MDIBL 2009 Public Events
Schedule
Hands-On Science Activities
Throughout the Summer
For You, Your Family and
Visitors
 SPLASH! Dive Into the
Gene Pool with Legos® and
our Touch Tank
Our summer
visitors program has been completely
redesigned! Like every MDIBL education
program, SPLASH! is full of hands-on
opportunities to learn about genetics and
marine life. Experiment with our special,
MIT-designed LEGO® sets
to see how DNA divides and mutates. Then
get your hands and elbows wet learning
which creatures from the Maine coast and
bays are slimy, steely, friendly, or
prickly, and how they cope with life in
the mud or briny deep at our touch tank
and aquarium.
Mondays
and Wednesdays, June 29 through August
26, 10 a.m.
Family Science
Night
An MDIBL favorite
for children of all ages that proves that
science is FUN! Activities include
interactive performances by children's
entertainers, a touch tank demonstration,
and more than a dozen hands-on science
stations led by MDIBL scientists and
students. Space is limited. Please call
207.288.3147 for reservations.
Thursday, July 9 and
Thursday, August 13, 5:30
p.m.
Science
Fridays
Curious about what
scientists actually do? Here's your
chance to find out. Join one of our
investigators for lunch on the first or
second Friday of the month (remembering
always that science is about asking
questions!) and then head for the lab,
where you can get a feel for scientific
research by tackling a quick project.
From 12 to 2 p.m. and limited to 15
participants per Friday. Ages 16 and
over. Please call 207.288.3147 for
reservations.
May 8,
Feeling Crabby? Hormones, Humans, and
Crustaceans with Dr. Andrew
Christie
June 5,
Using DNA for Marine Conservation Studies
with Dr. Charles Wray
July 10, Ancient
Sea Monsters and Cell Membranes with Dr.
Sue Edwards
Celebrating
with MDIBL
MDIBL Annual Meeting and
Luncheon
Every year
members of the MDIBL Corporation and its
Board of Trustees review the events of
the previous year, assess the current
state of the Lab, and set its future
course. This year, we'll also introduce
MDIBL's new director - the first
full-time scientific director in our
111-year history. A delicious luncheon
will follow. Please call 207.288.3417
ahead to reserve a place for yourself and
any guests.
Thursday, July 23,
at 10 a.m., Maren Auditorium
Luncheon at 12:30
p.m., Star Point
CHAIR-ity Auction and
Dinner
 Summer, science,
and Adirondack chairs have always gone
together at MDIBL. This year, you can
take home the best seat in the house.
Local artists have
painted eight handmade Adirondack chairs
in amazing ways - with flowers, eagle's
nests, even images from our confocal
microscopes (think jeweled donuts). We'll
auction off the chairs after a festive
dinner to support the scientific program
at MDIBL. Tickets are $50; consider
sponsoring a table for ten and bringing
your friends. Read more...
Image of Adirondack Chair Painted by Linda Rowell Kelley.
Friday, July 24,
6:00 p.m., Maren Lawn
Presentations of General Interest
MDIBL Student
Symposium
Each year MDIBL
provides hands-on research training for
nearly 300 high school, undergraduate,
and postdoctoral students. Students work
side-by-side with distinguished
scientists on original research projects,
often having a pivotal experience that
motivates them to pursue a career in
science or medicine. Drop by to see what
the budding scientists from the 2009
internship program have been up to.
Tuesday, July
28, 9:00 a.m. to 4 p.m., Maren
Auditorium
John W. Boylan Memorial
Lecture
Imagine a world without fish: It seems inconceivable. But top scientists warn that we may be facing just such a future unless we stop the current process of ocean acidification.
The fifteenth annual John W. Boylan lecture presents A Sea Change, a new documentary directed by Barbara Ettinger and produced by Seven Huseby of Niijii Films. The film brings adventure, surprise, and stunning beauty to the hard facts of acidification. Ms. Ettinger and Mr. Huseby will speak about the film following the showing.
