| Monday, September 26, 2011
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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| Tuesday, September 27, 2011
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(All Day)
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Quantitative Imaging Cytometry Symposium
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Continuing its commitment to educational programs in the science and practice of quantitative imaging cytometry, the International QIC Centers of Excellence are pleased to announce that the 2011 QIC Symposium will be held on September 27-29 in Boston, Massachusetts, hosted by the International QIC Center at Children’s Hospital Boston, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School.
Morning presentations will take place in the Jimmy Fund Auditorium at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute:
Organization of the Hematopoietic Environment in the Bone Marrow -- Leslie Silberstein, MD, Director, Joint Program in Transfusion Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
How Imaging Cytometry Makes a Difference in Answering Complex Questions -- Stephan Ruetz, PhD, Laboratory Head, Oncology Research, Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
Mechanisms of Heart Muscle Cell Proliferation -- Bernhard Kühn, MD, Associate in Cardiology, Children’s Hospital Boston, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA
Laser Scanning Cytometry for Assessment of DNA Damage -- Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz, MD, PhD, Director, Brander Cancer Research Institute, Valhalla, NY
Novel Cell-Array Technology Combined with the Power of Laser Scanning Cytometry (LSC) in High-Throughput DNA Content and FISH Analysis -- Kohsuke Sasaki, MD, Chair of Department of Pathology and Dean of Medical School, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Ube, Japan
Safety and Efficacy of Islet Cell Transplantation – Fouad Kandeel, MD, PhD, Director, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, CA
Preclinical Pharmacokinetic and Biomarker Analysis of a Small Molecule Inhibitor of Aurora Kinases in Human Xenograft Tumor and Surrogate Tissues -- Gloria Juan, PhD, Principal Scientist, Clinical Immunology, Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA
Cell Surface Immunophenotyping by LSC: History, Present, and Future – Richard Clatch, MD, PhD, Chair, Department of Pathology, Lake Forest Hospital, Lake Forest, IL
Registrants may select one of three tracks for afternoon workshops:
Track 1 (Basic) will provide researchers with an introduction to QIC technology and its most common applications. The workshops in this track will provide a solid background in the laser scanning cytometry for those attendees without an in-depth familiarity with the technology. Topics will include quantitative and imaging end-points, segmentation strategies, basic applications, and data analysis options.
Day 1 – Designing QIC Experiments – Instructor: William Telford, NIH
Day 2 – Cellular Applications/ DNA Content/Cell Cycle/Apoptosis/ Multiplexing/ High Content and High Throughput – Instructor: Heather Zecchini, Cancer Research UK
Day 3 – Tissue Applications/ Chromatic Analysis/ Fluorescent Analysis/ Fluorochromatic Analysis – Instructor: David Krull, GSK
Track 2 (Advanced) is designed for experienced QIC users and is structured to foster communications around a particular topic, so that the skills and knowledge of each of the participants can provide insight to others. Led by a facilitator, discussions will be focused on a particular application area and will include protocol and application presentations from participants in order to provide a productive discussion of the hows and whys of specific solutions. Topics may include quantitative in situ protein expression analysis, cell signaling pathways, cell cycle/DNA damage/apoptosis analysis, live-cell toxicologic assays, and advanced segmentation strategies.
Day 1 – Advanced Automated Tissue Analysis, Facilitator: Sue Ludmann, Amgen
Day 2 – Advanced Cell Cycle/ DNA Damage/Cell Signaling, Facilitator: Stephan Ruetz, Novartis
Day 3 – New Developments: Live Cell Analysis, Advanced Image Analysis, Facilitator: Jonathon Thon, Children's Hospital Boston, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School
Registration is now open at www.imagingcytometrycenter.com.
As in previous years, we expect this symposium to be over-subscribed. We advise you to register well in advance to assure space availability.
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Kate Hilburn
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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| Wednesday, September 28, 2011
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(All Day)
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Quantitative Imaging Cytometry Symposium
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| Description: |
Continuing its commitment to educational programs in the science and practice of quantitative imaging cytometry, the International QIC Centers of Excellence are pleased to announce that the 2011 QIC Symposium will be held on September 27-29 in Boston, Massachusetts, hosted by the International QIC Center at Children’s Hospital Boston, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School.
