MBL History Project

07/30/2024

It's , let's take a peak under the 🔬!

Drosophila melanogaster third instar eye disk. DAPI (dark blue, nuclei), anti-HRP (magenta, photoreceptor cell bodies and axons), Elav (cyan, photoreceptor nuclei), Repo (yellow, glia cell nuclei), Expanded (white). Disk also contains Tie-Dye clones - EGFP (green), RFP (red), and LacZ (medium blue). The EGFP clone is in patches of photoreceptors, while the RFP and LacZ clones are largely overlapping in a patch of peripodial membrane (RFP being mostly a subset. of the LacZ clone). Imaged with a Zeiss LSM 780 Confocal.

Credit: Jiajie Xu (University of Chicago, USA)

07/30/2024

Have you ever found one of these little brown pouches on the beach? You're holding a skate egg pouch. Sometimes called "mermaid's purses." Is there something inside? It's an embryo!

Skates are close cousins of sharks and rays and are an important model organism for biological and medical research. They are cartilaginous, so unlike humans their body structure is made of cartilage instead of bone. They continue to grow that cartilage throughout their adulthood. By studying the methods behind that growth, scientists aim to learn how to stimulate cartilage growth in humans.

Photo: Dee Sullivan

03/10/2024

RECOGNIZING OUR PAST TO STRENGTHEN OUR FUTURE

03/10/2024

In recognition of Women’s History Month, we’re honoring a few notable women with careers tied to ocean science. While this list is by no means comprehensive, it pays homage to some of the women who defied social convention and paved the way for scientists, regardless of their gender, to protect,...

12/22/2023

…may your days be merry and bright, and may all your experiments go right!

11/28/2021

Black In Marine Science in the early 20th Century would have been led by biologists Ernest Everett Just and Roger Arliner Young of the Marine Biological Laboratory and Howard University. Their lives are beacons and touchstones for the generations which followed and those yet to come: Just: https://bit.ly/3D1c7Dz Arliner-Young: https://bit.ly/3IcVhpd

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03/25/2021

With Her Fist Raised: the Life of African American activist Dorothy Pittman Hughes: Join us virtually next Wed. 3/31 for a fascinating Book talk and conversation with author and WCAI-FM host and journalist Mindy Todd 3/31 at 1:00 Register here: bit.ly/2NUpBNW With Her Fist Raised: the Life of African American activist Dorothy Pittman Hughes, virtual event.

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03/25/2021

The below iconic photograph from the civil rights movement is a starting off point for a discussion of the life of activist and businesswoman Dorothy Pittman Hughes, who through her life challenges and successes brought those same opportunities to her community:

With Her Fist Raised: the Life of African American activist Dorothy Pittman Hughes: Join us virtually next Wed. 3/31 for a fascinating Book talk and conversation with author and WCAI-FM host and journalist Mindy Todd 3/31 at 1:00 Register here: bit.ly/2NUpBNW With Her Fist Raised: the Life of African American activist Dorothy Pittman Hughes, virtual event.

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02/26/2021

Squid from weir. Image #15, photo: Alicia Hills Moore (1951) Moore, a student at MBL went on to become a Life Magazine photographer. She left an incredible body of

imagery in the MBL Archives, now digitized: https://bit.ly/3kqXwtf

07/07/2020

Discover how individuals such as Ernest Just and Roger Arliner influenced the development of Marine Biology as scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory

Written by Joe Baker On the 25th May 2020, George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis, after a white police officer, Dereck Chauvin, knelt on his neck for almost 9 minutes straight. This event, which h…

06/10/2020

Tomorrow, June 10, academics and science professionals around the country will be participating in , a grassroots initiative that aims “to hit pause, to give Black academics a break and to give others an opportunity to reflect on their own complicity in anti-Black racism in academia and their local and global communities.”

The MBL acknowledges and supports all faculty and staff who wish to participate in these activities. As such, all MBL events for that day have been canceled and staff are encouraged to cancel meetings. In line with the goals of the initiative, faculty and staff may choose to use the day to educate themselves about racial disparity and systemic oppression that plagues our nation as we work toward change, both nationally and locally.

In addition, a peaceful march around Eel Pond in defense of Black Lives will be held in Woods Hole tomorrow at 1:00 PM.

Visit shutdownstem.com or www.particlesforjustice.org for more information.