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education
The 2002 Education Program provided 499 students from 288 institutions and 30 countries an
opportunity to study a range of biological topics with some of the best and brightest scientists
in the world serving as course faculty and lecturers. The Laboratory welcomed 554 faculty
members and staff and 203 lecturers to the courses in 2002. They represented 175 institutions
and 31 countries. Among the many outstanding lecturers last summer, we were especially
pleased to host two Nobel Laureates, Michael Brown and Tim Hunt, who gave the Arthur K.
Parpart and the Irvin Isenberg Lectures, respectively, in the Physiology course.
In
addition to the MBL's six major summer courses, we offered 14 special topics courses
throughout the year, including two exciting new courses: Advances in Genome Technology and
Bioinformatics, directed by Claire M. Fraser, TIGR, and Mitchell Sogin, MBL; and
Neuroinformatics, directed by Partha Mitra of Lucent Technologies, Emery Brown of Massachusetts
General Hospital, and David Kleinfeld of the University of California, San Diego.
At the end of the 2002 season, we bid farewell to Chris Tschudi and Elisabetta Ullu, directors of
the Biology of Parasitism course. Jay Bangs of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will take
the helm of that course in 2003. We also said goodbye to Bill Bialek and Rob de Ruyter Van
Steveninck of the Computational Neuroscience course. Bard Ermentrout of the University of
Pittsburgh and John White of Boston University will assume the directorship of the course in
2003. In addition, Sandra Masur, of Mount Sinai School of Medicine, joined David Papermaster
as co-director of the Vision Research course in 2002.
The MBL's educational program once again received a stamp of approval from the National
Institutes of Health's competitive peer review process with renewed funding for the Embryology,
Neural Systems & Behavior, and Neurobiology courses, and new funding for the inaugural
Neuroinformatics course.