare, The Rockefeller University
Wolff, Suzy, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Yedidia, Jonathan, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs
Caswell Grave Scholarship Fund
Simoes-Costa, Marcos, Heart Institute University of São Paulo
Wright, Melissa, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Yang, Xiaojie, Northeastern University
Grass Foundation—Neural Systems &
Behavior Course
Nelson, Greg, Salk Institute
Paulk, Angelique, University of Arizona
Thomas B. Grave and Elizabeth F. Grave
Scholarship
Kobberup, Sune, Barbara Davis Center, University of Colorado
Health Sciences Center
Linn, Stephanie, University of Michigan
Materna, Stefan, California Institute of Technology
Nie, Shuyi, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Norris, Rachel, University of Connecticut Health Center
Park, Tae Joo, University of Texas at Austin
Payne, Sarah, California Institute of Technology
Rink, Jochen, Max Planck Institute
Yang, Xiaojie, Northeastern University
Daniel S. and Edith T. Grosch Scholarship
Fund
Allers, Elke, Max Planck Institute Bremen
Aline D. Gross Scholarship Fund
Westmark, Sandra, University of Cologne, Germany
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Agrawal, Neha, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Li, Xiang, Case Western Reserve University
MacDonald, Luke, Princeton University
Provost, Elayne, Johns Hopkins University
Ricoy, Ulises, University of Texas, San Antonio
Uehara, Ryota, University of Tokyo
Westmark, Sandra, University of Cologne, Germany
Woebken, Dagmar, Max Planck Institute Bremen
Yaksi, Emre, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
William Randolph Hearst Educational
Endowment
Brawley, Crista, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Breshears, Laura, University of Minnesota
Kilburn, Chandra, University of Colorado, Boulder
McCloskey, Thomas, University of California, Santa Barbara
Partensky, Peretz, University of California, San Francisco
Yasutis, Kimberly, University of Virginia
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International Brain Research Organization
The Gruss Lipper Foundation Scholarship
Agrawal, Neha, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Amador, Ana, University of Buenos Aires
Mwebaza, Norah, Makerere University Medical School
Soiza-Reilly, Mariano, University of Buenos Aires
Barak, Omri, Weizmann Institute of Science
Lipkind, Dina, City University of New York
Holger & Friederun Jannasch Scholarship in
Microbial Diversity
Levine, Naomi, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Jacques Loeb Founders’ Scholarship Fund
Bettencourt-Dias, Mónica, University of Cambridge
S.O. Mast Founders’ Scholarship
Applewhite, Derek, Northwestern University
Delon, Isabelle, Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge
Guerin, Colleen, University of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey
Haigo, Saori, University of California, Berkeley
Stigloher, Christian, GSF-Research Center
Fred Karush Endowed Library Readership
MBL Associates Endowed Scholarship Fund
Anderson, Gary, University of Southern Mississippi
McCoubrie, Joanne, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research
Arthur Klorfein Scholarship and Fellowship Fund
MBL Young Scholars
Benjamin Kaminer Scholarship
Davison, Angus, University of Nottingham
Dray, Nicolas, CNRS France
Gentsch, George, Biozentrum, University of Basel
Gillis, William, University of Oregon
Rink, Jochen, Max Planck Institute
Frank R. Lillie Fellowship and Scholarship Fund
Agrawal, Neha, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Altshuler, Doug, University of California, Riverside
Bouchard, Kristofer, University of California, San Francisco
Bruses, Juan, Kansas University Medical Center
Heinze, Stanley, University of Marburg
Lu, Zhongmin (John), University of Miami
McQuiston, Travis, Medical University of South Carolina
Mershon, Kileen, University of California, Los Angeles
Monk, Kelly, Stanford University
Odermatt, Benjamin, Medical Research Council
Paquet, Dominik, University of Munich
Peres, João, Kings College London
Provost, Elayne, Johns Hopkins University
Quintin, Jessica, Louis Pasteur University / IBMC
Tsao, Sarah, McGill University
Turnbull, Suzy, Imperial College London
Wright, Michael, Emory University
Zacchi, Lucia, University of Minnesota
Zhou, Huaijin, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Marguet, Stephan, Rutgers University
Yanik, Fatih, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MBL Pioneers Scholarship Fund
Bowyer, Paul, Imperial College London
Chene, Arnaud, Karolinska Institute
Ganter, Markus, University of Heidelberg
Regmi, Sandesh, Southern Methodist University
Sturm-Worner, Angelika, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine
Weinkopff, Tiffany, University of Georgia
Frank Morrell Endowed Memorial Scholarship
Bellani, Rudy, The Rockefeller University
Clark, Brian, New York University School of Medicine
Dzakpasu, Rhonda, University of Michigan
Lundby, Alicia, University of Copenhagen
Mease, Rebecca, University of Washington
Mountain Memorial Fund Scholarship
Brawley, Crista, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Breshears, Laura, University of Minnesota
Dohmann, Esther, Tuebingen University
Hentrich, Christian, EMBL Heidelberg
Zhou, Jasmine, University of Southern California
Zuccolo, Michela, Institut Curie, Paris
education
Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation
Allers, Elke, Max Planck Institute Bremen
Ettwig, Katharina, Radboud University, Nijmegen
Hogewoning, Sander, Delft University of Technology
Juhler, Susanne, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Lee, Zarraz, Michigan State University
Quintana, Erika, CIIEMAD-IPN
Woebken, Dagmar, Max Planck Institute Bremen
Neural Systems & Behavior Course Endowed
Scholarship Fund
Caruso, Valeria, SISSA
Pfizer Inc. Endowed Scholarship
Bowyer, Paul, Imperial College London
Chene, Arnaud, Karolinska Institute
Ganter, Markus, University of Heidelberg
Proellocks, Nick, Monash University
William Townsend Porter Scholarship
Applewhite, Derek, Northwestern University
Bellani, Rudy, The Rockefeller University
Bruses, Juan, Kansas University Medical Center
de Marchena, Jacqueline, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Dzakpasu, Rhonda, University of Michigan
Findley, Keisha, Duke University
Isaac, Dervla, University of California, San Francisco
Martinez, Luis, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Mershon, Kileen, University of California, Los Angeles
Norice, Carmelle, Columbia University
Phillips-Portillo, James, University of Arizona
Rasmussen, Stacy, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Ricoy, Ulises, University of Texas, San Antonio
Velez, Mariel, Stanford University
Walters, James, University of Pennsylvania
Wright, Michael, Emory University
Herbert W. Rand Fellowship and Scholarship Fund
Agrawal, Neha, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Berkes, Charlotte, University of California, San Francisco
Bruses, Juan, Kansas University Medical Center
Caruso, Valeria, SISSA
Drerup, Catherine, Northwestern University
Findley, Keisha, Duke University
Flowers, Parker, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Forlano, Paul, Oregon Health and Science University
Gerik, Kimberly, St. Louis University
Green, Abigail, University of Texas at Austin
Grover, Vandana, Vanderbilt University
Isaac, Dervla, University of California, San Francisco
Jacobsen, Mette, University of Aberdeen
Kocar, Benjamin, Stanford University
Koyama, Minoru, Cornell University
La Fleur, Michael, Northeastern University
Levine, Naomi, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Li, Wenhong, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas
Malavazi, Iran, University of São Paulo
Martinez, Eduardo, Harvard University
Martinez, Luis, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
McQuiston, Travis, Medical University of South Carolina
Mershon, Kileen, University of California, Los Angeles
Monk, Kelly, Stanford University
Reifur, Larissa, Michigan State University
Zuccolo, Michela, Institut Curie, Paris
Florence C. Rose and S. Meryl Rose Endowed
Scholarship Fund
Delon, Isabelle, Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge
Kobberup, Sune, Barbara Davis Center, University of Colorado Health
Sciences Center
Norris, Rachel, University of Connecticut Health Center
Wanner, Sarah, University of Minnesota
Ruth Sager Memorial Scholarship
Linn, Stephanie, University of Michigan
Wanner, Sarah, University of Minnesota
Howard A. Schneiderman Endowed Scholarship
Agrawal, Neha, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Altshuler, Doug, University of California, Riverside
Bouchard, Kristofer, University of California, San Francisco
Milton L. Shifman Endowed Scholarship
Brangwynne, Clifford, Harvard University
Chait, Remy, Harvard University
Clark, Damon, Harvard University
Leininger, Elizabeth, Columbia University
McClean, Megan, Harvard University
Monds, Russell, Dartmouth Medical School
Norice, Carmelle, Columbia University
Shen, Jun, Harvard University School of Medicine
Sürmeli, Gülsen, Columbia University
Walters, James, University of Pennsylvania
Weitz, Joshua, Princeton University
White, Rachel, University of Pennsylvania
Marjorie R. Stetten Scholarship Fund
Flood, Beverly, University of Southern California
Horace W. Stunkard Scholarship Fund
Byrne, Meghan, University of California, Berkeley
Koenig, Jeremy, Dalhousie University
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Society for Developmental Biology
Agca, Cavit, LSU Health Sciences Center
Guerin, Colleen, University of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey
Materna, Stefan, California Institute of Technology
Schmitt, Christian, University of Erlangen Germany
Yang, Xiaojie, Northeastern University
Society for General Physiology
Caruso, Valeria, SISSA
Lundby, Alicia, University of Copenhagen, Fumio Mekata Scholar
Nie, Shuyi, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Zuccolo, Michela, Institut Curie, Paris
Surdna Foundation Scholarship
Agrawal, Neha, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Caiazza, Nicky, California Institute of Technology
Heinze, Stanley, University of Marburg
Hinterwirth, Armin, University of Washington
Huntwork, Sarah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Palmer, Lucy, Australian National University
Eva Szent-Györgyi Scholarship Fund
Kilburn, Chandra, University of Colorado, Boulder
John & Madeleine Trinkaus Endowed Scholarship
Delon, Isabelle, Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge
Selman A. Waksman Endowed Scholarship in
Microbial Diversity
Ettwig, Katharina, Radboud University, Nijmegen
William Morton Wheeler Family Founders’
Scholarship
Green, Abigail, University of Texas at Austin
Walter L. Wilson Endowed Scholarship Fund
McClean, Megan, Harvard University
Toprak, Erdal, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Wellcome Trust
Akaragwe, Ateh, University of Buea, Cameroon
Alencar, Bruna, UNIFESP Brazil
Martins, Rafael, UNIFESP Brazil
World Academy of Arts & Sciences-Emily Mudd
Scholarship
Holmes, Rebecca, Cornell University
World Health Organization
Avila, Euclides, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutricion
Garcia, Rocio, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutricion
mblwhoi library
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report of the library director
With the information–based society we live in today, libraries
are forced to furnish individuals with information when, where,
and how they want it. In 2006 we made significant changes in the
configuration of our physical space as the library moves to delivering
information to its patrons primarily online and purchasing most of
its journals in digital format.
A Memorandum of Agreement between the MBL and
WHOI to jointly manage and run the MBLWHOI
Library was signed in the MBL Rare Books Room on
January 5, 2007. The formal agreement comes after
77 years of a long-term “handshake” understanding
between the two institutions. Above, Gary Borisy,
MBL Director and CEO, Cathy Norton, MBLWHOI
Library Director, and Jim Luyten, WHOI Acting
Director, toast the signing of the agreement.
library
researchers
We continue to add to our holdings of electronic journal archives as
digital versions become the product of choice. Many journals now
offer access back to volume one, number one. Rather than duplicate
resources, we moved issues of journals that offer electronic access
to our offsite Library Service Center in Falmouth Technology Park,
which accommodates preservation standards for climate control.
Previously the journal stacks had been divided by date. Now they
are arranged in one run alphabetically, making it easier to find the
needed resources.
Abbott, Jayne B., Marine Research
Advanced BioNutrition Corp, Advanced BioNutrition Corporation
Aguilar, Carmen, Great Lakes WATER Institute
Allen, Garland E., Washington University
Allen, Nina S., North Carolina State University
Allnutt, Tom, Advanced BioNutrition Corporation
Anderson, Gary, The University of Southern Mississippi
Anderson, Pat, Great Lakes WATER Institute
Applegate, Andy, New England Fishery Mgmt. Council
Archibald, Tom, University of the Virgin Islands
Armstrong, Michael, Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
Baccetti, Baccio, University of Siena
Ban, Elizabeth, University of the Virgin Islands
Barlow, Robert, Upstate Medical University
Baylor, Martha, Woods Hole, MA Benjamin, Thomas L., Harvard Medical School
Bergen, Lydia, New England Aquarium Right Whale Research
Binkowski, Fred, Great Lakes WATER Institute
Blake, Charles, University of South Carolina
Boelke, Deirdre, New England Fishery Mgmt. Council
Boyce, Peter, Maria Mitchell Society
Broussard, Christine, University of La Verne
Brown, Eric, Woods Hole, MA
Brown, Moira, New England Aquarium Right Whale Research
Bullis, Robert A., Advanced BioNutritional Corp
Burke, Don, Johns Hopkins University
Candelas, Graciela C., University of Puerto Rico
Caruso, Paul, Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
Carvan, Mike, Great Lakes WATER Institute
Center for Coastal Studies Cervino, James, College Point, NY
Chadwick, Nanette, Auburn University
Child, Frank M., Trinity College
Chisolm, John, Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
Christian, Omar, University of the Virgin Islands
Cohen, Phillip, University of Pennsylvania
Cohen, Seymour S., American Cancer Society
Collier, Jamus, Center for Coastal Studies
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joint users
committee
David Shepro, MBL,
Chairperson
John Hobbie, MBL
Lawrence Pratt, WHOI
Peter Smith, MBL
Rob Thieler, USGS
John Waterbury, WHOI
Ann Stuart, UNC Chapel Hill
and MBL
John Hayes, WHOI
As part of this reconfiguration, the Grass Reference Room has become an information
commons multimedia space for interactive group learning experiences. Former MBL Director
and CEO Dr. William Speck donated two custom-made tables to the library that complete
the marriage of a traditional feel with a network-enabled infrastructure. The room provides a
much-needed electronic demonstration space for the library and the entire MBL community.
To address the use of our monograph collection, we studied the circulation and acquisitions
trends and, with a lot of feedback from the Library Committee and scientists, were able to
determine what topics are used most by the MBLWHOI Library community. Those volumes
are shelved at the main library for easier retrieval and browsing. Lesser-used volumes
and the Special Collections are retrieved from the Library Service Center by library staff.
These changes have given us an opportunity to monitor how we can meet the continually
evolving needs of the community.
Additionally in 2006 we embarked on a project to identify 1000 Great Books in Science and
Engineering. With the help of the Woods Hole scientific community, who identified books
that had an influence on their careers, we have assembled a collection of classic books across
many disciplines. A green “Classic” sticker identifies these books, which are located in the
library stacks in Lillie.
Digital Library
Lewis Nassikas
Nat Corwin
Dick Edwards
Lewis Hadleman
Beverly Woods
Oral Histories
Frank Taylor
HERBARIUM
Dick Backus
Frank Child
Julie Child
Joe De Veer
Paul Freyheit
Sallie Giffen
Tom Gregg
Nancy Macdonald
Pam Polloni
Arlene Rogers
Jacqueline Webster
RARE BOOKS
Millie Huettner
Carol Winn
Library
Researchers,
continued
Consi, Tom, Great Lakes WATER Institute
Correia, Steven, Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
Couch, Ernest F., Texas Christian University
D’Alessio, Giuseppe, University of Naples Federico II
Decker, Heinz, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
deToledo-Morrell, Leyla, Rush University
Devine, Barry, University of the Virgin Islands
Devlin, Leah, Penn State University
Dodge, Frederick, State University of New York Upstate Medical University
Duncan, Thomas K., Nichols College
Edmunds, Deana, New England Aquarium
Eliot, Lise, Rosalind Franklin University
Epstein, Herman T., Brandeis University
Estabrooks, Steve, Maria Mitchell Association
Estrella, Bruce, Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
Falmouth Academy
Farrington, Marianne, New England Aquarium Right Whale Research
Finkelstein, Alan, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Galatzer-Levy, Robert, University of Chicago
Gatlin, Jesse, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
German, James L., Cornell University
Gifford, Prosser, Chairman of the MBL Board of Trustees (1970-1990)
Giray, Cem, Micro Technologies, Inc.
Goetz, Frederick, Great Lakes WATER Institute
Goldstein, Moise, Johns Hopkins University
Great Lakes WATER Institute
Groden, Joanna, Ohio State University
Grossman, Albert, NYU Medical School
Hall, Richard, University of the Virgin Islands
Halvorson, Harlyn O., MBL Director (1987-1991)
Hamilton, Philip, New England Aquarium Right Whale Research
Harel, Moti, Advanced BioNutrition Corporation
Haring, Phil, New England Fishery Mgmt. Council
Harris, Sharlene, University of the Virgin Islands
Hickey, Michael, Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
Hunter, Robert, Gartnaval Royal Hospital
Idrisi, Nasseer, University of the Virgin Islands
Innis, Charlie, New England Aquarium
Issidorides, Marietta R., University of Athens
Jacobson, Allan S., UMass Medical School
Janssen, John, Great Lakes WATER Institute
Jaquet, Nathalie, Center for Coastal Studies
Jaye, Robert, Solomon Schecter Day School
Jobsis, Paul, University of the Virgin Islands
Johnson, Kristin, MIT
Josephson, Robert, University of California
Kellogg, Chris, New England Fishery Mgmt. Council
Kelly, Robert E., Northwestern University
Kennedy, Robert S., Maria Mitchell Association
Keynan, Alexander, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Khanna, Rita, Advanced BioNutrition Corporation
King, Kenneth, Woods Hole, MA
Klaper, Rebecca, Great Lakes WATER Institute
Klump, Val, Great Lakes WATER Institute
Knowlton, Amy, New England Aquarium Right Whale Research
Krane, Stephen M., Mass General Hospital-East
Kraus, Scott, New England Aquarium Right Whale Research
Kyle, David, Advanced BioNutrition Corporation
Laderman, Aimlee, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Lipper, Evelyn G., New York Presbyterian Hospital
Loewenstein, Werner R., Journal of Membrane Biology
Luckenbill-Edds, Louise, Parmly Hearing Institute, Loyola University Chicago
Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
Mayo, Charles, Center for Coastal Studies
McEnroe, Maryann, Purchase College
McLellan, Sandra, Great Lakes WATER Institute
Mellon, DeForest, University of Virginia
Merigo, Connie, New England Aquarium
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As a part of the Boston Library Consortium (BLC) and the Biodiversity
Heritage Library (BHL), the library has begun to work with the Open
Content Alliance to digitize holdings in our collection. This project is being
taken on by libraries around the world to digitize out-of-copyright books
and build an online public access library. Our unique holdings are an asset
to this project and have the potential to help people around the globe.
As we move away from a physical library to a more electronic one, the
library staff has changed as well. With the inclusion of bioinformatics
staff, we are positioned to be on the forefront of library innovation.
Acknowledging that only 1% of the population begins an information
search on a library web site, as opposed to 84% who use search engines,
we have re-engineered our e-resources so that access to our holdings are
available to search engine users.
Utilizing the technology developed by our uBio (Universal Biological
Indexer and Organizer) team, we are providing the technology backbone for
the BHL to develop a digital library showcasing the biodiversity literature
of its member libraries, (including the Smithsonian Institution Libraries,
the American Museum of Natural History, and the Natural History Museum
London, among others).
MBL founding director Charles Otis Whitman kept pigeons for 18
summers in Woods Hole. Whitman used the birds to study variations in genetic traits, including physical appearance and behavior.
