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| Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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Making Apologies, Escaping Melodramas: Reflections on the U.S. Research Studies in Tuskegee and Guatemala and Why they Matter Now
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Speaker: Susan Reverby, Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas and Professor of Women's & Gender Studies, Wellesley College
Location: The Forsyth Institute, Seminar Room A, 245 First Street, 17th Floor, Cambridge
Summary: Between 1932 and 1972 the U.S. Public Health Service conducted a study of "untreated syphilis in the male Negro" in and around Tuskegee, Alabama and between 1946-48 another study of "inoculation STDs" in Guatemala. In Tuskegee, the men already had late latent syphilis but were supposed to be left untreated for four decades. In Guatemala, men and women in a prison, mental hospital and army barracks were given syphilis, gonorrhea and chancroid (through inoculation and use of infected prostitutes) and then supposedly treated. Two U.S. Presidents (Clinton and Obama) have apologized for what are considered two of the most shameful medical research studies in American history. As an historian of both studies, I will discuss what happened, what there have been formal apologies, how the stories are told, and why they matter now.
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Pam Quattrocchi
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5:30 PM - 6:40 PM
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Bringing Health Information to Life
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The 36th Annual Joseph Garland Lecture - This year's speaker is David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, Samuel O. Thier Professor of Medicine, Professor of Health Care Policy, HMS; Mongan Institute for Health Policy, MGH. Dr. Blumenthal served as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology under President Obama from 2009-2011.
Location: Armenise Amphitheatre, Armenise Building, 210 Longwood Ave., Harvard Medical School, Boston.
This lecture is sponsored by the Boston Medical Library in the Countway Library of Medicine
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Roz Vogel
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| Wednesday, October 26, 2011
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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| Thursday, October 27, 2011
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Synthetic biology: from parts to modules to therapeutic systems
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IEEE Computer and Engineering in Medicine and Biology Societies, MIT biological engineering and biomedical engineering student group (BE-BMES), and GBC/ACM
Location: MIT room 66-110
Synthetic biology: from parts to modules to therapeutic systems
Ron Weiss is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Engineering and in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his PhD from MIT in 2001 and held a faculty appointment at Princeton University between 2001 and 2009. His research focuses primarily on synthetic biology, where he programs cell behavior by constructing and modeling biochemical and cellular computing systems. A major thrust of his work is the synthesis of gene networks that are engineered to perform in vivo analog and digital logic computation. He is also interested in programming cell aggregates to perform coordinated tasks using cell-cell communication with chemical diffusion mechanisms such as quorum sensing. He has constructed and tested several novel in vivo biochemical logic circuits and intercellular communication systems. Weiss is interested in both hands-on experimental work and in implementing software infrastructures for simulation and design work. For his work in synthetic biology, Weiss has received MIT's Technology Review Magazine's TR100 Award ("top 100 young innovators", 2003), was selected as a speaker for the National Academy of Engineering's Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (2003), received the E. Lawrence Keyes, Jr./Emerson Electric Company Faculty Advancement Award at Princeton University (2003), his research in Synthetic Biology was named by MIT's Technology Review Magazine as one of "10 emerging technologies that will change your world" (2004), was chosen as a finalist for the World Technology Network’s Biotechnology Award (2004), and was selected as a speaker for the National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science Symposium (2005).
This joint meeting of the Boston Chapters of the IEEE Computer and Engineering in Medicine and Biology Societies, the MIT biological engineering and biomedical engineering student group (BE-BMES) and GBC/ACM will be held in MIT room 66-110. The room is on the first floor of MIT building 66.
Up-to-date information about this and other talks is available online at http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/boston/computer/. You can sign up to receive updated status information about this talk and informational emails about future talks at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/ieee-cs, our self-administered mailing list.
For more information contact Peter Mager (p.mager at computer.org)
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Peter Mager
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| Friday, October 28, 2011
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8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
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1:00 PM - 5:30 PM
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14th Annual John B. Little Symposium
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14th Annual John B. Little Symposium: “Stress Responses in Radiobiology, DNA Repair and Aging”
Friday, October 28, 2011 – 1:00pm-5:30pm
Saturday, October 29, 2011 – 9:00am-4:30pm
Harvard School of Public Health,Sebastian Kresge Building, Snyder Auditorium G1, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts
register online by October 21:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/research/jbl-center/jbl-symposium/
AWARD LECTURE:
Alain Sarasin, Ph.D., Institut de cancérologie Gustave Roussy, University Paris-Sud, Villejuif, France
“How rare DNA repair-deficient genetic diseases can help us understand mutagenesis, carcinogenesis and aging”
Paul Anderson, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical School; Brigham and Women's Hospital
Edward J. Calabrese, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Vera Gorbunova, Ph.D., University of Rochester
Myriam Gorospe, Ph.D., National Institute on Aging
Andrei V. Gudkov, Ph.D., D.Sci., Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Galit Lahav, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
James Mitchell, Ph.D., Harvard School of Public Health
Norman E. Sharpless, M.D., University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Barry P. Sleckman, M.D., Ph.D., Washington University School of Medicine
Anne Willis, Ph.D., Medical Research Council Toxicology Unit, United Kingdom
Zhi-Min Yuan, M.D., Ph.D., UT Health Science Center San Antonio
For additional information, please contact Holly Southern at hsouthern@hsph.harvard.edu tel. 617-432-3763
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Holly Southern
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| Saturday, October 29, 2011
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8:30 AM - 5:15 PM
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Science in the Liberal Arts University: Why it Matters to Us All
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1) Speakers:
- Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker
- Steven Pinker, Harvard University
- Siva Vaidhyanathan, University of Virginia
- Brian Greene, Columbia University
2) Location: Heights Room at Corcoran Commons, Boston College
3) Contact Person: Tom Chiles, Professor, Chairperson, Biology Department, 617-552-3540
A detailed schedule is available at www.bc.edu/ilasymposium
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Michelle Muccini
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9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
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14th Annual John B. Little Symposium
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14th Annual John B. Little Symposium: “Stress Responses in Radiobiology, DNA Repair and Aging”
Friday, October 28, 2011 – 1:00pm-5:30pm
Saturday, October 29, 2011 – 9:00am-4:30pm
Harvard School of Public Health,Sebastian Kresge Building, Snyder Auditorium G1, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts
register online by October 21:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/research/jbl-center/jbl-symposium/
AWARD LECTURE:
Alain Sarasin, Ph.D., Institut de cancérologie Gustave Roussy, University Paris-Sud, Villejuif, France
“How rare DNA repair-deficient genetic diseases can help us understand mutagenesis, carcinogenesis and aging”
Paul Anderson, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical School; Brigham and Women's Hospital
Edward J. Calabrese, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Vera Gorbunova, Ph.D., University of Rochester
Myriam Gorospe, Ph.D., National Institute on Aging
Andrei V. Gudkov, Ph.D., D.Sci., Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Galit Lahav, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
James Mitchell, Ph.D., Harvard School of Public Health
Norman E. Sharpless, M.D., University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Barry P. Sleckman, M.D., Ph.D., Washington University School of Medicine
Anne Willis, Ph.D., Medical Research Council Toxicology Unit, United Kingdom
Zhi-Min Yuan, M.D., Ph.D., UT Health Science Center San Antonio
For additional information, please contact Holly Southern at hsouthern@hsph.harvard.edu tel. 617-432-3763
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Holly Southern
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Week of Sunday, October 23, 2011
