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July 2009

Date: Event:

07/01/09 The Nancy S. Rafferty Lectureship - "Visualizing in Vivo the Dynamics of the Zebrafish Segmentation Clock" - Sharon Amacher, University of California, Berkeley - 1:30 PM, Speck Auditorium

07/01/09 MBLWHOI Library Summer Salon Series - Dr. Susan Barry - “Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist’s Journey into Seeing in Three Dimensions” - 4:00, Grass Reading Room

07/01/09 MBL Club Event - “Once Upon a Tide - Sea Songs and Stories” with Jackson Gillman – 7:00 PM, MBL Club

07/01/09 Neural Systems & Behavior Seminars - Topic TBA - Dora Angelaki, Washington University School of Medicine - 8:00 PM, Speck Auditorium

07/02/09 The Gertrude Forkosh Waxler Lectureship - "Molecular Motors Mix It Up: Steady Forces and Random Fluctuations" - David Weitz, Harvard University - 4:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium

07/02/09 Thursday Evening NeuroImaging Seminars - Ryohei Yasuda, Duke University - "Visualization of biochemical signaling in single dendritic spines" - 8:00 PM, Speck Auditorium

07/03/09 The Irvin Isenberg Lectureship - "Breakthroughs in Imaging Using Photoactivatable Fluorescent Protein Technology" - Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, NIH - 9:00 AM, Lillie Auditorium

07/03/09 Friday Evening Lecture Series - "Coastal Cities, Coastal Impacts: The Tides They Are A-Changin" - Susan Avery, WHOI - 8:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium

07/03/09 MBL Holiday - Independence Day, (celebrated)

07/04/09 Independence Day

07/06/09 The Maynard and Suzanne Goldman Lectureship - "Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidizing Bacteria (Anammox): Their Environmental Role" - J. Gijs Kuenen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands - 8:30 AM, Candle House 104

07/06/09 Neuroscience Seminars Series - "Mechanisms and Function of Spike Timing-Dependent Plasticity During Early Auditory Processing" - Thanos Tzounopoulos, University of Pittsburgh - Speck Auditorium, 8:00 PM

07/07/09 The Joe L. Martinez, Jr. & James G. Townsel Endowed Lectureship - "Explorations of a 'Simple' Olfactory System" - John Hildebrand, University of Arizona - 6:00 PM, Speck Auditorium

07/07/09 Tuesday Evening Cytoskeleton and Cell Motility Seminar Series - "Spindle morphogenesis: microtubule turnover and forces on poles" - Tim Mitchison, Harvard Medical School - 8:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium

07/08/09 MBL Club Event - Fish Stories and T-Shirt Printing: Learn some interesting facts and stories about fish and thenuse them to make prints! Please bring your own t-shirt. 7:00 PM. Members, free. Guests, $5.

07/08/09 Neural Systems & Behavior Seminars - "Molecular Neurobiology of Social Bonding" - Larry Young, Emory University - 8:00 PM, Speck Auditorium

07/09/09 Thursday Evening NeuroImaging Seminars - Phil Haydon, Tufts University - “Modulatory roles for astrocytes in synaptic plasticity and sleep” - 8:00 PM, Speck Auditorium

07/10/09 Friday Evening Lecture Series - "In the Beginning: Genomics of Animal Origins and Diversity" - Daniel Rokhsar, University of California, Berkeley - 8:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium

07/11/09 The Arthur K. Parpart Lectureship - "Regulation of Cell Architecture By Microtubule Plus-end Tracking Proteins" - Anna Akhmanova, Erasmus University, Rotterdam - 9:00 AM, Lillie Auditorium

07/11/09 The Richard G. Kessel Lecture in Embryology - "Epigenetics, Chromatin Remodeling and Mammalian Development" - Terry Magnuson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - 9:00 AM, Speck Auditorium

07/11/09 Summer Program in Neuroscience, Ethics & Survival ends

07/13/09 Neuroscience Seminars Series - "What the nose tells the bulb (something known); response in the bulb (mostly black hole); bulb output (black hole)" - Lawrence Cohen, Yale University - Speck Auditorium, 8:00 PM

07/15/09 MBLWHOI Library Summer Salon Series - Dr. Gerald Weissmann - “Mortal and Immortal DNA: Science and the Lure of Myth” - 4:00, Grass Reading Room

07/15/09 MBL Club Event - Rainforest Reptile Show - Learn about alligators, turtles, and snakes from the world's neo-tropical to sub-tropical rainforests. Meet and greet the scaley "stars" of the show at its conclusion. 7:00 PM, Members, Free. Guests: Adults, $8; Children, $5.