He also photographed and drew detailed scientific illustrations of
the pigeons, sometimes in collaboration with Japanese artists K.
Kayashi and Kenji Toda. The illustration shown here is just one of
several featured in Whitman’s Pigeons, an exhibit from the MBL’s
Rare Books Room which was displayed in the Swope Center from
May 2006 to May 2007.
— Catherine N. Norton
Milkman, Roger, MBL
Mitchell, Ralph, Harvard University
Mizell, Merle, Tulane University
Moore, Gregg E., Center for Coastal Studies
Mooseker, Mark S., Yale University
Narahashi, Toshio, Northwestern University Medical School
Naugle, John E., National Aeronautics & Space Administration
Nelson, Gary, Annisquam River Marine Fisheries Station
Nemeth, Donna, University of the Virgin Islands
Nemeth, Rick, University of the Virgin Islands
New England Aquarium Right Whale Research
New England Fishery Management Council
Nichols, Owen, Center for Coastal Studies
Nies, Tom, New England Fishery Mgmt. Council
Olins, Ada L., Bowdoin College
Olins, Donald, Bowdoin College
Orbach, Marc, University of Arizona
Ottensmeyer, Andrea, Dalhousie University
Pol, Michael, Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
Prendergast, Robert, MBL Board of Trustees
Przybylski, Ronald J., Case Western Reserve University
Rabinowitz, Michael B., Harvard Medical School
Ratchford, Stephen, University of the Virgin Islands
Reinisch, Carol, Woods Hole, MA
Rise, Matt, Great Lakes WATER Institute
Robbins, Jooke, Center for Coastal Studies
Rolland, Rosalind, New England Aquarium Right Whale Research
Romano, Sandra, University of the Virgin Islands
Rosenbaum, L. Joel, Yale University
Rudin, Robert, Nantucket, MA
Sanders, Michael R., Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
Schippers, Jay M., Jay M. Schippers Realty
Schwartz, James O.
Segal, Sheldon, Chairman of the MBL Board of Trustees (1991-2002)
Shepro, David, Boston University
Shimomura, Osamu, MBL retired scientist
Shumway, Caroly, New England Aquarium Right Whale Research
Spector, Abraham, Columbia University
Spotte, Stephen, Mote Marine Lab
Steele, Lori, New England Fishery Mgmt. Council
Stracher, Alfred, SUNY, Downstate Medical Center
Strickler, Rudi, Great Lakes WATER Institute
Stuart, Ann E., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sullivan, Gerald J., Savio Prep High School
Tlusty, Michael, New England Aquarium Right Whale Research
Tomasiewicz, Henry, Great Lakes WATER Institute
Turner, Teresa, University of the Virgin Islands
Tweedell, Kenyon S., University of Notre Dame
Tykocinski, Mark L., University of Pennsylvania
Tytell, Michael, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Udvadia, Ava, Great Lakes WATER Institute
Van Holde, Kensal E., Oregon State University
Vitazkova, Sylvia, University of the Virgin Islands
Waples, James T., Great Lakes WATER Institute
Ward, Christopher, University of Maryland Baltimore
Warren, Leonard, University of Pennsylvania Medical School
Watlington, Roy, University of the Virgin Islands
Weber, Scott, New England Aquarium
Weissmann, Gerald, New York University School of Medicine
Werner, Tim, New England Aquarium Right Whale Research
Woodhead, Peter, MarineSciences Research Center
Woods Hole Research Center
Yevick, George J., Stevens Institute of Technology
Yevick, Miriam, Rutgers University
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financials
report of the treasurer
This past year the MBL set new performance records in fundraising, net investment
income and gains, and the growth in our Net Assets, which are currently at a historic high.
While we experienced a modest “cash” operating loss, pro-active steps have been taken to
address any shortfall through continued cost savings and the development of a long-term
sustainable business plan. In this connection, in 2006 we successfully completed the issuance
of a new 30-year bond financing at a significantly lower interest rate (3.3%) that will enable
us to continue building the MBL’s physical wealth.
The MBL’s Balance Sheet reflects these major changes. The Endowment & Similar
Investments increased $4 million or 7.5% even after a 5.25% spending rate draw for
operations. Property & Equipment net of $2.6 million in depreciation increased over $7.6
million as continued improvements were made to the campus infrastructure. Most of the
funding for this was drawn from the Assets held by the Bond Trustee, which represents the
remnants of the new funds realized by the $34 million Mass Development Bond issued
on April 26, 2006. Our Liabilities grew significantly due to this debt, but we also were
able to make a major reduction in our Line of Credit borrowings. On the Equity side, our
Unrestricted Net Assets fell by $1.9 million due to our operating loss, but Temporarily and
Permanently Restricted Net Assets grew $8.5 million or 14.8%. Overall the MBL’s Return on
Average Net Assets was a healthy 8.2 % in 2006.
In general, the overall results for the MBL’s Operations were encouraging. Operating Support
in 2006 increased $5.4 million from 2005 levels. Contributions had the largest impact,
increasing $7 million to establish a new annual record for the institution. This broke
the old record set in 2001 during the last year of the Discovery Campaign by $1 million.
Government Grants declined slightly (-3.6%) to the levels last experienced in 2002. This
was driven by two factors. The first was the departure of six principal investigators (most of
whom retired) since the fall of 2005 and the second reflects the more challenging funding
environment due to the lower funding of the government agencies. Laboratory Rental & Net
Tuition reflected a more pronounced decline (-24%) principally due to the withdrawal by
Boston University from rented space for the B.U. Marine Program that is being discontinued
in Woods Hole. The various other sources of support declined slightly (-3.3%).
financials
Operating Expenses were controlled very effectively, increasing merely 1.6% over 2005.
Fringe, Subcontracts, Equipment, Interest, Depreciation, and Utility expenses showed
increases over the previous year. Depreciation increased 16.2% as capital improvements
came on-line. Utilities increased 13.1% due entirely to higher energy prices. The others
increased at single digit levels. Professional Services, Supplies, and Travel were all reduced by
over 9%. Serials cost was reduced (-4.2%), and the MBL even reduced Salaries slightly (-1.7%)
as the number of staff had decreased at year’s end by 15 from 2005 levels. Even with these
concerted efforts to limit expenses, the MBL reported a $3.1 million operating loss. Most
of that was attributable to the depreciation accrual—a non-cash item. The actual “cash”
operating loss of $486 thousand represents only 1.3% of last year’s annual expenses.
Fortunately, the strong level of Contributions overcame the operating loss, so the MBL
experienced a $2.1 million change in Net Assets before non-operating activities (5.2% of
revenues).
Non-Operating Activities were also strong, assisted by robust Investment Income & Earnings
of $6.4 million that represented a 12.7% investment return on the Long Term Investments.
This helped the MBL experience a bottom-line increase in Net Assets of $6.6 million.
Overall the MBL continues to responsibly address the challenge of operating losses related
to the need to fund the depreciation accrual. Steps have already been taken to enhance
revenues from services the institution provides, which in conjunction with cost saving
steps already taken, should enable the MBL to continue making progress on reducing the
operating loss. Management has also prepared a functional sector analysis to evaluate how
each core activity at the MBL is affecting operations. This will be used as the foundation
for developing a sustainable business plan to close this systemic gap over the next few
years. Simultaneously, a new campaign feasibility study is underway to position the MBL
for a major new fundraising initiative. This can only add to our current $8.8 million in
Contribution receivables that already are enabling the MBL to make an array of significant
investments in its future. In the meantime, our Long-Term Debt to Net Assets stands at 41%
and remains manageable. These factors, combined with any rebound in Government Grants,
should help us continue to successfully implement the MBL’s Strategic Plan.
—Mary B. Conrad
36% SALARIES
Uses of $37.7 Million
in Expenses
Sources of $34.6 Million in
Operating Support
55% RESIDENTRESEARCH
6% VISITINGRESEARCH
17% EDUCATION
6% CONFERENCES
3% LIBRARY
5% OTHERCLIENTFEES
8% SUPPORTAREAS!NNUAL&UND
12% FRINGEBENEFITS
11% SUBCONTRACTS
2%
PROFESSIONALSERVICES
1% INSURANCE
2% INTEREST
10% OUTSIDESERVICES
7% DEPRECIATION
5% UTILITIES
2% SERIALS
4% TRAVEL
8% SUPPLIES
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Operating History and Balance Sheet
as of December 31, 2006 and 2005
The financial statements of the
Marine Biological Laboratory for
the fiscal year ending
December 31, 2006,
were audited by KPMG.
Complete financial statements are
available upon request from:
Homer Lane
Chief Financial Officer
MBL
7 MBL Street
Woods Hole, MA 02543
The Operating and Balance Sheet
numbers shown here are unaudited.
BALANCE SHEET (In Thousands)
2006 2005
ASSETS:
Cash and Short-Term Investments
$1,527 $373 Pledges and Other Recievables
12,146 10,390 Assets Held by Bond Trustee
10,125 0
Other Assets
1,247 978 Endowment and Similar Investments
56,054 52,167 Property and Equipment, net
45,386 37,705 TOTAL ASSETS
126,485 101,613 LIABILITIES:
Accounts Payable
4,941 3,275 Line of Credit
500 2,500 Annuities and Unitrusts Payable
670 599 Deferred Revenue and Other Liabilities
2,519 2,811 Long-Term Debt
34,000 15,200 Total Liabilities
42,630 24,385 NET ASSETS:
Unrestricted
17,752 19,619 Temporarily Restricted 37,041 28,942 Permanently Restricted
29,062 28,667 Total Net Assets:
83,855 77,228 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
$126,485 $101,613 OPERATING HISTORY (In Thousands)
OPERATING SUPPORT
Government Grants
$16,840 $17,478 Private Contracts
1,479 1,187 Laboratory Rental and Net Tuition
1,835 2,410 Fees for Conferences and Services
5,239 5,087 Contributions
11,916 4,972 Investment and Other Revenue
2,523 3,281 Total Operating Support 39,832 34,415 EXPENSES:
Research
23,714 24,170 Instruction
7,029 7,077 Conferences and Services
2,420 2,083 Other Programs
4,577 3,824 Total Expenses
37,740 37,154 CHANGES IN NET ASSETS BEFORE NON-OPERATING ACTIVITY: 2,092 (2,739)
Non-Operating Activities:
Contributions to Plant and Other Expenses, Net
310 1,297 Total Investment Income and Earnings 6,388 2,650 Less Investment Earnings Used for Operations
(2,163)
(2,121)
Reinvested Investment Earnings
4,225 529 TOTAL CHANGE IN NET ASSETS:
$6,627 ($913)
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gifts
report of the development committee
Increasing the MBL’s private support is not just a hedge against declining
federal grants but the only way to ensure that the MBL continues to provide the
leadership necessary to answer some of the central scientific questions of our
time. I am pleased, therefore, to report that we raised $11,999,156 in 2006, an
80% increase over 2005 and the most since 2001, the final year of the Discovery
Campaign.
It must be noted that nearly all of this increase is the result of the incredible
generosity of MBL Chairman of the Board, Jack Rowe, and his wife Valerie,
through the Rowe Family Foundation. Their $5 million gift, the largest ever
made by individuals, established the Rowe Family Director’s Development
Fund, which will help the MBL fund much needed capital projects, creatively
seize new opportunities, and make strategic research investments.
Foundations remained a cornerstone of our fundraising success in 2006. The
MBL submitted 54 proposals and concept papers resulting in over $5.4 million.
Fully half of this total was directed toward research in the Bay Paul Center,
specifically the International Census of Marine Microbes (ICoMM), part of the
Census of Marine Life. ICoMM’s ultimate goal is to describe the full extent
of the phenomenal biodiversity of marine microorganisms. The W. M. Keck
Foundation awarded $1.5 million to acquire a parallel DNA sequencing system,
and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, with a renewal and increase of previous
support, awarded $1.2 million for ICoMM management and implementation.
This program is a revolutionary area of science in which MBL takes the lead.
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The Burroughs Wellcome Fund also continued its generous support for MBL courses
with nearly $1.1 million for the Frontiers in Reproduction and the Biology of Parasitism
courses. Additional foundation support for research, education, and the library are
featured in the Highlights section that follows.
As program support increases, operational funding must keep pace. Fees, interest income,
and overhead on research grants must be supplemented each year with Annual Fund
gifts. In 2006 1,113 donors contributed $617,921. For the second year in a row the
number of alumni and Corporation member donors increased significantly as did their
total giving. In the second year of an alumni anniversary program, gifts more than
doubled, signaling the commitment of our alumni and potential for support to expand.
Concurrent with fundraising, the Office of External Affairs restructured and expanded its
framework for outreach. The MBL Associates, who serve as the gateway to the MBL for
those in the community, eliminated a separate membership program so that all Annual
Fund donors become Associates of the MBL and can take advantage of related benefits
and volunteer opportunities. We also launched a high-end lecture series called Frontiers
in Science which combines MBL expertise with topical issues in an interactive forum to
enlighten and engage prospective donors. The Communications Office published a new
MBL science magazine that is accessible to lay audiences. MBL Catalyst has received rave
reviews for its first two issues. In addition, LabNotes is now a bi-monthly e-newsletter that
provides our constituents with more up-to-date information.
Finally, in anticipation of the outcome of Gary Borisy’s work with the trustees and science
community to identify areas for strategic investment, we have made plans to conduct a
capital campaign feasibility study in the second quarter of 2007.
To our generous donors whose names appear on the following pages, and to those who
wish to remain anonymous, we extend our sincerest thanks for these accomplishments
on behalf of the Board of Trustees and the entire MBL community.
—M Howard Jacobson, Chairman
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major gifts
We gratefully acknowledge the
important support provided by
the following foundations and
individuals for our research and
educational programs.
Highlights
John and Valerie Rowe made a commitment of $5 million to establish the
Rowe Family Director’s Development Fund at the MBL. This is the largest
single gift made by individuals in the history of the institution. An additional
contribution of $10,000 was given for unrestricted use.
W. M. Keck Foundation awarded a grant of $1.5 million to enable MBL to acquire
a parallel DNA sequencing system that will provide transformational support to
the research efforts aimed at conducting a global census of marine microbes.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded a grant in the amount of $1,210,000 to
support the continuing management and implementation of the microbial
component of the Census of Marine Life.
Burroughs Wellcome Fund awarded a grant of $481,950 to support the Frontiers
in Reproduction course from 2007 through 2009. A grant was also renewed in
the amount of $600,000 to support the Biology of Parasitism course from 2007
through 2010. A $5,000 grant was awarded in support of the 2006 Frontiers in
Reproduction course planning efforts and $11,500 was awarded in support of
the Molecular Mycology course alumni symposium.
The Gruss Lipper Family Foundation renewed funding in the amount of $460,450
for the Gruss Lipper Research and Educational Fund for Israeli Scientists over a
period of three years.
The G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation renewed its grant of $350,000 in support
of the Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and
Evolution; the program to develop marine models for biomedical research in
the Marine Resource Center; and to support veterinary services at the MBL.
The Pfizer Foundation renewed its support in the amount of $99,461 for the
Living in the Microbial World workshop. Support was also provided for the
Molecular Mycology: Current Approaches to Fungal Pathogenesis course in the
amount of $25,000.
George Frederick Jewett Foundation awarded a grant of $100,000 to support
the “Information Commons” project in the MBLWHOI Library in the Lillie
building.
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Restricted gifts
(up to $9,999)
Restricted gifts
($10,000 to $99,999)
American Society for Reproductive Medicine
Bauer Center for Genomics Research
Mr. Bruce Beal and Mr. Francis Cunningham
Estate of Octavia C. Clement
Dr. and Mrs. Kurt J. Isselbacher
Drs. Luigi and Elaine Mastroianni
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Merck Research Laboratories
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation
Mrs. Robert W. Pierce
Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Rosenthal
Drs. William T. Speck and Evelyn Lipper
Wellcome Trust
World Health Organization
World Precision Instruments
Aquatic Eco-Systems, Inc.
Ms. Gwyneth Armstrong
Bank of America Corporation
Ms. Susan M. Barnes
Dr. Carolyn Cohen
The Company of Biologists Limited
CyberAlert, Inc.
Dr. Chungpeng Fan
Dr. and Mrs. A. Verdi Farmanfarmaian
Mr. and Mrs. George Friedman
Drs. Robert and Anne Goldman
The Grass Foundation
Drs. Kenneth Foreman and Anne Giblin
Mr. and Mrs. James Hartmann
Mr. and Mrs. Alvah Hinckley
Ms. Edith Pear Holsinger
Ms. Lilian M. Hoyle
Dr. William S. Johnson
Drs. Andrew Kropinski and Peggy Pritchard
Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Laster
Ms. Mary Malloy
Dr. Ashleigh McCord
Dr. and Mrs. William N. Mebane, III
Mr. Paul Miskovsky
Nashua Christian Academy
Dr. Pamela Nelson and Mr. Christopher Olmsted
New England Biolabs, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Pharr
PhotoArk
Dr. Robert Greenberg and Ms. Carol Pooser
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Reiss
Dr. and Mrs. Edward D. Salmon
Ms. Kathleen Lake Shaw
Dr. and Mrs. David Sheprow
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Sholley
Dr. Abraham Spector and Ms. Marguerite Filson
Dr. and Mrs. William K. Stephenson
Drs. Racquel and Maurice Sussman
Dr. and Mrs. Aron E. Szulman
Mr. Steve C. Tarrant
Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Warren
Mr. and Mrs. Byron Wien
Dr. Dyann and Mr. Peter Wirth
Dr. Linda and Mr. Erik Zettler
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annual giving: MBL associates
The MBL’s annual supporters are known as MBL Associates.
These individuals make important, unrestricted contributions that
allow the MBL to cover costs not met by grants and fees, provide
bridge funding, and seed key strategic activities. MBL Associates
are invited to participate in scientific and cultural events and may
become actively involved in outreach and fundraising programs
such as the MBL Tour Guides, the Falmouth Forum, Coffee and
Conversation Lectures, and the MBL Associates Gift Shop.
Leadership Gifts
The Director’s Circle
($10,000 or more)
Anonymous (1)
Dr. Porter W. Anderson, Jr.
Mr. Bruce A. Beal
Drs. Gary G. Borisy and Sally Casper
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Conrad
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Cox, Jr.
Mr. Paul Dupee, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. William I. Huyett
Rhoda and Kurt Isselbacher
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Logan
Mrs. Robert W. Pierce
Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Rosenthal
Dr. and Mrs. John W. Rowe
Mr. Vin Ryan and Ms. Carla Meyer
Mrs. Jacqueline N. Simpkins
Drs. William Speck and Evelyn Lipper
Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Weissmann
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher M. Weld
The President’s Club
($5,000-$9,999)
Diane and Norman Bernstein
Frank and Mardi Bowles
Judith and John Dowling
Mr. William T. Golden
Dr. Michael J. and Mrs. Rebecca H. Greenberg
Drs. Laurie J. Landeau and Robert J. Maze
The Jeffrey Pierce Family
Robert A. Prendergast
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Sharp
Elaine and Walter Troll
Matthew Winkler
The Lillie Society
($2,500-$4,999)
Anonymous (1)
David Baltimore and Alice S. Huang
Hope and Mel Barkan
Dr. and Mrs. William H. Beers
Dr. Celeste A. Berg
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Brakeman
The Bronner Charitable Foundation
Professor and Mrs. James F. Case
Ms. Bernice Cramer and Mr. Paul Friedman
Mrs. Sally Cross
Mrs. Martha S. Ferguson
Arthur B. Pardee and Ann B. Goodman
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gottesman
Dr. and Mrs. Shinya Inoué
Frances and Howard Jacobson
Ms. Barbara W. Jones
Dr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Krane
Anna Logan Lawson
Ginny and Pete Nicholas
Ronald P. O’Hanley
Drs. Mitchell Sogin and Laurel Miller
Carol and Joseph T. Stewart, Jr.
