2008 Public Events Schedule
Every Monday and Wednesday, from June 30 to August 27, 2:00 p.m.
Public Tours, Maren Auditorium
Tours begin at the Maren Auditorium with a brief video presentation and talk on the history of MDIBL, followed by a tour of the Myers Aquarium and touch tank. Tour Information.
April
Friday and Saturday, April 25 and 26
35th Maine Biological and Medical Sciences Symposium, Maren Auditorium
The 35th Maine Biological and Biomedical Sciences Symposium will be held April 25-26, 2008 in the Maren Auditorium and Dahlgren Hall Conference Center at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory in Salisbury Cove, Maine. The Maine Biological and Medical Sciences Symposium (MBMSS) is a state-wide gathering of researchers and students—an opportunity to share research results, exchange ideas, promote collaboration, and network with Maine scientists in a variety of disciplines. Invited and selected speakers will present short research reports, followed by question/answer and open discussion. A poster session will also be held.
June
Wednesday, June 25, 8:00 p.m.
Helen F. Cserr Memorial Lecture, Maren Auditorium
Named in memory of Dr. Helen F. Cserr, an exceptional scientist who studied the blood-brain barrier in marine models for twenty summers at MDIBL, the fourteenth annual Helen F. Cserr Memorial Lecture will be presented by Leslie P. Tolbert, Ph.D., Professor of Neurobiology and Cell Biology and Anatomy at Arizona Research Laboratories, Division of Neurobiology. Dr. Tolbert’s research focuses on the development and functional organization of the olfactory system, studied in convenient model organisms, the moth Manduca sexta and the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster. Several different lines of investigation have lead Dr. Tolbert and her lab group to focus their research on roles for glial cells in development and in mature function.
Sunday, June 29, 2:00 p.m.
Richard K. Orkand Memorial Lecture in Neuroscience and Cell Signaling, Maren Auditorium
This will be the third annual lecture named in memory of Dr. Richard K. Orkand, Director of the Institute of Neurobiology at the University of Puerto Rico and recipient of many awards for his work in neuroscience.
July
Wednesday, July 9, 8:00 p.m.
William B. Kinter Memorial Toxicology Lecture, Maren Auditorium
The twenty-sixth annual lecture in memory of Dr. William B. Kinter, an MDIBL scientific investigator for fifteen years whose interest in the effects of toxic compounds in the environment was instrumental in shaping this branch of research at MDIBL. The Kinter Lecture will be the keynote address at the 15th Annual Environmental Health Sciences Symposium at MDIBL.
This year's speaker is Deborah A. Nickerson, Ph.D., Professor of Genome Sciences at the School of Medicine, University of Washington, and Director of the NIEHS Environmental Genome Project. Dr. Nickerson will address one of the most complex and challenging problems in human biology and medicine: defining the connection between genotype and phenotype among individuals in a population. As knowledge of the baseline reference sequence increases, so will the need to define the level of natural variation in human populations and to explore the relationship between this nucleotide diversity and phenotype. In this regard, single nucleotide substitutions and unique insertions and deletions are the most common form of sequence variation and disease-causing mutation in the human genome. Based on this, Dr. Nickerson and her lab have focused their efforts on developing approaches to improve the sensitivity, accuracy and speed of identifying and typing these potentially functional genomic variations.
Sponsor: NIEHS Center for Comparative Toxicology at MDIBL and the Kinter Lectureship
Host: James L. Boyer, M.D.
Thursday, July
10, 5:30 p.m.
Family Science Night
Add a little science to your summer! Join science educators at MDIBL as they demonstrate that Science is FUN! Activities begin with an entertaining performance by “Stand-up Cameleon” Jackson Gillman in Maren Auditorium, followed by a touch tank demonstration, and hands-on science experiments led by MDIBL scientists. Space is limited. Please call 207-288-3147 to make reservations.
Monday, July 21, 8:00
p.m.
Thomas H. Maren Lecture, Maren Auditorium
Named in memory of Dr. Thomas H. Maren, whose research in the carbonic anhydrase enzyme's function in marine organisms brought him to MDIBL for forty-seven summers, the eighteenth annual lecture will be delivered by Philip A. Cole, M.D., Ph.D., the E.K. Marshall and Thomas H. Maren Professor of Pharmacology at John Hopkins University. Dr. Cole's research career has focused on the application of chemical methods to address biomedical problems. His group’s scientific achievements include the development, in collaboration with Tom Muir, of a simple and widely used method to carry out protein semi-synthesis called expressed protein ligation. His lab has applied this method to study the detailed aspects of protein phosphorylation and acetylation.
Thursday, July 26, 10:00 a.m.
MDIBL Annual Meeting of the MDIBL Corporation and Trustees, Maren Auditorium
The MDIBL Corporation and Trustees will hold their annual meeting and building dedication in celebration of the completion of the new 15,000 square foot, state-of-the-art, environmentally friendly laboratory building – the first new lab to be built at MDIBL in over 30 years, and the first scientific research laboratory in Maine to be registered with the U.S. Green Building Council. For more information, please call 207-288-3147.
Tuesday, July 29, 1:00 p.m.
MDIBL Student Symposium, Maren Auditorium
Each year MDIBL provides hands-on research training for more than 300 high school, undergraduate, and postdoctoral students. Students work side-by-side with distinguished scientists on novel research projects, often a pivotal experience that motivates students to pursue a career in science or medicine. Join us for this opportunity to interact with budding scientists from the 2008 internship program and hear the results of their summer’s work.
August
Wednesday, August 6, 8:00 p.m.
John W. Boylan Memorial Lecture, Maren Auditorium
Named in memory of Dr. John W. Boylan, a distinguished pioneer in renal physiology and experimental medicine, the fourteenth annual lecture will be given by Kevin Klose, President and CEO of National Public Radio, former editor at The Washington Post, and former Director of Radio Free Europe/Liberty Radio. He is a graduate of Harvard University and a recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Award in Journalism.
Monday, August 11,
4:30 p.m.
Lewis Science Lecture, Maren Auditorium
Named in memory of the late Dr. Jessica H. Lewis, a lifelong member of the scientific community at MDIBL,
the ninth annual Lewis Science Lecture will be delivered by Daniel E. Lieberman, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. Dr. Lieberman’s research focuses on how and why the human body looks the way it does. He explores the growth and development of key human features, how they function, how their function affects performance, how and when they evolved, and what this tells us about the selective forces that acted during human evolution.
Friday and Saturday, August 10 and 11
Mount Desert Island Stem Cell Symposium, Maren Auditorium
The seventh annual Mount Desert Island Stem Cell Symposium, co-sponsored with The Jackson Laboratory,
will bring together many of the world's leading experts in stem cell
research to exchange ideas and explore new directions
and comparative approaches to this exciting field of
research. The Symposium will include a banquet dinner
and keynote address focusing on the current ethical
and political issues currently facing stem cell research.
Seating is limited. Please call 207-288-3147 to make reservations.
Thursday, August 14, 5:30 p.m.
Family Science Night
Add a little science to your summer! Join science educators at MDIBL as they demonstrate that Science is FUN! Activities begin with an entertaining performance in Maren Auditorium, followed by a touch tank demonstration, and hands-on science experiments led by MDIBL scientists. Space is limited. Please call 207-288-3147 to make reservations.
For more information about MDIBL summer events, please
call 207-288-3147 or email the MDIBL Development
Office.
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