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Dear colleagues and friends,<br>
<br>
The Boston chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers<br>
(IEEE)-Engineering in
Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS)<br>
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&<br>
<span
></span> the MIT Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)<br>
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*** The 2003-2004 EMBS-BMES
Distinguished Lecture Series ***<br>
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We invite you to join us for our new monthly lecture series in which
we explore<br>
recent developments and stimulating topics in the expanding field of
biomedical<br>
engineering. In the spring, speakers from both academia and
industry will introduce such<br>
subjects as genes, genomics, proteomics, and systems biology.<br>
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Our eighth lecture will be:<br>
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<b>Systems Biology of Cell-Cell Signaling<br>
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</font>Peter Sorger, Ph.D.<br>
Department of Biology & Biological Engineering Division<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
Cambridge, MA<br>
<br>
<font face="Arial">Wednesday, April 21st, 2004<br>
7PM (Refreshments at 6:30PM)<br>
MIT Building 66, 25 Ames Street, Room 66-110<br>
(For directions to MIT, please visit<font color="#0000FF"><u>
http://whereis.mit.edu</u></font>)<br>
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* This event is free and open to the public.*<br>
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ABSTRACT:<br>
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</font>Systems Biology, as it is being developed at MIT, combines
systematic experimentation and computational modeling to describe
complex biological networks. Systems biology models combine data about
networks of proteins with precise mechanistic information about
individual molecules. These models are numerical, but they are
formulated on the basis of experimental data and subjected to rigorous
experimental verification. Sorger will discuss emerging concepts in
systems biology with reference to electrical and chemical engineering
antecedents and to the study of epidermal growth factor (EGF)-mediated
signaling in mammalian cells.<br>
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<font face="Arial">SPEAKER BACKGROUND:<br>
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</font>Peter Sorger, Ph.D. is Director of the MIT Computational and
Systems Biology Initiative (CSBi), a campus-wide program that links
biology and engineering in the study of complex biological processes.
Sorger is a Professor jointly in the MIT Dept. of Biology and the
Biological Engineering Division and holds associate appointments at
the MIT Center for Cancer Research and the Broad Institute. Sorger
received his Ph.D. from Trinity College Cambridge, U.K., in 1993 and
trained as a postdoctoral fellow with Harold Varmus and Andrew Murray
at the University of California, San Francisco. Sorger's lab of 21
graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and staff scientists is
involved in both computational and experimental biology.<br>
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</font>If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact
us. We look<br>
forward to seeing you!<br>
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Best Regards,<br>
<br>
Mandy Yeung<x-tab>
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</x-tab>Alexis DeSieno<br>
VP of Special Programs<x-tab>
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</x-tab>President<br>
BMES,MIT Chapter<x-tab>
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</x-tab>BMES, MIT Chapter<br>
mandyy@mit.edu<x-tab>
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<font face="Century Gothic" color="#800080"><b>M a n d y Y e u n
g<br>
</b>MIT Biology, c/o 05<br>
<font size="-1">410 memorial drive rm 451-a<br>
cambridge, ma 02139<br>
tel: (617) 794-1431</font></font><br>
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