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| Monday, May 16, 2011
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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HNRCA Spring Seminar Series with Dr. Paul Soloway
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Join us for a seminar led by Dr. Paul Soloway. The topic will be "Novel approaches for epigenomic analysis"
Location: Jean Mayer USDA HNRCA @ Tufts University, 711 Washington Street, Mezzanine Conference Room, Boston
The event is held in a government building, with security at the front door. In order to gain admittance you will need to bring a government ID to present at the door.
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Christine O'Connell
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| Tuesday, May 17, 2011
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12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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SWERLING LECTURES 2011: Infectious Causes of Cancer
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Guest Speakers Include:
"Why Do Viruses Cause Cancer? Lessons from Merkel Cell Polyomavirus"
Patrick Moore, MD, MPH
"HPV Vaccines: Translating Science into Public Health Policy"
Laura Koutsky, PhD, MSPH
Current and Future HPV Vaccines to Prevent Cervical Cancer and Other HPV-Associated Diseases"
Douglas Lowy, MD
Hosted by: Matthew Meyerson, MD, PhD
http://dfcionline.org/research/oncologyseminars/default.aspx
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Claudia Steele
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care
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Notable Books Series at the Countway Library of Medicine - "Growing up in Jim Crow-era Tennessee and training and teaching in overwhelmingly white medical institutions, Dr. White witnessed firsthand how prejudice works in the world of medicine. And while race relations have changed dramatically, old ways of thinking die hard. Dr. White draws upon his experience in startlingly different worlds to make sense of the unconscious bias that riddles medical treatment, and to explore what it means for health care in a diverse twenty-first century America".
A reception and book signing will follow the lecture
Countway Library of Medicine, Minot Room, 5th floor
10 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA
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Roz Vogel
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| Wednesday, May 18, 2011
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8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
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New Frontiers in Neurodegeneration
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"New Frontiers in Neurodegeneration"
May 18-19, 2011
Biogen Idec Headquarters
(15 Cambridge Center, Building 8)
Cambridge, MA
Organized by the UMass Medical School Neurotherapeutics Institute
Sponsored by Biogen Idec and the ALS Therapy Alliance
Attendance limited to 200 pre-registered participants.
To register, email your contact information to NTI@umassmed.edu
May 18 Speakers:
Robert Brown (UMass Med)
The emerging genetic landscape of ALS
Steven Finkbeiner (UCSF/Gladstone Inst)
Defining neurodegenerative pathways
Li-Huei Tsai (MIT/Picower)
AD, ALS and Aging
Aaron Gitler (UPenn)
Studying protein misfolding diseases in yeast
Eran Hornstein (Weizmann Inst)
MicroRNA malfunction and motor neuron disease
Anthony Antonellis (UMich Med)
tRNAs and neuronal viability
Susan Ackerman (Jackson Labs/HHMI)
Mouse models of neurodegeneration
Timothy Miller (Wash U)
Approaches for gene silencing in ALS therapy
Christopher Henderson (Columbia)
New insights into MN susceptibility in ALS
Kevin Eggan (Harvard/HHMI)
Motor neuron-glia interactions and stem cells
May 19 Speakers:
Marc Freeman (UMass Med/HHMI)
Molecular pathways mediating axon death
Michael Coleman (Babraham Inst)
Axon degeneration and disease
David Rubinsztein (U Cambridge)
Autophagy and neurological disease
Myriam Heiman (MIT/Picower)
TRAPping Huntington's and Parkinson's diseases
Ed Boyden (MIT Media Lab)
Optogenetic manipulation of neuronal circuits
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Melissa Moore
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11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
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Bioinformatics Seminar Series: Why are chemotaxis receptors clustered but other receptors are not?
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Speaker: Ned Wingreen, Princeton
Location: TOC Lab 32-G575 Stata Center, MIT
The chemotaxis network of bacteria such as E. coli is remarkable for its sensitivity to minute relative changes in chemical concentrations in the environment. Indeed, E. coli cells can detect concentration changes corresponding to only ~3 molecules in the volume of a cell. Much of this acute sensitivity can be traced to the collective behavior of teams of chemoreceptors on the cell surface. Instead of receptors switching individually between active and inactive configurations, teams of 6-20 receptors switch on and off, and bind or unbind ligand, collectively.Similar to the binding and unbinding of oxygen molecules by tetramers of hemoglobin, the result is a sigmoidal binding curve. Coupled with a system for adaptation that tunes the operating point to the steep region of this sigmoidal curve, the advantage for chemotaxis is gain i.e., small relative changes in chemical concentrations are transduced into large relative changes in signaling activity (specifically, the rate of phosphorylation of the response regulator CheY). However, something is troubling about this simple explanation: in addition to providing gain, the coupling of receptors into teams also increases noise, and the net result is a decrease in the signal-to-noise ratio of the network. Why then are chemoreceptors observed to form cooperative teams? We present a novel hypothesis that the run-and-tumble chemotactic strategy of bacteria leads to a ³noise treshold², below which noise does not significantly decrease chemotactic velocity, but above which noise dramatically decreases this velocity.
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Patrice Macaluso
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Role of MeCP2 in Regulating Synapse Function and Behavior
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Lisa M. Monteggia, Associate Professor, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Please RSVP to lmavros@mit.edu if you'd like to attend.
Visit our website for further details including a talk abstract.
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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7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
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Deadly Medicine in the Nazi Era: What Turned Physician Healers into Killers?