Gerard and Mary Swope
Mrs. Annette L. Williamson
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The Whitman Society
($1,000-$2,499)
Life Members of the Whitman Society
Frank and Julie Child
Dr. William Jeffery
Dr. Hans Laufer
Dr. Louise Adler
Dr. Garland E. Allen
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas F. Allison
Dr. Alison and Mr. Robert Ament
Dr. and Mrs. Samuel C. Armstrong
Peter and Margaret Armstrong
Mr. and Mrs. Garfield Arthur
Mr. and Mrs. David Bakalar
Drs. Robert and Harriet Baker
Dr. and Mrs. Robert B. Barlow
Fred and Christine Bay
Drs. Eugene and Millicent Bell
Mr. and Mrs. George Berkowitz
Mr. Alexis Borisy and Dr. Lia Meisinger
Mrs. Elisabeth M. Buck
Drs. Gail D. Burd and John G. Hildebrand
Dr. Max M. Burger
Rick and Nonnie Burnes, Butler’s Hole Fund
Dr. and Mrs. R. Andrew Cameron
Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Campbell
Dr. Graciela C. Candelas
Mr. and Mrs. D. Bret Carlson
Dr. and Mrs. Richard L. Chappell
Dr. Eloise E. Clark
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Clark
Drs. Alexander W. Clowes and Susan E.
Detweiler
Mrs. George H. A. Clowes
Dr. Mary Clutter
Dr. Jewel Plummer Cobb
Dr. Llewellya Hillis and Dr. Paul Colinvaux
Molly N. Cornell
Mr. Scott Costa, The Bufftree Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. William G. Coughlin
Joseph T. Coyle, M.D.
Thomas and Geraldine Crane
Dr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Crocker
Dr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Cutaia
Dr. Eric H. Davidson
Drs. Paul and Mia De Weer
Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. DeWolfe
Dr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Dowling, Jr.
Dr. Nigel S. Dunn-Coleman
Mr. and Mrs. George P. Edmonds, Jr.
Dr. Barbara E. Ehrlich
Drs. Herman N. Eisen and Natalie Aronson
Dr. A. Verdi Farmanfarmaian
Mr. Michael Fenlon and Ms. Linda Sallop
Drs. Gerald and Ruth Fischbach
Drs. Kenneth H. Foreman and Anne E. Giblin
Drs. Bruce and Barbara C. Furie
Mrs. Ruth E. Fye
David and Patricia Gadsby
Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Ganson, Jr.
Ms. Sallie A. Giffen
Mrs. Harold Ginsberg
Rebeckah DuBois Glazebrook
Drs. Alfred and Joan Goldberg
Drs. Anne and Robert Goldman
Drs. Timothy and Mary Helen Goldsmith
Dr. and Mrs. Möise H. Goldstein, Jr.
Susan and Tom Goux
Philip Grant
Drs. Katherine Graubard and Bill Calvin
Dr. Robert M. Greenberg and Ms. Carol Pooser
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Greer, Jr.
Dr. Mary Dalton Greer
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Gregg
Paul R. and Mona Gross
Dr. and Mrs. Harlyn O. Halvorson
Dr. Susan M. Harding
Ms. Penelope S. Hare
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Haselkorn
Woody and Hanna Hastings
Dr. Robert R. Haubrich
Synnova Hayes
Dr. Diane E. Heck
Doris and Howard Hiatt
Susan and David Hibbitt
Mr. Timothy T. Hilton
Gregory J. and Pamela Clapp Hinkle
John and Olivann Hobbie
Mr. and Mrs. Lon Hocker
Drs. Joseph F. Hoffman and Elena Citkowitz
Mrs. Carmela J. Huettner
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hunter
Dr. and Mrs. Hugh E. Huxley
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Hynes, Jr.
Mary D. Janney
Diane and Robert Jaye
Mrs. Freda Kaminer
Dr. and Mrs. Morris John Karnovsky
Dr. Darcy B. Kelley
Stasia and Tom Kelly
Dr. and Mrs. Alexander Keynan
Alice and Sidney Knowles
Sir Hans and Lady Kornberg
Dr. William J. Kuhns
Mary and Homer W. Lane, Jr.
The Honorable and Mrs. John S. Langford
Mrs. Nancy Norman Lassalle
Catherine C. Lastavica, M.D.
Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Laster
Mr. Joel A. Leavitt
Mr. John Lechner and Ms. Mary Higgins
Aaron and Millie Lerner
Dr. and Mrs. Anthony Liuzzi
Dr. Robert A. Loest
Birgit Rose and Werner R. Loewenstein
Laszlo and Joyce Lorand
Mr. and Mrs. William K. Mackey
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Maher
Mr. Michael T. Martin
Walter and Shirley Massey
Luigi Mastroianni, M.D. and Elaine Pierson
Mastroianni, M.D., Ph.D.
Drs. Miriam and David Mauzerall
Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mellon
Mr. Gerrish H. Milliken
Ralph and Muriel Mitchell
Drs. Timothy Mitchison and Christine Field
Dr. Ronald B. (Rob) Moir, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose K. Monell
Dr. Leyla deToledo-Morrell
Professor and Mrs. Toshio Narahashi
Dr. Philip Needleman
Dr. Peter A. Nickerson
Mr. Jonathan O’Herron
Dr. and Mrs. R. Dana Ono
Dr. and Mrs. George D. Pappas
Drs. Thoru and Judith Pederson
Bertha and Philip Person
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Pierce
Tom and Patty Pollard
Drs. Frank and Billie Press
Mr. and Mrs. John S. Price
Dr. and Mrs. Michael B. Rabinowitz
Mr. and Mrs. Peter W. Renaghan
Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Rhoads
Dr. Paul Rhodes
Dr. Marius A. Robinson
Dr. and Mrs. Jack Rosenbluth
Allan and Clare Rosenfield
Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Rowland
Drs. Joan and Gerald Ruderman
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other annual fund gifts
Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Salmon
Dr. and Mrs. Edward D. Salmon
Mrs. Howard A. Schneiderman
Mr. Scott Schulte
Harriet and Sheldon Segal
Dr. Cecily Cannan Selby
Dr. and Mrs. Douglas R. Shanklin
Marilyn and David Sheprow
Mr. and Mrs. Alan R. Silver
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Simon
Ms. Alexandra Speck
Drs. Melvin and Evelyn Spiegel
Drs. Ann E. Stuart and John W. Moore
Mrs. Corinne Steel
Dr. and Mrs. Malcolm S. Steinberg
Drs. Dorothy and Alfred Stracher
John and Marjory Swope
Dr. and Mrs. Andrew G. Szent-Györgyi
Tom and Karen Tierney
Dr. Lie Sha Tsai
Dr. Ronald Vale and Ms. Karen Dell
Dr. and Mrs. Byron H. Waksman
Leonard and Eve Warren
Dr. Clare M. Waterman-Storer and
Ms. Gloria Ward
Benefactor
($500-$999)
Patron
($100-$499)
Mr. and Mrs. Robert O. Bigelow
Mrs. Gloria S. Borgese
Mr. and Mrs. Darryl A. Buckingham
Anonymous (1)
Mr. Thomas H. Aal
Dr. and Mrs. Donald A. Abt
Dr. and Mrs. James A. Adams
Dr. David E. Adelberg
Dr. and Mrs. Edward A. Adelberg
Dr. Nina Stromgren Allen
Drs. James and Helene Anderson
Dr. and Mrs. Richard Armstrong
Dr. Jelle Atema
Mr. Nathaniel Atwood and Ms. Susan Parkes
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Atwood
Mrs. Kimball C. Atwood, III
Dr. Natalie Chambers
Dr. Charles Crane and Ms. Wendy Breuer
Mrs. Janet B. Daniels
Drs. Robert and Ellen DeGroof
Mrs. Christopher Dillmann
Mrs. Ariana Fairbanks
Dr. Joseph Gall and Ms. Diane Dwyer
Dr. Paul K. Goldsmith
Mrs. Charlotte Goodhue
Drs. Linda and Stephen Greyser
Mr. William A. Haskins
Mr. and Mrs. Gary G. Hayward
Mr. Ken Holden and Ms. Frances McGuire
Dr. and Mrs. Edward A. Kravitz
Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. Mainer
Dr. and Mrs. Richard B. McElvein
Dr. Martin Mendelson
Ms. Mary Musacchia and Dr. James Faber
Normandie Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick S. Peters
Mrs. William A. Putnam, III
Mr. Irving W. Rabb
Dr. Hope Ritter
Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. Robertson
Professor and Mrs. Howard K. Schachman
Mr. Patrick Schaefer
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Shapiro
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Stewart
Dr. and Mrs. D. Lansing Taylor
Mr. Norman N. Tolkan
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Valois
Dr. Earl Weidner
Dr. and Mrs. David S. Babin
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Baitsell
Mrs. Hope Baker
Mr. Edward Barker
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Barnes
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Barr
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Benjamin
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Bigelow
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Bleck
Dr. and Mrs. Dieter Blennemann
Dr. and Mrs. Elkan R. Blout
Mr. and Mrs. Kendall B. Bohr
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Bolton
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Borgese
Dr. and Mrs. David W. Borst, Jr.
Drs. John and Barbara Boyer
Dr. Scott T. Brady
Mrs. Elizabeth Allen Brett
Mrs. Eleanor Bronson-Hodge
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Brown
Dr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Brown
Drs. JoAnn Buchanan and Stephen Smith
Dr. Alan H. Burghauser
Dr. and Mrs. John E. Burris
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Callahan, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Carney
Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Carotenuto
Father Joseph D. Cassidy, O.P., Ph.D.
Dr. Donald C. Chang
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Chartrand
Dr. Sallie Chisholm
Dr. and Mrs. George Citron
Dr. David F. Clapin
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Cleary
Dr. and Mrs. Laurence P. Cloud
Mr. Eric P. Cody
Dr. and Mrs. Maynard M. Cohen
Dr. and Mrs. R. John Collier
78 gifts
Associates Executive Board
Sallie Giffen, President
Marjorie Salmon, Vice President
Gerry Swope, Treasurer
Tom Gregg, Secretary
Gloria Borgese
Margaret Gifford
Linda Greyser
Penelope Hare
Barbara Jones
Kit Knowles
Hans Kornberg
Ruth Ann Laster
Alan Silver
ex officio members
Gary G. Borisy, Director & CEO, MBL
John E. Dowling, President of the
Corporation, MBL
John W. Rowe, Chairman of the
Board of Trustees, MBL
Associates Administrator
Susan Joslin
Drs. Harry Conner and Carol Scott-Conner
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Connolly
Ms. Lou-Anne Conroy
Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel S. Coolidge
Dr. and Mrs. Ernest F. Couch
Mr. Ross Cowan
Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Cowan
Dr. Vincent Cowling and Ms. Charlene R. Lewis
Mr. and Mrs. J. Sterling Crandall
Mr. and Mrs. Gorham L. Cross
Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Cutler
Dr. and Mrs. Giuseppe D’Alessio
Mr. and Mrs. Roger S. Davis
Dr. and Mrs. Nigel Daw
Mr. Joseph P. Day
Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. DeHaan
Dr. Martha Bridge Denckla
Dr. Wolf-Dietrich Dettbarn
Dr. William A. Dickson
Dr. Karen L. Divelbiss
Ms. Ellen Donaldson
Mr. and Mrs. F. Gerald Douglass
Mr. Daniel Doyle
Dr. Philip Dunham and Ms. Gudrun Bjarnarson
Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt Ecker
Dr. Frank Egloff
Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Ekstrom
Dr. and Mrs. Gordon W. Ellis
Dr. and Mrs. Herman T. Epstein
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Evans
Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Everett
Dr. Patricia M. Failla
Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Fanger
Mr. and Mrs. David Fausch
Dr. Joseph R. Fetcho
Dr. and Mrs. Max Fink
Dr. and Mrs. Alan Finkelstein
Dr. and Mrs. Michael J. Fishbein
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fitzpatrick
Drs. Elizabeth Fowler and James Parmentier
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Frank
Dr. Larry Jay Friedman
Dr. and Mrs. John J. Funkhouser
Dr. and Mrs. Mordecai L. Gabriel
Dr. and Mrs. Harold Gainer
Dr. and Mrs. Frank Gallagher
Dr. and Mrs. David Garber
Mr. Frederic Gardner and Ms. Sherley Smith
Dr. Stephen E. Gellis
Dr. and Mrs. Martin Gibbs
Ms. Heidi Gifford
Mr. Donald Giller
Mrs. Barbara B. Glade
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Gold
Mrs. Mary L. Goldman
Mr. Michael P. Goldring
Drs. Maria Gomez and Enrico Nasi
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Goodwin, III
Dr. Joel S. Gordon
Dr. Robert Michael Gould
Dr. Werner M. Graf
Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Greenman
Ms. Suzan Hurd Greenup
Dr. and Mrs. Newton H. Gresser
Mr. Alexandre Grigorovitch
Dr. Antoine F.O. Hadamard
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Handelman
Dr. and Mrs. Clifford V. Harding, III
Dr. Glenn W. Harrington
Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Hazzard
Dr. and Mrs. Peter K. Hepler
Dr. and Mrs. Theodore T. Herskovits
Ms. Catherine Hibbitt-Rockwell and Mr. Tim Rockwell
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald J. Holtz
Dr. George G. Holz, IV
Mr. and Mrs. John Honey
Dr. Alice Hunter
Dr. and Mrs. W. Bruce Hunter
Dr. Jodie L. Hurwitz
Dr. and Mrs. Nicholas A. Ingoglia
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jacobson
Dr. Laurinda A. Jaffe
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest G. Jaworski
Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Johnston
Dr. Elizabeth Jonas and Mr. Thomas Eisen
Dr. Robert K. Josephson
Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey E. Joslin
Dr. Jane C. Kaltenbach-Townsend
Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Kendall
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Kenny
Mr. and Mrs. Louis M. Kerr
Dr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Kiehart
Mr. and Mrs. Richard King
Mrs. Betsy King
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert King
Dr. Peter Kivy and Ms. Joan Pearlman
Dr. David L. Klein
Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Knudson
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kohn, Jr.
Dr. Masakazu Konishi
Dr. Kiyoshi Kusano
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Volunteer Tour Guides
Dr. and Mrs. Leo E. LaChance
Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Lambrecht
Ms. Meryl Langbort
Dr. and Mrs. George M. Langford
Drs. Nechama Lasser-Ross and William Ross
Drs. Susan Laster and Terry Little
Dr. Jennifer LaVail
Dr. and Mrs. Berton J. Leach
Mr. and Mrs. David Lee
Dr. and Mrs. John J. Lee
Dr. Marian E. LeFevre
Ms. Vanessa LeFevre
Mr. Russ Lemcke
Dr. and Mrs. Jack Levin
Dr. Scott Lindell and Ms. Alison Leschen
Dr. Raymond J. Lipicky
Dr. Stephen J. Lipson
Mr. and Mrs. James E. Lloyd
Dr. and Mrs. Frank A. Loewus
Dr. and Mrs. Irving M. London
Dr. and Mrs. Frank J. Longo
Mr. and Mrs. Pete C. Lowell
Mr. Gerald T. Lynch
Mrs. Phyllis M. MacNeil
Mrs. Nancy R. Malkiel
Mr. Richard G. Malone
Drs. Richard and Sylvia Manalis
Dr. Isabelle and Mr. Bernard Manuel
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Marcks
Dr. Andrew C. Marinucci
Dr. and Mrs. Julian B. Marsh
Mr. and Mrs. Lowell V. Martin
Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Mather, III
Dr. Edwin McCleskey
Mr. Paul McGonigle
Dr. and Mrs. David McGrath
Ms. Jane A. McLaughlin
Mr. and Mrs. James McSherry
Dr. Shuya Meguro
Mr. David Brown and Mrs. Nawrie Meigs-Brown
Ms. Arleen T. Mellon
Ms. Vivagean V. Merz
Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Paine Metcalf
Dr. Nancy and Mr. Richard Milburn
Dr. and Mrs. Ricardo Miledi
Drs. David and Virginia Miller
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Mitchell
Mrs. Florence E. Mixer
Mr. Lawrence A. Monte
Dr. Betty C. Moore
Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Morey, Jr.
Dr. Jennifer R. Morgan
Drs. Hilary and Archie Morrison
Barbara Bauer
William Bell
Gloria Borgese
Peter Caleshu
Bob Carney
George Citron
Ellen Citron
Pat Cowan
Nancy Fraser
Joyce Gallagher
Sallie Giffen
William Kamperman
Meryl Langbort
Charlie Mahoney
Vivagean Merz
William Phillips
Howard Redpath
Sheila Silverberg
Mary Ulbrich
Volker Ulbrich
Frank Valentine
John Valois
Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Morse, Jr.
Ambassador and Mrs. Day O. Mount
Dr. and Mrs. X. J. Musacchia
Drs. Angus Nairn and Marina Picciotto
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Nassikas
Mr. William E. Newton
Dr. Santo V. Nicosia
Dr. and Mrs. Clifford T. O’Connell
Dr. and Mrs. Rudolf Oldenbourg
Dr. James Olds and Ms. Robin Buckley
Dr. Janice S. Olszowka
Dr. and Mrs. Harish C. Pant
Dr. and Mrs. Clement E. Papazian
Mr. and Mrs. David Parker, Jr.
Mrs. Kay Pechilis
Mr. Russell H. Peck
Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Pelletreau
Dr. and Mrs. Murray E. Pendleton
Mr. and Mrs. John B. Peri
Drs. Helen and David Piwnica-Worms
Drs. David and Jeanette Pleasure
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Plough
Dr. Jeanne S. Poindexter
Dr. and Mrs. Harvey B. Pollard
Ms. Pamela Porter
Dr. and Mrs. Aubrey Pothier, Jr.