Tuesday, August 4, 8 p.m., Maren Auditorium
Lewis Science Lecture: Outer
Space
The tenth annual
Lewis Science Lecture will be delivered
by Warren R. Brown, Ph.D., an astronomer
at the Smithsonian Astrophysical
Observatory. Dr. Brown discovered the
first "hypervelocity star," a star whose
extreme speed (1.5 million mph) can only
be explained by its ejection from the
Galaxy's central black hole. He leads the
Century Survey Galactic Halo Project that
seeks to observe the structure of the
outer parts of the Milky Way and test
models of galaxy formation, and has been
awarded Harvard's Bok Prize and the
Smithsonian Secretary's Research
Prize.
Monday,
August 10, 4:30 p.m., Maren
Auditorium
Scientific
Lectures
Everyone is
welcome to attend these lectures geared
to a scientific audience.
Helen F. Cserr
Memorial Lecture
Dr. Helen F.
Cserr was an exceptional scientist who
studied the blood-brain barrier in marine
models for twenty summers at MDIBL. The
fifteenth annual Cserr lecture will be
presented by Dr. Patsy S. Dickinson,
Ph.D., Josiah Little Professor of Natural
Sciences and Director, Neuroscience
Program, Bowdoin College, will give the
give the fifteenth annual lecture. Her
research focuses on how the nervous
system controls behavior, particularly
relatively simple, rhythmic behaviors.
Her goal is to understand how flexibility
in behavior is controlled at the level of
the nervous system.
Wednesday, July 1, 8:00 p.m., Maren
Auditorium
William B. Kinter
Memorial Toxicology Lecture
Named in memory
of Dr. William B. Kinter, whose research
centered on the effects of toxic
compounds in the environment, the
twenty-seventh annual Kinter lecture will
be delivered by Christopher Bradfield,
Ph.D., Professor of Oncology at the
McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research,
University of Wisconsin School of
Medicine and Public Health. Dr.
Bradfield’s laboratory studies a
family of transcriptional regulators
known as PAS proteins, which control a
number of processes, including xenobiotic
metabolism, circadian rhythms,
angiogenesis, and neurogenesis. His talk
is titled “Dioxin, Clocks and
Oxygen: Prototype Signals for a Nuclear
Sensor.”
Wednesday, July 8, 8:00
p.m., Maren Auditorium
Thomas H. Maren
Memorial Lecture
The nineteenth
annual Maren lecture will be delivered by
Aaron Ciechanover, M.D., Technion
Distinguished Research Professor in the
Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of
Medicine and Research Institute at the
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology,
Haifa, Israel. Dr. Thomas H. Maren was a
pioneer in the field of carbonic
anhydrase. Dr. Ciechanover shared the
2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Irwin
Rose and Avram Hershko for the discovery
of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
and will speak on “The Ubiquitin
Proteolytic System: From the Bench
Through Human Diseases and onto Drug
Targeting.”
Wednesday, July 15,
8:00 p.m., Maren
Auditorium
Richard K. Orkand
Memorial Lecture in Neuroscience and Cell
Signaling
Named in memory of Dr. Richard K. Orkand,
Director of the Institute of Neurology at
the University of Puerto Rico and an
award-winning neuroscientist, the third
annual Orkand lecture will be given by
Mark A. Sussman, Ph.D. Dr. Sussman is
Professor of Biology at San Diego State
University and a key investigator at the
San Diego State University Heart Research
Institute. It has long been thought that
the heart, once broken by heart attack or
other trauma, never mended. However, Dr.
Sussman has discovered ways to promote
survival and long-term retention of stem
cells in the heart. His research has
contributed to a fundamental shift in
understanding the biology of the heart,
stem cells and the creation of new heart
muscle. He recently received a
prestigious Method to Extend Research in
Time (MERIT) Award from the National
Institutes of Health for his work in
cardiovascular research.
Wednesday,
August 12, 8:00 p.m., Maren
Auditorium
All
lectures are free of charge. Please
check http://www.mdibl.org
for updates.
For more
information about MDIBL summer events,
please call 207-288-3147 or email the
MDIBL Development
Office.
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