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IAP 2013 Activities by Category - Life Sciences: Hands-on

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5S for Chemical Laboratory Safety, Productivity, and Positive Morale

John F. Carrier, Sloan School of Management

Jan/24 Thu 10:00AM-11:30AM 66-110

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: none

Overview

5S is a technique to improve the performance, morale, and safety of its "human systems". It is based on 5 “S” words:

It is the best way to stabilize and optimize systems where people share common resources and equipment. Despite its apparent simplicity, it is rooted in the principles of control system dynamics and the psychology of human interaction.

If you feel –

Then 5S is for you!

During the session, we will discuss –

To bring:

Nothing is required. Bring members of your workspace!

Sponsor(s): Chemical Engineering
Contact: John Carrier, (617) 939-4396, JFCARRIE@MIT.EDU


A Gap Year in Dermatology

Dr. Louis Kuchnir (MIT Alum '87)

Jan/31 Thu 06:00PM-07:00PM 4-159

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/31

In recent years, pre-medical students have trended toward taking a "gap year" between college and medical school. These future physicians represent a highly qualified and motivated, but often underutilized workforce. At Kuchnir Dermatology, a new program is redefining the gap year by offering future physicians the opportunity to join the practice for a fourteen-month commitment as a Patient Care Coordinator.

Dr. Louis Kuchnir (MIT '87 alum) and his Patient Care Coordinator, Lauren, will answer questions and share experiences in an open dialogue about day to day life in a busy dermatology clinic. There will also be the opportunity to learn more about the gap year program.

For more information and to register visit CareerBridge at https://www.myinterfase.com/mit/student/, click on the "Events" tab, and select "Info Session" from the "Category" drop-down menu.

Contact: Erin Scott, 12-185, 617-715-5328, scotte@mit.edu


A Look Inside the Human Brain: MEG, MRI, PET, & TMS

Dimitrios Pantazis, Head of MEG Lab

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

Modern imaging technologies at MIT and MGH provide exciting new ways to understand the structure and function of the human brain. We will provide guided tours of our imaging facilities and show how we use these tools to look inside the brain. Our recently installed MEG scanner, capable of measuring magnetic fields a billionth of the magnetic field of earth, can record the simultaneous firing of thousands of cortical neurons as they form dynamic networks.  Our MRI scanner provides high resolution images of the human brain as subjects perform a wide range of perceptual and cognitive tasks. Our PET scanners can reveal the localization of specific molecules in the brain, revealing pathologies that may underlie many different brain disorders. TMS is a noninvasive method that uses electromagnetic induction to induce weak electric currents and cause depolarization or hyperpolarization in the neurons of the brain. We will introduce these technologies, and discuss their contribution to neuroscience and current projects at MIT and MGH.

Contact: Dimitrios Pantazis, 46-5147, 617 324-6292, PANTAZIS@MIT.EDU


Seminar on Magnetoencephalography

Jan/15 Tue 01:00PM-02:30PM 46-1015

Topics include electrophysiological basis of MEG signals, instrumentation, modeling, cortical rhythms, brain networks, combining MEG with fMRI

Dimitrios Pantazis - Head of MEG Lab, Yu-Teng Chang - Post-doctoral Associate, Radoslaw Cichy - Post-doctoral Associate


A tour at the MEG Lab

Jan/17 Thu 01:00PM-02:30PM 46-1147

A tour at the MEG Lab, demo scan and data analysis of an MEG experiment

MEG Lab: http://mcgovern.mit.edu/technology/meg-lab

Dimitrios Pantazis - Head of MEG Lab, Kleovoulos Tsourides - Research Associate


Seminar on Positron Emission Tomography

Jan/22 Tue 01:00PM-02:30PM 46-3015

Introduction to PET technology and scanners at MGH, and applications in tumor detection, brain metabolic activity, gene expression, neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, pharmacology etc.

Quanzheng Li - Assistant Professor


Seminar on Transcranial Magnetic Stim.

Jan/24 Thu 01:00PM-02:30PM 46-3015

Use of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to depolarize and hyperpolarize neurons of the brain, applications to treat depression and examine basic mechanisms of post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety, among others.