Dr. Jahn Pothier
Dr. William T. W. Potts
Dr. Maureen K. Powers
Dr. Ronald J. Przybylski
Dr. Dale Purves and Ms. Shannon Ravenel
Mr. and Mrs. George Putnam, III
Dr. and Mrs. James P. Quigley
Dr. and Mrs. Robert F. Rakowski
Dr. Khela Ransier
Dr. Edward B. Rastetter
Mrs. Virginia R. Reynolds
Mr. and Mrs. John G. Richardson
Dr. and Mrs. Frederick R. Rickles
Drs. Paul Ringel and Michele Lorand
Dr. and Mrs. Harris Ripps
Ms. Jean Roberts
Mr. and Mrs. Phillip S. Robertson
Mr. and Mrs. Dana Rodin
Dr. Priscilla F. Roslansky
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Ross
Mr. and Mrs. Rudi Rottenfusser
Dr. and Mrs. Lewis P. Rowland
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Rugh
Annual Fund Volunteers
Thomas D. Pollard, Chairman
Peter B. Armstrong
Robert B. Barlow
William H. Beers
Gary G. Borisy
Richard L. Chappell
Karen Crawford
Paul J. De Weer
John E. Dowling
Philip Grant
Louis M. Kerr
Alan M. Kuzirian
Hans Laufer
Jennifer R. Morgan
Christopher Neill
Robert A. Prendergast
Daphne F. Soares
MBL Associates Gift Shop
Volunteers
Avis Blomberg
Carol DeYoung
Frances Eastman
Barbara Grossman
Meryl Langbort
Florence Mixer
Bertha Person
Cynthia Smith
Kelly Taylor
Grace Witzell
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Dr. Mary Beth Saffo
Mrs. Anne W. Sawyer
Mr. and Mrs. Hans L. Schlesinger
Dr. Herbert Schuel
Mr. and Mrs. Harold H. Sears
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Seidler
Ms. Kathleen Lake Shaw
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Shearer
Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Shriner
Drs. Roy Silverstein and Jacquelyn
Joseph-Silverstein
Dr. Maxine F. Singer
Dr. and Mrs. Roger D. Sloboda
Dr. and Mrs. Greenfield Sluder
Mrs. Cynthia C. Smith
Dr. Peter J.S. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. W. Nicholas Thorndike
Ms. Mary Meigs Thorne
Mr. and Mrs. Emil D. Tietje, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter V. Trainor
Dr. and Mrs. David M. Travis
Dr. and Mrs. Steven N. Treistman
Dr. Natalie Trousof
Dr. and Mrs. Kenyon S. Tweedell
Prof. and Mrs. Michael Tytell
Mr. and Mrs. Volker Ulbrich
Dr. and Mrs. Ivan Valiela
Mrs. Alice H. van Buren
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Verney
Dr. Dorothy Villee
Dr. Charles Yanofsky
Mr. and Mrs. William Zammer
Dr. and Mrs. Michael J. Zigmond
Sponsor
(up to $100)
Anonymous (2)
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Abbett
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Aziz
Mr. Randel Barnett and Dr. Nancy Barnett
Mr. and Mrs. C. John Berg
Ms. Jane Berger and Mr. Roger Gittines
Ms. Olive C. Beverly
Ms. Avis Blomberg
Mr. Stuart J. Bracken
Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Brennan
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Briana
Dr. Robert H. Broyles
Mr. Joseph W. Burke
Mr. and Mrs. George Cadwalader
Mr. Arthur D. Calfee
Mr. and Mrs. William F. Carlson
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Clarkin
Ms. Janet Clay
Mrs. Elaine Cohen
Ms. Catherine E. Cook
Ms. Anne S. Concannon
Dr. Clark E. Corliss
Ms. Dorothy Crossley
Ms. Helen M. Crossley
Mr. W. Peter Crossley
Mr. Prince S. Crowell, III
Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Smith
Drs. Frederick and Marguerite Smith
Drs. Roxanna and Ronald Smolowitz
Mr. David Space and Ms. Linda Jarvis
Dr. Norman Stearns and Ms. Irma Mann
Dr. Dusan Stefoski
Dr. and Mrs. Alan B. Steinbach
Dr. Andreas C. Stemmer
Dr. and Mrs. William K. Stephenson
Mrs. Judith G. Stetson
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stimpson, III
Dr. Elijah Stommel and Ms. Jasmin Bihler
Drs. Albert Stunkard and Margaret Maurin
Dr. and Mrs. Mutsuyuki Sugimori
Dr. and Mrs. Eric T. Sundquist
Mr. and Mrs. E. Kent Swift, Jr.
Dr. Margaret W. Taft
Mrs. Mary J. Talbot
Dr. and Mrs. Marvin L. Tanzer
Drs. William and Mary Telfer
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Wagner
Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence J. Wangh
Mrs. Estelle P. Warner
Dr. Talbot H. Waterman
Dr. Annemarie Weber
Mrs. Frances Weiffenbach
Mr. Michael S. Weinstein
Dr. Ronald D. Wesley
Dr. Gary M. Wessel
Dr. and Mrs. Paul S. Wheeler
Ms. Mabel Whelpley and Mr. George Rollins
Mrs. Geoffrey Whitney
Dr. and Mrs. Roland L. Wigley
Mrs. Clare M. Wilber
Mr. Harry Wilcox
Dr. and Mrs. Clayton Wiley
Mr. and Mrs. Lynn H. Wilke
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Wilson
Dr. and Mrs. T. Hastings Wilson
Mr. Gerrard Wilson
Ms. Kathrin Winkler and Mr. Angus Campbell
Mr. and Mrs. Donn Winner
Mrs. Elizabeth M. Davis
Dr. Joe DeGiorgis
Dennis-Yarmouth Newcomer’s Club
Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Dierker
Dr. Vincent E. Dionne
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Duewiger
Mrs. Helen Mittlacher Erickson
Mr. Gordon C. Estabrooks
Ms. Helen C. Farrington
Mrs. Ruth Alice Fitz
Mr. and John W. Folino, Jr.
Mr. John H. Ford
Mr. Alvin Fossner
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph V. Fraser
Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Freyheit
Dr. and Mrs. Michael Gabriel
Ms. Pauline P. Gallagher
Mr. C. Vernon Gaw
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Mr. and Mrs. James E. Gifford
Mr. Joe Goldufsky
Mrs. Sarah C. Goodrich
Ms. Muriel Gould
Mr. James Graham
Dr. G. Frank Gwilliam
Dr. and Mrs. Roger T. Hanlon
Ms. Pamela D. Harvey
Mrs. Janet M. Harvey
Mr. John Hay
Dr. David S. Hays
Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Heard
Dr. Simone Helluy
Dr. Linda A. Hufnagel
Ms. Julie Hysom
Mr. and Mrs. Dean Johnston
Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt C. Jones
Mrs. Kathryn Kachavos
Dr. and Mrs. Leonard K. Kaczmarek
Dr. Harry S. Kahn
Dr. Gabor Kaley
Dr. Edna S. Kaneshiro
Mrs. Sally Karush
Dr. Robert E. Kelly
Prof. Mark D. Kirk
Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Knaplund
Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Lang
Mrs. Corinne Le Bovit
Dr. and Mrs. Stephen B. Leighton
Dr. David P. Lenzi
Mr. and Mrs. James Limberakis
Mr. and Mrs. Lennart Lindberg
Ms. Susan Loucks
Mr. Richard C. Lovering
Mrs. Margaret M. MacLeish
Ms. Jane MacNeil
Dr. Robert P. Malchow
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Maranchie
Dr. Dawn Morin Marick
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Martyna
Dr. Rita W. Mathews
Mr. and Mrs. Derek J. McDonald
Ms. Mary W. McKoan
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur McLendon
Mr. Samuel C. McMurtrie
Ms. Cornelia Hanna McMurtrie
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley J. Merritt
Dr. Carmen Merryman
Ms. Blanche Meslin
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Moore
Ms. Marilyn Moorman
Mr. James C. Morrone
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Moseley
Mrs. Eleanor M. Nace
Ms. Iris Nelson
Mr. and Mrs. Brian Nickerson
Ms. Patricia L. O’Riordan
Dr. Renee Bennett O’Sullivan
Mrs. Barbara Ouellette
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Pantazis
Dr. and Mrs. Charles Parmenter
Ms. Barbara Jane Parpart
Ms. Joyce S. Pendery
Mr. Matthew Person and Ms. Jill Erickson
Dr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Pfohl
Mr. William G. Phillips
Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth A. Poehls
Dr. and Mrs. Daniel A. Pollen
Mrs. Nancy R. Pollis
Ms. Anne Quinn
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel O. Raymond
Mr. and Ms. Donald Rennie
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald B. Reynolds
Ms. Andrea Ricca
Dr. Mary Elizabeth Rice
Dr. Monica Riley
Mrs. Alison A. Robb
Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Rose, Jr.
Mrs. Shirley Rubinow-Friedman
Mr. David Ryan
Mr. Dorothy C. Ryder
Mr. and Mrs. Ali Saab
Mr. Richard Sailor and Ms. Mary Johnston
Mr. William B. Sandler
Ms. Mary E. Schiffman
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Schoenfelder
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin E. Schwartz
Dr. and Mrs. Victor E. Shashoua
Dr. and Mrs. David C. Shephard
Dr. John Sinard
Dr. Raymond A. Sjodin
Dr. Heinz Specht
Mrs. Helene E. Spurrier
Mr. and Mrs. David W. Stewart
Dr. Raymond G. Stross
Mr. Dorman J. Swartz
Dr. and Mrs. Sidney L. Tamm
Dr. and Mrs. Frank Tang
Mr. Peter Tassia and Ms. Maija Lutz
Mrs. Belle K. Taylor
Mrs. Alice Todd
Mr. and Mrs. William E. Traver, II
Mr. Steven Tucker
Mr. and Mrs. Louis C. Turner
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur D. Voorhis
Mr. and Mrs. Irving Wagner
Dr. Gregory Wagoner
Reverend Deborah M. Warner
Ms. Kate K. Webster
Dr. David B. Mark Welch
Ms. Phyllis R. Wendorff
Mr. and Mrs. Gerry White
Mrs. Tanya B. White
Mrs. Barbara Whitehead
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wilson
Drs. Beatrice and Jonathan Wittenberg
Dr. and Mrs. Charles R. Wyttenbach
Drs. George and Miriam Yevick
Dr. Sumner I. Zacks
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth H. Zimble
Dr. and Mrs. Steven J. Zottoli
Corporate and Foundation Donors
Aetna Foundation, Inc.
AHA Consulting Engineers, Inc.
Banner Environmental Services, Inc.
The Bay and Paul Foundations
Blue Spruce Technologies Inc.
Hub International Brewer & Lord
Bristol-Myers Squibb Corp.
The Commonwealth Fund
Cox Foundation, Inc.
Dennis-Yarmouth Newcomer’s Club
Integralis Inc. Boston
Johnson & Johnson
Little Harbor Foundation
Lawrence Lynch Corp.
W. B. Mason
Microsoft Matching Gift Programs
Multitemp Mechanical Corp.
The Pfizer Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation
Saint-Gobain Corporation Foundation
The Schooner Foundation
Shawmut Design and Construction
Esther Simon Charitable Trust
Snow and Jones Inc.
The Seth Sprague Education & Charitable
Foundation
Technical Video, Ltd.
Tsoi/Kobus & Associates, Inc.
Carl Zeiss, Inc.
82 gifts
Alumni Fund
MBL alumni from 47 states and 11 countries
made gifts to the Alumni Fund in 2006 to support
students in the MBL’s world-renowned courses.
Additional thanks go to MBL alumni who
celebrated milestone anniversaries this year and
who made special gifts to the Alumni Fund in
recognition of the tremendous influence the MBL
has had on their lives.
Anniversary Volunteers
George J. Augustine, 1976, Invertebrate Zoology
Courtney C. Babbitt, 2001, Embryology
Kerry S. Bloom, 1976, Embryology
Peter Brodfuehrer, 1981, Neural Systems
& Behavior
Eloise E. Clark, 1956, Physiology
Anna F. Edlund, 1996, Embryology
Michael J. Greenberg, 1976-1977 Director,
Invertebrate Zoology
Hans Laufer, 1956, Embryology
Susan G. McIlwain, 1966, Physiology
Melanie P. Merriman, 1976, Physiology
Yasuhiro Morita, 1996, Biology of Parasitism
Malcolm S. Steinberg, 1956, Embryology
Mark A. Velleca, 1986, Embryology
Karen P. York, 1986, Physiology
Anniversary Donors
30th Anniversary
50th Anniversary
Anonymous (1)
Madelyn M. Baran, Embryology
Roger V. Bertoldi, Invertebrate Zoology
Kerry S. Bloom, Embryology
Theodore A. Bremner, Embryology
Clarissa M. Cheney, Embryology
Michael J. Greenberg, Invertebrate Zoology
Jeffrey B. Lansman, Invertebrate Zoology
James C. Lisak, Physiology
Robert A. Loest, Invertebrate Zoology
Melanie P. Merriman, Physiology
Martin M. Miner, Invertebrate Zoology
Barbara W. Nagle, Embryology
Lawrence C. Rome, Invertebrate Zoology
Allen Rosenspire, Embryology
Jan S. Ryerse, Physiology
Anne M. Schneiderman, Invertebrate Zoology
Robert E. Steele, Embryology
Maria L. Bade, Physiology
James W. Campbell, Physiology
A. K. Christensen, Invertebrate Zoology
Eloise E. Clark, Physiology
George A. Clark, Invertebrate Zoology
Chandler M. Fulton, Embryology
Joseph K. Hichar, Invertebrate Zoology
Robert V. Kirchen, Invertebrate Zoology
Hans Laufer, Embryology
John C. Schooley, Physiology
Mari D. Terman, Embryology
Lie Sha Tsai, Embryology
Joan E. Tweedell, Embryology
40th Anniversary
Ronald C. Baird, Invertebrate Zoology
Richard C. Essenberg, Physiology
Elizabeth Fowler, Physiology
Joel S. Gordon, Embryology
Joel Janin, Physiology
Susan G. McIlwain, Physiology
Kenneth J. Muller, Physiology
Paul R. Schloerb, Physiology
25th Anniversary
Gordon H. Baltuch, Embryology
Peter Brodfuehrer, Neural Systems & Behavior
Nancy A. Johnson, Physiology
Lawrence Lichtenstein, Biology of Parasitism
Sarah L. Pallas, Neural Systems & Behavior
Ellen A. Robey, Physiology
Susan Volman, Neurobiology
Gary E. Ward, Physiology
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20th Anniversary
Other Alumni Fund Donors
Anonymous (1)
Celeste A. Berg, Embryology
Stephen C. Dahl, Physiology
Pamela M. Gannon, Physiology
Marnie E. Halpern, Neurobiology
Margaret A. Kenna, Physiology
Linda J. Kenney, Physiology
Daniel J. Lew, Neurobiology
Pamela B. Meluh, Physiology
Michael M. Morgan, Neural Systems & Behavior
Samuel J. Pleasure, Neurobiology
Mark A. Velleca, Embryology
Fred H. Wilt, Embryology
Karen P. York, Physiology
Anonymous (6)
Prof. and Mrs. Laurence F. Abbott
Dr. Kamran Ahmad
Drs. Kathleen and Douglas Alexander
Dr. C. Ronald Anderson
Dr. William DeWitt Andrus, Jr.
Ms. Elizabeth I. Arnold
Drs. Carol Arnosti and Andreas Teske
Dr. Michael S. Ascher
Dr. Robert F. Ashman
Dr. Andrea R. Avila
10th Anniversary
Anonymous (1)
Mary S. Atkisson, Neural Systems & Behavior
Lu Chen, Neural Systems & Behavior
Stenio P. Fragoso, Biology of Parasitism
Paul A. Gray, Neurobiology
Kurt D. Hankenson, Physiology
Jennifer M. King, Physiology
Edward K. Lobenhofer, Physiology
Yasuhiro Morita, Biology of Parasitism
Guojun Sheng, Embryology
5th Anniversary
Ernest Barreto, Neurobiology
Chenbei Chang, Embryology
Joseph T. Coyle, Neurobiology
Robin Gerlach, Microbial Diversity
Monica Medina, Embryology
David J. Ramsey, Physiology
Dr. Katherine M. Bachman
Dr. Clare V. Baker
Mr. Matt R. Banghart
Dr. James D. Bangs
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Barker, Jr.
Mr. Michael J. Barnes
Dr. Edward Joseph Behrman
Mr. Rudy Bellani
Dr. William H. Bergstrom
Dr. Gerald Bergtrom
Dr. Ari Berkowitz
Dr. Francis X. Blais
Dr. Edward M. Blumenthal
Dr. Richard S. Bockman
Dr. Richard T. Born
Dr. Elayne Bornslaeger-Bednar and
Mr. Michael Bednar
Dr. Nancy J. Bowers
Dr. Brigitte F. Brandriff
Dr. Andrew Brittingham
Dr. Austin E. Brooks
Dr. Jennifer Byrnes Brower
Dr. and Mrs. Donald D. Brown
Dr. John L. Brubacher
Dr. Daniel H. Buckley
Dr. Barbara Burleigh
Dr. Vetria L. Byrd
Dr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Calie
Dr. and Mrs. David R. Campbell
Dr. Francesco Canganella
Dr. Julie C. Canman
Dr. Robert G. Cassens
Dr. Lynne U. Cassimeris
Dr. Joseph A. Cerro
Dr. Grace YT Cheng
Dr. Lisa Y. Chiang
Dr. Chi-Bin Chien
Dr. William T. Clusin
Drs. Annette W. and John R. Coleman
Dr. Stephen D. Collins
Dr. and Mrs. Marc D. Coltrera
Dr. Edwin L. Cooper
Dr. Laura F. Cotlin
Dr. Christopher S. Cronan
John Cunniff, M.D.
Dr. Alice M. Curry
Dr. Gregory Alan Dasch
Dr. Bruce A. Diner
Dr. Long Ding
Dr. Thelma and Mr. Jonathan Dixon
Dr. Thuy A. Doan
Dr. Thomas Ducibella
Dr. Quan-Yang Duh and Ms. Ann Comer
Ms. Elizabeth Grossman Duncan
Dr. Kathleen Dunlap
Prof. Nigel Stuart Dunn-Coleman
Dr. and Mrs. David Durica
Mr. Fredrik Edin
Dr. Marcia Edwards
Dr. Robert Eimstad
Mr. Ingo Ensminger
Dr. Marilynn E. Etzler
Dr. and Mrs. Arnold G. Eversole
Prof. Donald Faber
Dr. Suzanne Fachon-Kalweit
Dr. Alan Scott Fanning
Dr. Marta Feldmesser
Dr. Caleb E. Finch
Dr. Eva M. Finney
Dr. Thomas R. Flanagan
Dr. Karl Flessa and Ms. Mari Jensen
Dr. Darhl Lois Foreman
Dr. Peter J. Franco
Dr. Kenneth I. Freedman
Drs. Anita and Hugo Freudenthal
Dr. David F. Friedman
Dr. Anne E. Fry
Dr. Yoshiko Fujita
Dr. Theresa Gaasterland
Dr. Fabrizio Gabbiani
Dr. Paul E. Gallant
Dr. James J. Galligan
Dr. Gloria R. Gallo-Cromie and Mr. John B. Cromie
Dr. Maureen A. Gannon
Dr. John A. Garcia
Dr. Helen W. Gjessing
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Dr. Amy S. Gladfelter
Dr. David L. Glanzman
Dr. David J. Goldhamer
Dr. Margaret Ann Goldstein
Dr. Holly V. Goodson-Hildreth
Dr. Gary Gorbsky
Dr. Martin Gorovsky
Dr. Stefan J. Green
Dr. and Mrs. Michael J. Greenberg
Dr. Warren M. Grill
Dr. Jerome Gross
Dr. Zach Hall and Ms. Julia Giacobassi
Dr. and Mrs. R. Emmet Kenney
Dr. Donald W. King
Dr. Leonard B. Kirschner
Dr. David Kleinfeld
Dr. Michele M. Klingbeil
Dr. Alan Klotz
Dr. and Mrs. Paul M. Knopf
Dr. Robert E. Knowlton
Dr. Birgit Kovacs
Dr. George H. Kowallis
Dr. and Mrs. John Krezoski
Dr. Julie A. Kuhlman
Dr. Mary G. Hamilton
Dr. Cadet Hammond Hand, Jr.
