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R40
2002
FRIDAY EVENING LECTURES
June 21
Barry Bloom, Harvard School of Public Health
"Economic and Political Implications of
Global Infectious Diseases"
June 28
R. Alan B. Ezekowitz, Massachusetts Gen
Hospital for Children
"Fighting Infections from Flies to Man"
JulyS
Lang Lecture
Michael J. Ryan, University of Texas, AL
"Sexual Selection and The Brain"
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General Scientific Meetings Awards
July 12
Gail K. Naughton, Advanced Tissue Sciences
"Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering:
From Science Fiction to Medical Fact"
On the recommendation
of the Science
Council, the MBL
reinstated the MBL
Award for outstanding
presentations at
the Laboratory's
annual General
Scientific Meetings.
The award in each
category consists is
a crystal clock and
a $300 cash prize.
Fifty-six presentations
were given during
the Meetings, which
were held August 72
to 14 in the Lillie
Auditorium.
After
peer-review of all
papers and talks, four
awards and two
honorable mentions
were p; -sented.
Senior Investigator:
Peter Armstrong, Margaret Armstrong, R. L. Pardy,
Alice Child, and Norman Wainwright, "Histochemical
demonstration of lipopolysaccharide in the cell
wall of a eukaryote, the green alga Chlorella"
Junior Investigator:
Michael Smotherman, "Acetylcholine mediates
excitatory input to chromatophore motoneurons in
the squid, Loligo pealei"
Graduate Student:
Beate Mittmann, "Early neurogenesis
in the
horseshoe crab Limu/us po/yphemus
implication for arthropod relationships"
and its
Undergraduate Student:
Jane La Du, Deana Erdner, Sonya Dyhrman, and
Don Anderson, "Molecular approaches to understanding
population dynamics of the toxic
dinoflagellate A/exandrium fundyense"
Student Honorable Mentions:
Jeremy M. Testa, Matt Charette, Edward Sholkovitz,
Matt Allen, Adam Rago, and Craig Herbold,
"Dissolved iron cycling in the subterranean estuary
of a coastal bay: Waquoit Bay, Massachusetts"
D. E. Arnolds, 5. J. Zottoli, C. E. Adams, S. M.
Dineen, S. Fevrier, Y. Quo, and A. J. Pascal,
"Physiological effects of tricaine on the
supramedullary/dorsal neurons of the cunner,
Tautogo/abrus adspersus"
July 18, 19
Forbes Lectures
William Newsome, Stanford University
I.Thursday, July 18
"Making Decisions: The Brain's Link Between
Perception and Action"
II.
Friday, July 19
"Seeing Motion: Linking Neurophysiology
to Perceptual Psychology"
July 26
Michael Brown, University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
"Genetic Defenses Against Heart Attacks"
August 2
Steven Hyman, Harvard University
"Reflections on Behavior in
the Postgenomic Era"
August 9
Dan Barry, NASA
"Sensations of Space Flight"
August 16
Tim Hunt, Cancer Research UK,
Clare Hall Laboratories
"What is the Cell Cycle and
How is it Controlled?"
Nerve branches and synaptic endings in a musc/e of a transgenic
mouse, Jeff Lichtman