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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="+3">Phi Beta Kappa Visiting
Scholar Lecture: Robert Haselkorn</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>The MIT Global Education Office and Phi
Beta Kappa invite you to a lecture by Professor Robert Haselkorn on
the following topic:</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="+1">An enzyme that is the key
to suppressing grassy weeds, treating parasite diseases of people and
controlling obesity</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Thursday, March 12, 2009</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>5:30pm-6:30pm</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Room 1-190</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="+1">ROBERT
HASELKORN</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="+1">University of
Chicago</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="+1">Robert Haselkorn is the
F. L. Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor of molecular genetics
and cell biology at Chicago and a recipient of the university's
Quantrell Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching. A member of
the National Academy of Sciences as well as a fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is past president of the
International Society for Plant Molecular Biology. His research
interests lie in the areas of cellular differentiation in
nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria, in bacterial genomics, and in the
workings of the enzyme acetyl-CoA carboxylase in plants, parasites,
and people.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="+1">He is a recipient of the
Darbaker Prize of the Botanical Society of America for his
contributions to understanding the molecular biology of nitrogen
fixation in blue-green algae, and of the Mendel Medal in Biological
Sciences of the Czech Republic Academy of Sciences. Currently a
trustee of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, he was for
many years a scientific advisor to the International Centre for
Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology located in Italy and
India.</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>We hope you can join us!</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Sarra Shubart</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Global Education Office</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>GECDC</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>77 Massachusetts Avenue,
12-189</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Cambridge, MA 02139</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><a
href="http://web.mit.edu/studyabroad/"><font
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>____________</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>617-253-6057</blockquote>
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