Dr. Susan M. Harding
Drs. Kristen Harris and Max Snodderly
Dr. Robert D. Harvey
Dr. Alexis M. Hattox
Dr. Rhonda L. Hazell
Dr. William Allen Held
Dr. Scott B. Herrick
Dr. Sarah E. Hitchcock-DeGregori
Dr. Raymond W. Holton
Dr. and Mrs. Seymour Holtzman
Dr. Motonori Hoshi
Dr. Christine L. Howe
Dr. Jerard Hurwitz
Dr. Matthew K. Lee
Dr. Men-Jean Lee and Mr. Giuseppe Del Priore
Dr. William J. Lehman
Dr. Ardean Leith
Dr. Ellen K. LeMosy
Dr. and Mrs. Ethan Lerner
Dr. Russell E. Lewis
Dr. Richard T. Libby
Mr. Bruss R. Lima
Dr. Anne M. Linton
Dr. Joan W. Lisak
Dr. Polina V. Lishko
Dr. Phoebe C. Lostroh
Dr. Joanna E. Lowell
Drs. Jane Lubchenco and Bruce Menge
Dr. and Mrs. Richard Intres
Dr. Allen Isaacson
Dr. Haruhiko Itagaki
Dr. and Mrs. Stephen K. Itaya
Dr. Jon W. Jacklet
Dr. Dieter Jaeger
Dr. Daniel E. James
Dr. Barbara Johnson-Wint
Dr. Leslie and Mr. James Jolly
Dr. Fred I. Kamemoto
Dr. Marianna M. Kane
Drs. Paul Katz and Sarah Pallas
Dr. Gordon I. Kaye
Dr. Michael J. Kell
Dr. and Mrs. Hartmut E. Keller
Drs. Thomas and Laura Keller
Dr. Robert G. Kemp
Dr. Stephen E. Malawista
Dr. Emilie A. Marcus
Dr. Junko Munakata Marr
Dr. Allen Wray Mathies, Jr.
Dr. Joan Mattson
Dr. James J. McCoy
Dr. and Mrs. William M. McDermott
Dr. Dianne McFarlane
Dr. and Mrs. W. Paul McKinney
Dr. Duane P. McPherson
Dr. Jean-Jacques Meister
Dr. Paul Mellen
Dr. Lynne M. Merchant
Dr. Anne Messer
Prof. Sara Michie
Dr. Edwin A. Mirand
Dr. Ronald B. Moir, Jr.
Dr. Marius R. Moran
Drs. Mark Mortin and Deborah Hursh
Dr. Robert E. Murphy
Dr. Frances V. Murray
Dr. David E. Naylor
Dr. Dianne K. Newman
Prof. Carol Newton
Drs. Ann and Kenneth Nickerson
Dr. Rae Nishi
Dr. Dana T. Nojima
Dr. Phyllis Norris
Alumni Relations Advisory Board
Peter B. Armstrong, University of California
Robert B. Barlow, Jr., SUNY Upstate Medical University
Thomas L. Benjamin, Harvard Medical School
Richard T. Born, Harvard Medical School
Stephen C. Cannon, University of Texas
Eloise E. Clark, Bowling Green State University
Jeffrey T. Corwin, University of Virginia, School of Medicine
Joseph T. Coyle, Harvard Medical School
John E. Dowling, Harvard University
Joseph R. Fetcho, Cornell University
Leah T. Haimo, University of California
Marnie E. Halpern, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Alexander Keynan, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Daniel P. Kiehart, Duke University
George M. Langford, Dartmouth College
William M. McDermott, U.S. Navy (retired)
Melanie Pratt Merriman, Touchstone Consulting
Thomas D. Pollard, Yale University
Joshua R. Sanes, Harvard University
Wise Young, Rutgers University
gifts 85
Dr. Mari Takasu and Mr. Peter Scheiffele
Drs. Wesley J. Thompson and Mary Ann Rankin
Dr. Natascia Tiso
Dr. Barbara Holland Toomey
Dr. Laurence Torsher
Dr. Ann and Mr. Mark Trax
Dr. Jeanine A. Ursitti
Dr. Anthony Vattay
Dr. Toby J. Velte
Dr. and Mrs. Michael D. Oberdorfer
Dr. Daniel B. Oerther
Dr. Timothy N. Oliver
Dr. Yuko Ota
Dr. and Mrs. Brett A. Oxberry
Dr. Mary G. Pacifici
Dr. Rosevelt L. Pardy
Drs. James Parmentier and Elizabeth Fowler
Drs. Kimberly Paul and Charles Thomas
Dr. Melissa J. Perry
Dr. Norman J. Pieniazek
Dr. Louis Pierro
Dr. William F. Pomputius, III
Dr. Charles Porter
Dr. Michael J. Povelones
Dr. Sabrina and Mr. Bradford Powell
Dr. Linda M. Prince
Dr. David Prior and Mrs. Merry Prior
Dr. Esther L. Racoosin
Dr. Nancy S. Rafferty
Dr. and Mrs. Alfred G. Redfield
Dr. Randall W. Reyer
Dr. Mary Esther Rice
Dr. Austen F. Riggs
Dr. Richard E. Rohr
Brian K. Romias, M.D.
Dr. Uldis Roze
Dr. Alan A. Rozycki
Dr. Laurens N. Ruben
Dr. John G. Rutherford, Jr.
Dr. Ueli Rutishauser
Dr. Carol Ann Ryder
Dr. Yasuhiko Saito
Dr. Wendy C. Salmon
Dr. David R. Samols
Drs. Jean and Joseph Sanger
Dr. Noriyuki Satoh
Dr. Nina C. Saxena
Dr. Raffael Schaffrath
Dr. Suzaynn F. Schick
Drs. Thomas and Susan Schmidt
Dr. Joseph H. Schneider
Mr. Ian C. Schneider
Dr. Natalie A. Schoch
Dr. Terrence J. Sejnowski
Dr. Joseph P. Senft
Drs. Stephanie and Alan Sher
Dr. David R. Sherwood
Dr. L. David Sibley
Dr. Jack H. Simon
Dr. Joyce M. Simpson
Dr. Roy M. Smeal
Dr. Sam J. Sober
Dr. Joel P. Stafstrom
Dr. Robin L. Staub
Dr. David A. Stauffer
Dr. Barbara A. Stay
Dr. and Mrs. Charles H. Sullivan
Dr. David T. Sullivan
Dr. Hyla C. Sweet
Dr. Ben G. Szaro
Dr. Patricia Wadsworth
Dr. Matthew K. Waldor
Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Ward
Ms. Margery Ward
Dr. Jane E. Warshaw
Dr. James D. Watson
Dr. Susanna H. Weerth
Dr. George Weinbaum
Dr. Tamily A. Weissman
Dr. Harold Bancroft White
Drs. John White and Sonia Witte
Dr. Donald Williams
Drs. Judith and John Willis
Dr. and Mrs. Matthew Winkler
Dr. Fern Wirth
Dr. George Wittenberg
Dr. Edward M. Wolin
Dr. Robert G. Wolk
Dr. Lily L. Wong
Dr. Judith Yanowitz and Mr. Harry Hochheiser
Drs. Elaine Yeh and Kerry S. Bloom
Dr. Lily L. Young
Dr. Anne-Marie C. Yvon
Dr. Steven Zeichner
Dr. and Mrs. Andrew W. Zimmerman
Corporate and
Foundation Donors
Johnson & Johnson
W. K. Kellogg Foundation
McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Takeda Pharmaceuticals N. American, Inc.
86 gifts
MBL Golf Outing
In August, MBL Corporation President Dr. John E. Dowling organized a golf outing with the help
of members of the Woods Hole Golf Club who support the MBL. Invited guests with an interest in
learning about the institution had the opportunity to spend time on the course and have cocktails in
the company of MBL supporters, trustees, and scientists. We wish to thank the following hosts and
corporate sponsors who helped make this event a success.
Major Sponsorship Provided By:
Hosts
Hub International Brewer & Lord
Norwell, MA
Mr. George H. Bigelow
Dr. John E. Dowling
Mrs. Judith Dowling
Mr. Paul Dupee
Ms. Mary D. Janney
Mr. Frederick H. Pierce
Mr. Jeffrey Pierce
Shawmut Design and Construction
Boston, MA
AHA Consulting Engineers, Inc.
Lexington, MA
Other Corporate Sponsors
Banner Environmental Services, Inc.
Duxbury, MA
Blue Spruce Technologies Inc.
Greenland, NH
Integralis Inc.
Burlington, MA
Multitemp Mechanical Corp.
Norwood, MA
Snow and Jones Inc.
Accord, MA
W.B. Mason
Brockton, MA
Left to right: John Schneiter, Kent
Campbell, Gary Borisy, George Bigelow
Falmouth Forum 2005-2006
Sponsored by the MBL Associates
November 11, 2005 “The U.S. and The UN: Can This Marriage
Be Saved?”
Gillian Sorensen, Senior Advisor, United
Nations Foundation
December 2, 2005
“The Meaning of Birds in Art”
Peter Stettenheim, author, ornithologist,
zoologist, and editor
January 13, 2006 “The Historical Evolution of Jazz Music”
Charles Cassara, Professor, Berklee
College of Music
March 3, 2006
“Coastal Lands Through Time: Historical
Insights to the Conservation of Natural and
Cultural Landscapes”
David Foster, author, ecologist, and Director
of the Harvard Forest
March 17, 2006
“Four Ways to Tell the Story of the Buddha”
David Eckel, Associate Professor of Religion,
Boston University
April 7, 2006 “Corruption in Our Governments:
What Can and Should We Do?”
Professor Clyde McKee, Trinity College,
Hartford, CT
gifts 87
Falmouth Forum Endowment
For sixteen years, the Falmouth Forum has presented nationally known and respected figures from a variety
of fields who have offered artistic performances and the exchange of ideas and information. Audiences
have been entertained, inspired, enlightened, and challenged by lectures, debates, demonstrations, musical
performances, and thought-provoking discussion. This series has evolved into a remarkable community
enrichment program serving Cape Cod.
Anonymous (2)
Austin Foundation, Inc
Drs. Gary Borisy and Sally Casper
Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Connolly
Mrs. Molly Cornell
Mr. and Mrs. John Densler
Ms. Cynthia D. Eaton
Ms. Carlyn Ellms
Ms. Sallie A. Giffen
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Gregg
Drs. Linda and Stephen Greyser
Ms. Susan Joslin
Mr. and Mrs. Richard King
Sir Hans and Lady Kornberg
Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Laster
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard A. Miele
Mrs. Anne Nelson
Ms. Ann-Beth Ostroff
Dr. Robert Greenberg and Ms. Carol Pooser
Ms. Prudence B. Reynolds
Dr. and Mrs. David Sheprow
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stimpson, III
Mr. Robert H. Werner
Mr. and Mrs. John Weyand
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Wilson
John E. Hobbie Fund for Science
The John E. Hobbie Fund for Science was established in 2005 in commemoration of John’s long and influential career as co-director of The Ecosystems
Center. The donors below contributed to the fund in 2006.
Anonymous (2)
Dr. Jayne and Mr. Thomas Abbott
Dr. Merryl Alber
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bahr
Mr. Nicholas J. Baker
Mr. Talbot Baker
Mr. and Mrs. Rolf Bandle
Mr. Edward Barker
Ms. Elizabeth Barrows
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Belanger
Drs. Neil Bettez and Gretchen Gettel
Dr. and Mrs. Willliam Bowden
Dr. and Mrs. Francis P. Bowles
Ms. Margaret Brandon
Dr. Lawson W. Brigham
Mrs. Eleanor Bronson-Hodge
Mr. and Mrs. John Brouillard
Drs. David Bryant and Donna Nimec
Mr. Gurdon S. Buck
Ms. Deborah M. Burgess
Drs. Ingrid Burke and William Lauenroth
Dr. and Mrs. John E. Burris
Dr. Zoe G. Cardon
Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Carotenuto
Dr. Edward J. Carpenter
Dr. Alvarus Chan
Ms. Jane Chance
Dr. and Mrs. Richard L. Chappell
Mr. David Clarke
Mr. Eric P. Cody
Dr. Bruce S. Cohen
Dr. Jonathan J. Cole
Mr. Chris Crockett
Mrs. Sally Cross
Mr. W. Peter Crossley
Dr. Devra Lee Davis
Dr. and Mrs. Charles Driscoll
Ms. Kate Eldred
Dr. John W. Farrington
Dr. Stuart Findlay
Mr. Gerald Fine and Ms. Victoria LeFevre
Drs. Jacques C. Finlay and Sarah Hobbie
Mr. Kevin W. Fitzpatrick
Dr. David R. Foster
Mr. Charles D. Frame
Ms. Ivy Frances
Mr. Timothy R. Gainey
Dr. James N. Galloway
Ms. Patricia Garrity
Dr. and Mrs. Cameron E. Gifford
Mr. Joshua Goldstein
Drs. Arthur and Ilse Gorbach
Dr. Laura Gough and Mr. Henry
Lamousin
Mrs. M. Joslyn Gurley
Mr. Arnold Hanawalt
Dr. William Harrison
Ms. Valerie J. Haskins
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Hobbie
Mr. David Hobbie
Mr. George Holman
Mr. Frederick C. Homan
Mrs. Mary C. Hopkinson
Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Hughes
Ms. Christina Jacobi
Dr. Marilyn J. Jordan
Mr. Richard S. Kent
Dr. Otto Kinne
Dr. George W. Kipphut
Dr. George W. Kling
Mr. C. Edward Kowalski
Dr. James N. Kremer
Ms. Virginia Kuykendall
Ms. Kate R. Labrador
Mr. Ezra and Dr. Aimlee Laderman
Mary and Homer W. Lane, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. A.W. David LaVigne
Dr. Cindy Lee
Ms. Tanya Leise
Mr. Charles Leverone
Ms. Madeleine Littman
Mr. Edward Locke
Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy
Dr. Chris M. Luecke
Mr. Raymond MacDonald
Dr. John J. Magnuson
Drs. Guido Majno and Isabelle
Joris-Majno
Mr. Charles E. Martin, Jr.
Mr. Jack Martinelli and Ms. Nancy Couts
Dr. Robert B. McKane
Ms. Margaret H. McKibben
Mr. Rolf Mount Miller
Mr. and Mrs. Ruel Mohnkern
Dr. James T. Morris
Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Morse, Jr.
Mr. Wallace H. Myers
Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Naiman
Ms. Kristine Neville
Mrs. Harriet Nurse
Dr. Steven Oberbauer
Ms. Lynda Oehme
Mr. Dennis Ojima and Ms. Jill Baron
Mr. and Mrs. Lorrence J. Otter
Mr. Peter J. Ouellette
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Palson
Dr. Yude Pan
Mr. Russell H. Peck
Mrs. Nancy Pendleton
Dr. Polly Penhale
Dr. Peter Raymond
Ms. Andrea Ricca
Mr. Christian Roop
Mr. and Mrs. Frans Rowaan
Dr. Parke A. Rublee
Dr. David Rudnick
Ms. Charlotte Ryan
Mr. David Ryan
Mrs. Anne W. Sawyer
Mrs. Shirley W. Scaife
Ms. Mary E. Schiffman
Ms. Mary Ann Seifert
Mr. Thomas Sikina
Ms. Ruth C. Slocum
Drs. Frederick and Marguerite Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Sven Spoerri
Dr. Marc Stieglitz
Mr. and Mrs. John Sullivan
Ms. Dorothy N. Swanson
Ms. Kristin Tholke
Ms. Suzanne M. Thomas
Ms. Mary F. Toomey
Dr. Mead Treadwell
Dr. and Mrs. David Twichell
Mr. Garret VanWart
Dr. and Mrs. Richard H. Waring
Ms. Dorothy Wass
Mr. and Mrs. Lynn H. Wilke
Dr. Mathew Williams
Dr. Mike Williams
Ms. Nancy Woolford
Mr. John A. Worcester
88 gifts
fellowships and scholarships
Endowed and expendable funds for scholarships and
fellowships are an integral part of the MBL’s research and
educational programs. We gratefully acknowledge the donors
listed here who provided $499,549.29 for research fellowships
and $146,407.93 for scholarships in 2006.
Robert Day Allen Fellowship
Drs. Joseph and Jean Sanger
John M. Arnold Fellowship Fund
Estate of John M. Arnold
American Society of Cell Biology Summer Research Awards
The American Society for Cell Biology
Frederik B. and Betsy G. Bang Fellowship Fund
Dr. and Mrs. Jack Levin
Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Silverstein
Bernard Davis Scholarship Fund
Mrs. Elizabeth M. Davis
Holger and Friederun Jannasch Scholarship in Microbial Diversity
Dr. and Mrs. Hans Jannasch
Benjamin Kaminer Scholarship
Dr. and Mrs. Philip Person
Gruss Lipper Israeli Fellowships and Scholarships
The Gruss Lipper Family Foundation
Aline D. Gross Scholarship
Dr. and Mrs. Paul R. Gross
Mr. Alfred M. Weisberg
Luigi Mastroianni and Sheldon Segal Scholarship Fund
9th World Congress on Human Reproduction
IBRO Scholarships for Advanced Neuroscience Course
International Brain Research Organization
James A. and Faith Miller Fellowship Fund
Drs. David and Virginia Miller
Lectureships
Jean and Katsuma Dan Endowed Lectureship
Drs. Joseph and Jean Sanger The Tay Hayashi Lectureship in
Cell Physiology
Drs. Joseph and Jean Sanger
Irvin Isenberg Lectureship
Mr. David Isenberg and Ms. Paula Blumenthal
Edward Kravitz Endowed Lectureship
in Neurobiology
Drs. Susan and Daniel Barry
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ashton
Drs. Barbara and Gerald Beltz
Dr. Sarah W. Bottjer
Dr. Mark Bowlby
Dr. Jeffrey T. Corwin
Dr. Michael H. Dickinson
Prof. Walter Englander
Dr. Thomas O. Fox
Dr. Lawrence C. Fritz
Dr. and Mrs. Harold Gainer
Dr. Robert Grossfeld
Dr. Zach Hall and Ms. Julia Giacobassi
Dr. Ronald Harris-Warrick
Harvard Medical School
Drs. John G. Hildebrand and Gail D. Burd
Dr. Robert Huber
Dr. Gabriele Kass-Simon
Mr. David Kravitz and Ms. Majie Zeller
Dr. and Mrs. Edward A. Kravitz
Drs. Steven Matsumoto and Karla Kent
Dr. Kunihiko Obata
Dr. Arthur Pardee and Mrs. Ann Goodman
Dr. Paul H. Patterson
Dr. Nancy Ratner
Dr. Elio Raviola
Dr. Antony O. W. Stretton
Drs. Ann Stuart and John Moore
Dr. and Mrs. P. Roy Vagelos
Dr. Nancy Sabin Wexler
Dr. and Mrs. Michael J. Zigmond
Dr. Richard E. Zigmond
gifts 89
Mountain Memorial Fund
Dr. and Mrs. Dean C. Allard, Jr.
Ms. Brenda J. Bodian
Society of General Physiologists Scholarships
Society of General Physiologists
Nikon Fellowship
Nikon Instruments, Inc.
