<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">Beginning this year, the new MITEI-sponsored Microbiology Seminar Series will bring 9 speakers doing exciting fundamental and applied microbial research to the MIT community. The study of microbes has been critical in our current understanding of basic biological processes, evolution, human disease, and the functions of the biosphere, and has contributed to numerous fields of engineering. As great chemists, microbes have vast untapped potential for development of sustainable energy-generation technologies, and this series will showcase several examples of what microbes can do and how scientists are pushing the frontier in understanding and harnessing them. Speakers include those who have worked on biological hydrogen production, biofilms in microbial fuel cells - which are capable of generating electricity by feeding microbes with wastewater, bacterial nanowires, and more. Several other speakers will focus on the roles of microbes in prevalent human diseases and, conversely, how they may augment human health. This seminar series is intended for anyone interested in the diverse and amazing abilities of microbes. Please join us tomorrow as the series kicks-off with our first speaker, Pamela Silver of Harvard University.</span><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><b><i>Designing Biological Systems for Programmed Interface with the Environment</i></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><b>Pamela A. Silver</b>, Harvard University<br><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><b>Thursday, September 1</b><b>7th</b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><b>11:30 AM to 12:30 PM</b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><b>McGovern Auditorium</b>, Whitehead Institute</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">Nine Cambridge Center (Kendall Square)<br>Cambridge, MA</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><br></span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "></span></div></div></div></body></html>