Seminars—Fall 2007
September 4
"Soundings"
Knight Fellows Only
September 6
"Soundings"
Knight Fellows Only
September 11
Nancy Kanwisher, MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Topic: brain imaging using functional MRI
September 13
Boyce Rensberger, director of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships and author of Life Itself: Exploring the Realm of the Living Cell
Topic: Introduction to genes and cells
Nancy Kanwisher, MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Topic: brain imaging using functional MRI
September 18
Matthew Wilson, MIT professor, Picower Institute
Topic: The role of sleep and dreaming in memory formation
September 20
Welcome Reception for 2007-08 Knight Fellows
4-6pm at the MIT Faculty Club
September 25
4-5pm: Dean Marc Kastner
Topic: What's happening in MIT's School of
Science
5-6pm: Dean Subra Suresh
Topic: What's happening in MIT's School of Engineering
September 27
Josh Winn, MIT assistant professor of physics,
Topic: Exoplanets
October 1
Note: This is a special Monday Seminar from 4-6pm
Shop Talk: Carl Zimmer, freelance science writer, blogger, writer for the NYTimes, and book author
October 2
Note: This seminar will take place at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Knight Fellows only
4-5pm: John Holdren, director of Science, Technology and Public Policy Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
Topic: climate change
5-6pm: Kelly Gallagher, director, Energy Technology Innovation Project at Harvard's Belfer Center
Topic: new energy technology to address global warming
October 3-5
Field trip to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Marine Biological Laboratory
Knight Fellows only
October 9
No Seminar (Columbus Day)
October 11
Ronald Prinn, MIT professor of atmospheric science, and director of the Center for Global Change Science
Topic: The global climate machine
October 16
David Mindell, MIT deep sea archaeologist
Topic: underwater archaeology
October 18
Mitch Resnick, Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten
Tour: MIT's Media Lab
Knight Fellows only
October 19-23
NASW annual meeting
October 23
No Seminar
October 25
Sangeeta Bhatia, MIT Associate Professor of Health Sciences and Technology; Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Topic: Micro- and nanotechnology for tissue repair
October 30
Mike Lemonick, Time magazine
Shop Talk
November 1
4-5pm: Dean Deborah Fitzgerald
Topic: What's happening in MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
November 6
Victor McElheny, founding director of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships
Topic: The history of the human genome project
November 8
Note: At Harvard Medical School (Knight Fellows only)
4-5pm: Jeremy Gunawardena
Topic:
Cellular metabolic networks, how cells make decisions
5-6pm: Nicholas Christakis
Topic: Social networks: non-viral spread of disease
November 13
Max Essex , Harvard AIDS Initiative
Topic: AIDS in Africa
November 15
No Seminar
Recommended attendance at Paul Farmer's talk on Global Health Equity, Kirsch Auditorium, 4pm
November 20
No Seminar
November 22
No Seminar (Thanksgiving Day)
November 26–30
Medical Evidence Boot Camp
December 4
Todd Glickman Office of Corporate Relations, MIT's Industrial Liaison Program
Topic: How MIT relates to industry
December 6
Special seminar on regulatory T cells
Note: at Harvard Medical School (Knight Fellows only)
Anjana Rao: basic biology of regulatory T cells
David Hafler: Regulatory T cells and autoimmune disease
Glenn Dranoff: Regulatory T cells and cancer
December 11
Sallie "Penny" Chisholm, MIT professor of environmental studies
Topic:
one hour on the world's most abundant organism and one hour on ocean fertilization to slow global warming
December 13
Nuggets from the classrooms: Fellows' presentations
December 17
Holiday Party
