| Monday, November 30, 2009
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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| Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Retinoblastoma: Bridging Developmental Neurobiology and Cancer Genetics
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Speaker: Michael Dyer, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Enders Auditorium, John F. Enders Research Bldg., Children's Hospital Boston, 320 Longwood Ave.
Cardiovascular Seminar Series
Department of Cardiology | Children’s Hospital Boston
This conference is supported by the Faye and Karen Sinclair
Research Fund for Congenital Heart Disease
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Michelle Merry
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| Wednesday, December 2, 2009
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
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6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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| Thursday, December 3, 2009
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(All Day)
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French American Innovation Days
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December 3 and 4, 2009
FAID is an annual French American symposium, "Theranostics and Biology: Know-How Challenges, Applications & Breakthroughs" aims to foster the development of collaborations between France and the USA in an innovative research area.
For information visit http://www.france-science.org/faid2009
The 2009 FAID is organized in partnership with an industrial partner, Mérieux Alliance, and is held during two consecutive days on December 3rd and 4th 2009.
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Lynda Inséqué
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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MICROBIAL DORMANCY: ROLE IN DISEASE AND "UNCULTIVABILITY"
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Speaker: Kim Lewis, Northeastern University
Location: The Forsyth Institute, Schulze Conference Rm. 2
140 The Fenway, Boston
Summary: Pathogen populations produce persister cells, specialized survivor cells that are dormant and highly tolerant to all known antibiotics. Molecular mechanisms of persister formation will be discussed, as well as their role in disease, such as biofilm infections of catheters, cystic fibrosis, and oropharyngeal candidiasis. Dormancy may also be an underlying cause of bacterial “uncultivability”. Growth factors produced by neighboring species are essential for growth of a considerable number of environmental organisms, and are likely to play a role in the human host, including the oral environment.
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Pam Quattrocchi
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6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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Host/Candida Interactions During Health and Disease
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Speaker: Carol Kumamoto, Tufts University Dept. of Microbiology
Location: Room 310, 3rd Floor, Geological Museum, Harvard Center for the Environment, 24 Oxford Street
MSI monthly seminar series. Please join us for a wine & cheese reception at 5:30pm.
http://www.msi.harvard.edu/thursdays.html
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Andrea Lenco
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| Friday, December 4, 2009
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(All Day)
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French American Innovation Days
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December 3 and 4, 2009
FAID is an annual French American symposium, "Theranostics and Biology: Know-How Challenges, Applications & Breakthroughs" aims to foster the development of collaborations between France and the USA in an innovative research area.
For information visit http://www.france-science.org/faid2009
The 2009 FAID is organized in partnership with an industrial partner, Mérieux Alliance, and is held during two consecutive days on December 3rd and 4th 2009.
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Lynda Inséqué
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1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
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Hans-Lukas Teuber Lecture Internally generated cell assembly sequences in the service of cognition
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György Buzsáki, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Singleton Auditorium, Room 3002, Building 46, MIT
Abstract:
How does the brain orchestrate perceptions, thoughts and memories from the spiking activity of its neurons? A long-standing conjecture in neuroscience is that aspects of cognition depend on the brain's ability to self-generate sequential neuronal activity. Large-scale recordings from neuronal ensembles now offer opportunities for testing these ideas. I will show that even in the absence of changing environmental or body inputs, the hippocampus can generate perpetually changing assembly sequences. In a task which required rats to alternate between the left and right turns and wait between the choices in order to receive a reward, a unique assembly sequence (“neural trajectory”) was generated several seconds before the animal entered the left arm and a different unique sequence was observed before the animal entered the right arm. Such neural trajectories may represent the brain's internal mechanism for planning routes on the basis of past experience. The temporal dynamics of internally generated sequences were similar to those observed while the rat navigated in the maze and environmental cues affected neuronal patterns. I hypothesize that the neural algorithm that evolved for assisting navigation in small-brain animals (i.e., measuring and using first and higher order distances in the physical world) is identical with the algorithm that allows us to navigate in “cognitive space”. The assembly-based approach can provide an insight into centrally-organized (cognitive) events without reference to introspection.
G. Buzsaki. Rhythms of the Brain. Oxford University Press, 2006.
E. Pastalkova, V. Itskov, A. Amarasingham, and G. Buzsaki. Internally generated cell assembly sequences in the rat hippocampus. Science 321, 5894:1322-7, 2008.
http://mit.edu/bcs/newsevents/colloquia.shtml
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Kathleen Dickey
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| Monday, December 7, 2009
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1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
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| Wednesday, December 9, 2009
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
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| Thursday, December 10, 2009
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives
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Dr. Christakis will talk on the topic of his newly released book: Connected. "He will explain why emotions are contagious, how health behaviors spread, why the rich get richer, even how we find and choose our partners. Connected overturns the notion of the individual and provides a revolutionary paradigm - that social networks influence our ideas, emotions, health, relationships, behavior, politics and much more. It will change the way we think about every aspect of our lives".
The lecture will be followed by a book signing and reception - The Harvard Coop will sell books at the event
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Roz Vogel
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| Friday, December 11, 2009
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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Month of December 2009
