Sciences at Dartmouth College, NH, gave this year’s lecture. The E. E. Just
endowed chair is named after Charleston born, Dr. Edward Everett Just, who
did his early schooling here and in Orangeburg, SC before going to the
preparatory school Kimball Union Academy in NH, He then completed a BA with
Honors at Dartmouth College followed by a Ph. D. at the University of
Chicago. Dr. Just pioneered the work showing that there was communication
between the cytoplasm and the nucleus, an idea considered heretical at the
time. He used marine organisms as his research model and spent summers at
the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. and the Naples Marine
Station, Italy. He also lectured extensively and lived in Germany.
Dr. Langford spoke to the students and faculty on two topics. As a recent
member of the National Science Board which reports to the President and
advises the National Science Foundation, he gave a succinct overview of the
trends in graduate education based on demographics, gender, nationality,
race and academic discipline. His research deals with the molecular
mechanisms by which intracellular vesicles move along directed pathways
using microtubules and microfilaments as guides. He uses axon of the marine
invertebrate, the squid because of its size, availability, viability, and
similarity to mammalian nerves. He showed compelling evidence that vesicles
use both microfilaments and microtubles in a tandem manner alignment to
move in the axon but have distinctly different molecular motors for each of
these.
Over 100 guests and faculty viewed 25 posters presented by the Marine
Biomedicine students and fellows.
