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color="#007700"><b>BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Tahoma" size="+1">Monday, May 15,
2006</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Tahoma" size="+1">Dr. Alice
Ting</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Tahoma" size="+1">MIT Department of
Chemistry</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Tahoma" size="+1">"<font
color="#000000">New Reporters for Imaging Protein Function in Living
Cells</font>"</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Tahoma" size="+1">32-123 Stata Center
Auditorium</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Tahoma" size="+1">4pm (refreshments at
3:30)</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Tahoma" size="+1">Hosted by Dr.
Barbara Imperiali</font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma" size="+1" color="#000000">Alice Y. Ting has
been an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at MIT
since July of 2002. She has a diverse range of interests, including
single molecule microscopy, neurobiology, protein engineering and
bio-organic chemistry.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma" size="+1" color="#000000">In 1992, she began
her undergraduate studies in Chemistry at Harvard. Working
with</font><font face="Tahoma" size="+1" color="#5A6D94"><u> Elias J.
Corey</u></font><font face="Tahoma" size="+1" color="#000000">, she
helped clone the Schizosaccharomyces pombe gene for lanosterol
synthase and develop new catalysts for the asymmetric dihydroxylation
reaction. In her senior year, she also worked as a teaching assistant
for Stuart Schreiber's Bio-organic Chemistry 27 class; this experience
cemented her interest in chemical biology and led her to earn her
Ph.D. at Berkeley with</font><font face="Tahoma" size="+1"
color="#5A6D94"><u> Peter G. Schultz</u></font><font face="Tahoma"
size="+1" color="#000000">. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma" size="+1" color="#000000">"Our
laboratory develops new methodology for studying protein, DNA, RNA,
and small-molecule structure and function in the context of living
cells. Our preferred approach is to design and synthesize either
small-molecule or genetically-encoded (protein or RNA) reporters that
provide spatial and temporal information about specific biomolecules
or biochemical events in individual compartments of single live
cells. We are currently applying our methodologies to studies of
fundamental processes related to synapse formation and
remodeling."</font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma" size="+1" color="#FF0000">*This will be the
last Biology Colloquium of the school year. Have a great summer!
8-)</font></div>
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