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Biology IAP 2008

Check out these seminars and discussions sponsored by the Biology Department!

Life After MIT: A Sampling of Careers in Biology

Tue. Jan 8Bio Tech/Pharma
1-2:30pm, 68-181
Thu. Jan 17Science Communication and Publishing
1-2:30pm, 68-181
Fri. Jan 25Consulitng & Venture Capital
1-2:30pm, 68-181
Mon. Jan 28Law and Intellectual Property
1-2:30pm, 68-181

Life After MIT: Taking the Next Step in Academic Science

Thu. Jan 10Teaching Positions
1-3:00pm, 68-181
Mon. Jan 14Finding a Faculty Position
3-4:00pm, 68-181
Tue. Jan 22Postdoc Boot Camp
1-2:30pm
Wed. Jan 23Women in Science
3-4:00pm, 68-181
Wed. Jan 30Finding a Postdoc
1-2:30pm, 68-181
Thu. Jan 31Grant Writing
1-2:30pm

The Wide World of Infectious Disease: Microbes & Mechanisms of Pathogenesis

Fri. Jan 11Prospects for an HIV Vaccine
Bruce Walker, HHMI, Partners AIDS Research Center, Harvard Medical School
11am-12pm, NE30-1154
Mon. Jan 14Herpes Viruses: Masters of Deception
Hidde Ploegh, Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11am-12pm, NE30-1154
Wed. Jan 16From Genes to Genomes: Genetic Diversity in Malaria, Implication for Biology and Pathogenesis
Dyann Wirth, Harvard School of Public Health
11am-12pm, NE30-1154
Wed. Jan 23The Microbe Within: Legionella and Manipulation of Membrane Trafficking in Host Cells
Ralph Isberg, HHMI, Tufts University School of Medicine
11am-12pm, NE30-1154
Fri. Jan 25New Approaches to the Study of Chronic Infection in the Cystic Fibrosis Lung
Roberto Kolter, Harvard Medical School
11am-12pm, NE30-1154
Mon. Jan 28Toxoplasma Modulates the Host Immune Response and Co-opts Host Gene Expression through Injection of Polymorphic Protein Kinases
Jeroen Saeij, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11am-12pm, NE30-1154
Thu. Jan 31The Ins and Outs of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Eric Rubin, Harvard School of Public Health
11am-12pm, NE30-1154
Repair of Basic Laboratory Equipment
Charles Moses
Mon Jan 21, 6-9:00pm, 68-077
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: none
Sponsored by Graduate Women in Science.
--Engineer Charles Moses will conduct a course on repair of laboratory equipment, geared toward but not limited to beginners. Equipment will include: electrophoresis units, spectrophotometers, motors on shakers and centrifuges, etc. General topics will also include: assessing the tools required to disassemeble, fix and reassemble a piece of equipment; tool quality; and rational disassembly of equipment when the function of some component is not known. Bring broken equipment on which to practice. Session starts at 6:00 p.m. in Project Lab, Bldg 68. Contact: Kay Jones, 68-641, x3-4721, kmjones@mit.edu
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Biology Advanced Undergraduate Seminars
7.341 Under the Radar Screen: How Pathogens Evade Immune Surveillance
Instructors: Gijsbert Grotenbreg (grotenbreg@wi.mit.edu; 4-2081; laboratory of Hidde Ploegh) John Antos (antos@wi.mit.edu; 4-2081; laboratory of Hidde Ploegh)
Spring 2008. Wednesdays, 3 pm - 5 pm. Room 68-151.
7.342 Developmental and Molecular Biology of Regeneration
Instructor: Christian Petersen (petersen@wi.mit.edu; 324-2132; laboratory of Peter Reddien)
Spring 2008. Thursdays, 3 pm - 5 pm. Room 68-151.
7.343 Sophisticated Survival Skills of Simple Microorganisms: Bacterial Stress Responses and their Relevance to Ecology, Health and Industry
Instructor: Adrienne Dolberry (dolberry@mit.edu, 3-8686; laboratory of Penny Chisholm)
Spring 2008. Thursdays, 11 am - 1 pm. Room 68-151
7.344 Directed Evolution: Engineering Biocatalysts
Instructor: Kerry Love (klove@wi.mit.edu, 4-2081; laboratory of Hidde Ploegh)
Spring 2008. Thursdays, 1-3 pm. Room 68-151

To learn more about the Advanced Undergraduate Seminars to be offered during the Spring 2008 semester, please check (http://mit.edu/biology/www/undergrad/adv-ugsem.html) and/or contact the instructors.
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