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<div><font face="Arial">Dear Course 7 Undergraduates,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">A reminder about tomorrow's special lecture
and reception. We hope you can join us at Stata Center at 4:00pm
to hear the talk by Dr. Jeannie Lee of Harvard Medical School,
previously a postdoc at the Whitehead Institute with Dr. Jaenisch.
Please plan to attend!</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Rachel McPherson</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Biology Education
Office</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">» 617.253.4718</font></div>
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rachelm@mit.edu</font></div>
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<div><font color="#663300"><b>A message from the BUSA Executive
Board.</b></font></div>
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color="#663300">________________________________________</font></div>
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<div><font color="#663300">Dear Biology Community,</font></div>
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<div><font color="#663300">We would like to invite you to attend this
year's Howard Hughes Memorial Institute Lecture on Tuesday, March 7 at
4:00pm in 32-123. This is the flagship event of the Biology
Undergraduate student Association and we are proud to host Dr. Jeannie
Lee of Harvard Medical School as she presents:</font></div>
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<blockquote><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#663300">"Beyond
Sex: X Chromosome Inactivation"</font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#663300">X and Y
chromosomes make us male and female. But they have to do more
than specify sex. In fact, one of the two female X chromosomes
is shut off during female development to balance gene dosage between
the sexes and allow for normal development.</font></blockquote>
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<div align="center"><font size="+1" color="#663300">Please join us for
the lecture and reception.</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+2" color="#663300">March 7,
2006</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+1" color="#663300">4:00pm @
32-123</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font size="+1" color="#663300">note that project
lab 7.16 and 7.17 will end early to accommodate this
lecture</font></div>
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<blockquote><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#663300"><i><b>Dr.
Lee</b> is an investigator of the HHMI. She is also Professor of
Genetics (and Pathology) at Harvard Medical School and Molecular
Biologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She received
the A.B. degree at Harvard University where she trained with Nancy
Kleckner and the M.D.-Ph.D degrees from the University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine where she worked with Robert Nussbaum.
She assumed her present post in 1997.</i></font></blockquote>
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<div><font color="#663300">Sincerely,</font></div>
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<blockquote><font color="#663300"><b>Biology Undergraduate Student
Association Executive Board</b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#663300"><br></font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#663300">Lakshmi Nambiar</font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#663300">President</font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#663300"><br></font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#663300">André Green</font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#663300">Vice President</font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#663300"><br></font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#663300">Jennifer Woo</font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#663300">Secretary</font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#663300"><br></font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#663300">Kristina Holton</font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#663300">Officer-at-Large</font></blockquote>
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