<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Dear All,<div>Jennifer, Wallace and I wanted to welcome you all to this year’s edition of</div><div>the Physiology Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory. Three weeks from</div><div>today, we will be in full swing at the MBL.</div><div><br></div><div>In preparation for our adventure together this summer, we wanted to pass along</div><div>a few logistic notes. The structure of the course is that the seven weeks is</div><div>broken up into a one-week bootcamp at the beginning followed by</div><div>three two-week laboratory rotations in which the students will be part of</div><div>a given research group. Attached you will find the schedule of those laboratory</div><div>rotations with each of the faculty groups giving you a sense of the research</div><div>projects they have planned for their rotation. During the first week </div><div>of bootcamp, we will ask you to choose your top two choices for the first rotation</div><div>and we will repeat this same procedure every two weeks.</div><div><br></div><div>On the first evening of the course, Sunday June 14, we will have a welcome</div><div>barbecue in order for us all to get acquainted. We will send out more news about</div><div>this in the coming few weeks, but it will probably start around 5pm with Jennifer,</div><div>Wallace and I providing a greeting and an introduction to what you can expect </div><div>for the summer, followed by a nice meal together.</div><div><br></div><div><div>As part of our introduction to the course, we are looking forward<br>to learning more about each of you. To accomplish that,<br>on Monday morning June 15 in the Lillie Auditorium, we are going to have<br>a “lightning symposium” in which each of you has 90 seconds<br>to present a single-slide. Please send us your single slide<br>by 5pm, Sunday afternoon June 14. Please send the slide</div><div>as a pdf (and no movies). We will do this as a continuous<br>act in which each student’s slide is projected and you have 90 seconds<br>to explain what you are up to. At the end of 90 seconds, we will</div><div>advance to the next slide and the next speaker will begin</div><div>their presentation as they come to the front of the room.</div><div>Probably it is best to go for a simple concept: My name is XXX </div><div>and I am from YYY. The question I am trying to answer is…., the reason<br>we think it is important is…. and the methods we are using are….</div><div><br></div><div>We are looking forward to a great summer together.</div><div><br></div><div>Rob, Jennifer and Wallace</div><div><br></div><div></div></div></body></html>