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Beekeeping 101
Tony Pulsone, Beekeeper
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
If you are thinking about becoming a beekeeper, there are many things to learn before embarking on the wonderful adventure of keeping bees – this course will provide you with a foundation to get started with this fascinating hobby.
We will discuss honey bee biology and behavior, how to acquire your first bees, placement, beekeeping equipment, how to conduct inspections, seasonal management of your colonies, and being a good neighbor. Beekeeping 101 is perfect for people who are interested in bees and beekeeping – this is the course that will help you decide whether beekeeping is right for you.
Tony Pulsone is a second-generation beekeeper, and has kept his own bees for over eight years. He is a mentor to new beekeepers, Vice-President of the Middlesex County Beekeepers Association, and a member of both the Massachusetts Beekeepers Association and the Eastern Apicultural Society. He is enrolled in the Cornell University and University of Montana Master Beekeeper Programs, and is currently studying for the Master Beekeeper Certification for the Eastern Apicultural Society.
Contact: Tony Pulsone, 1-304, 617 253-2294, PULSONE@MIT.EDU
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Jan/07 | Mon | 05:15PM-06:45PM | 3-370 |
History of Beekeeping and its importance. Occupants of the Hive: their life cycle, anatomy, and behavior
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Jan/09 | Wed | 05:15PM-06:45PM | 3-370 |
Superorganisms. Sourcing Bees. Site Considerations. Laws regarding the keeping of Honey Bees. Allergic Reactions / Management of Bee Allergies
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Jan/10 | Thu | 05:15PM-06:45PM | 3-370 |
Protective Clothing, Tools, Beehives (Components and Accessories, and everything else.
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Jan/14 | Mon | 05:15PM-06:45PM | 3-370 |
Installing Nucs and Packages. Inspections. Swarming and Swarm Prevention
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Jan/15 | Tue | 05:15PM-06:45PM | 3-370 |
The unfortunate reality of modern-day beekeeping.
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Jan/16 | Wed | 05:15PM-06:45PM | 3-370 |
Every action a beekeeper takes should be towards one goal - getting their bees through winter.
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Jan/17 | Thu | 05:15PM-06:45PM | 3-370 |
Planting for Bees, Products of the Hive, et cetera.
Build It: Pop-Up Resilient Furniture
Katherine Mytty, Visiting Lecturer / Instructor
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Jan/18 | Fri | 11:00AM-04:00PM | LCAU E14-140 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/10
We invite the MIT community to develop and fabricate interactive furniture to be installed as Pop-Up placemaking at Grove Hall, Dorchester. This will be a 4-day long furniture making workshop.
The workshop is conceived for MIT community to work on a real-time public place rejuvenation project at the city scale with local Boston residents. The site for the workshop is located in the Dorchester neighborhood at Grove Hall. A little-used lot opposite to the Boston Public Library, Grove Hall Branch has been selected to be converted as a park by the City of Boston in partnership with the Trust for Public Land. The site is in close proximity to a Senior Center, a High School and a Shopping Center. The conversion process will take 3 to 4 years. In the interim, PLA.CE! Is engaged in designing Pop-Up activities and events, including developing Pop-Up public furniture for the lot.
See more on the workshop here: www.placeresilience.wordpress.com
PLA.CE! DESIGN AND FABRICATION WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
Please reserve the below dates:
**RSVP for the workshop at this link. **
Questions? Ranu Singh, (617) 682 2981, ranu@mit.edu. Workshop hosted by MIT alums Riddhi Shah and Ranu Singh.
Contact: Katherine Mytty, 617 715-5474, KMYTTY@MIT.EDU
Gene Set Enrichment Analysis
Charlie Whittaker, Research Scientist
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Jan/31 | Thu | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) is a freely available tool developed at the Broad Institute that analyzes the distribution of gene sets in the context of gene expression experiments. Thousands functionally associated, positionally related or otherwise linked gene sets are annotated in the Broad Institute’s MsigDb collections and are available for testing. In addition, custom gene sets can be created and tested according to researches needs. In this IAP, the rationale for GSEA will be reviewed and hands-on instruction in input data setup, execution of analyses and assembly and interpretation of results will be provided. The single-sample GSEA variant will be demonstrated and the application of GSEA to different data types will be discussed. Example datasets will be provided but attendees are encouraged to bring their own data.
