The great softball game (and victory) against NS&B

Team Kiss & Run

A strategy to success

Psychology was crucial to win the game

Gemma trip

Pictures from our short trip on the Gemma, the boat used to collect marine specimens.

Woods Hole drawbridge on our way out

Nobska lighthouse from the water. 

Elaine, Diego, Tommy, and Eva

Benni, Antje and Lasse

Despite almost complete immobility in his life preserver, Lasse was in a good mood.

Collecting a bucket sample

crab larvae and baby lobster

Alberto, director of the Grass Lab, researcher of gap junctions, squid chef extraordinaire

Dredge used to collect specimens.

Dredging brings up many small marine creatures...

...and some larger ones as well, like two female horseshoe crabs.

The primitive eyes not only allow crab romance to blossom underwater and under the full moon, but also provide a unique prep to study lateral inhibition and vision.

Our guide was Dave Remsen, the director of MBL's Marine Resource Center, who taught us about the properties of horseshoe crab blood.  As discovered at the MBL, the blood has a unique response to Gram-negative bacteria--an extremely useful property for medical applications.

Business end of horseshoe crab.

Fabio explores the possibilities of an in situ scallop prep

A few random photos from early summer

Transient rhododendrons at the cottages

Sun returns after the fog

Rebecca waits for Reyna's life-sustaining grocery-mobile.  We were wondering where the blue door goes...apparently it serves as access to the giant pipe that pumps sea water into Lillie Laboratory.

Laundry visitor

"Cannibalism is the ultimate form of aggression" - Ed Kravitz

Tim and his colombian twin brother

Llinas lecture and 2 for 1 lobster dinner at Shucker's

In a combined act of gastronomical indulgence and thrift, a group of us took advantage of the buy-one-lobster-get-one-lobster-free Tuesday dinner special at Shucker's.

Later that evening, we had the Grass lecture and some spirited conversations with Rodolfo Llinas

Chris and Llinas discussing learning and plasticity in the cerebellum

Sunday dinner at Fabio's

Hot arepas, fresh vegetables, pepper soup!