Captain Szoboszlay | Marton has just returned to us from the Marine Biological Laboratory microbial diversity summer course. The MBL course is (from the MBL site) " An intensive 6.5 week course for graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and established investigators who aim to learn how to cultivate and genetically manipulate metabolically and phylogenetically diverse microorganisms. Students will also be exposed to state-of-the-art imaging and bioinformatic techniques used to study not-yet-cultivated microbes ." We are excited that Marton had this great opportunity and we look forward to incorporating his new experiences into the lab repertoire. At left is a photo of Marton onboard the Sikuliaq NSF research ship (photo is courtesy of Nancy Kiang). |