The Evelyn and Melvin Spiegel Fellowship Fund
Dr. and Mrs. Jack Levin
Drs. Joseph and Jean Sanger
William Townsend Porter Scholarship
William Townsend Porter Foundation
The Burr and Susie Steinbach Fellowship Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Volker Ulbrich
Science Journalism Program Endowment
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery D. Annis
Mr. David Bulloch
Ms. Elizabeth Cooney
Mr. John Fleischman
Mr. Fred Golden
Dr. Robert and Ms. Anne Goldman
Dr. and Mrs. Michael J. Greenberg
Dr. Gregory and Ms. Pamela Clapp Hinkle
Ms. Cheryl Hogue
Ms. Mari Jensen and Dr. Karl Flessa
Ms. Barbara W. Jones
Mr. Gar Kaganowich
Mr. Robert King
Ms. Robin Marantz Henig
Ms. Dorothea J. Mautner
Ms. Barbara Moran
Dr. Robert Greenberg and Ms. Carol Pooser
Mr. Boyce Rensberger
Ms. Barinetta Scott
Ms. Sylvia Vatuk and Mr. George Rosen
Dr. and Mrs. Byron H. Waksman
Horace W. Stunkard Scholarship
Drs. Albert Stunkard and Margaret Maurin
Eva Szent-Györgyi Scholarship Fund
Dr. Carolyn Cohen
Dr. and Mrs. Laszlo Lorand
Drs. Joseph and Jean Sanger
Dr. and Mrs. Andrew G. Szent-Györgyi
J.P. and Madeleine Trinkaus Endowed Scholarship
On behalf of Nancy Ann Hegan by Muriel Morgan Shanklin
Drs. Joseph and Jean Sanger
Dr. J. Richard Whittaker
Walter L. Wilson Endowed Scholarship Fund
Dr. Paul N. Chervin
Dr. Jean R. Wilson
Frontiers in Science
June 30, 2006
A World Changed: Legacy to our
Grandchildren
“The Die is Not Cast: Today’s Choices,
Tomorrow’s Climate”
Jerry Melillo, MBL Ecosystems Center
“Arctic Oceans, Arctic Landscapes:
Surprises in the Greenhouse?”
Gaius Shaver, MBL Ecosystems Center
“Dangerous Synergies: The Future of the
Amazon Basin”
Christopher Neill, MBL Ecosystems Center
“Global Warming in the Real World of
Business and Politics”
John Carey, Senior Correspondent,
Business Week
Young Scholars/Fellows Program
Cardinal Brook Trust
Joe Martinez, Jr. and James Townsel Endowed
Masakazu Konishi Endowed Lectureship in
Lectureship in SPINES
Neural Systems & Behavior
Drs. Michael and R. Suzanne Bennett
Dr. Kiyoshi Aoki
Dr. Joanne E. Berger-Sweeney
Dr. Curtis Bell
Dr. and Mrs. David A. Bodznick
Dr. Sarah W. Bottjer
Drs. Ronald Calabrese and Christine Cozzens Dr. Catherine Emily Carr
Dr. John Crabbe
Dr. Catherine Emily Carr
Dr. Howard T. Dodd
Dr. Michael H. Dickinson
Dr. Rhonda Dzakpasu
Dr. Allison Doupe
Dr. Anne Etgen
Dr. Daniel E. Feldman
Mr. Daniel A. Jimenez
Dr. and Mrs. Alan Gelperin
Dr. Peter MacLeish
Dr. Franz Huber
Dr. Inez Martinez
Dr. Darcy B. Kelley
Dr. Joe Martinez and Mrs. Kimberly Smith-Martinez
Dr. Eric I. Knudsen
Dr. Allen F. Mensinger
Dr. Masakazu Konishi
Dr. Henry A. Moses
Dr. Eve Marder
Dr. Conly L. Rieder
Dr. David Margoliash
Dr. Michael Romero
Dr. James McCasland
Dr. Alejandro Terrazas
Dr. Peter M. Narins
Dr. and Mrs. James G. Townsel
Teresa A. Nick, Ph.D.
Dr. Greg J. Villareal
Dr. Jose Luis Pena
Dr. and Mrs. Steven J. Zottoli
Dr. Nobuo Suga
Drs. Janis C. Weeks and William M. Roberts
Dr. Sarah Woolley
90 gifts
memorial and tribute gifts
These donors have chosen to support the MBL as a special way
to remember or honor a relative or friend.
Thomas A. Borgese Rare Books and Journals
Endowed Fund
Mrs. Gloria S. Borgese in memory of Vito Pavia
Robert Huettner Rare Books Endowed Fund
Mrs. Carmela J. Huettner in memory of Dr. Seymour Zigman,
Rita Goldschmidt, and Katherine Franck Huettner
Ms. Jennifer M. Huettner in memory of Richard and
Robert Huettner
Ms. Catherine N. Norton
Bernard and Celia Jaffe Memorial Fund
Royalties from the Estate of Bernard Jaffe
Library Fund
Dr. and Mrs. John M. Anderson in memory of Dr. Donald
Eugene Copeland
Ms. Beth A. Easterly in memory of Dr. Martha B. Baylor
Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Laster in honor of Dr. Sheldon Segal’s
80th birthday
Frank MacNaught Endowed Rare Books and Journals
Ms. Joan M. Murray
Rare Books Fund
Mrs. Carmela J. Huettner in honor of Ms. Jennie Brown
In honor of James Anthony Schneider, forester, businessman
and father, from his children
Marjorie Roloff Stetten Scholarship
Donations were made in honor of the marriage between Alex
Maloney and Bekah Lewis by:
Ms. Nancy Bearss and Ms. Jennifer Lindsay
Mr. Selim Berker and Ms. Carol Trauner
Ms. Anne Weinberger Bracy
Mr. and Mrs. Kirby D. Smith
Dr. George D. Stetten
Gifts to the annual fund and alumni funds were
made in honor of:
Elisabeth Buck
1956 Embryology Class
2001 Embryology Class
Andrew Fire
Edwin M. Frantz
Civil union of Dr. Ken Freedman and Steven Weiss
Michael J. Greenberg (2)
John Hobbie and Jerry Melillo
Shinya Inoué
Ed Leadbetter
Richard W. Linck
Medical Bioinformatics Faculty
Molecular Mycology course
Fred Pierce’s birthday
Tom Pollard
Physiology course
Allan Rosenfield, M.D.
Charles Rosenthal
Dr. Alfred H. Schwartz
Dr. Sheldon Segal’s 80th birthday
Dr. William T. Speck (2)
David L. Swofford
Andrew G. Szent-Gyorgyi
Leon and Ellen Weiss
Ralph Wolfe
gifts 91
Gifts to the annual and alumni funds were made in memory of:
Dutton Alden
Robert Day Allen (2)
John Arnold
Kimball C. Atwood III, M.D. (2)
Lester Barth
Dr. Martha Baylor (2)
Eleanor Bodznick
John Buck
Carlo Lugi Caparso
Arthur Colwin
Donald E. Copeland
Clark Corliss
John Crane
Drs. Hannah Croasdale and William R. Taylor and their
algae program
Erwin B. Dettbarn
George W. de Villafranca
Christopher Dillmann, DVM and Eric Christopher Dillmann
Professor Charlie D. Drewes
James and Alma Ebert (2)
Alfred M. Elliott
Connie Curtis Emory
Alexander Forbes
Jeanette I. Fossner
Leonard Friedman
Harold S. Ginsberg, M.D.
Richard Glade
Dr. Irene P. Goldring
Daniel S. Grosch
Dr. Lawrence Grossman (3)
Holgar Jannasch
New Century
Society
The New Century
Society recognizes
and honors those who
have made bequests
and other planned gift
arrangements to sustain
the MBL’s research and
educational programs.
Anonymous (4)
Porter W. Anderson, Jr.
Peter and Margaret Armstrong
John M. Arnold*
Dr. and Mrs. Robert B. Barlow, Jr.
Zylpha B. Brown*
Ronald L. Calabrese and Christine S.
Cozzens
Graciela C. Candelas
Dr. and Mrs. James F. Case
Julia S. Child
Octavia C. Clement*
Allen W. Clowes*
Emily Ann Cramer*
Norman C. Cross*
Irene C. Diller*
Esther H. Dobbins
John and Judith Dowling
Dr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Dowling, Jr.
James D. Ebert*
Dennis Flanagan*
Benjamin Kaminer
Dr. Alvin M. Kaye
Rudolf T. Kempton
Arthur King
Evelyn Kivy-Rosenberg
Steve Kuffler
Fred Lang
James W. Lash
Melvin Lieberman
Frank Lillie, Margaret Gildea, Nancy Egloff
Norman E. MacNeil
Kathryn Mendelson
Dr. Frank Morrell
Louise Nicosia
Eugene, Martha and Bill Odum
Millie Rebhun
George T. Reynolds
Regina Schuel
Dr. James H. Schwartz
George T. Scott
Harold & Olga Sears, Ann & Theodore M. Edison
Dorothy Skinner
Alfred H. Sturtevant
Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Dr. J.P. Trinkaus
Dr. Claude A. Villee
Robert C. Warner
Dr. George Wheeler
Martin K. White, M.D.
Fred Whitehead
Dr. Charles G. Wilber
Seymour Zigman
M. G. F. Fuortes*
Elizabeth F. Grave*
Donald R. Griffin*
Dr. Robert R. Haubrich
Cynthia Isenberg*
Frances and Howard Jacobson
Mary D. Janney
Dr. Jane Kaltenbach-Townsend
Darcy B. Kelley
Richard G. Kessel
Paul G. and Marian E. LeFevre
Edward F. MacNichol, Jr.*
Luigi and Elaine P. Mastroianni
Margery J. Milne*
Dr. John Norman*
Madelene E. Pierce*
Andrew M. Kropinski and Peggy A.
Pritchard
Robert A. Prendergast
Richard Proskauer*
Sarah Ratner*
Marjorie Reinisch*
Dr. R. Walter Schlesinger*
Harriet and Sheldon Segal
Cecily Cannan Selby
John Shaver*
Robert S. Shifman*
Mrs. Jane Lazarow Stetten*
John and Freddy Valois
Dr. and Mrs. Byron H. Waksman
Marjorie A. Wheatley*
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Wilson
Elizabeth S. Yntema*
2006 Bequests
Estate of Margery J. Milne
Estate of John Norman
Dr. and Mrs. Byron H. Waksman
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Wilson
*deceased
92 gifts
corporate lending program
The quality and success of the MBL educational program is maintained through the loan
of research equipment, reagents, and computers valued at over $21 million by:
Abimek GmbH
Accelrys
AD Instruments
Agilent Technologies, Inc.
Alpha Innotech Corporation
A-M Systems
Andor Technology
Apple Computer
Applied Biosystems
Applied Precision, LLC
Applied Scientific Instrumentation, Inc.
Aquatic Habitats
Aurora Scientific Inc.
AutoMate Scientific, Inc.
Axograph Scientific
BD Biosciences
Becker & Hickl GmbH
Beckman/Coulter, Inc.
Bioptechs
Bio-Rad Laboratories
Bitplane Inc.
Brownlee Precision Company
Cairn Research Ltd.
Cambridge Electronic Design Ltd.
Carl Zeiss, Inc.
Carl Zeiss Confocal
Carl Zeiss Imaging
Charles River Laboratories, Inc.
Chroma Technology Corporation
Coherent
Compix Inc., Imaging Systems
The COOKE Corporation
Coy Laboratories
Dagan Corporation
Dage-MTI of MC, Inc.
David Kopf Instruments
Delaware Diamond Knives
Diagnostic Instruments
Digitimer Ltd.
Drummond Scientific Co.
Embryotech Laboratories, Inc.
Eppendorf North America
EXFO Life Sciences Group
FHC
Fine Science Tools
GE Healthcare
General Valve Corporation/Parker Hannifin Corp.
Grass Product Group of Astro-Med, Inc.
Hamamatsu Photonic Systems
Harvard Apparatus
HEKA Electronik
Improvision Inc.
INDEC Biosystems
Instrutech Corporation
Intelligent Imaging Innovations
Intracel Ltd.
ISS
Kinetic Systems, Inc.
Kleindiek Nanotechnik GmbH
Kodak Scientific Imaging Systems
Leica Microsystems Inc./Specimen Preparation
Leica Microsystems Inc./Confocal
Leica Microsystems Inc./Life Sciences
LI-COR Biosciences, Inc.
Ludlum Measurements
Luigs & Neumann
ManSci Inc.
Med Associates Inc.
Media Cybernetics
Meyer Instruments
Micro Video Instruments, Inc.
Microfluidics
Molecular Devices Corporation
Molecular Probes
Nanodrop Technologies, Inc.
Narishige USA, Inc.
National Aperture, Inc.
National Instruments
Neuralynx, Inc.
New England Biolabs, Inc.
Nikon Inc.
Nikon Inc./Confocal
Noldus Information Technology Inc.
Olympus Corporation
Olympus Corporation/Confocal
Omega Optical, Inc.
Opthalmic Instruments Co.
Peak Laboratories, LLC
Pearson Education/Prentice Hall
Perkin Elmer Life and Analytical Sciences
Photometrics
Photon Technology International, Inc.
Photonic Instruments
Photron USA, Inc.
Prior Scientific, Inc.
Protech International, Inc.
QIMAGING
Quest Scientific Instruments Inc.
Red Shirt Imaging, LLC
Research Precision Instruments Co., Inc.
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments
Sigmann Elektronik GmbH
Siskiyou Corporation
Solamere Technology Group
Stanford Photonics, Inc.
Sutter Instrument Company
TgK Scientific Limited
Tucker-Davis Technologies
Unisense A/S
University of Maryland Institute for Advanced
Computer Studies/CBCB
Varian, Inc. – New England
Vibratome
Visitech International Ltd.
Warner Instruments
Waters Chromatography Div.
Wescor, Inc.
Wolfram Research, Inc.
World Precision Instruments
governance & administration
governance and administration
Trustees and Corporation Officers1
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
John W. Rowe, Columbia University
VICE CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Charles M. Rosenthal, First Manhattan Company
PRESIDENT OF THE CORPORATION
John E. Dowling, Harvard University
DIRECTOR AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Gary G. Borisy, MBL*
TREASURER OF THE CORPORATION
Mary B. Conrad, Fiduciary Trust International*
CLERK OF THE CORPORATION
Christopher M. Weld, Sullivan and Worcester*
CHAIRMAN OF THE SCIENCE COUNCIL
Paul J. De Weer, University of Pennsylvania*
Class of 2007
Thomas S. Crane, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, PC
Gerald D. Fischbach, Columbia University
Kurt J. Isselbacher, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
M Howard Jacobson, Bankers Trust, Private Bank
Darcy B. Kelley, Columbia University
Ambrose K. Monell, G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation
Jean H. Pierce, Boca Grande, FL
as of January 2007
*ex officio
1
Class of 2008
Richard B. DeWolfe, DeWolfe & Company LLC
Mark C. Fishman, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Kenneth E. Johns, Dart Neuroscience Limited Partnership
George W. Logan, Earlysville, VA
Douglas A. Melton, Harvard University
Robert A. Prendergast, Falmouth, MA
Charles M. Rosenthal, First Manhattan Company
John W. Rowe, Columbia University
James A. Sharp, Carl Zeiss MicroImaging, Inc.
Class of 2009
Bruce Beal, The Beal Companies
Margaret Clowes Bowles, Lyme, NH
Paul R. Dupee, Beverly Hills, CA
R. Dana Ono, VIMAC Ventures LLC
Gerald Weissmann, New York University School of Medicine
Annette L. Williamson, Fort Worth, TX
Class of 2010
Robert Haselkorn, The University of Chicago
William I. Huyett, McKinsey & Co. Inc.
Walter E. Massey, Morehouse College
Joan V. Ruderman, Harvard Medical School
Walter J. Salmon, Harvard Business School
Honorary Trustees
William T. Golden, American Museum of Natural History
Robert E. Mainer, Wayland, MA
Sheldon J. Segal, The Population Council
William T. Speck, New York, NY
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ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
Paul De Weer, Co-chair, Ex-Officio
Mark Fishman, Co-chair
Kurt Isselbacher
Douglas Melton
Robert Prendergast
Joan Ruderman
Annette Williamson
William Beers, Chief Academic and
Scientific Officer**
AUDIT COMMITTEE
Thomas Crane, Chair
Mary Conrad*
Gerald Fischbach
Robert Prendergast
Homer Lane, Chief Financial Officer*,**
David McLean, Controller**
CAMPUS PLANNING
Bruce Beal, Chair
Margaret Bowles
Robert Haselkorn
Walter Massey
Jean Pierce
Richard Cutler, Director of Facilities,
Services and Projects**
Linda Amaral Zettler, Chair, Building &
Grounds Corporation Standing Committee**
DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
Howard Jacobson, Chair
Bruce Beal
John Dowling*
Kenneth Johns
Darcy Kelley
Dana Ono
Jean Pierce
James Sharp
Gerald Weissmann
Christopher Weld
Carol Pooser, Director of External Affairs**
as of August 2006
*ex officio
**committee staff
1
FINANCE & INVESTMENT COMMITTEE
Mary Conrad, Chair*
Paul Dupee
Ambrose Monell
James Sharp
John Rowe
Tom Crane
Homer Lane, Chief Financial Officer**
David McLean, Controller**
NOMINATING/GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE
John Dowling*
George W. Logan, Chair
William Huyett
Charles Rosenthal
John Rowe
Walter Salmon
Gerald Weissmann
Christopher Weld
Carol Pooser, Director of External Affairs**
SCIENCE COUNCIL 1
William H. Beers*
Gary G. Borisy*
Catherine Carr
Lenny Dawidowicz*
Paul J. De Weer, Chair
John E. Dowling*
Barbara Ehrlich
Donald Faber
Barbara Furie
Timothy Mitchison
Christopher Neill
Rudolf Oldenbourg
Lawrence Rome
Peter J.S. Smith
governance & administration
corporation members
Life Members of the Corporation
Dr. Edward A. Adelberg, New Haven, CT
Dr. Bjorn Afzelius, (address unknown)
Dr. Herman F. Bosch, Falmouth, MA
Dr. F. J. Brinley, Jr., National Institutes of Health
Dr. Madeline P. Burbanck, Pionciana, FL (deceased 2007)
Dr. William D. Burbanck, Pionciana, FL (deceased 2005)
Dr. Mario H. Burgos, IHEM Medical School, Argentina
Dr. Alfred B. Chaet, Maitland, FL
Mr. James M. Clark, Palm Beach, FL
Dr. Maynard M. Cohen, Rush Medical College
Dr. Seymour S. Cohen, Woods Hole, MA
Dr. Jack R. Collier, Effie, LA
Dr. Marjorie McCann Collier, Effie, LA
Dr. Laura Hunter Colwin, Key Biscayne, FL (deceased 2007)
Dr. D. Eugene Copeland, Woods Hole, MA (deceased 2006)
Dr. John O. Corliss, Bala Cynwyd, PA
Dr. Helen Crouse, Hayesville, NC
Dr. Nigel W. Daw, Branford, CT
Dr. Robert L. DeHaan, Emory University School of Medicine
Dr. Philip B. Dunham, Syracuse University
Dr. Charles Edwards, New York, NY
Dr. Gerald F. Elliott, The Open University Research Unit
Dr. Patricia M. Failla, Johns Island, SC
Dr. Donald T. Frazier, University of Kentucky Medical Center
Dr. Mordecai L. Gabriel, Brooklyn College
Murray Glusman, M.D., New York State Psychiatric Institute
(deceased 2005)
Dr. Herbert Graham, Woods Hole, MA
Dr. Howard L. Hamilton, University of Virginia
(deceased 2002)
Dr. Clifford V. Harding, Jr., Falmouth, MA
Dr. Audrey E. V. Haschemeyer, Woods Hole, MA
Prof. Ruth Hubbard, Harvard University
Dr. William D. Hummon, Ohio University
Dr. W. Bruce Hunter, Peterborough, NH
Dr. Charles Hurwitz, Stratton VA Medical Center
Dr. Hugh E. Huxley, Brandeis University
Dr. George Katz, Sarasota, FL (deceased 2006)
Dr. Morris John Karnovsky, Newton, MA
Dr. John M. Kingsbury, Cornell University
Dr. Kiyoshi Kusano, National Institutes of Health
Mr. Ezra Laderman, Yale University
Dr. Paul H. LaMarche, Husson College
Dr. Max A. Lauffer, Pennsylvania State University
Medical Center
Dr. Herbert Levitan, National Science Foundation
Dr. John H. Lochhead, Woods Hole, MA
Dr. Birgit Rose Loewenstein, Falmouth, MA
Dr. Frank A. Loewus, Washington State University
Dr. Robert B. Loftfield, University of New Mexico
Dr. Laszlo Lorand, Northwestern University Medical School
Dr. Robert E. Mainer, Wayland, MA
Dr. Julian B. Marsh, Chestnut Hill, MA
Mr. Lowell V. Martin, Woods Hole, MA
Dr. Rita W. Mathews, Southfield, MA
Dr. Michael E. Mendelsohn, New England Medical Center
Dr. Martin Mendelson, Portland, OR
Dr. Roger D. Milkman, University of Iowa
Dr. John W. Moore, Duke University Medical Center
Dr. Aron A. Moscona, New York, NY
Dr. X. J. Musacchia, Fayetteville, AR
Dr. Maimon Nasatir, Ojai, CA
Dr. Leonard M. Passano, University of Wisconsin
Dr. William T. W. Potts, University of Lancaster
Dr. Carl A. Price, New Providence, NJ
Dr. Margaret McDonald Prytz, (address unknown)
Dr. Robert V. Rice, Falmouth, MA
Dr. Morris Rockstein, Coral Gables, FL
Dr. Priscilla F. Roslansky, Associates of Cape Cod, Inc.
