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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>Subject: </b>4th Annual MIT-Harvard Microbiome Symposium, March 8th<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Avenir-Book">The MIT Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics and the MIT Microbiome Club, in conjunction with the Harvard Chan Student Microbiome Consortium at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, are
proud to <b>invite you to participate in our fourth annual MIT-Harvard Microbiome Symposium </b>to be held on <u>Friday, March 8, 2019</u> from 10-5 pm at the Media Lab at MIT. Registration and abstract submission are officially open!</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Avenir-Book">The symposium will feature talks from established and young investigators, poster sessions, and a networking social to close the symposium. Lunch will be provided to all registered attendees. For more
details, please check out our <a href="https://microbiome2019.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#954F72">website</span></a>. This year we are proud to host Caroline Mitchell (Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School) and Katherine
Amato (Northwestern University) as our two keynote speakers.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Avenir-Book">To participate in the event:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Avenir-Book">Register </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Avenir-Book"><a href="https://microbiome2019.wordpress.com/registration/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">here</span></a> </span><span style="font-family:Avenir-Book">for
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<span style="font-family:Avenir-Book">Submit an <a href="https://microbiome2019.wordpress.com/abstract-submission/"><span style="color:#954F72">abstract</span></a>! Abstracts can be considered for either a flash talk or poster. Posters will also participate
in our annual poster competition. <b>Deadline for submission: February 14th.</b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="xmsonormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:Avenir-Book">Please tell others about this event! Feel free to circulate this email to others who might be interested</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Avenir-Book">Please contact <a href="mailto:2019-microbiome-symposium@mit.edu"><span style="color:#954F72">2019-microbiome-symposium@mit.edu</span></a> with any questions or inquiries.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Avenir-Book">Your participation in this symposium is <b><u>free</u></b>. Our goal is to showcase the diverse opportunities available in the field of microbiome science, and we hope that you can join us!</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Avenir-Book">Alex Sheh, Miri Krupkin (Microbiome Symposium coordinators) and Chelsea Catania</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><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.<a href="https://www.facebook.com/MITmicrobiomeclub/"><span style="color:#16191F"> </span><span style="color:#386EFF">Learn more on our Facebook page. </span></a>Or follow us on </span></i><span style="color:black"><a href="https://twitter.com/MITubiomeclub"><i><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book"">Twitter</span></i></a></span><i><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#16191F">. </span></i><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Avenir-Book;color:black">Chelsea Catania, Ph.D.</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Avenir-Book;color:black">MIT Microbiome Club President</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Avenir-Book;color:black">@<a href="https://twitter.com/MITubiomeclub">MITubiomeclub</a> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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