Eligibility: MIT researchers affiliated with the Koch Institute, the Biology Department, the Center for Environmental Health Sciences or the Department of Biological Engineering.
Register HERE:
https://libcal.mit.edu/event/4826550
Sponsor(s): David H. Koch Inst. for Integrative Cancer Researc, Libraries
Contact: Courtney Crummet, crummett@mit.edu
IAP 2019 Metabolomics boot camp
Tomas Pluskal, PhD, Postdoc, Weng lab, Tim Fallon, Graduate student, Weng lab, Caroline Lewis, PhD, Director, Whitehead Metabolic Profiling Core Facility
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
2019 IAP Metabolomics boot camp sign-up form
A two-week course on LC-MS sample preparation and data processing with MZmine2 hosted by Tomáš Pluskal (Weng lab), Tim Fallon (Weng Lab), and Caroline Lewis (Whitehead Metabolite Profiling Core Facility)
Course sign up by google doc: https://goo.gl/forms/8slZXg4eZxb3lwck2
See below link for course syllabus:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1951J1MbPSBTUmVTAMyTO_MjaDY6Z8MbIRxngoObVf9A
Goals of the course:
Design and interpretation of an untargeted metabolomics experiment
Hands on work with sample preparation and instrumental setup.
Hands on work with LC/MS data analysis using MZmine2
Instructors:
Tomáš Pluskal, PhD (Postdoc, Weng Lab; Main developer of MZmine2) pluskal@wi.mit.edu
Tim Fallon (Graduate student, Weng Lab)
Caroline Lewis, PhD (Director, Whitehead Metabolite Profiling Core Facility)
Sponsor(s): Biology
Contact: Tim Fallon, Whitehead Institute, Room 321, 508-274-1995, tfallon@mit.edu
The Rollercoaster Ride of RNAi, mRNA and Editing Therapeutics: From Obscurity to a $30B Industry
Tod Woolf, MIT Technology Licensing Officer
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Jan/23 | Wed | 12:30PM-02:00PM | E25-111 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/21
Limited to 150 participants
Novel therapeutic platforms usually go through the phases of initial enthusiasm, followed by a trough of disappointment to meet the initial hype, and then after years of solving the technical challenges, commercial clinical success is achieved.
Nucleic acids drugs targeting RNA and the genome provide excellent examples of these cycles.
Tod Woolf (MIT Technology Licensing Office) will describe the work of his biotech teams and other biotechs in the area of antisense, RNAi, and therapeutic editing that reflect phases of these boom bust cycles, with an emphasis on how chemical modification of nucleic acid drugs contributed to the enablement of nucleic acid therapeutic platforms.
This session is part of the "Intellectual Property Speaker Series" co-sponsored by the MIT Technology Licensing Office and MIT Libraries. Lunch will be provided to attendees of the Intellectual Property Speaker Series events.
Please register for the seminar and lunch here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-rollercoaster-ride-of-rnai-mrna-and-editing-therapeutics-iap-2019-tickets-53587593936?aff=1231902
FREE SWAG!
We will also be giving away some branded MIT Libraries and Technology Licensing Office swag to participants who attend any 6 sessions from this series, so please check out our other sessions! https://mit_tlo.eventbrite.com
Sponsor(s): Technology Licensing Office, Libraries
Contact: Karen Baird, NE18-501, 617 324-2386, KSHANER@MIT.EDU
Ultralow Temperature Freezers
Kristin Walker
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Jan/16 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 76-359 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/11
Limited to 40 participants
Come and learn about your ultralow temapture freezers from a representative from Fisher Scientific.
During the session we will cover:
Registration required: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/mit-ehs-2027921775
Sponsor(s): Environment, Health and Safety Office
Contact: Katie Blass, 617-452-3477, kblass@mit.edu
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