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| Monday, January 30, 2012
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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Neuroscience, Aging, and Nutrition Lecture Series
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Please join us for the Special Lecture Series “Neuroscience, Aging, and Nutrition” co-sponsored by the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts University and the Tufts School of Medicine Neuroscience Department.
The third Lecture will be held on Monday, January 30, 2012 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Auditorium of the Jean Mayer USDA HNRCA located at 711 Washington Street, Boston, MA. This is the third of six presentations in this special Lecture Series.
The “Neuroscience, Aging, and Nutrition Lecture Series” was created to celebrate the HNRCA’s new neuroscience and aging laboratory and to promote collaborations in the neuroscience research area.
Lecture #3: Dr. Giulio Maria Pasinetti, Director, Center of Excellence for Novel Approaches to Neurotherapeutics, Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Geriatrics and Adult Development, Department of Neurology and Friedman Brain Institute The Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Director, Basic and Biomedical Research and Training Program, GRECC , James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
“Of Sound Mind and Body: Dietary Lifestyles, Epigenetics, and Prevention of Brain Aging”
Host: Dr. Sarah Booth, Associate Director, HNRCA
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Meghan Faherty
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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| Tuesday, January 31, 2012
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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Investigations of Metalloenzymes Dynamics in Microbial Processes using Quantitative Proteomics
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Speaker: Mak Saito, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Location: The Forsyth Institute, Seminar Room A, 245 First St., 17th Fl., Cambridge
Abstract: Metalloenzymes play a critical role in cellular metabolism. Mass spectrometry based quantitative proteomics using multiple reaction monitoring is a relatively new technique that opens a window into the study of how microbes modify their metalloenzyme complement in response to changing environmental conditions. In addition, proteomic techniques can help determine the function of previously unannotated hypothetical proteins. Studies of marine diazotrophic cyanobacteria and heterotrophic bacteria will be discussed where each showed large scale changes in the metalloenzyme complement of the proteome for the purposes of iron conservation and proteolytic activity, respectively. In addition, identification of novel metalloproteins such as vitamin B12, cobalt, nickel and copper binding proteins will be discussed.
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Pam Quattrocchi
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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, February 1, 2012
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10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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"A new angle on Angelman syndrome"
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Ben Philpot, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, University of North Carolina
MIT Building 46-3002 (auditorium), followed by a reception
Building Address: 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Please RSVP to lmavros@mit.edu
Visit web.mit.edu/autism for more details including talk abstract.
The Simons Center for the Social Brain Colloquium Series
is a continuation of the Simons Initiative on Autism and the Brain’s Autism and Developmental Disorders Colloquium Series at MIT (web.mit.edu/autism).
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Lee Mavros Rushton
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| Thursday, February 2, 2012
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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Neuroscience, Aging, and Nutrition Lecture Series
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Please join us for the Special Lecture Series “Neuroscience, Aging, and Nutrition” co-sponsored by the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts University and the Tufts School of Medicine Neuroscience Department.
The fourth Lecture will be held on Thursday, February 2, 2012 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Auditorium of the Jean Mayer USDA HNRCA located at 711 Washington Street, Boston, MA. This is the fourth of six presentations in this special Lecture Series.
The “Neuroscience, Aging, and Nutrition Lecture Series” was created to celebrate the HNRCA’s new neuroscience and aging laboratory and to promote collaborations in the neuroscience research area.
Lecture #4: Dr. Bradford B. Lowell, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Center for Life Science
"Circuits Regulating Feeding and Metabolism – Functional Dissection and Synaptic Mechanisms"
Host: Dr. Sarah Booth, Associate Director, HNRCA
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Meghan Faherty
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5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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Man and microbe: Exotic ales since the birth of civilization
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MSI Special Seminar and Beer Tasting
Title: Man and microbe: Exotic ales since the birth of civilization
Speaker: Sam Calagione (Dogfish Head Craft Brewery)
Location: Geological Museum Room 100, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Tickets: Event is free, but tickets are required and become available on 1/19/12 at noon. Available by phone (617-496-2222) and internet (www.boxoffice.harvard.edu) for a fee. Tickets can also be picked up in person at the Harvard Box Office (Holyoke Ctr.).
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Nora Millan Rivas
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Week of Sunday, January 29, 2012
