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<div>During January 2006, the Biology Department is sponsoring several
seminar series and discussions.<br>
<br>
One series of events, called "LIFE AFTER MIT", will include
discussions that provide guidance for taking the next step in academic
research and examine some of the career options in biology outside of
academic research and clinical medicine. It will include a
selection of roundtables on the practice of science, navigating
academia, and balancing it all with a life outside the lab as well as
covering non-traditional paths for Biology PhD's. <br>
</div>
<div>A second series, "PROTEOMICS AND PROTEIN TECHNOLOGIES"
will<font color="#000000"> welcome to our IAP series world leaders in
proteomics and protein science from the Boston area. Talks will
describe a wide range of cutting edge technologies and large-scale
approaches for characterizing the proteome, as well as strategies for
interpreting and using the resulting data.</font></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><b>LIFE AFTER MIT: A SAMPLING OF CAREERS IN
BIOLOGY</b></div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Thu. Jan 19<x-tab> </x-tab>Editing and
Publishing</div>
<div><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>noon-1:30pm, 68-121</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Tue. Jan 24<x-tab> </x-tab>Careers in
Law</div>
<div><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>12:30-2pm, 68-181</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Wed. Jan 25<x-tab>
</x-tab>Entrepeneurship & Venture Capital</div>
<div><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>12:30-2pm, 68-181</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Thu. Jan 26<x-tab> </x-tab>Biotech</div>
<div><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>12:30-2pm, 68-121</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><i>TBD</i><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab><i>Consulting</i></div>
<div><i><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>TBD</i></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><b>LIFE AFTER MIT: TAKING THE NEXT STEP IN ACADEMIC
RESEARCH</b></div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Wed. Jan 11<x-tab> </x-tab>Finding a
Faculty Postition</div>
<div><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>noon-1:30pm, 68-181</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Thu. Jan 12<x-tab> </x-tab>Life as a
Postdoc at MIT</div>
<div><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>noon-1:30 pm, 68-181</div>
<div><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab></div>
<div>Wed. Jan 18<x-tab> </x-tab>Balancing
Family and Science</div>
<div><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>12:30-1:30 pm, 68-181</div>
<div><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab></div>
<div>Fri. Jan 20<x-tab> </x-tab>Grant
Writing/R01s</div>
<div><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>1:00-2:00 pm, 68-181</div>
<div><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab></div>
<div>Mon. Jan 30<x-tab> </x-tab>Women in
Science</div>
<div><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>noon-1:30 pm, 68-181</div>
<div><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab></div>
<div>Thu. Feb 2<x-tab> </x-tab>Academic
Teaching Positions</div>
<div><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>12:30-2pm, 68-121</div>
<div><br></div>
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align="center"
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<div><br></div>
<div><b>PROTEOMICS AND PROTEIN
TECHNOLOGIES</b><x-tab> </x-tab></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Wed. Jan 11<x-tab>
</x-tab>Quantitative Proteomic Analysis of Cellular
Signaling</font></div>
<div><font
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>Networks<x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab> <x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab></font></div>
<div><font
color="#000000"><i><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab></i>Forest White, Ph.D., MIT Division of Biological
Engineering</font></div>
<div><font
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>3:30-04:30pm, Whitehead Auditorium</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Fri. Jan 13<x-tab>
</x-tab>Proteomics in Biology and Medicine</font></div>
<div><font
color="#000000"><i><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab></i>Steven A. Carr, Ph.D., Broad Institute</font></div>
<div><font
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>3:30-04:30pm, Whitehead Auditorium</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Tue. Jan 17<x-tab>
</x-tab>Interactome Networks</font></div>
<div><font
color="#000000"><i><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab></i>Marc Vidal, Ph.D., Dept of Genetics, Harvard Medical
School</font></div>
<div><font
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>3:30-04:30pm, Whitehead Auditorium</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Thu Jan 19<x-tab>
</x-tab>Systems-Based Approaches to Studying RTK
Signaling</font></div>
<div><font
color="#000000"><i><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab></i>Gavin MacBeath, Ph.D., Harvard Department of
Chemistry</font></div>
<div><font
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>3:30-04:30pm, Whitehead Auditorium</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Tue Jan 24<x-tab>
</x-tab>Functional Proteomics for Biomarker and Target
Discovery</font></div>
<div><font
color="#000000"><i><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab></i>Joshua LaBaer, M.D., Ph.D.<i>,</i> Department of
Biological Chemistry<x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab></font></div>
<div><font
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>and
Molecular Pharmacology and Institute of Proteomics,</font></div>
<div><font
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>Harvard Medical School</font></div>
<div><font
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>3:30-04:30pm, Whitehead Auditorium</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Wed Jan 25<x-tab>
</x-tab>Towards in vivo Structural Biology: A Model of the
Septin<x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab></font></div>
<div><font
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>Complex Determined by FRET Microscopy</font></div>
<div><font
color="#000000"><i><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab></i>Kurt Thorn, Ph.D., Bauer Center for Genomics, Harvard
Univ.</font></div>
<div><font
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>3:30-04:30pm, Whitehead Auditorium</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Thu Jan 26<x-tab>
</x-tab>Protein Engineering & Biomedicine</font></div>
<div><font
color="#000000"><i><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab></i>K. Dane Wittrup, Ph.D., MIT Div of Biological
Engineering</font></div>
<div><font
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>3:30-04:30pm, Whitehead Auditorium</font></div>
<div><br></div>
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<div align="center"><br></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><b>Repair of Basic
Laboratory Equipment</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">Charles Moses</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">Wed Jan 11, Wed Jan 25,
06-08:00pm, 68-077</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">No enrollment limit, no
advance sign up</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">Participants welcome at
individual sessions<b> (series)</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">Prereq: none</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000"> 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
disassemble, 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.</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000"> Contact: Shartoka
Godzina, 68-641, x3-4721, sgodzina@mit.edu</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000"><br></font></div>
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<div align="center"><br></div>
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<div align="center"><b>CSBi 2006 Symposium in Systems
Biology</b></div>
<div align="center"><b><x-tab>
</x-tab>"Systems Biology of the Stem Cell"</b></div>
<div align="center"><br></div>
<div align="center">Thursday, January 12th</div>
<div align="center">8:00am-5:00pm,<font color="#000000"> Kresge
Auditorium (W16)</font></div>
<div align="center"><br></div>
<div align="center">A detailed agenda is posted on the CSBi website.
For all details, registration information and deadlines, please refer
to the website.</div>
<div align="center"><br></div>
<div
align="center">http://csbi.mit.edu/events/annualsymposium/2006</div>
<div align="center">Contact: csbi@mit.edu</div>
<div align="center"><br></div>
<div align="center"><br></div>
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<div><br></div>
<div>Below is a list of the events, dates, and times. Specific
information on the Biology IAP offerings is at
http://student.mit.edu/iap/ns7.html.</div>
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