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<div><font face="Arial"><b>Monday, February 6, 2006<font
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face="Arial"> * REG DAY *</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Biology Colloquium</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">LURIA LECTURE</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">Dr. Tony Pawson</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">Mount Sinai Hospital</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">"Signaling Networks for Cellular
Architecture and Polarity"</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">32-123 Stata Center Auditorium</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">4pm (refreshments at 3:30)</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">Hosted by Dr. Mike Yaffe</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial"><b>Tuesday, Feb 7</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">First day of classes!</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">Ready to get your academic groove
on?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial"><b>Wednesday, Feb 8</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">CME information session</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">hosted by Dr. Paul Matsudaira</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">find out about spending your junior year
studying in Cambridge, England</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">5:00pm @ 68-181</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">with refreshments (tea and
crumpets!?)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Dinner@Six</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">Free dinner with MIT faculty</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">5:45-7:00pm W11 Small Dining Room</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial"><b>Thursday, Feb 9</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">12:00-1:00</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">@ MIT Chapel W15</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">A program of Spanish music from
1470-1600</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-3" color="#000000">Concordia Consort
(Audrey Benevento, Mark Maiden, George Mastellone, Brian Warnock;
recorders; Sheila Beardslee, director) with guest countertenor Andrei
Caracoti.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial"><b>Friday, Feb 10</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">* last day to apply for June 2006 graduation
without late fees</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-3" color="#000000">4:00p-5:00p @
46-3002</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-3" color="#000000">Brain &
Cognitive Sciences Colloquium</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-3" color="#000000">Diverse roles for
activity-dependent genes in brain development and
plasticity</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-3" color="#000000">Elly Nedivi,
Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT</font></div>
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<div>also see</div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Rachel McPherson</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Administrative Assistant, Undergraduate
Education</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Biology Education Office
68-120</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Massachusetts Institute of
Technology</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Cambridge MA 02139-4307</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">»</font><font
color="#000000"> 617.253.4718</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">»</font><font
color="#000000"> rachelm@mit.edu</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font size="+2" color="#007700"><b>Biology
Colloquium</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+2" color="#0000FF"><b>LURIA
LECTURE</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+1">Monday, February 6,
2006</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+1">Dr. Tony Pawson</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+1">Mount Sinai Hospital</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+1">"Signaling Networks for
Cellular Architecture and Polarity"</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+1">32-123 Stata Center
Auditorium</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+1">4pm (refreshments at
3:30)</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+1">Hosted by Dr. Mike
Yaffe</font></div>
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<div><b>The Biology Department is proud to host the yearly Salvador E.
Luria Lecture in the Life Sciences, to honor Dr. Luria, the founder of
the MIT Center for Cancer Research.</b></div>
<div><b>Dr. Luria became a professor at MIT in 1959. He won the Nobel
Prize for Medicine in 1969 for his research in molecular biology, a
field in which he was a pioneer. He also became the world's leading
expert in the genetic structure of viruses. He was appointed Institute
Professor, one of the highest honors the MIT faculty confers on its
own, in 1970.</b></div>
<div><b>In 1972 Dr. Luria founded the MIT Center for Cancer Research
and was its director for the next thirteen years. Salvador Luria died
in Lexington, Massachusetts, on February 6th, 1991.</b></div>
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<div><font color="#333333">This year Dr. Tony Pawson will be giving
the Luria Lecture. Tony Pawson obtained his Ph.D. at the
Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London with Dr. Alan Smith, working
on retroviral gene expression. He undertook postdoctoral work at the
University of California at Berkeley with G. Steven Martin
(1976-1980), where he identified a variety of retroviral oncogene
products, and provided early evidence for the role of tyrosine
phosphorylation in malignant transformation.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#333333">He moved to the University of British
Columbia, Vancouver as an Assistant Professor in 1981, and then to the
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mt. Sinai Hospital, University
of Toronto, in 1985. Over the last 25 years has explored the
mechanisms through which cell surface receptors control intracellular
signaling pathways, and the organization of cell regulatory systems,
building on his identification of the SH2 domain as the prototypic
interaction module.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#333333">Tony Pawson is a University Professor of
the University of Toronto, Director of Research at the Samuel
Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mt. Sinai Hospital, and a
Distinguished Scientist of the Canadian Institutes for Health
Research.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#333333">He has received a number of awards,
including the Gairdner Foundation International Award, the
AACR/Pezcoller International Award for Cancer Research, the Heineken
Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics ( Royal Netherlands Academy of
Arts and Scences) , the Killam Prize for Health Sciences, the Louisa
Gross Horwitz Prize, the Wolf Prize in Medicine, and the Royal Medal
from the Royal Society.</font></div>
<div><font color="#333333">He is a Fellow of the Royal Societies of
London and Canada, a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of
Sciences (US), an Associate Member of EMBO, and a recipient of the
Order of Canada.</font></div>
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