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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Crystal Boateng (Pronouns: they/them/themselves)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Biology Education Office 68-120<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">ph: 617-252-1783 / f: 617-258-9329 / e: <a href="mailto:cboateng@mit.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">cboateng@mit.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">7.341</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"> Microbiome and drug delivery". This is under advanced
undergrad seminars. The course will take you through a fascinating journey of reading important papers of the field, thinking critically and learning new stuff. As Einstein said "Education Is Not the Learning of Facts, But the Training of the Mind To Think".
Based on this philosophy we have designed this course and the purpose of the course is training your mind on how to think critically and learn new things. These skills will be very useful for your future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Please feel free to register for 7.341 if you are interested.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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7.341 Microbiome and Drug Delivery, first session:<span class="gmail-m-7421783578436740817gmail-aqj">Wed Feb 7th, 11am</span>, 68-150, Coffee and cookies!</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="color:#7F6000;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F6000;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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on class attendance and participating in discussions, and two assignments.</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="color:#7F6000;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F6000;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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The Microbiome and Drug Delivery: </span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><i><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7F6000;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F6000;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Cross-species
Communication in Health and Disease</span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7F6000;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F6000;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><br>
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<b>There are more microbes permanently living in our gut than there are cells in the human body.</b> This rich community of bacteria, fungi and viruses, called the microbiome, plays a central role in human health and disease. Recent research has linked this
passenger community to nutrition, circadian rhythms, infectious disease, inflammatory disease, cancer, diabetes, arthritis and even immune system and nervous system development. The connections seem to be so far-reaching that some scientists are starting to
consider this human-microbiome system as a “holobiont” or “superorganism.”<br>
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Why are we realizing this situation only now? Are microbes actually interacting with us so fundamentally? What are the mechanisms by which effects of the microbiome are mediated? Can we survive without our microbiome? How can we analyze such a complex system?
Can we exploit the microbiome to improve human health? Can interactions with microbes be harnessed for drug delivery?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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