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| Tuesday, March 27, 2012
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12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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| Thursday, March 29, 2012
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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Porphyromonas gingivalis lipids: Relationship to Chronic Periodontitis
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Speaker: Frank C. Nichols, PhD, University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine
Location: The Forsyth Institute, Seminar Room A, 245 First Street, 17th Floor, Cambridge
Summary: This presentation will focus on bacterial virulence factors that are recovered in diseased periodontal tissues by comparing and contrasting the recovery of lipopolysaccharide versus complex lipids of Porphyromonas gingivalis in healthy or diseased tissue samples. Next, the classes of phosphorylated sphingolipids produced by Porphyromonas gingivalis that are recovered in diseased tissues will be discussed. The important biological responses of these lipids and their relevance to chronic periodontitis will be summarised. Biological responses will include proinflammatory, cell death and bone destructive effects of these lipids. Finally, the presentation will show the capacity of the lipids derived from P. gingivalis to engage Toll-like receptor 2 in mediating some of these responses.
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Pam Quattrocchi
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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The Electric Face: A Role for Bioelectricity in Craniofacial Morphogenesis
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Tufts University Program in Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology Seminar Series
Guest Speaker: Laura Vandenberg, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Regenerative & Developmental Biology, Tufts University
Location: Stearns Auditorium, Tufts Medical Center, Farnsworth Building, 1st floor, 800 Washington Street, Boston
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Sharon Belding
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7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Life Redesigned: The Emergence of Synthetic Biology
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IEEE Computer Society and GBC/ACM
Location: Broad Institute Auditorium (MIT building NE-30)
Life Redesigned: The Emergence of Synthetic Biology
J.J. Collins, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering and Center for BioDynamics, Boston University, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University
Synthetic biology is bringing together engineers and biologists to design and construct biological circuits out of proteins, genes and other bits of DNA, and to use these circuits to rewire and reprogram organisms. These re-engineered organisms are going to change our lives in the coming years, leading to cheaper drugs, "green" means to fuel our car and clean our environment, and targeted therapies to attack "superbugs" and diseases such as cancer. In this talk, we highlight recent efforts to create synthetic gene networks and programmable cells, and discuss a variety of synthetic biology applications in biocomputing, biotechnology and biomedicine.
James J. Collins is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and a William F. Warren Distinguished Professor, University Professor, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Medicine and Co-Director of the Center for BioDynamics at Boston University. He is also a core founding faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. His research group works in synthetic biology and systems biology, with a particular focus on network biology approaches to antibiotic action and bacterial defense mechanisms. Professor Collins' patented technologies have been licensed by over 25 biotech, pharma and medical devices companies, and he has helped to launched a number of companies, including Novophage and Joule Unlimited. He has received numerous awards and honors, including a Rhodes Scholarship, a MacArthur "Genius" Award, an NIH Director's Pioneer Award, the World Technology Award in Biotechnology, as well as numerous teaching awards. In 2011, Professor Collins was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for "contributions to synthetic biology and engineered gene networks".
This joint meeting of the Boston Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society and GBC/ACM will be held in the Broad Institute Auditorium (MIT building NE-30). The Broad Institute is on Main St between Vassar and Ames streets. You can see it on a map at this location. The auditorium is on the ground floor near the entrance.
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, March 30, 2012
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8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
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Chemical Microbial Ecology
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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.
Speaker: Elizabeth Shank (HMS-MI)
Location: HUCE Seminar Room (24 Oxford St, 3rd Floor, Room 310)
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Andrea Lenco
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Week of Sunday, March 25, 2012