Morning presentations will take place in the Jimmy Fund Auditorium at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute:
Organization of the Hematopoietic Environment in the Bone Marrow -- Leslie Silberstein, MD, Director, Joint Program in Transfusion Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
How Imaging Cytometry Makes a Difference in Answering Complex Questions -- Stephan Ruetz, PhD, Laboratory Head, Oncology Research, Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
Mechanisms of Heart Muscle Cell Proliferation -- Bernhard Kühn, MD, Associate in Cardiology, Children’s Hospital Boston, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA
Laser Scanning Cytometry for Assessment of DNA Damage -- Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz, MD, PhD, Director, Brander Cancer Research Institute, Valhalla, NY
Novel Cell-Array Technology Combined with the Power of Laser Scanning Cytometry (LSC) in High-Throughput DNA Content and FISH Analysis -- Kohsuke Sasaki, MD, Chair of Department of Pathology and Dean of Medical School, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Ube, Japan
Safety and Efficacy of Islet Cell Transplantation – Fouad Kandeel, MD, PhD, Director, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, CA
Preclinical Pharmacokinetic and Biomarker Analysis of a Small Molecule Inhibitor of Aurora Kinases in Human Xenograft Tumor and Surrogate Tissues -- Gloria Juan, PhD, Principal Scientist, Clinical Immunology, Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA
Cell Surface Immunophenotyping by LSC: History, Present, and Future – Richard Clatch, MD, PhD, Chair, Department of Pathology, Lake Forest Hospital, Lake Forest, IL
Registrants may select one of three tracks for afternoon workshops:
Track 1 (Basic) will provide researchers with an introduction to QIC technology and its most common applications. The workshops in this track will provide a solid background in the laser scanning cytometry for those attendees without an in-depth familiarity with the technology. Topics will include quantitative and imaging end-points, segmentation strategies, basic applications, and data analysis options.
Day 1 – Designing QIC Experiments – Instructor: William Telford, NIH
Day 2 – Cellular Applications/ DNA Content/Cell Cycle/Apoptosis/ Multiplexing/ High Content and High Throughput – Instructor: Heather Zecchini, Cancer Research UK
Day 3 – Tissue Applications/ Chromatic Analysis/ Fluorescent Analysis/ Fluorochromatic Analysis – Instructor: David Krull, GSK
Track 2 (Advanced) is designed for experienced QIC users and is structured to foster communications around a particular topic, so that the skills and knowledge of each of the participants can provide insight to others. Led by a facilitator, discussions will be focused on a particular application area and will include protocol and application presentations from participants in order to provide a productive discussion of the hows and whys of specific solutions. Topics may include quantitative in situ protein expression analysis, cell signaling pathways, cell cycle/DNA damage/apoptosis analysis, live-cell toxicologic assays, and advanced segmentation strategies.
Day 1 – Advanced Automated Tissue Analysis, Facilitator: Sue Ludmann, Amgen
Day 2 – Advanced Cell Cycle/ DNA Damage/Cell Signaling, Facilitator: Stephan Ruetz, Novartis
Day 3 – New Developments: Live Cell Analysis, Advanced Image Analysis, Facilitator: Jonathon Thon, Children's Hospital Boston, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School
Registration is now open at www.imagingcytometrycenter.com.
As in previous years, we expect this symposium to be over-subscribed. We advise you to register well in advance to assure space availability.
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Kate Hilburn
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10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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Tufts University Neuroscience Seminar
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Title: "The molecular and cellular mechanism of autism associated with a common genetic copy number variation"
Speaker: Matthew Anderson, Harvard Medical School
Location: Room 216A, Tufts University,145 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02111
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Laila Lee
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| Thursday, September 29, 2011
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(All Day)
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Quantitative Imaging Cytometry Symposium
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| Description: |
Continuing its commitment to educational programs in the science and practice of quantitative imaging cytometry, the International QIC Centers of Excellence are pleased to announce that the 2011 QIC Symposium will be held on September 27-29 in Boston, Massachusetts, hosted by the International QIC Center at Children’s Hospital Boston, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School.