Dr. Hidemi Sato, Nagoya University (deceased 2006)
Dr. Allan C. Scott, Colby College (deceased 2006)
Dr. Arthur M. Silverstein, Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Raymond A. Sjodin, Towson, MD
Mr. Paul F. Smith, Woods Hole, MA
Dr. Abraham Spector, Columbia University
Mr. John W. Speer, Portsmouth, RI
Dr. Nicholas Sperelakis, Cincinnati, OH
Dr. Evelyn Spiegel, Dartmouth College
Dr. Melvin Spiegel, Dartmouth College
Dr. Maurice Sussman, Falmouth, MA
Dr. Raquel B. Sussman, MBL
Mrs. Gwen P. Szent-Gyorgyi, Woods Hole, MA
Mr. W. Nicholas Thorndike, Wellington Management
Company
Dr. Walter S. Vincent, Woods Hole, MA
Dr. Talbot H. Waterman, Yale University
Dr. Roland L. Wigley, Woods Hole, MA
Dr. Lon A. Wilkens, University of Missouri
Dr. Paul Witkovsky, New York University Medical Center
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Corporation Members
Dr. Donald A. Abt, University of Pennsylvania School of
Veterinary Medicine
Dr. James A. Adams, Tallahassee, FL
Dr. William J. Adelman, Jr., Falmouth, MA
Dr. David F. Albertini, Kansas University Medical Center
Dr. Daniel L. Alkon, Blanchette Rockefeller Neuroscience
Institute
Dr. Garland E. Allen, Washington University
Dr. Nina Stromgren Allen, North Carolina State University
Dr. Mark C. Alliegro, Louisiana State University Medical
Center
Dr. Everett Anderson, Harvard Medical School
Dr. John M. Anderson, Ithaca, NY
Dr. Porter W. Anderson, Jr., Key Largo, FL
Dr. Ricardo C. Araneda, Washington, DC
Prof. Clay M. Armstrong, University of Pennsylvania School
of Medicine
Mrs. Ellen Prosser Armstrong, Woods Hole, MA
Dr. Peter B. Armstrong, University of California
Mr. Robert W. Ashton, The Bay and Paul Foundations
Dr. Jelle Atema, Boston University Marine Program
Dr. George J. Augustine, Duke University Medical Center
Dr. Baccio Baccetti, University of Sienna, Italy
Dr. Robert G. Baker, New York University Medical Center
Dr. David Baltimore, California Institute of Technology
Dr. Robert B. Barlow, Jr., SUNY Upstate Medical University
Dr. Daniel T. Barry, South Hadley, MA
Dr. Susan R. Barry, Mount Holyoke College
Dr. Andrew H. Bass, Cornell University
Dr. Barbara-Anne Battelle, University of Florida
Mr. Frederick Bay, The Bay and Paul Foundations
Dr. Elaine L. Bearer, Brown University
Dr. John M. Beatty, University of British Columbia
Dr. Luis Alberto Beauge, Instituto de Investigacion Medica,
Argentina
Dr. William H. Beers, MBL
Dr. Eugene Bell, TEI Biosciences Inc.
Dr. Thomas L. Benjamin, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Michael V. L. Bennett, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Dr. Miriam F. Bennett, Colby College (deceased 2006)
Dr. R. Suzanne Bennett, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Prof. Dwight E. Bergles, Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Suzanne T. Berlin, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Mr. Norman Bernstein, Bernstein Management Corporation
Dr. Francisco Bezanilla, Chicago, IL
Dr. John D. Biggers, Lexington, MA
Dr. Stephen H. Bishop, Ames, IA
Dr. George S. Bloom, University of Virginia
Dr. Kerry S. Bloom, University of North Carolina
Dr. David A. Bodznick, Wesleyan University
Dr. Edward G. Boettiger, Rochester, VT
Dr. Richard A. Boolootian, Sherman Oaks, CA
Dr. Seth Bordenstein, MBL
Dr. Gary G. Borisy, MBL
Dr. David W. Borst, Jr., University of Central Florida
Dr. Francis P. Bowles, Lyme, NH
Dr. Barbara C. Boyer, Union College
Dr. Bruce P. Brandhorst, Simon Fraser University
Dr. Stephen C. Brown, Traverse City, MI
Dr. Carole L. Browne, Wake Forest University School
of Medicine
Dr. Robert A. Browne, Wake Forest University School of
Medicine
Dr. Anne C. Bucklin, University of Connecticut
Dr. Max M. Burger, Novartis International AG
Dr. David R. Burgess, Boston College
Dr. John E. Burris, Beloit College
Dr. Joseph Buxbaum, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Dr. Ronald L. Calabrese, Emory University
Dr. R. Andrew Cameron, California Institute of Technology
Mr. Richard H. Campbell, Bang-Campbell Associates
Dr. Graciela C. Candelas, University of Puerto Rico
Dr. Lucio Cariello, Stazione Zoologica “A. Dohrn”, Italy
Dr. Catherine Emily Carr, University of Maryland
Prof. James F. Case, University of California
Dr. Donald L.D. Caspar, Florida State University
Father Joseph D. Cassidy, O.P., Ph.D., Providence College
Dr. Colleen M. Cavanaugh, Harvard University
Dr. Donald C. Chang, Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, Hong Kong
Dr. Richard L. Chappell, Hunter College
Dr. Frank M. Child, Woods Hole, MA
Dr. Rex Leslie Chisholm, Northwestern University
Dr. Elena Citkowitz, Hospital of St. Raphael
Dr. David E. Clapham, Children’s Hospital
Dr. Eloise E. Clark, Bowling Green State University
Mr. Hays Clark, Hobe Sound, FL (deceased 2006)
Dr. Alexander W. Clowes, University of Washington
Dr. Jewel Plummer Cobb, Maplewood, NJ
Dr. Carolyn Cohen, Brandeis University
Dr. Lawrence B. Cohen, Yale University School of Medicine
Dr. William D. Cohen, Hunter College
Dr. Annette W. Coleman, Brown University
Dr. Paul Colinvaux, MBL
Dr. R. John Collier, Harvard Medical School
Dr. James P. Collins, Arizona State University
Dr. D. Wesley Corson, Jr., Storm Eye Institute
Dr. Jeffrey T. Corwin, University of Virginia, School of
Medicine
Dr. John Costello, Providence College
Dr. Ernest F. Couch, Texas Christian University
Dr. Rachel Llanelly Cox, Woods Hole, MA
Thomas S. Crane, Esq., Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris
Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.
Dr. Karen Crawford, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Dr. Terry J. Crow, University of Texas Medical School
Dr. Robert J. Crowther, Shriners Hospitals for Children
Mr. Richard D. Cutler, MBL
Dr. Eric H. Davidson, California Institute of Technology
Dr. Jonathan H. Davis, EMD-Lexigen Research Center
Dr. Daniel B. Davison, Morrisville, PA
Dr. Lenny A. Dawidowicz, MBL
Dr. Paul J. De Weer, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Linda A. Deegan, MBL
Dr. Joe DeGiorgis, Woods Hole, MA
Dr. Robert C. DeGroof, Potomac, MD
Dr. Martha Bridge Denckla, Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Douglas W. DeSimone, University of Virginia
Dr. Wolf-Dietrich Dettbarn, Nashville, TN
Dr. Vincent E. Dionne, Boston University
Dr. John E. Dowling, Harvard University
Dr. Arthur Brooks DuBois, Yale School of Medicine
Dr. Thomas K. Duncan, Nichols College
Dr. William R. Eckberg, Howard University
Dr. Kenneth T. Edds, bioMerieux
Dr. Peggy L. Edds-Walton, Riverside, CA
Dr. Barbara E. Ehrlich, Yale University
Dr. Arthur Z. Eisen, Washington University
Dr. Herman N. Eisen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Hugh Young Elder, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Dr. Eva Enders, Fisheries and Oceans, Newfoundland and
Labrador
Dr. Paul T. Englund, Johns Hopkins Medical School
Dr. David Epel, Stanford University
Dr. Herman T. Epstein, Woods Hole, MA (deceased 2007)
Mr. Ray L. Epstein, Centerville, MD
Prof. Donald Faber, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Dr. David H. Farb, Boston University School of Medicine
Dr. A. Verdi Farmanfarmaian, Princeton, NJ
Dr. Richard R. Fay, Loyola University of Chicago
Dr. Barry William Festoff, VA Medical Center
Dr. Rachel D. Fink, Mount Holyoke College
Dr. Alan Finkelstein, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Dr. Gerald D. Fischbach, Simons Foundation Autism Project
Dr. Harvey M. Fishman, University of Texas Medical Branch
Dr. Richard Allen Fluck, Franklin & Marshall College
Dr. Kenneth H. Foreman, MBL
Dr. Thomas O. Fox, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Clara Franzini-Armstrong, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Scott Fraser, California Institute of Technology
Dr. Kathleen A. French, University of California, San Diego
Dr. Robert J. French, University of Calgary
Dr. Chandler M. Fulton, Brandeis University
Dr. Barbara C. Furie, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Dr. Bruce Furie, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Dr. Edwin J. Furshpan, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Robert P. Futrelle, Northeastern University
Dr. Howaida Gabr, Suez Canal University
Dr. David C. Gadsby, The Rockefeller University
Dr. Harold Gainer, National Institutes of Health
Dr. Robert M. Galatzer-Levy, Chicago, IL
Dr. Joseph G. Gall, Carnegie Institution
Dr. Michael A. Gallo, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical
School
Dr. Rita A. Garrick, Fordham University
Dr. Alan Gelperin, Monell Chemical Senses Center
Dr. Gabriele Gerlach, MBL
Dr. James L. German, III, Weill Medical College of Cornell
University
Dr. Martin Gibbs, Brandeis University (deceased 2006)
Dr. Anne E. Giblin, MBL
Dr. Prosser Gifford, Washington, DC
Prof. Giovanni Giudice, Palermo, Italy
Dr. Antonio Giuditta, Universita di Napoli “Federico II”, Italy
Dr. Makoto Goda, Kyoto University, Japan
Mr. William T. Golden, Chairman Emeritus, American Museum
of Natural History
Dr. Robert D. Goldman, Northwestern University Medical
School
Dr. Paul K. Goldsmith, National Institutes of Health
Dr. Timothy H. Goldsmith, Yale University
Dr. Moise H. Goldstein, Jr., Woods Hole, MA
Dr. Robert Michael Gould, University of Illinois
Mr. Dick Grace, Doreen Grace Fund (deceased 2007)
governance & administration
Dr. Werner M. Graf, Howard University College of Medicine
Dr. Philip Grant, National Institutes of Health
Dr. Judith P. Grassle, Rutgers University
Dr. Katherine Graubard, University of Washington
Dr. Joshua Gray, Rutgers University Pharmacology &
Toxicology
Dr. William N. Green, University of Chicago
Dr. Michael J. Greenberg, The Whitney Laboratory, University
of Florida
Dr. Robert M. Greenberg, MBL
Dr. Mary Dalton Greer, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Albert Grossman, New York University Medical Center
Dr. Yosef Gruenbaum, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Israel
Dr. John A. Gruner, Cephalon, Inc.
Dr. G. Francis Gwilliam, Reed College
Dr. Leah T. Haimo, University of California
Dr. Stephen L. Hajduk, University of Georgia
Dr. Tatsuji Haneji, The University of Tokushima, Japan
Dr. Roger T. Hanlon, MBL
June F. Harrigan, Ph.D., Honolulu, HI
Dr. John P. Harrington, SUNY at New Paltz
Dr. Stephen C. Harrison, Harvard University Medical School
Dr. Robert Haselkorn, The University of Chicago
Dr. Gal Haspel, Laurel, MD
Dr. J. Woodland Hastings, Harvard University
Dr. Raymond L. Hayes, Jr., Howard University
Dr. Diane E. Heck, Rutgers University
Dr. Jonathan Joseph Henry, University of Illinois
Dr. Peter K. Hepler, University of Massachusetts
Dr. Walter R. Herndon, University of Tennessee
Prof. Avram Hershko, Technion-Israel Institute of
Technology, Israel
Dr. Theodore T. Herskovits, Fordham University
Dr. Howard H. Hiatt, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Dr. Stephen M. Highstein, Washington University School
of Medicine
Dr. John G. Hildebrand, University of Arizona
Dr. Richard W. Hill, Michigan State University
Dr. Robert B. Hill, University of Rhode Island
Dr. Susan D. Hill, Michigan State University
Dr. Llewellya W. Hillis, Woods Hole, MA
Dr. Michael Hines, Yale University School of Medicine
Dr. Gregory J. Hinkle, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Dr. Gertrude W. Hinsch, University of South Florida
Dr. John E. Hobbie, MBL
Dr. Joseph F. Hoffman, Yale University School of Medicine
Dr. George G. Holz, IV, New York University Medical Center
Dr. Charles S. Hopkinson, Jr., MBL
Dr. James C. Houk, East Sandwich, MA
Dr. Alice S. Huang, California Institute of Technology
Dr. Linda A. Hufnagel-Zackroff, University of Rhode Island
Dr. Tom Humphreys, University of Hawaii
Dr. Tim Hunt, Cancer Research UK
Dr. Robert D. Hunter, Oakland University
Dr. Nicholas A. Ingoglia, New Jersey Medical School
Dr. Saduyki Inoué, McGill University
Dr. Shinya Inoué, MBL
Dr. Kurt J. Isselbacher, Massachusetts General Hospital
Cancer Center
Dr. Marietta Radovic Issidorides, Theodor Theohari Cozzika
Foundation, Greece
Dr. Colin S. Izzard, SUNY – Albany
Dr. Allan S. Jacobson, University of Massachusetts Medical
School
Dr. Laurinda A. Jaffe, University of Connecticut Health Center
Dr. Lionel Jaffe, MBL
Dr. William R. Jeffery, University of Maryland
Dr. Daniel Johnston, University of Texas
Dr. Teresa L.Z. Jones, National Institutes of Diabetes
Dr. Robert K. Josephson, University of California
Dr. Sung-Kwon Jung, Bayer Health Care LLC
Dr. Leonard K. Kaczmarek, Yale University School of Medicine
Dr. Gabor Kaley, New York Medical College
Dr. Jane C. Kaltenbach-Townsend, Mount Holyoke College
Dr. Edna S. Kaneshiro, University of Cincinnati
Dr. Stephen J. Karakashian, Milwaukie, OR
Dr. Arthur Karlin, Columbia University
Dr. Evelyn F. Keller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Darcy B. Kelley, Columbia University
Dr. Robert E. Kelly, Woods Hole, MA
Dr. Norman E. Kemp, University of Michigan
Mr. John P. Kendall, Faneuil Hall Associates
Mr. Louis M. Kerr, MBL
Dr. Alexander Keynan, Israel Academy of Sciences and
Humanities, Israel
Dr. Shahid M. M. Khan, Molecular Biology Consortium
Dr. Kamran Khodakhah, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Dr. Alexey L. Khodjakov, Wadsworth Center for Labs and
Research
Dr. Daniel P. Kiehart, Duke University
Mr. Robert A. Knudson, Port Townsend, WA
Sir Hans Kornberg, Boston University
Dr. Edward M. Kosower, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Dr. Stephen M. Krane, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Robert Krauss, Denton, MD
Dr. Edward A. Kravitz, Harvard Medical School
Dr. William B. Kristan, Jr., University of California, San Diego
Dr. Andrew M. Kropinski, Public Health Agency of Canada
Dr. Damien P. Kuffler, Institute of Neurobiology
Dr. William J. Kuhns, The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada
Dr. Joseph G. Kunkel, University of Massachusetts
Dr. Alan M. Kuzirian, MBL
Dr. Aimlee D. Laderman, MBL
Dr. Eileen Lafer, University of Texas Health Science Center
Dr. Laurie J. Landeau, Listowel, Inc.
