<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>From: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Mandana Sassanfar <<A href="mailto:mandana@MIT.EDU">mandana@MIT.EDU</A>></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Date: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">April 23, 2007 4:18:54 PM EDT</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>To: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">MacKenzie Outlund <<A href="mailto:moutlund@mit.edu">moutlund@mit.edu</A>></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Subject: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><B>A conversation with Boris Magasanik</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite="">Dear students,</BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite="">The department of biology is sponsoring a new lecture series : "Conversation with a scientist"</BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite="">The first of these conversations will take place tomorrow Tuesday April 24 in room 68-180 at 10:30 with Professor Boris Magasanik. It will be videotaped for archives.</BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite="">Professor Magasanik will be introduced by Gene Brown. Graham Walker will moderate the session.</BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite="">Although this conversation is open to the public, we hope that most of the audience will consist of biology undergraduate and graduate students.</BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""> For those of you who want to learn more about Boris Magasanik before coming tomorrow, attached is a pdf of " A Charmed life".</BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite="">So come with questions or just for the opportunity to hear wonderful stories from one of the pioneers of molecular biology.</BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><FONT face="Verdana" color="#000000"><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><FONT face="Verdana" size="+1" color="#000000"><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><FONT face="Arial" size="-3" color="#000000"><B>A charmed life.</B></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><FONT face="Verdana" size="-3" color="#000000"><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><FONT face="Verdana" color="#000000">Boris Magasanik was born in Kharkoff, Ukraine, on December 19, 1919. He received his preliminary and secondary education in Vienna, Austria, and studied chemistry at the University of Vienna in 1937. He continued his studies at City College, New York (BS, 1941) and after one semester of graduate study at Pennsylvania State University, served in the US Army in England and France from 1942-1945. He obtained his PhD degree in biochemistry from Columbia University in 1948. A faculty member in the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology at Harvard Medical School from 1951 to 1960, he then continued his career as Professor of Microbiology at MIT where he served as head of the Department from 1967 to 1977. He became a member of the National Academy of Sciences USA in 1969 and received the Selman A Waksman Award in 1993. He is currently the Jacques Monod Professor Emeritus at MIT and is the author of over 240 publications dealing with microbial physiology and the regulation of gene expression in bacteria and yeast</FONT>.</BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><TT>-- </TT></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite="">Mandana Sassanfar, Ph.D.<BR> Department of Biology<BR> Massachusetts Institute of Technology<BR> Building 68, Room 102C<BR> Cambridge, MA 02139<BR> Tel: (617) 452-4371<BR> Fax: (617) 258-9329</BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <X-SIGSEP><PRE>--
</PRE></X-SIGSEP><DIV>Mandana Sassanfar, Ph.D.<BR> Department of Biology<BR> Massachusetts Institute of Technology<BR> Building 68, Room 102C<BR> Cambridge, MA 02139<BR> Tel: (617) 452-4371<BR> Fax: (617) 258-9329</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BODY></HTML>