Morning presentations will take place in the Jimmy Fund Auditorium at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute:
Organization of the Hematopoietic Environment in the Bone Marrow -- Leslie Silberstein, MD, Director, Joint Program in Transfusion Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
How Imaging Cytometry Makes a Difference in Answering Complex Questions -- Stephan Ruetz, PhD, Laboratory Head, Oncology Research, Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
Mechanisms of Heart Muscle Cell Proliferation -- Bernhard Kühn, MD, Associate in Cardiology, Children’s Hospital Boston, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA
Laser Scanning Cytometry for Assessment of DNA Damage -- Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz, MD, PhD, Director, Brander Cancer Research Institute, Valhalla, NY
Novel Cell-Array Technology Combined with the Power of Laser Scanning Cytometry (LSC) in High-Throughput DNA Content and FISH Analysis -- Kohsuke Sasaki, MD, Chair of Department of Pathology and Dean of Medical School, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Ube, Japan
Safety and Efficacy of Islet Cell Transplantation – Fouad Kandeel, MD, PhD, Director, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, CA
Preclinical Pharmacokinetic and Biomarker Analysis of a Small Molecule Inhibitor of Aurora Kinases in Human Xenograft Tumor and Surrogate Tissues -- Gloria Juan, PhD, Principal Scientist, Clinical Immunology, Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA
Cell Surface Immunophenotyping by LSC: History, Present, and Future – Richard Clatch, MD, PhD, Chair, Department of Pathology, Lake Forest Hospital, Lake Forest, IL
Registrants may select one of three tracks for afternoon workshops:
Track 1 (Basic) will provide researchers with an introduction to QIC technology and its most common applications. The workshops in this track will provide a solid background in the laser scanning cytometry for those attendees without an in-depth familiarity with the technology. Topics will include quantitative and imaging end-points, segmentation strategies, basic applications, and data analysis options.
Day 1 – Designing QIC Experiments – Instructor: William Telford, NIH
Day 2 – Cellular Applications/ DNA Content/Cell Cycle/Apoptosis/ Multiplexing/ High Content and High Throughput – Instructor: Heather Zecchini, Cancer Research UK
Day 3 – Tissue Applications/ Chromatic Analysis/ Fluorescent Analysis/ Fluorochromatic Analysis – Instructor: David Krull, GSK
Track 2 (Advanced) is designed for experienced QIC users and is structured to foster communications around a particular topic, so that the skills and knowledge of each of the participants can provide insight to others. Led by a facilitator, discussions will be focused on a particular application area and will include protocol and application presentations from participants in order to provide a productive discussion of the hows and whys of specific solutions. Topics may include quantitative in situ protein expression analysis, cell signaling pathways, cell cycle/DNA damage/apoptosis analysis, live-cell toxicologic assays, and advanced segmentation strategies.
Day 1 – Advanced Automated Tissue Analysis, Facilitator: Sue Ludmann, Amgen
Day 2 – Advanced Cell Cycle/ DNA Damage/Cell Signaling, Facilitator: Stephan Ruetz, Novartis
Day 3 – New Developments: Live Cell Analysis, Advanced Image Analysis, Facilitator: Jonathon Thon, Children's Hospital Boston, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School
Registration is now open at www.imagingcytometrycenter.com.
As in previous years, we expect this symposium to be over-subscribed. We advise you to register well in advance to assure space availability.
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Kate Hilburn
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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Tooth gnashing and tongue wagging: development and regeneration in craniofacial organs
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Speaker: Ophir Klein, MD, PhD, University of California San Francisco, School of Dentistry
Location: The Forsyth Institute, Seminar Room A, 245 First Street, 17th Floor, Cambridge
Summary: For most organs, development depends on communication between two tissues, epithelium and mesenchyme. These interactions appear to be mediated largely by a few families of signaling molecules, including FGFs, Hedgehogs, BMPs, WNTs, and Notch pathway members. In postnatal life, these same families of molecules also regulate renewal and differentiation of adult stem cells, which contribute to tissue homeostasis and repair. I will discuss ongoing work in my laboratory, which focuses on craniofacial organs as a model for both organogenesis and for stem cell biology, and in particular on the function of the FGF and Hedgehog signaling pathways in these processes. Additionally, I will describe newer work focusing on the role of transcriptional regulators in regenerative biology.
