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| Sunday, November 14, 2010
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8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
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ABCs of ECGs: Back to Basics for Frontline Clinicians
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CME Course
Director: Ary Goldberger MD, Beth Israel Deaconess/HMS
Location: Hotel Commonwealth, 500 Commonwealth Avenue • Boston, MA 02215, P 617-532-5005, www.hotelcommonwealth.com
For more information visit: www.cme.hms.harvard.edu/courses/ecgbacktobasics
Contact: Kathy Johnson - 617-667-4267 or email kjohnso3@bidmc.harvard.edu
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Kathy Johnson
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| Monday, November 15, 2010
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(All Day)
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2010 Program in Quantitative Genomics Conference
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Many different data sources that can be utilized to shed more light into the mechanics of complex diseases and phenotypes are now more and more commonly available to the scientific community. While the technology development is rapid, the analysis strategies for their integration lag behind. This is particularly true for integrative approaches that are aimed at assessing the different influences of the epigenome, DNA, RNA, and protein on the disease phenotype simultaneously. This meeting aims to bring experts for the different technologies and their analysis strategies together to foster the development of integrative approaches to analysis. The topics for this year’s conference are:
• Epigenetics
• Rare Variants
• Data Integration and Network Analysis
The conference schedule includes time for scientific presentations, as well as time for more informal panel and round-table discussions. A poster session will also be held to display selected abstracts relating to this year's theme. Top abstracts will also either be selected for short talks to be presented at the conference, or for the Stellar Abstract Awards, which provide up to $500 in travel assistance. We hope the conference will spur discussions and future developments in the field and generate a white-paper report.
LOCATION: The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA
www.hsph.harvard.edu/research/pqg-conference-2010/
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Shaina Andelman
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Noon - 1:30 PM
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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| Tuesday, November 16, 2010
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(All Day)
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2010 Program in Quantitative Genomics Conference
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Many different data sources that can be utilized to shed more light into the mechanics of complex diseases and phenotypes are now more and more commonly available to the scientific community. While the technology development is rapid, the analysis strategies for their integration lag behind. This is particularly true for integrative approaches that are aimed at assessing the different influences of the epigenome, DNA, RNA, and protein on the disease phenotype simultaneously. This meeting aims to bring experts for the different technologies and their analysis strategies together to foster the development of integrative approaches to analysis. The topics for this year’s conference are:
• Epigenetics
• Rare Variants
• Data Integration and Network Analysis
The conference schedule includes time for scientific presentations, as well as time for more informal panel and round-table discussions. A poster session will also be held to display selected abstracts relating to this year's theme. Top abstracts will also either be selected for short talks to be presented at the conference, or for the Stellar Abstract Awards, which provide up to $500 in travel assistance. We hope the conference will spur discussions and future developments in the field and generate a white-paper report.
LOCATION: The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA
www.hsph.harvard.edu/research/pqg-conference-2010/
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Shaina Andelman
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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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 17, 2010
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5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
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MSI Graduate Consortium Reception and Information Session
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Host: Roberto Kolter
Location: Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE)- climate change exhibit area/seminar room, 24 Oxford St (Cambridge), 3rd Floor, Room 310
Description: MSI welcomes Harvard graduate students with an interest in any aspect of the microbial sciences to join this vibrant interdisciplinary community. The evening will be an opportunity to socialize with current and prospective members of the consortium and to learn more about the program.
RSVP: to Andrea Lenco (alenco@fas.harvard.edu)
http://www.msi.harvard.edu/graduates/consortium.html
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Andrea Lenco
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| Thursday, November 18, 2010
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Beyond DNA Damage:Complexity in Radiation Carcinogenesis
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Tufts University Program in Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology Seminar Series.
Guest Speaker: Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff, PhD, Departments of Radiation Oncology & Cell Biology, NYU.
Location: Tufts University, Posner Auditorium, 200 Harrison Avenue, Boston, 02111
A wine and cheese reception will be held immediately after the seminar in the M&V Building 5th Floor Library, 136 Harrison Avenue.
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Sharon Titus
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
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An integrated information theory of consciousness
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Speaker: Dr. Giulio Tononi, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine
Room 3002, Singleton Auditorium, Building 46, MIT
Departmental Tea immediately following.
Abstract:
Over the past decades, studies have investigated the neural correlates of consciousness with increasing precision. However, why experience is generated by the cortex and not the cerebellum, why it fades during certain stages of sleep and returns in others, or why some cortical areas endow experience with colors and others with sound, remains unexplained. Moreover, key questions remain unanswered. For example, how much consciousness is there when only a few brain ‘islands’ remain active? How much during sleepwalking or psychomotor seizures? Are newborns conscious, and to what extent? Are animals conscious, how much, and which way? Can a conscious machine be built? To address such questions, empirical observations need to be complemented by a principled theoretical approach. The information integration theory (IIT) says that i) the quantity of consciousness corresponds to the amount of information generated by a complex of elements above and beyond its parts; ii) the quality of experience is specified by the informational relationships within that complex. The IIT not only accounts for several neurobiological observations, but specifies how the quantity of consciousness can be measured as the amount of integrated information (Φ) generated by a system.
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Vivi Hinh
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5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
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Lupus Lecture Series at BIDMC
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Human neutrophil FcgRs in autoimmune disease: A study in transgenic mice
Tanya Mayadas, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Center for Life Science, CLS-921
3 Blackfan Circle, Boston MA 02115
617-735-4160
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Betty Chase
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| Friday, November 19, 2010
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8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Clinical, Assessment and Intervention Updates in Neurorehabilitation
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Nov. 19-20, 2010 (Registration Required)
Clinical, Assessment and Intervention Updates in Neurorehabilitation
Symposium/Course on Technology & Rehabilitation
Felipe Fregni, MD, PhD, MPH & Lotfi B. Merabet, OD, PhD and many others will talk at this 2 day conference
Online participation, webcast and interaction with speakers!
Location: The Inn at Longwood Fenway Conference Room, Boston, MA
Contact: Jennifer Schadler at 617-573-2195 (jschadler@partners.org)
For more information visit www.neuromodulationlab.org
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Jennifer Schadler
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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Rheumatology Grand Rounds (BIDMC)
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Horror Autoinflammaticus: Molecular Pathophysiology of the Systemic Autoinflammatory Diseases
Daniel L. Kastner, M.D., Ph.D.
Scientific Director/NHGRI, NIH
3 Blackfan Circle, CLS 921
Boston, MA 02215
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Betty Chase
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8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
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The Human Oral Microbiome
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Speaker: Floyd Dewhirst, Forsyth Institute
Location: 3rd Floor, Room 310, Harvard University Center for the Environment, 24 Oxford St
MSI Weekly Chalktalk! Please join us for coffee, tea, and pastries at 8:30am.
http://www.msi.harvard.edu/events/fridays.html
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Andrea Lenco
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Week of Sunday, November 14, 2010
