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| Monday, November 1, 2010
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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Noon - 1:30 PM
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Northeastern University Biology Colloquium
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Speaker: Dr. Joe Pawlik (University of North Carolina, Wilmington)
Title: The Chemical Ecology of Sponges on Caribbean Coral Reefs: How Natural Products Shape Natural Systems
Location: 90 Snell Library, Northeastern University, Department of Biology
360 Huntington Avenue, Boston
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| Contact: |
Laura McGann
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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Biomolecular Seminar Series
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"Roles of AhR and ER in Sexual Differentiation of the Brain: TRIPping the Switch from Female to Male"
Speaker: Sandra Petersen (UMass Amherst)
Host: Mara Feld and Women in Biology
Location: Boston University, LSE B01 24 Cummington Street Boston, MA 02215
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| Contact: |
Deirdre James
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| Tuesday, November 2, 2010
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12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
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Mass-AWIS Nanotechnology Seminar: From Living Cells to Biologically Inspired Nanodevices
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Please join MASS-AWIS for a special seminar. Dr. Ingber, a leader in the field, will discuss the current advancements in nanotechnology. Through his interdisciplinary collaborations with experts in chemistry, physics, engineering, magnetics and optics, Dr. Ingber has helped to develop multiple new experimental nano- and microtechnologies.
This event is open to both men and women.
Location: Folkman Auditorium, Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA
Agenda:
6:30 - 7:00pm - Light dinner/Networking
7:00 - 8:00pm - Nanotechnology Seminar
8:00 - 8:30pm - Networking
Free for AWIS members, students and post-docs
$10 for Non-members
Please visit http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=210835 to register.
Street parking and garages are available in the area. The MBTA’s Longwood stops (Green line D&E branches) & the LMA M2 Shuttle Bus stop are within walking distance.
Massachusetts AWIS Chapter (www.mass-awis.org)
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Mass-AWIS
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| Wednesday, November 3, 2010
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Harvard Biotech Career Fair 2010
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The Harvard Biotech Club invites you to the biggest career event for life science PhDs, MDs and postdocs. The biomedical industry is hiring heavily this year and companies are hungry for talented Harvard students and postdocs. These companies include leading organizations in Biotech (Genentech, Sanofi Aventis, Broad Institute, CompuCyte, Genstruct, MassBiologics), Consulting (Boston Consulting Group, Health Advances, Clearview Healthcare), Patent Law (Finnegan, Global Prior Art, Lando & Anastasi, Wolf Greenfield), Pharmaceuticals (Merck), and many more.
Join us at the Career Fair to network with company representatives, and land the perfect job!
RSVP by emailing rsvp@thebiotechclub.org
Registration is FREE for Harvard students and Harvard-affiliated postdoctoral fellows, $20 for non-Harvard students, and $40 for professionals.
Venue: New Research Building (2nd floor), Harvard Medical School
For more information, please visit:
http://www.thebiotechclub.org/careerfair/
Proudly organized by the GSAS Harvard Biotechnology Club: www.thebiotechclub.org
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| Contact: |
Mandrita Datta
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6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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New developments in the experimental therapeutics of autism
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| Description: |
Speaker: Eric Hollander, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Director, Compulsive, Impulsive and Autism Spectrum Disorders Program, Montefiore Medical Center, the University Hospital for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Location: Room 3002, Building 46, MIT
Please RSVP to lmavros@mit.edu if you'd like to attend.
Visit webpage (http://autism.mit.edu/hollander2) for abstract and further details.