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Pam Quattrocchi
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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| Friday, September 30, 2011
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8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
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| Saturday, October 1, 2011
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1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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Inflammation in Disease Pathogenesis. Boston Universityl Infectious Diseases Symposium
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Boston University Annual Infectious Diseases Symposium
Inflammation in Disease Pathogenesis
Saturday, October 1, 2011
1:30pm – 5:30pm
Boston University Medical Campus; 670 Albany St; 1st Floor; Boston
Symposium Schedule
1:30-1:45 Caroline A. Genco, Ph.D.
Boston University Medical Center
Introductory Remarks
1:45-2:30 Ulrich von Andrian, M.D. Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
Antiviral immune response in lymph nodes
2:30-3:00 Kathryn Moore, Ph.D.
New York University
Therapeutic targeting of microRNA in cardiometabolic diseases
3:00-3:30 Refreshments
3:30-4:00 Dan Portnoy, Ph.D.
University of California Berkeley
Forward genetics to identify microbial components that activate host cytosolic surveillance pathways
4:00-4:30 Paul Kubes, Ph.D.
University of Calgary
Immune responses to infection and sterile inflammation
4:30-5:30 Wine and Cheese Reception
For information and free registration see our website (http://www.bumc.bu.edu/id/seminars/) or call 617-414-5282.
Department of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston University Medical Center
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Ellen Weinberg
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| Monday, October 3, 2011
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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| Tuesday, October 4, 2011
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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| Wednesday, October 5, 2011
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6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Common SNPs, rare CNVs. and the expression network between?
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Lauren A. Weiss, Ph.D., Staglin Family/IMHRO Assistant Professor, University of California, San Francisco
Please visit web.mit.edu/autism for further details, including talk abstract.
Please RSVP to lmavros@mit.edu
Supported by the Simons Initiative on Autism and the Brain at MIT (web.mit.edu/autism)
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Lee Mavros Rushton
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| Thursday, October 6, 2011
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Noon - 1:25 PM
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Developmental endothelial locus-1 (Del-1) is required for periodontal tissue homeostasis and prevention of IL-17-mediated pathology
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Speaker: George Hajishengallis, DDS, PhD, University of Louisville School of Dentistry, Professor, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology School of Medicine (joint appointment)
Location: The Forsyth Institute, Seminar Room A, 245 First Street, 17th Floor, Cambridge
Summary: The endothelial-secreted glycoprotein Del-1 (developmental endothelial locus-1) is a novel inhibitor of integrin-dependent neutrophil adhesion. In this seminar, evidence will be presented that Del-1 regulates local tissue-specific inflammation and controls chronic inflammatory disease. Upon aging, normal mice developed periodontitis accompanied by diminished Del-1 expression. Consistent with a homeostatic role for Del-1, Del-1-/- mice developed spontaneous periodontitis featuring excessive local neutrophil infiltration and IL-17 expression. Periodontitis was reversed in Del-1-/- mice with additional deficiencies in the LFA-1 integrin or the IL-17 receptor. Intriguingly, Del-1 and IL-17 were reciprocally cross-regulated and the diminished expression of Del-1 in old age was associated with elevated IL-17 expression. Importantly, however, age-associated periodontal inflammation and bone loss was suppressed by local administration of Del-1. In conclusion, Del-1 inhibits LFA-1-dependent neutrophil recruitment and IL-17-mediated pathology and may be a promising novel therapeutic for periodontitis and perhaps other inflammatory diseases.
