<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b>We hope to see you there!</b></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153); font-size: small; "><i><br></i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153); "><i>The Biology Undergraduate Student Association (BUSA) presents our<b> annual HHMI lecture </b>with </i></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><font size="6">Dr. Thomas Tuschl</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><b>When: Thursday March 17, 4pm<br></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><b>Where: Whitehead Auditorium (WI-110)</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><u><br></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><u><b>RNA-Centric Views of Gene Regulation</b></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Molecular biologists develop experimental approaches to precisely define the RNA recognition elements bound by RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) and ribonucleoprotein complexes and examine their regulatory function at a transcriptome level. Current studies focus on characterizing RBPs that control mRNA stability or where mutations cause genetic diseases. The identification of posttranscriptional regulatory networks will increase our understanding of the molecular causes of disease and lead to the design of new therapeutic agents.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Dr. Thomas Tuschl is head of the Laboratory of RNA Molecular Biology at Rockefeller University. His lab studies how studies how RNA-binding proteins and small-RNA-containing ribonucleoprotein complexes regulate messenger RNAs in human cells.</span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; "><span>Dr. Tuschl is a professor at The Rockefeller University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. He is also a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and has received multiple awards recognizing his contributions to discovery and characterization of small regulatory RNAs including the Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine, the Max Delbrück Medal, and the Karl Heinz Beckurtz Award.</span></p></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Diana Wang<br>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>Department of Biology<br><a href="mailto:dgwang@mit.edu">dgwang@mit.edu</a> | 845-235-7545<div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><br><br></span>
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