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| Monday, May 21, 2012
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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Tufts HNRCA Seminar Series ~ Jose Ordovas
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This lecture given by Dr. Jose Ordovas Director of the Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, HNRCA is titled: MicroRNAs: Changing the Molecular Nutrition Landscape.
Seminars will be held at 12 noon in the Auditorium of the HNRCA and will be followed by a student and post-doc luncheon on the 9th floor, 711 Washington St. Boston, MA 02111.
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John Heine
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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| Tuesday, May 22, 2012
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12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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| Thursday, May 24, 2012
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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The Use of Immature Oocytes in Fertility Preservation
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Tufts University Program in Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology Seminar Series
Guest Speaker: Catherine Combelles, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biology, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont
Location: Tufts University Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Room B09, 145 Harrison Avenue, Boston
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Sharon Belding
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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The human microbiome in health and disease
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Speaker: Eric J. Alm, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: The Forsyth Institute, Seminar Room A, 245 First Street, 17th Floor, Cambridge
Summary: The human body contains ten times as many bacterial cells as human cells, and this human microbiome plays a significant but poorly understood role in human health. In this talk, I will make a three point argument for the importance of the microbiome. First, I will demonstrate how the microbiome can be used to infer information about the host, using IBD diagnosis as an example application. Second, I will show how diet and environment influence the microbiome, evidenced by a year of self-tracking and sequencing daily gut samples. Finally, I will show that eating probiotic bacteria can dramatically improve health and counter some of the negative effects of a ‘fast food’ diet.
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Pam Quattrocchi
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Week of Sunday, May 20, 2012
