Annual Student Research Open House

On the Third Friday of every July doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows in the Marine Biomedicine and Environmental Sciences Center and trainees associated with the MBES present their previous year’s research in poster format at the MUSC White House on the Ft. Johnson campus. All MBES faculty, mentors, MUSC medical faculty and Ft. Johnson staff and faculty attend this informal and enjoyable event. This late afternoon student research presentation  is preceded by a Keynote Lecture from an eminent scientist in one of the many fields encompassing the molecular and chemical approaches to understanding the relationship between the environment and human health. An important aspect of this day is the noon luncheon that the students enjoy separately with the keynote speaker.

YEAR Keynote Speaker Seminar Title    
2008 Dr. Mak Saito

Associate Scientist
Department of Marine Chemistry and GeochemistryWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution

"Connections between marine phytoplankton and seawater chemistry: metal ligand production, vitamin B12 cycling, and the development of genomic and proteomic molecular markers for the study of biogeochemical processes" Student  Abstracts
2007 Dr. Mitchell L. Sogin
The Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole and the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Brown University.
"Microbial Population Structure of the World’s Oceans: an underexplored “rare biosphere" Student  Abstracts
2006 Dr. Terry Gaasterland
 Professor of Computational Biology
University of California, San Diego,
Director of the Scripps Genome Center,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
"Regulating the regulators: the impact of alternative splicing and microRNAs on control of transcription"
 
STUDENT ABSTRACTS

2005

Dr. Michele Wheatly
Dean of College of Science and Mathematics
Professor of Biological Sciences
Wright State University, Dayton, OH
"Shedding and shucking: What shellfish can teach us about spatial and temporal regulation of genes for calcium transporting proteins" STUDENT ABSTRACTS

2004

Dr. George Langford
E.E. Just Professor of Biology
Dartmouth College, Hanover NH
"Neuroimaging of vesicle transport by myosin V in the giant squid axon: a model of vesicle delivery to the synapse" STUDENT ABSTRACTS
2003 Dr. Frank Robb
Center of Marine Biotechnology
Baltimore, MD
"Genomic Approaches to Marine Biology and Biotechnology" STUDENT ABSTRACTS  
2002 Dr. Guy T. Carter
Senior Director, Natural Products and Discovery, Analytical Chemistry
Wyeth - Ayerst Research Inc.
Pearl River, NY
"Marine Natural Products in Drug Discovery: Opportunities and Challenges" STUDENT ABSTRACTS  
2001 Dr. Jo-Ann Leong
Director, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology
Manoa, HI

"A Molecular Approach to Fish Health"

STUDENT ABSTRACTS  

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