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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>Reply-To: </b>microbiome-exec <microbiome-exec@mit.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Join the MIT Microbiome Club! General Body Meeting TOMORROW @ 6PM in 32-124<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:30.0pt;font-family:"Avenir-Light",serif;color:#2EA07E">General Body Meeting 2019</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Avenir-Light",serif;color:#4A4F56">Tuesday, September 10 from 6 - 7 pm in MIT 32-124 (<a href="https://whereis.mit.edu/?go=32">map</a>).</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#4A4F56">Learn more about the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/2401554546837868/?active_tab=about">General Body Meeting</a> or the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MITmicrobiomeclub/">Club</a> on
our Facebook page or </span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Avenir-Book",serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-microbiome-club-general-body-meeting-prof-travis-gibson-tickets-71419873765">RSVP here</a></span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#6F7287;letter-spacing:.4pt;background:white">Join us for our first meeting of the year! The first half of the meeting will be dedicated to discussing
our club, talking about what we accomplished last year, and how you can get involved this year. We’re looking for many new people to join us and help plan our amazing events!</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#6F7287;letter-spacing:.4pt;background:white">During the second half of the meeting, Prof. Travis Gibson, a faculty member at Harvard
Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, will give a talk on "</span></span><em><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#6F7287;letter-spacing:.4pt;background:white">Learning microbial dynamics for therapeutic applications: Scalable inference
and robustness</span></b></em><span class="s1"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#6F7287;letter-spacing:.4pt;background:white">.”</span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#6F7287;letter-spacing:.4pt;background:white">Abstract:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#6F7287;letter-spacing:.4pt;background:white"> <span class="s1">Microbes
are everywhere, including in and on our bodies, and have been shown to play key roles in a variety of prevalent human diseases. Consequently, there has been intense interest in the design of bacteriotherapies or "bugs as drugs," which are communities of bacteria
administered to patients for specific therapeutic applications. Central to the design of such therapeutics is an understanding of the causal microbial interaction network and the population dynamics of the organisms. Toward that direction I will present recent
work on a Bayesian nonparametric model and associated efficient inference algorithm that addresses the key conceptual and practical challenges of learning microbial dynamics from time series microbe abundance data (Ref 1). These challenges include high-dimensional
(300+ strains of bacteria in the gut) but temporally sparse and non-uniformly sampled data; high measurement noise; and, nonlinear and physically non-negative dynamics. In a related work I will discuss a simpler inference problem surrounding the engineering
of an interdependent consortia of bacteria (Ref 2). Here we will focus on experimental design for inference and discuss best practices for designing synthetic bacterial consortia for clinical/pharmaceutical applications.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#6F7287;letter-spacing:.4pt;background:white">Bio:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#6F7287;letter-spacing:.4pt;background:white"> <span class="s1">Travis
recently joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School in the Department of Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Division of Computational Pathology). He did post-doctoral training in statistical inference and experimental biology with Dr. Georg Gerber
and in the area of microbial dynamics/networks with Dr. Yang-Yu Liu. His PhD was in Control Theory with a minor in Mathematics (Analysis) from MIT. Outside of academic research Travis has worked for NASA, Boeing, and Johnson and Johnson. Travis’ algorithms
are currently flying on several Boeing air vehicles.</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"><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",serif;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",serif;color:black">MIT Microbiome Club Board Member</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir-Book",serif;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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