Tommi Raij - Instructor in Radiology


Seminar on Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Jan/29 Tue 01:00PM-02:30PM 46-3015

Topics include MRI hardware, BOLD responses, diffusion imaging, safety, and more.

Anastasia Yendiki - Assistant Professor, Steven P Shannon - Operations Manager and MR Research Technologist, Sheeba Arnold Anteraper - MR Programmer


A tour at the MRI Lab

Jan/31 Thu 11:00AM-12:00PM 46-1171

A tour at the MRI lab. Demo scan (finger tapping) and data analysis.

MRI Lab: http://mcgovern.mit.edu/technology/martinos-imaging-center/technical-resources

Steven P Shannon - Operations Manager and MR Research Technologist, Sheeba Arnold Anteraper - MR Programmer


Beekeeping Lecture Series

Dean Stiglitz, Beekeeper, Laurie Herboldsheimer, Beekeeper

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

Join the authors of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beekeeping (Dean Stiglitz and Laurie Herboldsheimer) for three Monday lectures on beekeeping:  Treatment Free Beekeeping, Microbial Culture of the Beehive, and Urban Beekeeping.  Laurie and Dean live in Leominster, Massachusetts (birthplace of Johnny Appleseed), where they breed and keep bees, market treatment free honey, run beekeeping conferences and classes, write and do research.  They are active in the Worcester County Beekeepers Association, travel around the country speaking about treatment free beekeeping and the importance of the microbial environment in the beehive.  Golden Rule Honey, LLC, is their honey business, which maintains a certified food production facility (located in the building where the pnk plastic lawn flamingo was born), where they package, distribute, and retail honey from treatment free beekeeping operations, and produce The Queen of Chocolate, a unique cocoa mix free of dairy products and sweetened only with honey.  

Sponsor(s): Mechanical Engineering
Contact: Tony Pulsone, pulsone@mit.edu


Treatment Free Beekeeping

Jan/07 Mon 03:00PM-04:00PM 4-149

A lot of decisions on equipment or methods, depend on your personal philosophy of life and your personal philosophy of beekeeeping.  Some people have more faith in Nature to work things out, while some are more interested in keeping their bees healthy with chemicals and treatments.  Learn the advantages and disadvantages of treatment free beekeeping.

Dean Stiglitz - Beekeeper, Laurie Herboldsheimer - Beekeeper


Microbial Culture of the Beehive

Jan/14 Mon 03:00PM-04:00PM 4-149

Before the advent of DNA sequencing technology, the honeybee (Apis Melifera) was the second most studied animal on earth.  However, even with millennia of beekeeping, study and observation, the microbial culture of the beehive is only recently beginnig to be understood.  This lecture will summarize some of the recent studies, and the importance of maintaining the microbial culture of the beehive.

Dean Stiglitz - Beekeeper, Laurie Herboldsheimer - Beekeeper


Urban Beekeeping

Jan/28 Mon 03:00PM-04:00PM 4-149

Urban Beekeeping presents special challenges, and advantages to that of rural or suburban environments.  Learn some of the ins-and-outs of keeping bees in your backyard, on your porch, or up on the roof.

Dean Stiglitz - Beekeeper, Laurie Herboldsheimer - Beekeeper


Beekeeping! Two-day Beginner's Intensive

Dean Stiglitz, Beekeeper, Laurie Herboldsheimer, Beekeeper

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/11
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Fee: $80.00 for instruction

Interested in keeping bees and harvesting honey - or just have an interest in honeybees?  Join the authors of the The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beekeeping (Dean Stiglitz and Laurie Herboldsheimer) for a two-day beginner beekeeping intensive.  Learn the latest techniques of beekeeping and how to keep honeybees, which are the most fascinating and important insect on our planet.  Topics covered will include:  Honeybee Behavior and Biology; Fundamental Concepts in Beekeeping; Equipment Overview/Choices; Your First Season; When Your Bees Arrive; Getting Ready for Winter.  The fee also includes online access to printable handout material, and access to an online forum for continuing support.  Attendance of the Beekeeping Lecture Series (on 1/7, 1/14, and 1/28) is not required, but is encouraged.  Send an email to Tony Pulsone (pulsone@mit.edu) to sign up.

