Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole Massachusetts One Hundred and Third Report for the Year 2000 One Hundred and Twelfth Year Officers of the Corporation Sheldon J. Segal, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Frederick Bay. Co-Vice Chair Mary J. Greer. Co-Vice Chair John E. Dowling. President of the Corporation John E. Burris, Director and Chief Executive Officer William T. Speck, Interim Director and Chief Executive Officer Mary B. Conrad, Treasurer Robert E. Mainer, Clerk of the Corporation Contents Report of the Director and CEO Rl Report of the Treasurer R6 Financial Statements R7 Report of the Library Director R18 Educational Programs Summer Courses R20 Special Topics Courses R24 Photo credits: Other R32 Programs E. Armstrong R3 (bottom), R4 (top), R20, R21, Summer Research Programs R24, R27, R35, R47, R55 R35 Principal Investigators K. Begos R38 R36 Other Research Personnel D. Buffam R2 (bottom) Library Readers R37 M. Dornblaser R68 Institutions R38 Represented J. Dowling R30 Year-Round Research Programs R43 L. Colder R64 Honors R57 Gray Museum of the Marine Biological Board of Trustees and Committees R64 Laboratory R57 Administrative Support Staff R68 R. Hanlon R43 Members of the Corporation R. Howard R4 (bottom), R18 Life Members R71 A. Kuzirian R6 Members R72 B. Liles R71 Associate Members R83 H. Luther R23. R46 Certificate of R86 Organization J. Montgomery R2 (top) Articles of Amendment R86 P. Presley Rl Bylaws R86 A. Rader R86 Publications . R91 Report of the Director and Chief Executive Officer It is with great pleasure that I write this report as the already had a major impact on the Laboratory's Marine Biological Laboratory's newest Director and Chief educational and research programs. One of the most Executive Officer. My relationship with the MBL has obvious achievements of the Campaign is the construction grown and expanded in rewarding and exciting ways of the C. V. Starr Environmental Sciences Building, during the past twenty-five years. I am now pleased to which will become the new home of The Ecosystems have the opportunity to serve as Director of this esteemed Center in 2001. Thanks to the Campaign we also the Paul Center for Laboratory. I first came to the MBL as a student and then established Josephine Bay returned as an investigator for several summers. My role Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution and hired scientists there and expanded when I was elected to the Laboratory's Board two new assistant (Michael Cummings of Trustees in 1994. and again when I joined the Jennifer Wernegreen); added five new summer courses Discovery Campaign Steering Committee. In 1999. I and the Semester in Environmental Sciences Program for succeeded Mel Cunningham as Chair of the Development undergraduates to our education roster; created more than Committee. Since being appointed Interim Director upon a dozen endowed scholarships for students and endowed John Burris's departure in the summer of 2000, I've had fellowships for young researchers; established a program a wonderful opportunity to view the inner workings of in scientific aquaculture in the Marine Resources Center; this remarkable institution. endowed the director's chair of the Marine Resources I think it's fair to say that the Marine Biological Center; and expanded our public outreach efforts through Center. Laboratory is stronger and healthier both financially and the creation of the Robert W. Pierce Visitors funds to endowed programmatically than it has ever been in its history. In In addition, we raised support courses and an annual lecture this report, I'll review what has led us to this point, share lectureships for the summer of and to with you some highlights from the year 2000, and discuss in Bioethics starting in the summer 2001, help where the Trustees and I see the Laboratory going in the shore up the Laboratory's aging physical plant. Moreover, endow the maintenance next few years. we received gifts to permanently of the Waterfront Park and the Pierce Visitors Center. the Finally, thanks to gifts to the Discovery Campaign, The Discovery Campaign Library has been air-conditioned and the Crane House on Millfield Street has been refurbished and added to our The Marine Biological Laboratory concluded its first year-round housing inventory. comprehensive fundraising campaign Discovery: The Campaign for Science at the Marine Biological Plant Laboratory in December 2000. Our goal was to raise Physical $25 million for a variety of initiatives at the MBL. When tackle some other we began planning for the campaign, some felt that this We've also been able to long- on For goal was a stretch for the institution. Thanks to the overdue maintenance projects campus. example, of seawall near the Lillie generosity of thousands of Trustees. Corporation the crumbling section Building Members, Associates, Alumni, Staff Members, has been reconstructed. By the summer of 2001, the Brick and furnished for Foundations, and Friends of the Laboratory, the MBL far Dormitory will have been renovated at Memorial