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Pam Quattrocchi
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2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
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From Drug Delivery to Tissue Engineering
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Opening Remarks
Jeffrey S. Flier, MD, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University
Award Lectures-Bioengineering and its Impact on the Changing World of Cardiac Surgery
Alain F. Carpentier, MD, PhD, the head of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou and winner of the 2011 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize for developing the world’s first artificial valve used in clinical practice.
Biomaterials and Biotechnology: From the Development of Controlled Drug Delivery Systems to the Foundation of Tissue Engineering
Robert Langer Jr., ScD, senior lecturer on surgery at HMS and the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT and winner of the 2011 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize for developing polymers to deliver drugs continuously at controlled rates over time and engineering blood vessels and vascularized skeletal muscle tissue.
Invited Lectures-Infection-Mimicking Polymers as a Cancer Vaccine
David J. Mooney, PhD, School of Applied Engineering and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University
Cancer Nanotechnology to Hepatic Tissue Engineering
Sangeeta Bhatia, MD, PhD, Health Sciences and Technology and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DNA Nanostructures as Building Blocks for Future Therapeutics
William Shih, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University
Location: Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, New Research Building, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
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Caitlin Craig
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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The Role of Extracellular Matrix Stiffening in Endothelial Cell Function
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Cynthia Reinhart-King, Cornell University, Biomedical Engineering
Room 203, Conference Center, Engineering Research Building (ERB), Boston University, 44 Cummington Street
HOST: Dr. Kathleen Morgan
Refreshments will be served
For more information on Dr. Reinhart-King go to:
www.cellmechanics.org
http://www.bme.cornell.edu/people/faculty/profile.cfm?id=3686
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Danka Charland
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| Friday, October 7, 2011
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8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
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| Tuesday, October 11, 2011
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12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
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“Catchers in the Rye: Ecology, Society, and Climate Change”
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Biolabs Lecture Hall, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Ave,
Cambridge, MA
With the human population now exceeding seven billion, links between ecosystem conditions and human health, security, and well-being are increasingly clear. Human activities continue to alter natural systems at local through global scales, and these actions feedback to profoundly affect society. Ecology has an important role to play in managing these links, as our capacity to reliably forecast the consequences of our actions will depend on a detailed understanding of the specific properties of ecological systems (e.g. ecology and natural history). And yet ecology, as a discipline, will need to more expansive, collaborative, and responsive if it is to have a strong voice in directing our response environmental issues. Here I describe attempts in my lab to address these issues. I focus primarily on the impacts of climate change, at scales ranging from thermal physiology of insects to global food security. The research I describe provides an example of the importance of broad collaborative frameworks that are often needed for ecology to influence policy. Throughout, I focus on the importance of integrating specific knowledge (natural history) with portable knowledge (general mechanism and theory) as a blueprint for an ecologist’s contribution to evidence based decision making.
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Lisa Matthews
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| Wednesday, October 12, 2011
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10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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Tufts University Neuroscience Seminar
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Speaker: Sheena Josselyn, PhD, Hospital for Sick Kids/University of Toronto
Title: “Continuing the Search for the Engram”
Location: Sackler B09, Tufts University, 145 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02111
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Laila Lee
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| Thursday, October 13, 2011
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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Longitudinal studies of Aggressive Periodontal Disease in a vulnerable population: past present and future trends
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Speaker: Dr. Daniel H. Fine, UMDNJ Graduate School
Location: The Forsyth Institute, Seminar Room A, 245 First Street, 17th Floor, Cambridge
Abstract: Our model tests the hypothesis that oral carriage of Aa precedes initiation of localized aggressive periodontitis. We screen children from 11-16 years old for the presence of Aa and periodontal disease, enroll healthy Aa positive and Aa negative students and then follow them every 6 months for 2-3 years. In addition, we collect saliva and plaque and crevicular fluid from molar sites and retrospectively analyze students who progress from health to disease as well as controls who remain healthy. Thusfar we have screened 2,002 students and followed 92 Aa-negative and 72 Aa-positive students one year or more. 68 (54 were Aa-positive) of 164 developed attachment loss of 2 mm or greater. 14 students (all of whom were Aa-positive) developed bone loss, while 9 other students had disease at screening and thus were not followed longitudinally. In total 3.9% of students were categorized as having LAP. Over 80% of students were African American or Hispanic. In the longitudinal study of 25 cytokines evaluated in saliva MIP 1a was significantly elevated 6 months prior to bone loss. Lactoferrin iron concentration was significantly lowered in students prior to bone loss and at the time of loss. We are currently assessing site specific crevicular fluid levels in those subjects. In a subset of students who developed bone loss a consortium of microbes including Dialaster pneumosintes, Filofactor alocis and Parviromonas micra were elevated at specific sites prior to bone loss. In contrast, several species of Strep and Veillonella were depressed at these sites prior to bone loss. We are continuing to explore the relationship between these organisms in the category of potential disease.
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Pam Quattrocchi
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
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| Monday, October 17, 2011
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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Redox Regulation of Vascular Function
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Research Seminar Series
BU MED Evans Center Aortic Stiffness ARC & Cytoskeleton PPG Presents:
Richard Cohen, Boston University School of Medicine, Vascular Biology
Location: Room TBA, Boston University, College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College, 635 Commonwealth Avenue
HOST: Dr. Kathleen Morgan
Refreshments will be served
For more information on Dr.Richard Cohen go to:
http://www.bumc.bu.edu/medicine/faculty/rcohen/
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Danka Charland
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Program in Genetics and Genomics Annual Symposium
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The Program in Genetics and Genomics Annual Symposium
featuring the research of past and current students
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, Rotunda Room, 3rd Floor, Harvard Medical School
Poster session with wine and cheese to follow
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Leah Brault
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6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
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The 18th Annual Dr. J. Murray Gavel Clinical Research Lecture
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Location: The Forsyth Institute, Seminar Rooms A & B, 245 First Street, 17th Floor, Cambridge, MA
Program Agenda:
5:00 - Registration
6:00 - Greetings - Dr. Philip Stashenko, President & CEO
6:10 - Welcome - Dr. J. Max Goodson, Chairman, Dr. J. Murray Gavel Clinical Research Lecture
6:20 - Dr. David T. Wong, Felix & Mildred Yip Endowed Professor in Dentistry, UCLA School of Dentistry "Saliva: The Next Diagnostic Frontier"
7:30 - Reception
Please Note: Advanced registration is required due to limited seating. Please RSVP to Pam Quattrocchi, 617-892-8604 or e-mail at pquattrocchi@forsyth.org
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Pam Quattrocchi
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| Tuesday, October 18, 2011
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12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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| Wednesday, October 19, 2011
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1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
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Next Generation Sequencing Technologies: Principles and Applications
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Location: TMEC 250, Harvard Medical School
Traditional capillary sequencing technology using base-specific chain termination by fluorescent di-deoxy nucleotides represents modifications to the original sequencing methodology devised by Sanger and colleagues in the 1970s. Recent years have seen the development of next generation parallel sequencing technologies that are rapidly replacing older methodologies. Sequencing by synthesis enables the simultaneous sequence analysis of millions of DNA templates at the same time, or in parallel. These new approaches allow for DNA sequencing at a markedly faster pace, and often at a much cheaper price, making sequencing projects feasible for an ever-expanding number of researchers. This nanocourse will explore the methodology and principles behind parallel sequencing technology, and how it measures up to traditional sequencing methods. A discussion of the services available at the Department of Genetics Biopolymers core facility, including order placement, data output, and turnaround times, will also be included for researchers interested in utilizing these resources.
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Leah Brault
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6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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| Thursday, October 20, 2011
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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| Friday, October 21, 2011
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8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
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Discovering Chemistry in the Microbial World
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Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) weekly chalktalk breakfast.
Please join us for tea/coffee and pastries at 8:30, followed by the chalktalk at 8:45.
Location: HUCE Seminar Room (24 Oxford St, 3rd Floor, Room 310)
Speaker: Emily Balskus (FAS-CCB)
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Andrea Lenco
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| Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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Making Apologies, Escaping Melodramas: Reflections on the U.S. Research Studies in Tuskegee and Guatemala and Why they Matter Now
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Speaker: Susan Reverby, Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas and Professor of Women's & Gender Studies, Wellesley College
Location: The Forsyth Institute, Seminar Room A, 245 First Street, 17th Floor, Cambridge
Summary: Between 1932 and 1972 the U.S. Public Health Service conducted a study of "untreated syphilis in the male Negro" in and around Tuskegee, Alabama and between 1946-48 another study of "inoculation STDs" in Guatemala. In Tuskegee, the men already had late latent syphilis but were supposed to be left untreated for four decades. In Guatemala, men and women in a prison, mental hospital and army barracks were given syphilis, gonorrhea and chancroid (through inoculation and use of infected prostitutes) and then supposedly treated. Two U.S. Presidents (Clinton and Obama) have apologized for what are considered two of the most shameful medical research studies in American history. As an historian of both studies, I will discuss what happened, what there have been formal apologies, how the stories are told, and why they matter now.
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Pam Quattrocchi
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5:30 PM - 6:40 PM
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Bringing Health Information to Life
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The 36th Annual Joseph Garland Lecture - This year's speaker is David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, Samuel O. Thier Professor of Medicine, Professor of Health Care Policy, HMS; Mongan Institute for Health Policy, MGH. Dr. Blumenthal served as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology under President Obama from 2009-2011.
Location: Armenise Amphitheatre, Armenise Building, 210 Longwood Ave., Harvard Medical School, Boston.
This lecture is sponsored by the Boston Medical Library in the Countway Library of Medicine
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Roz Vogel
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| Wednesday, October 26, 2011
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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| Thursday, October 27, 2011
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Synthetic biology: from parts to modules to therapeutic systems
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IEEE Computer and Engineering in Medicine and Biology Societies, MIT biological engineering and biomedical engineering student group (BE-BMES), and GBC/ACM
Location: MIT room 66-110
Synthetic biology: from parts to modules to therapeutic systems
Ron Weiss is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Engineering and in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his PhD from MIT in 2001 and held a faculty appointment at Princeton University between 2001 and 2009. His research focuses primarily on synthetic biology, where he programs cell behavior by constructing and modeling biochemical and cellular computing systems. A major thrust of his work is the synthesis of gene networks that are engineered to perform in vivo analog and digital logic computation. He is also interested in programming cell aggregates to perform coordinated tasks using cell-cell communication with chemical diffusion mechanisms such as quorum sensing. He has constructed and tested several novel in vivo biochemical logic circuits and intercellular communication systems. Weiss is interested in both hands-on experimental work and in implementing software infrastructures for simulation and design work. For his work in synthetic biology, Weiss has received MIT's Technology Review Magazine's TR100 Award ("top 100 young innovators", 2003), was selected as a speaker for the National Academy of Engineering's Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (2003), received the E. Lawrence Keyes, Jr./Emerson Electric Company Faculty Advancement Award at Princeton University (2003), his research in Synthetic Biology was named by MIT's Technology Review Magazine as one of "10 emerging technologies that will change your world" (2004), was chosen as a finalist for the World Technology Network’s Biotechnology Award (2004), and was selected as a speaker for the National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science Symposium (2005).
This joint meeting of the Boston Chapters of the IEEE Computer and Engineering in Medicine and Biology Societies, the MIT biological engineering and biomedical engineering student group (BE-BMES) and GBC/ACM will be held in MIT room 66-110. The room is on the first floor of MIT building 66.
Up-to-date information about this and other talks is available online at http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/boston/computer/. You can sign up to receive updated status information about this talk and informational emails about future talks at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/ieee-cs, our self-administered mailing list.
For more information contact Peter Mager (p.mager at computer.org)
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Peter Mager
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| Friday, October 28, 2011
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8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
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1:00 PM - 5:30 PM
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14th Annual John B. Little Symposium
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14th Annual John B. Little Symposium: “Stress Responses in Radiobiology, DNA Repair and Aging”
Friday, October 28, 2011 – 1:00pm-5:30pm
Saturday, October 29, 2011 – 9:00am-4:30pm
Harvard School of Public Health,Sebastian Kresge Building, Snyder Auditorium G1, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts
register online by October 21:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/research/jbl-center/jbl-symposium/
AWARD LECTURE:
Alain Sarasin, Ph.D., Institut de cancérologie Gustave Roussy, University Paris-Sud, Villejuif, France
“How rare DNA repair-deficient genetic diseases can help us understand mutagenesis, carcinogenesis and aging”
Paul Anderson, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical School; Brigham and Women's Hospital
Edward J. Calabrese, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Vera Gorbunova, Ph.D., University of Rochester
Myriam Gorospe, Ph.D., National Institute on Aging
Andrei V. Gudkov, Ph.D., D.Sci., Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Galit Lahav, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
James Mitchell, Ph.D., Harvard School of Public Health
Norman E. Sharpless, M.D., University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Barry P. Sleckman, M.D., Ph.D., Washington University School of Medicine
Anne Willis, Ph.D., Medical Research Council Toxicology Unit, United Kingdom
Zhi-Min Yuan, M.D., Ph.D., UT Health Science Center San Antonio
For additional information, please contact Holly Southern at hsouthern@hsph.harvard.edu tel. 617-432-3763
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Holly Southern
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| Saturday, October 29, 2011
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8:30 AM - 5:15 PM
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Science in the Liberal Arts University: Why it Matters to Us All
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1) Speakers:
- Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker
- Steven Pinker, Harvard University
- Siva Vaidhyanathan, University of Virginia
- Brian Greene, Columbia University
2) Location: Heights Room at Corcoran Commons, Boston College
3) Contact Person: Tom Chiles, Professor, Chairperson, Biology Department, 617-552-3540
A detailed schedule is available at www.bc.edu/ilasymposium
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Michelle Muccini
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9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
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14th Annual John B. Little Symposium
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| Description: |
14th Annual John B. Little Symposium: “Stress Responses in Radiobiology, DNA Repair and Aging”
Friday, October 28, 2011 – 1:00pm-5:30pm
Saturday, October 29, 2011 – 9:00am-4:30pm
Harvard School of Public Health,Sebastian Kresge Building, Snyder Auditorium G1, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts
register online by October 21:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/research/jbl-center/jbl-symposium/
AWARD LECTURE:
Alain Sarasin, Ph.D., Institut de cancérologie Gustave Roussy, University Paris-Sud, Villejuif, France
“How rare DNA repair-deficient genetic diseases can help us understand mutagenesis, carcinogenesis and aging”
Paul Anderson, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical School; Brigham and Women's Hospital
Edward J. Calabrese, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Vera Gorbunova, Ph.D., University of Rochester
Myriam Gorospe, Ph.D., National Institute on Aging
Andrei V. Gudkov, Ph.D., D.Sci., Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Galit Lahav, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
James Mitchell, Ph.D., Harvard School of Public Health
Norman E. Sharpless, M.D., University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Barry P. Sleckman, M.D., Ph.D., Washington University School of Medicine
Anne Willis, Ph.D., Medical Research Council Toxicology Unit, United Kingdom
Zhi-Min Yuan, M.D., Ph.D., UT Health Science Center San Antonio
For additional information, please contact Holly Southern at hsouthern@hsph.harvard.edu tel. 617-432-3763
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Holly Southern
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| Wednesday, November 2, 2011
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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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21st Annual Irwin M. Arias, MD Symposium, Bridging Basic Science and Liver Disease
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This program presetns the latest advances in liver research, and is designed for researchers, students, fellows, residents, GI's and Hepatologists. Upon completion of the program attendees will be able to 1) Discuss the latest advances in basic science related to liver function and disease. 2) Identify major indicators of liver disease and prognosis. 3) Review important advances in virology, toxicity, transport and cell biology as related to liver function and disease.
Location: Harvard Medical School - Joseph P. Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA
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Samuel Scott
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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| Thursday, November 3, 2011
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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| Friday, November 4, 2011
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8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
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Month of October 2011
