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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Danya Lavin <<a href="mailto:jdchang@mit.edu"></a><a href="mailto:dlavin@mit.edu">d</a><a href="mailto:dlavin@mit.edu">lavin@mit.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Monday, August 26, 2013 4:45 PM<br>
<b></b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Fwd: Exciting seminar elective for Fall 2013<br>
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<font face="Arial"><b>Hello All,<br>
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As you choose courses for the Fall 2013 semester, consider registering for 7.342 - "</b></font><b><font face="Arial"></font><font face="Arial">Cell-material Crosstalk: Engineering Cell-Instructive Biomaterials". This advanced undergraduate seminar course will
discuss exciting research focused on engineering the cell-biomaterial interface to study cellular systems and generate novel therapeutics. We have lined up a number of interesting topics for the course, including controlling cell morphology and organs-on-a-chip.<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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This course is intended to introduce advanced undergraduates to the primary scientific literature and the process of reading research publications.<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial">The format of the course
will entail pre-class reading of 2 papers and then in-class discussion of these papers.<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></font>The course is also 6 credits,<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial">PASS/FAIL,</font><span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>meets
just once a week (Wednesdays 11-1pm;<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><u>class time is flexible</u>), and<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>does not have any exams</i>.<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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Please see attached course summary and this year's syllabus. There's a cap on the number of students for the course, so register today and don't miss out!</font><font face="Arial"><span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>Please feel free to contact us
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<div><b><font face="Arial">Best regards,</font></b></div>
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<div><font face="Arial"><b>Danya Lavin and Matt Webber</b><br>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><font face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 131, 203); font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif; ">Danya M. Lavin, Ph.D.<br>
Postdoctoral Researcher<br>
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
Koch Institute for Integrative<font face="Tahoma"></font><span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>Cancer Research<br>
77 Massachusetts Avenue<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
Building 76-661<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
Cambridge, MA 02139<font face="Tahoma"><span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br>
p:<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="tel:401%20871-7388" value="+14018717388" target="_blank">617 253-3443</a> | m:<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="tel:401%20871-7386" value="+14018717386" target="_blank">413 478-1364</a></span></font><font face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 131, 203); font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif; "><font face="Tahoma"><font face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 131, 203); font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif; ">
| </span></font></font>e:<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:blavin@choosechicago.com" target="_blank">dlavin@mit.edu</a></span></font></div>
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