Animal sciences faculty Pawel Borowicz, Anna Grazul-Bilska, Dale Redmer and Larry Reynolds participated as faculty in a course titled “Frontiers in Reproduction” at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass.
Grazul-Bilska was the primary organizer and Borowicz, Redmer and Reynolds each provided lectures and a hands-on laboratory for a one-day workshop on “Angiogenesis in the Reproductive System.” The Frontiers in Reproduction course, which began in 1998, is a six-week laboratory and lecture course designed for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and junior scientists. The course typically has about 30 faculty, each of whom give one- or two-day workshops.
The 20 or so scientists in training are selected from around the globe.
Grazul-Bilska and Borowicz each have taken the Frontiers in Reproduction course in previous years. The course is one of six major educational programs held each summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory, which is a private research and educational institution. The laboratory also is an international center for research, education and training in biology, biomedicine and ecology and has been called America's "National Biological Laboratory.”
Throughout the year, scientists and students from throughout the world come to the Marine Biology Laboratory to conduct basic biological, biomedical and environmental research. Many utilize marine organisms as models to study basic biological problems. During the years, 49 individuals who studied or conducted research at the Marine Biology Laboratory have received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
For more information on the course, go to courses.mbl.edu/FIR/index.html.