Circle have been surpassed that goal, raising more than $41 million by the year-round use. Cottages we have renovations at end of the year 2000 in support of research, education, updated and de-leaded, and begun Lane. The research laboratories in the Lillie the library and physical plant, and the annual fund. Devils to accommodate Funds raised through the Discovery Campaign have Building are being renovated expanding Rl R2 Annual Report and high school teachers. Last summer brought quite a few undergraduates to the MBL as well, through a variety of Research Experience for Undergraduate Programs. One program focused on Marine Models, another was coordinated by the Boston University Marine Program. and others were offered by the Marine Resources and Ecosystems Centers. I'm pleased to report that funding has been allocated for two additional research programs for undergraduates beginning in summer 2001. The MBL's own semester-long undergraduate program. The Semester in Environmental Sciences, offered by the rd staff of The Ecosystems Center, completed its 3 year in consortium of 2000 with 1 5 students participating. The colleges whose students come for the fall semester continues to grow, currently numbering more than 40 research programs in the Bay Paul Center, year-round members. BioCurrents Research Center, and Architectural Dynamics in Living Cells Program. We've also added fresh paint and carpeting to the Meigs Room, and have begun Research other fixtures painting and replacing lighting and the throughout Swope Building. The summer research program ran at full capacity Our also include renovating summer research plans during the summer of 2000. One hundred and thirty-two laboratories in the Whitman Building. We expect to begin In investigators used all of our available lab space. fact, once renovating the Homestead building, which, in a room. modestly one applicant had to set up his research dark vacated the staff of The Ecosystems Center, will by The majority of the investigators (60%) were professors/ become home to the administrative offices of eventually chief scientists, followed by associate professors (20%) Financial Services. Education, Human Resources, and The and postdoctoral fellows (10%). The balance was Bulletin. Biological comprised of assistant scientists and graduate students. in a row I'm proud to report that for the second year an MBL Summer Scientist Avram Hershko of the The Biological Bulletin Technion in Israel has won the prestigious Lasker Award (Clay Armstrong won this award in 1999). This The Marine Biological Laboratory's journal, The award is second only to the Nobel Prize in significance in Biological Bulletin, celebrated a major milestone in 2000. science. Dr. Hershko will deliver a Friday Evening Edited by Michael J. Greenberg of the University of Lecture during the summer of 2001. I'm also pleased to Florida's Whitney Laboratory, the journal has been be able to count two of the year 2000' s Nobel Prize publishing peer-reviewed articles of general biological winners as members of the MBL family: Paul Greengard interest for more than 100 years. During the summer of of Rockefeller University, an alumnus of the Embryology 2001 the journal will launch a new initiative by Course and a former faculty member of the Neurobiology Press of publishing articles electronically with HighWire Course, and Eric Kandel of Columbia, a past MBL Stanford University. Education During the summer of 2000, the MBL's Educational Program offered a record 22 summer and special topics courses. Three hundred and thirty-five course directors and faculty members taught 490 advanced graduate and postdoctoral students in the courses last summer. An additional 315 guest lecturers and instructors participated in the courses as well. From all accounts, the quality of our students improves every year. We offered a symposium on the history of biology and a workshop in microbial diversity designed for middle Report of the Director and CEO R3 currently has 33 scientists and support staff. The Center's project to sequence the genome of the parasite Giardia is nearly complete. For the first time, the MBL has received a prestigious gift from the Keck Foundation. This $1 million award will establish the W. M. Keck Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics Facility at the Bay Paul Center. Microbial ecologists, molecular evolutionists, and genome scientists from the Bay Paul Center, The Ecosystems Center, and other scientific groups within the Woods Hole community will form a coalition to study how the genes of millions of microbes work together to influence biogeochemical processes within ecosystems. The BioCurrents Research Center investigator and Corporation Member. These awards validate the tremendous significance and impact the MBL's research and educational programs have on the The NIH BioCurrents Research Center, directed by biology community at large. Peter Smith, has increased in size and now numbers 1 1 The MBL's research fellowship program hosted 21 scientists, thanks to the recent addition of Drs.