<br><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-size:large">
<div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-size:large"><br>
</span></span></span></div>MIT Biology Undergraduate Student Association (</span></span><span><span><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-size:large">BUSA</span></span></span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-size:large">) presents...</span><br>
<br></span><div style="text-align:center;font-family:garamond, serif"><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:20pt;color:rgb(0, 51, 102)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><font face="georgia, serif">Ageless Quest: The Search for Genes that Prolong Youth</font></span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:'Book Antiqua'"><span><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><font face="georgia, serif"> </font></span></span><i><span style="color:rgb(0, 51, 102)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><font face="georgia, serif"><font color="#FF0000">featuring Professor Leonard Guarente</font></font></span></span></i></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'Book Antiqua'"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><b><font color="#000099">Thursday April 22nd</font></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><b><font color="#000099">, 2010</font></b></span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'Book Antiqua'"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><b><font color="#000099">6:00pm</font></b></span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'Book Antiqua'"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><b><font color="#000099">68-121</font></b></span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'Book Antiqua';color:rgb(100, 33, 0)"><i><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Dinner will be served after the lecture</span></i><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><br>
</span></span></p><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><a href="http://web.mit.edu/biology/guarente/" target="_blank">http://web.mit.edu/biology/guarente/</a></span></div><div style="text-align:center;font-family:garamond, serif">
<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><a href="http://web.mit.edu/biology/guarente/" target="_blank"></a><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);line-height:16px">Why do living things age? What genes influence longevity? Is it possible to extend youthfulness by means of genetic manipulation? Based on the discovery that <a href="http://web.mit.edu/biology/guarente/yeast/sir2.html" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(65, 118, 152)" target="_blank">SIR2</a> is a key regulator of longevity in both yeast and worms, we are interested in determining whether this highly-conserved gene also governs longevity in mammals.</span></span></div>
</span>
</div><br>