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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Chelsea Catania <cataniac@mit.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, April 26, 2018 at 1:39 PM<br>
<b>Subject: </b>MIT Microbiome Club Seminar Series - Thursday, May 3rd 3PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a name="_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#77984C">MIT Microbiome Club </span><o:p></o:p></a></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#77984C">Seminar Series</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><img width="150" height="146" style="width:1.5625in;height:1.5208in" id="_x0032_B4EA57D-96C5-44CA-914F-0911D273D0D2" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D3DD64.23EC4070" alt="cid:DE188664-4E8D-43E8-AA08-7505B7991C01@broadinstitute.org"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><b><span style="font-size:27.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#28916B">Dr. Christoph Ratzke</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><i><span style="font-size:27.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#28916B">From simple interactions to complex communities: How interactions shape microbial ecosystems</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#3A3E44">Thursday, May 3rd at 3 pm in MIT 56-614</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Avenir-Book",serif">Ecosystems are amongst the most complex systems on this planet. They consist of a huge number of interacting organisms and these interactions between
the organisms decide about the composition, dynamics and function of ecosystems. I present how a combination of theory and lab experiments with microbial communities allows to explore fundamental concepts of microbial ecosystems. I will show that we can understand
microbial interactions as a combination of modifying and reacting to the environment. Along this line of thinking I will present how populations can cause their own extinction by detrimental modifications of the environment and how interactions between different
microbes can be understood and even predicted from how they modify and react to their environment. Finally, I will transfer the concepts learned from simple microbial systems to natural ecosystems, which allows to understand the onset of complex dynamics in
the soil microbiome. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><i><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#16191F">The MIT Microbiome Club, part of the Center for Microbiome Informatics and
Therapeutics, brings together inquisitive MIT undergrads, grad researchers, postdocs, faculty, and clinicians in the emerging field of microbiome studies and microbiome-based medicine.</span></i></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/MITmicrobiomeclub/"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><i><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#16191F"> </span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><i><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#386EFF">Learn
more on our Facebook page. </span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><i><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#16191F">Or follow us on </span></i></span><a href="https://twitter.com/MITubiomeclub"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><i><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book"">Twitter</span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><i><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#16191F">. </span></i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><b>Chelsea Catania, Ph.D.</b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">MIT Microbiome Club Communications Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Postdoctoral Associate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Laboratory for Energy and Microsystems Innovation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">@</span><a href="https://twitter.com/MITubiomeclub"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">MITubiomeclub</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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