1993 TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES at the MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY
NEUROSCIENCE
Neural Systems & Behavior (June 13 - August 6) - Applications due March
2. Course Directors: Ronald Calabrese, Emory University and Martha
Constantine-Paton, Yale University. This program funded in part by
a training grant from NIMH, and a grant from the Grass Foundation.
Neurobiology (June 13 - August 14)- Applications due March 2. Course
Directors: Leonard Kaczmarek, Yale University and Irwin Levitan,
Brandeis University. This program funded in part by a grant from
NINDS, and a grant from the Grass Foundation.
Methods in Computational Neuroscience (August 3 - 31) - Applications due
May 21. Course Directors: David Kleinfeld and David Tank, AT&T Bell
Laboratories. This program funded in part by a training grant from
NIMH, and grants from the Office of Naval Research and Pew Charitable
Trusts.
Cellular Neurobiology of the Leech (August 8 - 28) - Applications due
June 1. Course Directors: Pierre Drapeau, McGill University and
David Weisblat, University of California, Berkeley. This program
funded in part by a training grant from NSF.
Pathogenesis of Neuroimmunologic Diseases (August 15 - 27) -
Applications due May 4. Course Directors: J. Murdoch Ritchie, Yale
University and Byron H. Waksman, Harvard and New York
Universities.This program funded in part by a grant from NIMH.
CELLULAR & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Biology of Parasitism (June 13 - August 14) - Applications due March 2.
Course Director: John C. Boothroyd, Stanford University; Associate
Director: Richard Komuniecki, University of Toledo, Ohio.This
program funded in part by grants from The John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation, the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, and
Burroughs Wellcome.
Embryology (June 18 - July 30) - Applications due March 2. Course
Directors: Eric H. Davidson, California Institute of Technology;
Michael Levine, University of California, San Diego; and David R.
McClay, Duke University.This program funded in part by a grant from
NICHD.
Physiology: Cellular and Molecular Biology (June 12- July 24)-
Applications due March 2. Course Director: Thomas D. Pollard, Johns
Hopkins University. This program funded in part by a grant from
NIGMS.
TECHNIQUES TRAINING
Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy (May 13 - 21) -
Applications due March 15. Course Directors: Greenfield Sluder and
David Wolf, Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology.
Microinjection Techniques in Cell Biology (May 25 - June 1) -
Applications due March 22. Course Director: Robert B. Silver,
Cornell University.
Advances in Mariculture (May 16 - 29) - Applications due March 15.
Course Director: Roger T. Hanlon, Marine Biomedical Institute,
Galveston, Texas...This program funded in part by a grant from the
Office of Naval Research and Texas Sea Grant.
Recombinant DNA Methodology Workshops (August 2 - 7 Basic Level, August
9 - 14 Advanced) - Course Director: Robert Farrell, Exon-Intron, Inc
Optical Microscopy and Imaging in the Biomedical Sciences (October 20 -
28) - Applications due July 19. Course Director: Colin S. Izzard,
State University of New York at Albany.
MICROBIOLOGY
Microbial Diversity (June 13 - July 29) - Applications due March 2.
Course Directors: Martin Dworkin, University of Minnesota and John
Breznak, Michigan State University. This program funded in part by
grants from the Office of Naval Research, the U.S. Department of
Energy, and the Foundation for Microbiology.
GENETICS & EVOLUTION
History of Biology: Human Genetics in the 20th Century (August 1-11) -
Applications due May 21. Course Directors: Garland Allen,
Washington University; John Beatty, University of Minnesota; and Jane
Maienschein, Arizona State University. This program funded in part by
a grant from the Dibner Fund, Inc.
Molecular Evolution (August 8-20) -Applications due June 1. Course
Director: Mitchell Sogin, Marine Biological Laboratory.This program
funded in part by a grant from NSF.
INFORMATION SCIENCE
Medical Informatics (June 2 - 8) - Applications due March 26. Course
Director: Homer Warner, University of Utah School of Medicine. This
fellowship program is sponsored by the National Library of Medicine.
For further information and application materials contact: Ms. Dorianne
Chrysler, Admissions Coordinator, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods
Hole, MA 02543, Ph: (508-548-3705, Ext. 401), Fax: (508-457-1924),
E-mail: admissions at mbl.edu
