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| Monday, May 2, 2011
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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HNRCA Spring Seminar Series with Dr. Manel Esteller
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Join us for a seminar led by Dr. Manel Esteller. The topic will be "Human Cancer Epigenetics".
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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Noon - 1:00 PM
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biolomolecular Seminar Series
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" mi RNAs in heart and skeletal muscle"
Dr. Da-Zhi Wang, Dept of Cardiology, Children's Hospital
Boston University
24 Cummington Street, B01
Boston,MA 02115
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Dr. Chip Celenza
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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Building and Enriching Your Mentoring Relationships
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Program to start at 6:30
MIT Bldg 46, Room 3002 (Singleton Auditorium)
43 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
Mentors can enrich your career in many ways and we all have the capacity to also learn by mentoring and teaching others. This program/workshop will introduce the participants to many important skills
• How to find, select and approach a mentor
• How to manage the logistics of a healthy mentoring relationship
• Tools to make your mentoring relationships more productive
• Skills each of us can develop to be better mentors ourselves
Speaker and Workshop Leader: Dr. Joanne Kamens obtained her BA in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania and her Ph.D. in Genetics from Harvard University. She has worked for 20 years in both pharma and biotech drug discovery settings with oligonucleotide, small molecule, and biologic therapeutics. Dr. Kamens has been actively involved in raising awareness of women in science since 1998. She was the founding president of the Massachusetts AWIS chapter and was instrumental in starting the MASS AWIS Mentoring Circle program. She currently serves as the Director of Mentoring for the HBA (Healthcare Business Women’s Association) and is on the Board of Directors for WEST (Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology).
MASS AWIS Mentoring Committee members will be in attendance to answer questions about the 2011 Mentoring Circle program. Applications for the program are being accepted throughout May and June. New Circles will start meeting in September, 2011.
TO REGISTER AND FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT
http://www.acteva.com/go/mass-awis or http://www.mass-awis.org/
$10 AWIS members and post-docs/students; $20 for non-members
Join AWIS to save money on events and to support our work!
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Anne-Elise Tobin
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| Tuesday, May 3, 2011
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12:30 PM - 1:30 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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| Wednesday, May 4, 2011
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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2:00 PM - 3:20 PM
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Neurosteroids as Candidate Biomarkers and New Therapeutics
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Christine E. Marx, M.D., M.A., Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center and Durham VA Medical Center.
Boston University School of Medicine, 72 East Concord Street, L-112, Boston, MA.
Part of the Current Topics in Pharmacological Sciences Seminar Series sponsored by the Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics. Free and open to the public. Refreshments served at 1:45 pm, R-Building 6th Floor.
www.bumc.bu.edu/busm-pm
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Kristina Bigdeli
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| Thursday, May 5, 2011
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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DPP2 kd in the hypothalamic VMN leads to obesity and insulin resistance
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Location: The Forsyth Institute, 17th Floor, Seminar Room A, 245 First Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Brigitte T. Huber, Tufts University School of Medicine
Summary: The control of glucose metabolism is a complex process, and it is well known that a myriad of neuropeptides and gut hormones play a role in this process. Dysregulation at any level can cause impaired glucose tolerance and insulin resistance. These two defects are well-studied characteristics associated with obesity and onset of type 2 diabetes. We recently discovered a novel regulator of glucose metabolism, the N-terminal dipeptidase DPP2, a vesicular serine protease that has been identified and cloned by the Huber lab. Namely, we observed that conditional knockdown (kd) of DPP2 in all precursors of the gastric tract, pancreas and hypothalamus (NGN3-DPP2 kd) leads to hyperinsulinemia, glucose intolerance and insulin resistance by 4 months of age. Although striking and completely novel, this model system did not allow us to determine whether the diabetes phenotype arose from the lack of DPP2 expression in the central nervous system (CNS) or the gastrointesfinal (Gl) tract. To address this problem, we proceeded to generate SF1-DPP2 kd mice, in which DPP2 is specifically knocked down in a subpopulation of hypothalamic VMN (ventromedial nucleus) neurons, but not in the rest of the hypothalamus, nor in the Gl tract. Our preliminary experiments, assembled by an interdisciplinary investigative team with expertise in the fields of proteomics, molecular biology, neuroanatomy and metabolism, indicate that these mutant mice have a very similar metabolic phenotype as the NGN3-DPP2 kd mice; namely, the SF1-DPP2 kd mice develop hyperinsulinemia, glucose intolerance and insulin resistance, as well as increased body weight, compared to wild type littermates.
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Pam Quattrocchi
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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The Integration of Adhesion and Signaling Events in Adherens Junctions
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Tufts University Program in Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology Seminar Series.
Guest Speaker: Sergey M. Troyanovsky, PhD, Associate Professor of Dermatology and Cell and Molecular Biology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Location: Tufts Medical Center, Stearns Auditorium, Farnsworth Building, 1st Floor, 800 Washington Street, Boston, MA
There will be a wine and cheese reception immediately following the seminar at Tufts University's M&V Building 5th floor library, 136 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA
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Sharon Titus
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
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Work-Life Balance Interactive Program
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The Massachusetts Association for Women in Science (Mass-AWIS) announces:
Improving Work-Life Satisfaction
Sponsored by AWIS, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, and the Elsevier Foundation*
Hosted by: Mass-AWIS in connection with the Cambridge Science Festival
The Broad Institute, 7 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA
Event is open to both men and women.
Free to the public, no registration required.
Given the work environments and expectations for women in science, and the fact that a career in science is very often a way of life and far more than a job, work-life balance satisfaction can be elusive. While advocating for change in policies and systems continues to be important, women must find the personal work-life balance strategies that work for them within the systems in which they work. This interactive program will help participants:
• Define for themselves what work-life satisfaction is and is not
• Understand how incongruence between priorities and actions can drain energy and negatively impact work-life satisfaction
• Examine how their current choices impact work-life balance and identify changes that will have the biggest impact on personal and professional satisfaction
• Identify 7 keys to achieving and maintaining work-life satisfaction
• Craft a personalized plan to improve work-life balance satisfaction
In addition, your participation will assist AWIS in advocating on your behalf for improved workplace policies and practices. Mark your calendar to attend this important event.
*This program is provided courtesy of a three-year grant from the Elsevier Foundation. The program will be presented by Masha Hareli, Ph.D, AWIS Massachusetts Chapter President, and Cynthia Simpson, M.Ed, CAE, AWIS Director of Programs and External Relations.
For more information about Mass-AWIS, visit http://www.mass‐awis.org
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Anne-Elise Tobin
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| Friday, May 6, 2011
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8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
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MSI Year End Breakfast
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MSI Weekly Chalktalk Year End Celebration. Please join us in the Center for the Environment (24 Oxford St, 3rd Floor, Room 310) for a full breakfast hosted by Roberto Kolter (HMS) and Colleen Cavanaugh (OEB).
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Andrea Lenco
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1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
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Week of Sunday, May 1, 2011