Sponsor(s): Mechanical Engineering
Contact: Tony Pulsone, pulsone@mit.edu


Day 1

Jan/30 Wed 10:00AM-06:00PM 66-168

Dean Stiglitz - Beekeeper, Laurie Herboldsheimer - Beekeeper


Day 2

Jan/31 Thu 10:00AM-06:00PM 66-168

Dean Stiglitz - Beekeeper, Laurie Herboldsheimer - Beekeeper


BIOBASE Knowledge Library

Courtney Crummett, Bioinformatics and Biosciences Librarian

Jan/18 Fri 01:00PM-02:30PM DIRC 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

Interested in finding out what's known in the scientific literature about a particular gene, disease or drug? Want to apply that information to high-throughput data analysis? Interested in finding out about transcription factors related to your research? Learn to search the BIOBASE Knowledge Library (Proteome/TRANSFAC) by topic or multi-gene data sets. Please register: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=190104

Sponsor(s): Libraries, Biology
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-134, 617 324-8290, CRUMMETT@MIT.EDU


BIOBASE's Explain Analysis Tool

Courtney Crummett, Bioinformatics and Biosciences Librarian

Jan/18 Fri 02:30PM-04:00PM DIRC 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

Interested in microarray, ChIP-chip or ChIP-seq analysis? Biobase's ExPlain™ is a unique upstream data analysis system that combines promoter and pathway analysis tools and enables you to identify transcription factors affecting gene expression in your microarray and RNA-Seq experiments, as well as predict how they, in combination, can induce observed gene expression patterns. Come learn how to take your analysis further and gain insight into the key upstream signaling regulators influencing the activity of these transcription factors. Please register: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=190105

Sponsor(s): Libraries, Biology
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-134, 617 324-8290, CRUMMETT@MIT.EDU


BIOBASE's Human Gene Mutation Database

Courtney Crummett, Bioinformatics and Biosciences Librarian

Jan/18 Fri 04:00PM-05:00PM DIRC 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

Interested in human inherited diseases and their associated mutations? Learn to use the Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD), a comprehensive database on human germ-line mutations associated with disease, to determine whether an identified gene lesion is novel, search for known mutations within a given gene, or search for a type of gene mutation within a chromosomal location. Please register: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=190106

Sponsor(s): Libraries, Biology
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-134, 617 324-8290, CRUMMETT@MIT.EDU


Bioinformatics for Beginners

Courtney Crummett, Bioinformatics and Biosciences Librarian

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Entrez family of databases is the foundation of knowledge for molecular level bioscience research. Class attendees will learn about the organization and interconnectedness of NCBI databases while focusing on several specific databases. The session is a hands-on practicum and an excellent starting point for people who are new to or curious about bioinformatics research tools. This session is offered twice covering the same material; participants welcome at any session. Registration required.

Friday January 11th, 2013 10-11:30AM http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=190090

Wednesday January 16th, 2012 3-4:30PM http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=190091

Sponsor(s): Libraries, Biology
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-134, 617 324-8290, CRUMMETT@MIT.EDU


Jan/11 Fri 10:00AM-11:30AM DIRC 14N-132

Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=190090


Jan/16 Wed 03:00PM-04:30PM DIRC 14N-132

Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=190091


BrainNavigator: Hands-On Introduction and Demo

Courtney Crummett, BCS Librarian

Jan/17 Thu 10:00AM-11:30AM 14N-132 (DIRC)

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

BrainNavigator integrates accurate content and innovative tools to improve the productivity, efficiency and quality of research. It helps locate specific areas of the brain, making visualizing and experimental planning in the brain easier. Class attendees will learn how to access high resolution images, identify coordinates and calibrate those coordinates to their own animals, link their own images to BrainNavigator atlases, count cells using the cell marker tool, overlay schematic drawing onto atlas stained sections or their own images, and use the injection planner. Please Register: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=191481