Dr. Dennis M. D. Landis, University Hospital of Cleveland
Dr. Story C. Landis, National Institutes of Health
Dr. David Landowne, University of Miami
Dr. George M. Langford, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
Dr. Jeffrey Laskin, University of Medicine and Dentistry of
New Jersey
Dr. Nechama Lasser-Ross, New York Medical College
Dr. Leonard Laster, University of Massachusetts Medical
School
Dr. Alan Laties, Scheie Eye Institute
Dr. Hans Laufer, University of Connecticut
Dr. Paul B. Lazarow, Institut Pasteur
Dr. Edward R. Leadbetter, University of Connecticut
Dr. Joshua Lederberg, The Rockefeller University
Dr. John J. Lee, City College of CUNY
Mr. Donald B. Lehy, North Falmouth, MA
Dr. Stephen B. Leighton, Silver Spring, MD
Dr. Aaron B. Lerner, Yale University School of Medicine
Dr. Jack Levin, University of California School of Medicine
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Dr. Michael S. Levine, University of California
Dr. Richard B. Levine, University of Arizona
Dr. Francoise Levinthal, Columbia University
Prof. Irwin B. Levitan, University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine
Dr. Richard W. Linck, University of Minnesota School of
Medicine
Dr. Scott Lindell, MBL
Dr. Raymond J. Lipicky, Food and Drug Administration
Dr. John E. Lisman, Brandeis University
Dr. Anthony Liuzzi, Boston, MA
Dr. Rodolfo R. Llinàs, New York Unversity Medical Center
Dr. Phillip S. Lobel, Boston University Marine Program, MBL
Dr. Werner R. Loewenstein, Falmouth, MA
Dr. Irving M. London, Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Dr. Frank J. Longo, University of Iowa
Dr. Louise M. Luckenbill, Falmouth, MA
Dr. Issei Mabuchi, University of Tokyo
Dr. Jeffrey Magee, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Dr. Jane Ann Maienschein, Arizona State University
Dr. Craig C. Malbon, State University of New York
Dr. Robert P. Malchow, Oak Park, IL
Dr. Richard S. Manalis, Indiana-Purdue University
Dr. Lynn Margulis, University of Massachusetts
Dr. Andrew C. Marinucci, Mercerville, NJ
Dr. Joe L. Martinez, Jr., University of Texas
Dr. Luigi Mastroianni, Jr., Hospital of University of Pennsylvania
Dr. David Mauzerall, The Rockefeller University
Dr. M. Lynne McAnelly, University of Texas
Dr. Andrew G. McArthur, Hamilton, Ontario
Dr. Frances V. McCann Murray, Dartmouth Medical School
Dr. Edwin McCleskey, Oregon Health Sciences University
Ms. Jane A. McLaughlin, Woods Hole, MA
Dr. Robert F. McMahon, University of Texas
Dr. Thomas Meedel, Rhode Island College
Prof. Ian A. Meinertzhagen, Dalhousie University, Canada
Dr. Dennis E. Meiss, Immunodiagnostic Laboratories
Dr. Jerry M. Melillo, MBL
Dr. DeForest Mellon, Jr., University of Virginia
Mr. Richard P. Mellon, R.K. Mellon Family Foundation
Dr. Allen F. Mensinger, University of Minnesota
Dr. Melanie Pratt Merriman, Touchstone Consulting
Dr. Matthew S. Meselson, Harvard University
Dr. Ricardo Miledi, University of California, Irvine
Dr. Andrew L. Miller, Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, Hong Kong
Dr. Ralph Mitchell, Harvard University
Dr. Timothy Mitchison, Harvard University Medical School
Dr. Hiroyoshi Miyakawa, Tokyo College of Pharmacy, Japan
Dr. David M. Miyamoto, Drew University
Dr. Merle Mizell, New Orleans, LA
Dr. Christopher Molloy, Johnson & Johnson
Dr. Jorge E. Moreira, University of San Paulo
Dr. Jennifer Morgan, Bowdoin College
Dr. Leyla deToledo-Morrell, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Lukes
Dr. Hilary Morrison, MBL
Dr. Stephen S. Morse, Columbia University
Dr. Andrew W. Murray, Harvard University
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Dr. Ronald L. Nagel, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Dr. Angus Nairn, The Rockefeller University
Dr. Yasuko Nakajima, University of Illinois, College of
Medicine
Dr. Toshio Narahashi, Northwestern University Medical
School
Dr. Enrico Nasi, Boston University School of Medicine
Dr. Christopher Neill, MBL
Margaret C. Nelson, Ph.D., Cornell University
Dr. Peter A. Nickerson, SUNY at Buffalo
Dr. Santo V. Nicosia, University of South Florida
Dr. Rae Nishi, University of Vermont
Ms. Catherine N. Norton, MBL
Dr. Ana Lia Obaid, University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine
Mr. Jonathan O’Herron, Lazard Freres & Company
Dr. Shinpei Ohki, SUNY at Buffalo
Dr. Rudolf Oldenbourg, MBL
Dr. James L. Olds, George Mason University
Dr. Ada L. Olins, Bowdoin College
Dr. Donald E. Olins, Bowdoin College
Dr. James L. Oschman, Dover, NH
Dr. Robert E. Palazzo, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dr. John D. Palmer, University of Massachusetts
Dr. Harish C. Pant, National Institutes of Health
Dr. George D. Pappas, University of Illinois
Dr. Arthur B. Pardee, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Dr. Rosevelt L. Pardy, University of Nebraska
Dr. James L. Parmentier, International Health Organization
Dr. David J. Patterson, MBL
Dr. Thoru Pederson, University of Massachusetts Medical
Center
Dr. Philip Person, Flushing, NY
Dr. Bruce J. Peterson, MBL
Dr. Ronald Pethig, University College of North Wales
Dr. Ronald J. Pfohl, Miami University
Dr. Sidney K. Pierce, Jr., University of South Florida
Dr. David E. Pleasure, Shriners Hospital for Children
Dr. Jeanne S. Poindexter, Barnard College, Columbia
University
Dr. Harvey B. Pollard, U.S.U.H.S.
Dr. Thomas D. Pollard, Yale University
Dr. Beverly H. Porter, Columbia, MD
Dr. Mary E. Porter, University of Minnesota
Dr. David D. Potter, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Maureen K. Powers, San Pablo, CA
Dr. Robert A. Prendergast, Johns Hopkins University
Dr. David J. Prior, University of Virgina’s College at Wise
Dr. Robert D. Prusch, Gonzaga University
Dr. Dale Purves, Duke University Medical Center
Dr. James P. Quigley, The Scripps Research Institute
Dr. Michael B. Rabinowitz, Bristol, RI
Dr. Robert F. Rakowski, Ohio University
Dr. Edward B. Rastetter, MBL
Dr. Stephen Redenti, Hunter College
Dr. Thomas S. Reese, National Institutes of Health
Dr. Paul Rhodes, West Palm Beach, FL
Dr. Frederick R. Rickles, FASEB
Dr. Conly L. Rieder, Wadsworth Center
Dr. Monica Riley, MBL
Dr. Harris Ripps, University of Ilinois at Chicago
Dr. Lawrence C. Rome, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Jack Rosenbluth, New York University School of Medicine
Dr. Allan Rosenfield, Columbia University School of Public
Health
Dr. William N. Ross, New York Medical College
Mr. Rudi Rottenfusser, Carl Zeiss, Inc.
Dr. Lewis P. Rowland, Neurological Institute
Dr. Joan V. Ruderman, Harvard Medical School
Dr. John D. Rummel, NASA Headquarters
Dr. Norman B. Rushforth, Case Western Reserve University
Dr. Mary Beth Saffo, Harvard University
Dr. Alvaro Sagasti, University of California, Los Angeles
Dr. Guy Salama, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Edward D. Salmon, University of North Carolina
Dr. Abigail Salyers, University of Illinois
Prof. Brian M. Salzberg, University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine
Dr. Jean M. Sanger, SUNY Upstate Medical University
Dr. Joseph W. Sanger, SUNY Upstate Medical University
Dr. John W. Saunders, Jr., Falmouth, MA
Prof. Howard K. Schachman, University of California
Dr. Gerald P. Schatten, Pittsburgh Development Center
Dr. Herbert Schuel, SUNY at Buffalo
Dr. Lawrence Schwartz, University of Massachusetts
Dr. A. Nicola Schweitzer, Brookline, MA
Dr. Felix E. Schweizer, University of California, Los Angeles
Dr. Sheldon J. Segal, The Population Council
Dr. Stephen Lamont Senft, Woods Hole, MA
Dr. Douglas R. Shanklin, University of Tennessee
Dr. Victor E. Shashoua, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Gaius R. Shaver, MBL
Dr. Michael P. Sheetz, Columbia University
Dr. David Sheprow, Boston University
Dr. Irwin W. Sherman, University of California
Dr. Osamu Shimomura, Falmouth, MA
Mr. Alan M. Shipley, Forestdale, MA
Dr. Robert B. Silver, Wayne State University
Dr. Eric J. Simon, New York University Medical Center
Dr. Kathleen K. Siwicki, Swarthmore College
Dr. Roger D. Sloboda, Dartmouth College
Dr. Greenfield Sluder, University of Massachusetts
Medical Center
Dr. Peter J.S. Smith, MBL
Dr. Stephen J. Smith, Stanford University School of Medicine
Dr. Roxanna S. Smolowitz, MBL
Dr. Daphne F. Soares, Laurel, MD
Dr. Mitchell L. Sogin, MBL
Dr. William T. Speck, New York, NY
Dr. John H. Steele, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Dr. Antoinette Steinacker, University of Puerto Rico
Dr. Malcolm S. Steinberg, Princeton University
Dr. Andreas C. Stemmer, Institut fuer Robotik, Switzerland
Prof. Johan Stenflo, M.D., Ph.D., University of Lund, Sweden
Dr. Darrell R. Stokes, Emory University
Dr. Elijah W. Stommel, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Dr. Alfred Stracher, SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn
Dr. Felix Strumwasser, Ponte Vedra, FL
Dr. Ann E. Stuart, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Mutsuyuki Sugimori, New York University Medical Center
Dr. Carol L. Suitor, Falmouth, MA
Dr. William C. Summers, Western Washington University
Dr. Kathy A. Suprenant, University of Kansas
Dr. Andrew G. Szent-Györgyi, Brandeis University
Dr. Sidney L. Tamm, Boston University
Dr. Marvin L. Tanzer, Tucson, AZ
Dr. Ichiji Tasaki, Bethesda, MD
Dr. Edwin W. Taylor, University of Chicago
Dr. William H. Telfer, Falmouth, MA
Dr. Bruce Telzer, Pomona College
Dr. James G. Townsel, Meharry Medical College
Dr. David M. Travis, Shrewsbury, MA
Dr. Steven N. Treistman, University of Massachusetts Medical
Center
Dr. James Trimarchi, Brown University
Dr. Walter Troll, NYU Medical Center (deceased 2006)
Dr. Robert F. Troxler, Boston University School of Medicine
(deceased 2005)
Dr. Kenyon S. Tweedell, University of Notre Dame
Dr. Mark L. Tykocinski, Shaker Heights, OH
Prof. Michael Tytell, Wake Forest University, School of
Medicine
Dr. Ivan Valiela, Boston University Marine Program, MBL
Dr. Joseph Vallino, MBL
Mr. John J. Valois, Woods Hole, MA
Dr. Cindy Lee Van Dover, Duke University Marine Lab
Dr. Kensal E. van Holde, Oregon State University
Dr. Judith M. Venuti, LSU Medical Center
Dr. Patricia Wadsworth, University of Massachusetts
Dr. Norman R. Wainwright, Charles River Endosafe
Dr. Byron H. Waksman, New York University Medical Center
Dr. Betty Wall, Woods Hole, MA
Dr. Lawrence J. Wangh, Brandeis University
Dr. Leonard Warren, Wistar Institute
Dr. John B. Waterbury, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Dr. Stephen G. Waxman, Yale Medical School
Dr. Annemarie Weber, University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine
Dr. Janis C. Weeks, University of Oregon
Dr. Earl Weidner, Louisiana State University
Dr. Alice Sara Weiss, Silver Spring, MD
Dr. Dieter G. Weiss, University of Rostock, Germany
Dr. Leon P. Weiss, University of Pennsylvania School of
Veterinary Medicine
Dr. Marisa C. Weiss, Paoli Memorial Hospital
Dr. Gerald Weissmann, New York University Medical Center
Dr. David Mark Welch, MBL
Dr. Monte Westerfield, University of Oregon
Dr. J. Richard Whittaker, University of New Brunswick
Dr. Torsten N. Wiesel, The Rockefeller University
Dr. John T. Williams, Oregon Health Sciences University
Dr. Darcy B. Wilson, Torrey Pines Institute
Dr. T. Hastings Wilson, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Beatrice Wittenberg, Woods Hole, MA
Dr. Jonathan B. Wittenberg, Woods Hole, MA
Dr. William F. Wonderlin, West Virginia University
Dr. Mary Kate Worden, University of Virginia
Dr. Chau Hsiung Wu, Northwestern University Medical School
Dr. Charles R. Wyttenbach, University of Kansas
Dr. Harold H. Zakon, University of Texas
Dr. Seymour Zigman, Falmouth, MA (deceased 2006)
Dr. Michael J. Zigmond, Pittsburgh, PA
Dr. Joshua J. Zimmerberg, National Institutes of Health
Dr. Steven J. Zottoli, Williams College
governance & administration
administrative support staff1
SENIOR STAFF
William T. Speck 1, Director and Chief Executive Officer
Gary G. Borisy1, Director and Chief Executive Officer
William H. Beers, Chief Academic and Scientific Officer
Richard Cutler, Director of Facilities, Services, and Projects
Lenny Dawidowicz, Director of Education
Susan Goux, Director of Human Resources
Pamela Clapp Hinkle, Director of Communications and
Public Affairs
Homer Lane, Chief Financial Officer
Catherine Norton, Director of the MBLWHOI Library
Carol Pooser, Director of External Affairs
William Villineau, Director of Housing and Conferences
BIOCURRENTS RESEARCH CENTER
Van Mooy, Tiffany J.
BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN
Olds, James, Editor-in-Chief
Hinkle, Pamela Clapp, Managing Editor
Gibson, Victoria R.
Reuter, Laura
Schachinger, Carol H.
THE ECOSYSTEMS CENTER
Berthel, Dorothy J.
Donovan, Suzanne J.
Holzworth, Kelly
Scanlon, Deborah
Seifert, Mary Ann
EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
Pooser, Carol, Director
Butcher, Valerie
George, Mary
Johnson, A. Kristine
Patch-Wing, Dolores
Schaefer, Patrick
Shaw, Kathleen L.
Skinner (King), Wendy
Sylvia, Barbara A.
Associates Program
Joslin, Susan
Andrade, Judith2
Renna, Laurie2
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2
Including persons who joined or left the staff during 2006.
Summer or temporary
Communications and Public Affairs
Hinkle, Pamela Clapp, Director
Armstrong, Bronwen2
Early, Andrea
Gallagher, David
Hebert, Gina
Liles, Beth R.
Peters, Steven
Westburg, Amy2
Wiens, Karen2
FINANCIAL SERVICES
Lane, Jr., Homer W., Chief Financial Officer
McLean, David, Controller
Mullen, Richard J. 1, Manager, Research Administration
Lynn, Rebecca1, Manager, Sponsored Programs
Aguiar, Deborah
Ahern-Wolseley, Kathleen1
Aro, Normalynn1
Blegen, Nancy
Burbank, Barbara1
Bull, Elizabeth
Coughlan, Carol
Crosby, Kenneth
Donovan (Zwirner), Heidi1
Guba, Arlene1
Newman, Melissa
Solchenberger, Carolyn
Housing and Conferences
Villineau, William, Director
Ciejek, Karen1
Deering, Deborah
Livingstone, Suzanne
MacDonald, Cynthia C.
Mills, Gregory2
Oldham, Pamela
Stackhouse, Barbara
Wagner, Carol1
Housekeeping
Barnes, Susan M.
Barry, Helen2
Berrios, Jessica
Chen, Zhi Xin
Hannigan, Catherine
Luby, Mary1
McNamara, Noreen M.
Monaco, Kimberly2
Santiago, Crystal
Schmidt, Laurel2
Sears, Taylor2
Shum, Mei Wah
Purchasing
Hall Jr., Lionel E., Supervisor
Hunt, Lisa M.
Sylvia, Christopher2
Stock Room
Galatzer-Levy, David2
Morant, Dion2
Schorer, Timothy M.
HUMAN RESOURCES
Goux, Susan P., Director
Houser, Carmen
MacNeil, Jane L.
Schmidt, Cathleen
Satellite/Periwinkle Children’s Programs
Lane, Mary H.2, Camp Director
Cannon, Nicole2
Fogel, Jennifer2
Houser, Serena2
Kleppan, Danielle2
Livingstone, Cori2
Mannix, Douglas2
McGonagle, Matthew2
Miller-Sims, Rose2
Miskovsky, Susan2
Waugaman, Lauren2
Zeien, Kendra2
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J. ERIK JONSSON CENTER, NAS
Brierley, Katherine2
Doherty, Joanne
Elichalt, Donald
Famigiletti, Daniel2
Shurtleff, Joan2
Wilkerson, Joslin2
JOSEPHINE BAY PAUL CENTER FOR COMPARATIVE
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
Doheny, Phyllis1
Halpin, Patricia1
Newhall (Hashizume), Katherine1
Nihill, Tara1
Ryan, Kara1
MARINE RESOURCES
Lindell, Scott, Manager
Burbank, Barbara1
Roderick, Nancy1
Kuzirian, Alan
Simmons, Janice S.
Sullivan, Daniel A.
Aquatic Resources Department
Enos, Jr., Edward G., Superintendent
Bailey, David2
Dimond, James
Grossman, William M.
Klimm III, Henry W.
Malchow, William2
Powers, Kenneth2
Syslo, Michael2
Tassinari, Eugene2
Marine Resources Life Support System
Mebane, William N., Systems Operator
MBLWHOI LIBRARY
Norton, Catherine N., Director
Early, Greg2
Furfey, John1
Ivanova, Anna2
Jensen, Sarah2
Person, Matthew
Rielinger, Diane1
Schneider, Matthew2
Stafford, Nancy
Walton, Jennifer
Digital Processing Center
Hadway, Nancy
Halter, Sarah2
Reuter, Laura
Westburg, Joanne
Information Technology
Loyot, Robert, Assistant Director
Beaudoin, Jeffrey
Dematos, Christopher
Fournier, Pamela
Kuzirian, Mark2
Mountford, Rebecca J.
Renna, Denis J.
Space, David B.
Wagner, Paul2
uBio
Ardelean, Adorian1
Leary, Patrick
Remsen, David P.1
Sarkar, Indra Neil1
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC
OFFICER
Beers, William, CASO
Sietsma, Dana
Woolford, Ann1
Educational Programs
Dawidowicz, Lenny, Director
Hamel, Carol C.
Hemmerdinger, Catherine
Central Microscopy Facility & General
Use Rooms
Kerr, Louis M., Supervisor
Luther, Herbert
MacDonald, Rebecca2
O’Brien, William2
Peterson, Martha B.
Veterinarian Services
Smolowitz, Roxanna, Campus Veterinarian
De Faveri, Jacquelin1
Johnson, Daniel
Shaff, Rebecca2
Steele, Marjorie1
Wicker, Joann1
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
Speck, William T. 1, Director and Chief Executive Officer
Borisy, Gary G.1, Director and Chief Executive Officer
Donovan, Marcia H.
Equal Employment Opportunity
MacNeil, Jane L.
SERVICES, PROJECTS, AND FACILITIES
Cutler, Richard D., Director
Enos, Joyce B.
Apparatus
Atwood, Paul
Baptiste, Michael G.
Barnes, John S.
Haskins, William A.
Plant, Operations & Maintenance
Brosseau, William, Manager
Blunt, Hugh F.
Gonsalves, Jr., Walter W.
Hathaway, Peter J.
Henderson, Jon R.
Langill, Richard
McAdams III, Herbert M.
Shepherd, Denise M.
Toner, Michael
Settlemire, Donald, Supervisor
Cadose, James W.
Carroll, James
Elias, Michael
Fuglister, Charles K.
McCann, Brendan
Mills, Stephen A.
Safety Services
Marcello, James, Environmental, Health, & Safety
Manager
Avalo, Anna2
Schorer, Timothy
Watch Staff
Brosseau, William, Manager
Callahan, John, J.
Fish Jr., David L.
Lochhead, William M.
Rozum, John
Scanlan, Melanie1
Sexton, Andrew
Transportation, Building Services & Grounds
Burdge, Lawrence, Manager
Barron, Bryan2
Boucher, Richard L.
Brereton, Richard S.2
Carlton-Foss, Margaret2
Collins, Paul1
Hewins, William2
Illgen, Robert F.1
Kaski, Robert1
Martin, James2
Russo, Jacob2
Warren, Alena2
Wyckoff, Christopher2
Custodial
Meisel, Robert, Supervisor
Anderson, Lewis B.
Bailey, Nathan2
Bryant, Horace
Ficher, Jason
Glanzman, Alain2
Howell, Robert
Kay, Kevin2
Kipnes, Geoffrey2
Long, Stephen2
Luby, Mary1
Maloney, Corey2
Mellor, Andrew2
Miller, Dennis
Nangle, Brett2
Oldenburg, Ian2
Rowell, Frederick1, 2
Ruchie, Ryan2
Scanlan, Melanie1
Ware, Lynn M.