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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>Microbiome Club Industry Seminar: Dr. Mao Taketani, 2/4 @ 12PM in 32-144<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#77984C">Industry Seminar Series</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#28916B">Dr. Mao Taketani </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#28916B">(DeepBiome Therapeutics)</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#28916B">Small molecule drug discovery from the human microbiome</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#3A3E44">Tuesday, February 4th t at 12 pm in MIT 32-144</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Avenir-Book",serif;color:#444444">Lunch will be provided. Please</span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Avenir-Book",serif"> <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/industry-seminar-dr-mao-taketani-tickets-91188444091">RSVP</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="s1"><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir-Book",serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Abstract:</span></b></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-family:"Avenir-Book",serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt"> DeepBiome
Therapeutics is a seed-stage startup developing a drug discovery platform for mining small molecule therapeutics from the human microbiome. We aim to make drug discovery more predictable, easier, and efficient by analyzing metagenomic data to generate hypotheses
about small molecule-to-target interactions in human diseases. In this talk, I will discuss my research experience preceding my scientist position and the current efforts I am leading at DeepBiome Therapeutics.</span></span><span style="letter-spacing:.4pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="s1"><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir-Book",serif;color:#6F7287;letter-spacing:.4pt">Bio:</span></b></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-family:"Avenir-Book",serif;color:#6F7287;letter-spacing:.4pt"> Mao
Taketani is currently a Senior Scientist at DeepBiome Therapeutics, where she leads the synthetic biology efforts in discovering small molecule therapeutics from the human microbiome. Previously she was a postdoctoral researcher in Chris Voigt's lab at MIT,
where she engineered small molecule transcriptional sensors and genetic circuits in <i>Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron</i>, an abundant human microbiome member. She received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in Infectious Diseases and Immunity, studying under Michael
Fischbach (Stanford).</span></span><span style="color:#6F7287;letter-spacing:.4pt"><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 Publicity Chair</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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