Supported by the Simons Initiative on Autism and the Brain at MIT
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| Contact: |
Lee Mavros Rushton
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| Thursday, November 4, 2010
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
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The Hans-Lukas Teuber Lecture: What is wrong with back-propagation and how to fix it
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| Description: |
Speaker Geoffrey E. Hinton, University of Toronto, Canada
Singleton Auditorium, Room 3002, Building 46, MIT
Abstract:
There are three main problems with the standard way of learning an artificial neural network by backpropagating error derivatives. First, it does not work well for networks with many hidden layers and it is especially bad for recurrent neural networks which can be viewed as networks with a layer per time-step. This is a pity because recurrent neural networks are a very powerful type of dynamical
system and could do amazing things if only we could train them properly. Second, for classification tasks, backpropagation requires labeled training data and if the amount of labeled data is limited, networks with a large number of parameters suffer from severe overfitting. Third, it is hard to see how the cortex could implement backpropagation of error derivatives through many layers,
especially if the outputs of all the neurons are already being used to represent properties of the input. I will show how each of these problems can be fixed and describe a few applications which demonstrate the true power of backpropagation.
http://bcs.mit.edu/newsevents/colloquia.html
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| Contact: |
Kathleen Dickey
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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| Friday, November 5, 2010
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(All Day)
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Boston Angiogenesis Meeting 2010
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| Description: |
Details & Registration -
http://CVBR.hms.harvard.edu
Location - Starr Center:
Schepens Eye
Research Institute
185 Cambridge Street
Boston, MA 02114
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| Contact: |
Raji Bhat
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8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
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The origin and evolution of photosynthesis
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| Description: |
Speaker: Hyman Hartman (MIT-Biology)
Location: Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE), 24 Oxford St, 3rd Floor, Room 310
Notes: MSI Weekly Chalktalk! Please join us for coffee/tea/pastries at 8:30 AM, followed by the chalktalk at 8:45.
http://www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html
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| Contact: |
Andrea Lenco
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1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
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| Monday, November 8, 2010
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Noon - 1:30 PM
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Northeastern University Biology Colloquium
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| Description: |
Dr. Naomi Pierce (Harvard University)
Title: The hervibore's dilemma: never enough nitrogen
Location: 90 Snell Library, Northeastern University, Department of Biology
360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA
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| Contact: |
Laura McGann
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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| Tuesday, November 9, 2010
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12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
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Chromatin Dynamics: A Molecular Approach
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Speakers: Dr. Raul Mostoslavsky, Harvard Medical School, Dr. Danesh Moazed, Harvard Medical School, and Dr. Johnathan Whetstine, Harvard Medical School
Location: TMEC, Walter Amphitheater (Harvard Medical School)
The genetic information encoded in our DNA is organized in a defined set of chromosomes, which are condensed about 10.000 fold in order to fit in the cell nucleus. This compaction occurs through packaging of the DNA around histone proteins, a structure known as chromatin. In what was thought to be a rigid structure, today we know that chromatin is an amazingly dynamic folding that plays a crucial role in controlling accessibility of factors to the DNA, and as such, it regulates a vast number of critical biological functions, including gene transcription, DNA replication, DNA repair and cellular identity. In this course we will attempt to cover some of the basic molecular mechanisms that play a role in regulating chromatin dynamics. We will discuss the role of DNA methylation, histone modifications and nucleosome dynamics in the context of different biological processes for which chromatin accessibility plays a crucial role.
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| Contact: |
Leah S. Brault
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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"Social Media, Science and Technology: The Future & Your Career" Panel Discussion
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In today's complex world, media's impact reaches far beyond the obvious use of Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. These important tools have changed the landscape of the of the business environment. Come hear our expert panel discuss how to use them to navigate the present and shape your future.
Speakers include:
•Mari Anne Snow, CEO, SophiaThink
•Mark Lohr, CFO, Rockefeller Consulting Technology Integration, LinkedIn consulting & training
•Adam Weiss, Creator of Current Science & Technology Podcast, Boston Museum of Science
•Tamsen McMahon, Director of Digital and Strategic Initiatives, Sametz Blackstone Associates
•Patricia McGloin, Moderator, Global Marketing Ececutive, WEST Marketing Committee Chair
For more information visit:
http://www.westorg.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=120434
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| Contact: |
Susan Silberman
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| Wednesday, November 10, 2010
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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Microsoft Research New England, Workshop on Computational Aspects of Biological Information
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| Description: |
Computational Aspects of Biological Information Workshop aims at bringing together experts in the Boston/ Cambridge area to discuss computational and modeling challenges underlying questions in systems biology, phylogeny and neuroscience. We hope to foster in-depth discussion within the local community. The workshop will be open to about 80 people for registration. Attendance is free of charge and everyone is welcome.