07/15/09 Neural Systems & Behavior Seminar - "Memory formation in the hippocampal formation: Spatial and nonspatial pathways" - James Knierim, The Johns Hopkins University, Krieger Mind/Brain Institute and Department of Neuroscience - co-director NS&B course - Speck Auditorium, 8:00 PM

07/16/09 MBL Corporation Town Hall Meeting - The MBL community is invited to attend a meeting to provide input and advice to the Corporation committees, including: Membership; Courses; Buildings and Grounds; Housing, Food Service, and Child Care; Fellowships; and Research Service and Space. Please join us to share your thoughts and ideas. Cookies and coffee will be provided. 12:00 Noon, Speck Auditorium

07/16/09 The Kensal E. van Holde Lectureship in Physiology - "Adhesion and Polarity in Migration Cells" - Alan "Rick" Horwitz, University of Virginia - 4:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium. Reception will take place in the Meigs Room following the lecture.

07/16/09 Friday Evening Lecture Series - Forbes Lecture - "The Molecular Biology of Thermosensation and Pain" - David Julius, UC, San Francisco - 8:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium - (Note, Thursday Lecture)

07/17/09 The Tay Hayashi Lectureship in Cell Physiology - "Integrin Signaling and Anchorage Dependence of Growth" - Martin Schwartz, University of Virginia - 9:00 AM, Lillie Auditorium. Reception will take place in the Lillie Lobby following the lecture.

07/17/09 MBL Artisan Fair - Waterfront Park, 10:00 AM

07/17/09 Friday Evening Lecture Series - Forbes Lecture - "From Peppers to Peppermints: Understanding Pain Through the Power of Folk Medicine and Natural Products" - David Julius, UC, San Francisco - 8:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium

07/20/09 Neuroscience Seminars Series - "Synapse formation and axon regeneration in C. elegans" - Yishi Jin, UCSD - Speck Auditorium, 8:00 PM

07/21/09 Tuesday Evening Cytoskeleton and Cell Motility Seminar Series - "Centrosome and nuclear positioning in migrating cell polarity" - Gregg Gundersen, Columbia University - 8:00 PM, Speck Auditorium

07/22/09 MBL Club Event - Ocean Sediment Glazes Lecture and Activity with Joan Lederman - Woods Hole based artist Joan Lederman uses ocean floor sediments as glazes to create beautiful and unique pottery pieces. She will explain her work as well as teach “Brushwork Yoga.” For all ages. - 7:00 pm, Members, Free. Guests, $2.

07/22/09 Summer Falmouth Forum - “Dave’s Mobile Show and Tell” - David Pogue, New York Times columnist - Lillie Auditorium, 8:00 PM

07/22/09 Neural Systems & Behavior Seminars - "Unraveling fine-scale and cell-type specificity of cortical circuits" - Edward Callaway, Salk Institute - 8:00 PM, Speck Auditorium

07/23/09 The S. Meryl Rose Lectureship - "Endogenous Bioelectric Signals in Left-Right Patterning, Regeneration and Neoplasm: Molecular Mechanisms and Opportunities for Biomedicine" - Michael Levin, Tufts University - 3:30 PM, Speck Auditorium

07/23/09 Thursday Evening NeuroImaging Seminars - Jeff Magee, Janelia Farm - “Circuit influences on input transformation by CA1 pyramidal neurons" - 8:00 PM, Speck Auditorium

07/24/09 Friday Evening Lecture Series - "The Microbial Engines that Drive Earth's Biogeochemical Cycles" - Paul Falkowski, Rutgers University - Lillie Auditorium, 8:00 PM

07/26/09 Workshop on Molecular Evolution starts

07/26/09 Molecular Biology of Aging course starts

07/26/09 Embryology course ends

07/27/09 Neuroscience Seminars Series - "Epigenetic regulation of memory formation in health and disease" - Li-Huei Tsa, MIT - Speck Auditorium, 8:00 PM

07/28/09 Tuesday Evening Cytoskeleton and Cell Motility Seminar Series - Topic TBA - Alexey Khodjakov, Wadsworth Center - 8:00 PM, Speck Auditorium

07/29/09 MBLWHOI Library Summer Salon Series - Dr. Cecily Selby - "History of Naushon Island" - 4:00, Grass Reading Room

07/29/09 MBL Club Event - “The Creative Ice Age Brain” by Barbara Olins Alpert - Barbara Olins Alpert’s newest book analyzes ice age art in the light of modern neuroscience and psychology. Come hear her conclusions about how the past is linked to the present! A craft for children will be available. 7:00 PM, Members, Free. Guests, $2.

07/29/09 Neural Systems & Behavior Seminars - "The self-tuning brain: Homeostatic and Hebbian plasticity in the developing visual cortex" - Gina Turrigiano, Brandeis University - 8:00 PM, Speck Auditorium

07/30/09 Thursday Evening NeuroImaging Seminars - Stephen Smith, Stanford University - “Synapse classification for neural circuit reconstruction: the synaptome meets the connectome” - 8:00 PM, Speck Auditorium

07/30/09 Microbial Diversity course ends

07/31/09 Woods Hole Diversity Event - "Who is the Scientist?" - Steven Shapin, Harvard University - Redfield Auditorium, 2:00 PM

07/31/09 Friday Evening Lecture Series - "Good News About Autism" - Martin Raff, University College London; Ellison Medical Foundation Scientific Advisory Board - 8:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium