<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta name="Title" content="">
<meta name="Keywords" content="">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#0563C1;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#954F72;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-reply;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:windowtext;}
span.msoIns
{mso-style-type:export-only;
mso-style-name:"";
text-decoration:underline;
color:teal;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-size:10.0pt;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style>
</head>
<body bgcolor="white" lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal">For more information on 7.344, please contact the instructors,
<a href="http://zamorac@mit.edu">Cristina</a> and <a href="http://schocker@mit.edu">
Nate</a>. The class is currently meeting on Wednesdays from 3-5 pm in 68-150.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Crystal<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Begin Forwarded Message:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Cristina Zamora
<a href="mailto:zamorac@mit.edu">zamorac@mit.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Cc: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Nate Schocker
<a href="mailto:schocker@mit.edu">schocker@mit.edu</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">__________________________________</span><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Advanced Undergraduate Seminar 7.344- Glycans: The Most Important Class of Biomolecule You’ve Never Heard Of</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">A parasite escapes detection by its host by using camouflage and decoys. A mouse gene goes from silenced to expressed simply by the addition of eight carbon atoms. A breast cell becomes cancerous
and alters its membrane to look like a white blood cell instead, a change important in metastasis. What do these seemingly distinct processes have in common? All are made possible by glycans, complex essential sugars attached to proteins and other biomolecules. Completely
distinct from metabolic sugars, glycans are generated and destroyed by hundreds of enzymes and are vital to nearly every biological process. So why might you not have heard more about them?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">In this course, we will discuss how biologists and chemists alike craft experiments to uncover the many ways in which glycans impact human biology and disease and how these insights are being
leveraged to create therapeutics and essential tools.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">If you’re a chemist, biologist, chemical engineer or biological engineer, come to our first class on<b> Wednesday, September 5th in 68-150</b> to learn more!! </span><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>