Speakers include:
Edo Airoldi, Harvard University
Michael Brenner, Harvard University
Allan Drummond, Harvard University
Jeff Lichtman, Harvard University
Jun Liu, Harvard University
Franziska Michor, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Aviv Regev, The Broad Institute
Daniel Segrè, Boston University
Tandy Warnow, University of Texas, Microsoft Research New England
Event Details:
Date: Thursday, December 9, 2010
Website: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/cabi2010/
Location: Microsoft Research New England
Horace Mann Conference Room
First Floor Conference Center
One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
02142 (near the Kendall/MIT “T” stop)
Organizing Committee:
Edo Airoldi (Harvard University)
Christian Borgs (Microsoft Research New England)
Jennifer Chayes (Microsoft Research New England)
Debora Marks (Microsoft Research New England & Harvard University)
Oznur Tastan (Microsoft Research New England)
Riccardo Zecchina (Microsoft Research New England & Politecnico di Torino University)
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| Contact: |
Oznur Tastan
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Relaxation Revolution: Enhancing Your Personal Health Through the Science and Genetics of Mind Body Healing
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Dr. Herbert Benson, Mind/Body Medical Institute Associate Professor of Medicine, HMS will discuss his recent work with colleagues in the field of genetics, which links mind body treatments to the healing of a steadily expanding number of medical conditions. Mind and body have become part of a scientific and medical whole; together they represent a complete approach to healing and maximal well-being. He will cite how mind body techniques have the potential not only to enhance healing but also to reduce health costs to individuals and to society as a whole.
Location: Countway Library of Medicine, Minot Room, 5th Floor, Harvard Medical School
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| Contact: |
Roz Vogel
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| Thursday, November 11, 2010
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(All Day)
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The Tenth Annual Frye-Halloran Brain Tumor Symposium: Molecular Targets in Pediatric Brain Tumors
(Visit URL)
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| Description: |
This tuition free symposium will be divided into three sessions. Session 1 will focus on the stratification of medulloblastoma by expression analysis, genomic alterations and microRNA profiling and how these molecular signatures can inform risk adjusted therapy. Session 2 will explore the role of the sonic hedgehog and placental growth factor signaling pathways in tumor progression and their potential as therapeutic targets. Session 3 will address the practical issues associated with transitioning these promising molecular strategies into active pediatric cooperative group trials.
The full agenda and list of international speakers can be found at the website that follows. http://frye-halloran.org
For more information or to RSVP, contact Rita Gould Rgould2@partners.org or sign up via the symposium website http://frye-halloran.org
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| Contact: |
Rita Gould
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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| Friday, November 12, 2010
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8:30 AM - Noon
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The Tenth Annual Frye-Halloran Brain Tumor Symposium: Molecular Targets in Pediatric Brain Tumors - Day 2
(Visit URL)
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| Description: |
This tuition free symposium will be divided into three sessions. Session 1 will focus on the stratification of medulloblastoma by expression analysis, genomic alterations and microRNA profiling and how these molecular signatures can inform risk adjusted therapy. Session 2 will explore the role of the sonic hedgehog and placental growth factor signaling pathways in tumor progression and their potential as therapeutic targets. Session 3 will address the practical issues associated with transitioning these promising molecular strategies into active pediatric cooperative group trials.
The full agenda and list of international speakers can be found at the website that follows.
For more information or to RSVP, contact Rita Gould Rgould2@partners.org or sign up via the symposium website http://frye-halloran.org
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| Contact: |
Rita Gould
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12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
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| Sunday, November 14, 2010
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8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
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ABCs of ECGs: Back to Basics for Frontline Clinicians
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| Description: |
CME Course
Director: Ary Goldberger MD, Beth Israel Deaconess/HMS
Location: Hotel Commonwealth, 500 Commonwealth Avenue • Boston, MA 02215, P 617-532-5005, www.hotelcommonwealth.com
For more information visit: www.cme.hms.harvard.edu/courses/ecgbacktobasics
Contact: Kathy Johnson - 617-667-4267 or email kjohnso3@bidmc.harvard.edu
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| Contact: |
Kathy Johnson
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| Monday, November 15, 2010
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(All Day)
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2010 Program in Quantitative Genomics Conference
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| Description: |
Many different data sources that can be utilized to shed more light into the mechanics of complex diseases and phenotypes are now more and more commonly available to the scientific community. While the technology development is rapid, the analysis strategies for their integration lag behind. This is particularly true for integrative approaches that are aimed at assessing the different influences of the epigenome, DNA, RNA, and protein on the disease phenotype simultaneously. This meeting aims to bring experts for the different technologies and their analysis strategies together to foster the development of integrative approaches to analysis. The topics for this year’s conference are:
• Epigenetics
• Rare Variants
• Data Integration and Network Analysis
The conference schedule includes time for scientific presentations, as well as time for more informal panel and round-table discussions. A poster session will also be held to display selected abstracts relating to this year's theme. Top abstracts will also either be selected for short talks to be presented at the conference, or for the Stellar Abstract Awards, which provide up to $500 in travel assistance. We hope the conference will spur discussions and future developments in the field and generate a white-paper report.
LOCATION: The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA
www.hsph.harvard.edu/research/pqg-conference-2010/
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| Contact: |
Shaina Andelman
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Noon - 1:30 PM
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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| Tuesday, November 16, 2010
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(All Day)
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2010 Program in Quantitative Genomics Conference
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| Description: |
Many different data sources that can be utilized to shed more light into the mechanics of complex diseases and phenotypes are now more and more commonly available to the scientific community. While the technology development is rapid, the analysis strategies for their integration lag behind. This is particularly true for integrative approaches that are aimed at assessing the different influences of the epigenome, DNA, RNA, and protein on the disease phenotype simultaneously. This meeting aims to bring experts for the different technologies and their analysis strategies together to foster the development of integrative approaches to analysis. The topics for this year’s conference are:
• Epigenetics
• Rare Variants
• Data Integration and Network Analysis
The conference schedule includes time for scientific presentations, as well as time for more informal panel and round-table discussions. A poster session will also be held to display selected abstracts relating to this year's theme. Top abstracts will also either be selected for short talks to be presented at the conference, or for the Stellar Abstract Awards, which provide up to $500 in travel assistance. We hope the conference will spur discussions and future developments in the field and generate a white-paper report.
LOCATION: The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA
www.hsph.harvard.edu/research/pqg-conference-2010/
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| Contact: |
Shaina Andelman
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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| Wednesday, November 17, 2010
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5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
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MSI Graduate Consortium Reception and Information Session
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| Description: |
Host: Roberto Kolter
Location: Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE)- climate change exhibit area/seminar room, 24 Oxford St (Cambridge), 3rd Floor, Room 310
Description: MSI welcomes Harvard graduate students with an interest in any aspect of the microbial sciences to join this vibrant interdisciplinary community. The evening will be an opportunity to socialize with current and prospective members of the consortium and to learn more about the program.
RSVP: to Andrea Lenco (alenco@fas.harvard.edu)
http://www.msi.harvard.edu/graduates/consortium.html
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| Contact: |
Andrea Lenco
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| Thursday, November 18, 2010
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Beyond DNA Damage:Complexity in Radiation Carcinogenesis
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| Description: |
Tufts University Program in Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology Seminar Series.
Guest Speaker: Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff, PhD, Departments of Radiation Oncology & Cell Biology, NYU.
Location: Tufts University, Posner Auditorium, 200 Harrison Avenue, Boston, 02111
A wine and cheese reception will be held immediately after the seminar in the M&V Building 5th Floor Library, 136 Harrison Avenue.
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| Contact: |
Sharon Titus
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
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An integrated information theory of consciousness
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| Description: |
Speaker: Dr. Giulio Tononi, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine
Room 3002, Singleton Auditorium, Building 46, MIT
Departmental Tea immediately following.
Abstract:
Over the past decades, studies have investigated the neural correlates of consciousness with increasing precision. However, why experience is generated by the cortex and not the cerebellum, why it fades during certain stages of sleep and returns in others, or why some cortical areas endow experience with colors and others with sound, remains unexplained. Moreover, key questions remain unanswered. For example, how much consciousness is there when only a few brain ‘islands’ remain active? How much during sleepwalking or psychomotor seizures? Are newborns conscious, and to what extent? Are animals conscious, how much, and which way? Can a conscious machine be built? To address such questions, empirical observations need to be complemented by a principled theoretical approach. The information integration theory (IIT) says that i) the quantity of consciousness corresponds to the amount of information generated by a complex of elements above and beyond its parts; ii) the quality of experience is specified by the informational relationships within that complex. The IIT not only accounts for several neurobiological observations, but specifies how the quantity of consciousness can be measured as the amount of integrated information (Φ) generated by a system.
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| Contact: |
Vivi Hinh
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5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
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Lupus Lecture Series at BIDMC
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| Description: |
Human neutrophil FcgRs in autoimmune disease: A study in transgenic mice
Tanya Mayadas, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Center for Life Science, CLS-921
3 Blackfan Circle, Boston MA 02115
617-735-4160
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| Contact: |
Betty Chase
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| Friday, November 19, 2010
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8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Clinical, Assessment and Intervention Updates in Neurorehabilitation
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| Description: |
Nov. 19-20, 2010 (Registration Required)
Clinical, Assessment and Intervention Updates in Neurorehabilitation
Symposium/Course on Technology & Rehabilitation
Felipe Fregni, MD, PhD, MPH & Lotfi B. Merabet, OD, PhD and many others will talk at this 2 day conference
Online participation, webcast and interaction with speakers!
Location: The Inn at Longwood Fenway Conference Room, Boston, MA
Contact: Jennifer Schadler at 617-573-2195 (jschadler@partners.org)
For more information visit www.neuromodulationlab.org
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Jennifer Schadler
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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Rheumatology Grand Rounds (BIDMC)
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| Description: |
Horror Autoinflammaticus: Molecular Pathophysiology of the Systemic Autoinflammatory Diseases
Daniel L. Kastner, M.D., Ph.D.
Scientific Director/NHGRI, NIH
3 Blackfan Circle, CLS 921
Boston, MA 02215
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| Contact: |
Betty Chase
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8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
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The Human Oral Microbiome
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| Description: |
Speaker: Floyd Dewhirst, Forsyth Institute
Location: 3rd Floor, Room 310, Harvard University Center for the Environment, 24 Oxford St
MSI Weekly Chalktalk! Please join us for coffee, tea, and pastries at 8:30am.
http://www.msi.harvard.edu/events/fridays.html
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| Contact: |
Andrea Lenco
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| Monday, November 22, 2010
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Noon - 1:30 PM
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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| Monday, November 29, 2010
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Noon - 1:30 PM
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Northeastern University Biology Colloquium
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| Description: |
Dr. John Hogenesch (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine)
Title: Systematic and systems approaches to understand the circadian clock
Location: 90 Snell Library, Northeastern University
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| Contact: |
Laura McGann
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4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
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The Singleton Lectures: Geometry and the Brain Series: Shape, symmetries, invariants and statistics
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| Description: |
Speaker: L. Mahadevan, Visiting Professor, BCS, MIT
Location: MIT 46-3002
Brain anatomy is immediately distinguished by its geometrically complex rugged landscape of sulci and gyri. Brain function is associated with how neurons are wired together and how they fire. Understanding the origins of the structure and connectivity in the brain requires the natural language of shape, i.e. geometry, combined with aspects of physics. This set of four lectures will provide a brief (and biased) introduction to some questions about the geometry of the brain and geometry in the brain. How can one describe these features quantitatively? How can one understand their origin? How might we compare brains from different organisms in a species and across different species? How can we characterize the patterns associated with sensory modalities in different cortii? And what is the current state of answers to these and related questions.
http://bcs.mit.edu/newsevents/calendar.php
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| Contact: |
Kathleen Dickey
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| Tuesday, November 30, 2010
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12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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