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| Tuesday, November 29, 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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| Wednesday, November 30, 2011
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12:05 AM - 1:00 PM
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Three-dimensional Architecture of Genomes
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Job Dekker, Program in Gene Function and Expression and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Building 4, Room 231, MIT
For more information: Nina Wu
ninawu@mit.edu or 617.253.6259
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Nina Wu
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8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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Tufts University Neuroscience Seminar
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Speaker: Gina Turrigiano, PhD, Brandeis
Title: "The self-tuning neuron: homeostatic synaptic scaling in developing cortical circuits"
Location: Sackler 216A, Tufts University,145 Harrison Avenue
Boston
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Laila Lee
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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Alfalfa to Ivy - lecture, book signing, reception
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The Notable Books Series at the Countway Library presents –
Joseph B. Martin speaking on the subject of his newly released memoir “Alfalfa to Ivy”.
Location: Countway Library of Medicine, Minot Room, 5th Floor, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA
Following the lecture is a book signing and reception in the Lahey Room, 5th floor. The Harvard Coop will sell the book at the event.
Speaker: Joseph B. Martin, MD, PhD, The Edward R. & Anne G. Lefler Professor of Neurobiology at HMS; Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor; Former Dean of Faculty, HMS.
The last forty years have seen seismic changes in the functions and missions of medical research, medicine, and medical schools in the US. There is no book that describes this range of cosmic changes more clearly or dramatically than Joe Martin’s excellent memoir: Alfalfa to Ivy. Martin describes the revolution in American medicine first, from a bottom-up view as a participant; but, perhaps even more important, Martin can describe these changes from a top-down view since he has been the leader of academic medicine during this period. In this book we learn about the evolution of modern medicine from one of the people who participated in shaping it and who did so with the attempt not to lose sight of the patient, the physician, and the science that drives it all”.
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Roz Vogel
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| Thursday, December 1, 2011
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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Periodontitis: a Community Affair
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Speaker: Richard P. Darveau, Ph.D., Chair Dept. of Periodontics School of Dentistry, Univ. Of Washington
Location: The Forsyth Institute, Seminar Room A, 245 First Street, 17th Floor, Cambridge
Abstract: The complexity of the sub-gingival microbiota has hindered the identification of the precise microbial etiology of periodontitis although very strong correlations between the amount and composition of the dental plaque biofilm and disease have been described. Furthermore, extensive microbial compositional analysis, based originally on culture techniques and subsequently extended by large scale DNA:DNA hybridization methodologies, has identified potential periopathogens, designated the red complex. Examination of potential virulence characteristics shared by red-complex bacteria, Porphyromonas gingivalis, Tannerella forsythia and Treponema denticola, has not yielded clear associations with disease. However, one shared attribute is their ability to either inhibit or evade innate host responses. This talk will provide evidence and a mechanism by which P. gingivalis employs both the microbial community and the host to cause periodontitis in mice.
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Pam Quattrocchi
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Week of Sunday, November 27, 2011