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Location: Carl Walter Amphitheatre, Tosteson Medical Education Center, HMS, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston
Featured speakers:
Patricia Heberer, Ph.D., Historian, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Matthew Wynia, M.D., MPH, Director, Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association
This presentation examines the historical content and legacy of Nazi medicine. It explores the role of the German medical community as planners and implementers of eugenic policies, such as compulsory sterilization and “euthanasia” – the murder of institutionalized patients with disabilities during the Holocaust. The discussion considers the way many German physicians became involved in the criminal action of the Nazi regime and how those activities profoundly affected the development of today’s professional codes and ethics of medicine.
Presented in conjunction with the Boston Medical Library and the Deadly Medicine exhibition produced by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - View the exhibit at the Countway Library of Medicine, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston – through July 17th.
This program is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Contact Roz Vogel at rvogel@hms.harvard.edu or call 617.432.4807.
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Roz Vogel
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| Thursday, May 19, 2011
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8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
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New Frontiers in Neurodegeneration
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"New Frontiers in Neurodegeneration"
May 18-19, 2011
Biogen Idec Headquarters
(15 Cambridge Center, Building 8)
Cambridge, MA
Organized by the UMass Medical School Neurotherapeutics Institute
Sponsored by Biogen Idec and the ALS Therapy Alliance
Attendance limited to 200 pre-registered participants.
To register, email your contact information to NTI@umassmed.edu
May 18 Speakers:
Robert Brown (UMass Med)
The emerging genetic landscape of ALS
Steven Finkbeiner (UCSF/Gladstone Inst)
Defining neurodegenerative pathways
Li-Huei Tsai (MIT/Picower)
AD, ALS and Aging
Aaron Gitler (UPenn)
Studying protein misfolding diseases in yeast
Eran Hornstein (Weizmann Inst)
MicroRNA malfunction and motor neuron disease
Anthony Antonellis (UMich Med)
tRNAs and neuronal viability
Susan Ackerman (Jackson Labs/HHMI)
Mouse models of neurodegeneration
Timothy Miller (Wash U)
Approaches for gene silencing in ALS therapy
Christopher Henderson (Columbia)
New insights into MN susceptibility in ALS
Kevin Eggan (Harvard/HHMI)
Motor neuron-glia interactions and stem cells
May 19 Speakers:
Marc Freeman (UMass Med/HHMI)
Molecular pathways mediating axon death
Michael Coleman (Babraham Inst)
Axon degeneration and disease
David Rubinsztein (U Cambridge)
Autophagy and neurological disease
Myriam Heiman (MIT/Picower)
TRAPping Huntington's and Parkinson's diseases
Ed Boyden (MIT Media Lab)
Optogenetic manipulation of neuronal circuits
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Melissa Moore
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1:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Bergey's International Society for Microbial Systematics
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The study of Microbial Systematics is linked to several important areas of scientific research:
• Technological advances that can greatly improve research
• Bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic diversity studies
• Guided biotechnology and drug discovery
The first Inaugural meeting of Bergey’s International Society for Microbial Systematics will provide a dedicated event for microbial systematics and associated research, at the Friendship Hotel, Beijing, China, from May 19th-23rd, 2011.
Scientists who attend this conference have the opportunity to; learn how systematics influences studies in diversity, genetics, enzymatic and industrial potentials, and the current technologies available to improve this research; exchange knowledge and ideas, and improve personal and professional global communication and networks. In addition a Young Scientist Forum will be held for young researchers (under age 35) as an opportunity to showcase their work. Poster and industrial presentations will also be running.
Unique and exciting features of BISMiS 2011:
• We already have registered scientists from 21 different countries
• Opening keynote presentation ‘Drug discovery from microbial nature products’- Nobel Prize Laureate Dr. Barry Sharpless, Scripps Institute, California, USA
• Bioinformatics workshop ‘Next generation sequencing’ Prof. Jongsik Chun School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea
• Discussion on the future criteria for the Characterization of Prokaryotes, vital information for anyone wanting to successfully publish taxonomic information in the future
For more information, to register, and to submit an abstract, visit our website at WWW.BISMiS.org. To manage increased interest from the scientific community we are extending the abstract submission deadline to 31th March 2011.
This three-day conference will bring together scientists and academic leaders from research institutions, as well as pharmaceutical companies in one highly interactive event. The organizers of BISMiS 2011 are two of the biggest supporters of Microbial Systematics in the world:
• Bergey’s Manual Trust- the absolute authority in the field of microbial systematics
• Chinese Society of Microbiology- whose diverse research covers science and technology in the fields of industry, agriculture, medicine, environmental protection, national defense etc.
http://www.bismis.org
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Dr Elizabeth Ashforth
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5:30 PM - 9:00 PM
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"Women Don't Ask": Effective Negotiation Strategy Workshop
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Whether they want higher salaries, enhanced career opportunities, or more help at home, women are much less likely than men to ask for what they want. This workshop will explore the causes of women's propensity to avoid negotiating and look at "best practice" negotiation principles within the framework of the issues that impact women. It will show you how to recognize more opportunities to negotiate, set the right targets, and remain unfazed by the emotional dimensions of the interaction. Workshop leader:
•Sara Laschever, co-author of Ask For It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation To Get What They Really Want and Women Don't Ask: The High Cost of Avoiding Negotiation and Positive Strategies for Change
WEST would like to thank IBM Center for Social Software for their generous support of this event
http://www.westorg.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=125152
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Susan Silberman
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Week of Sunday, May 15, 2011