Sponsor(s): Biology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Libraries
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-134, 617 324-8290, CRUMMETT@MIT.EDU


Get the most from your "omics" analysis: GeneGo MetaCore Software Training

GeneGo Trainer, Courtney Crummett

Jan/11 Fri 03:00PM-05:00PM DIRC 14N-132, Registration required

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 20 participants

Attend this IAP session and learn how to use GeneGo, a bioinforamtics software tool licensed by MIT Libraries. GeneGo provides a solution for using "omics" gene lists to generate and prioritize hypotheses with MetaCore. Learn how to work with different types of data (genomics, proteomics, metabolomics and interaction data) beginning with how to upload gene lists and expression data. Use GeneGo software to: upload, batch upload, store, share and check data properties and signal distribution; extract functional relevance by determining the most enriched processes across several ontologies; emphasize the role of expression data in your analysis; visually predict experimental results, associated disease and possible drug targets; and compare data sets and work with experiment intersections. Registration Required: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=189964

Sponsor(s): Libraries, Biology
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-M48, x4-8290, crummett@mit.edu


Invention to Marketplace

Joshua Schuler, Executive Director, Lemelson-MIT Program

Jan/14 Mon 03:00PM-04:30PM 10-105 (Bush Room)

Enrollment: http://lmitiap.eventbrite.com/#

The Lemelson-MIT Program welcomes back its 2005 and 2012 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize winners, David Berry, MD-PhD, and Miles Barr, PhD

Berry is a partner at Flagship Ventures, and founder of Flagship portfolio companies: LS9, Joule Unlimited, Eleven Biotherapeutics, Seres Health, and Pronutria. Barr is president and CTO of Ubiquitous Energy - a company he founded while finishing his PhD in the Department of Chemical Engineering. Barr co-founded the company with Vladimir Bulović, PhD, Professor of Electrical Engineering in EECS. Bulović holds over 50 U.S. patents, in the area of nano-structured electronics - a majority of which have been licensed and utilized by both start-up and multinational companies, including QD Vision, and Kateeva, which he also founded with his student.

Berry, Barr, and Bulović will describe their inventions and their process of bringing them into the marketplace – including interactions with the Technology Licensing OfficeCome learn about the surprises and lessons they encountered, and hear tips on how to effectively commercialize your ideas and technologies, interact with the media, and bring your academic successes out of the laboratory and into the real world to affect change.

Discussion Moderated by: Joshua Schuler, Executive Director of the Lemelson-MIT Program.

 

 

Sponsor(s): LEMELSON-MIT PROGRAM
Contact: Shannon O'Brien, 10-110, 617 258-5798, SHANNON1@MIT.EDU


Learn to use IPA during IAP

Courtney Crummett, IPA Trainer

Jan/31 Thu 02:00PM-04:00PM DIRC 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 20 participants

Attend this introductory and hands-on training session and learn how to use Ingenuity Pathways Analysis (IPA), newly licensed by MIT Libraries and friends, for the analysis of your ‘omics data.  Build complete regulatory pictures and gain a better understanding of the biology underlying a gene expression.  Discover signaling cascades from predicted upstream regulators in your dataset.  Predict the effect of your gene expression changes on downstream biological processes and diseases. Interrogate networks and canonical pathways and generate hypotheses in the network or pathway. Please register for this event. Need an IPA account? Email ask-bioinfo@mit.edu.

Sponsor(s): Libraries, Biology
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-M48, x4-8290, crummett@mit.edu


Water, Engineers, and Malaria in Africa

Elfatih Eltahir, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Jan/27 Sun 09:30AM-02:00PM 48-316, Lunch will be provided

Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)

Presentations by MIT students and Visiting Speakers will offer presentations of a multi disciplinary ( Engineering, Hydrology,

Entomology, Public Health) perspectives on the complex problem of malaria transmission in Africa, emphasizing recent field experiences from the region.

Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering
Contact: Joanne Batziotegos, 48-216, (617) 452-3022, jtegos@mit.edu