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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span id="m_39947214947076422m_-1463125772125710791gmail-m_2664449580700560487gmail-docs-internal-guid-ee924168-f89d-3131-ba17-51acabace8b0" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><span class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">On behalf of the MIT Postdoctoral Organization for Women Engaged in Research (POWER)...</span></div><br class=""></span><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Join us for a seminar with </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Dr. Jessica Goodman,</span></div><span class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> -former</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> Postdoctoral fellow at the Whitehead Institute-</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">now</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Director of Corporate Alliances at Harvard University</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Organized by the Postdoctoral Organization for Women Engaged in Research (POWER)</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Sponsored by the MIT Postdoc Association (PDA) Postdoc Initiative Grant (PInG)</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> and </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">a grant from the Committee on Race and Diversity (Category: Diversity & Inclusion)</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class="m_39947214947076422m_-1463125772125710791gmail-m_2664449580700560487gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Friday, May 18 at 3:00 – 4:30 pm seminar room 4-149 [</span><a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=4" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=4</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">]</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Please RSVP here: <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/Uj0JiT9l8oSumwPp2" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">https://goo.gl/forms/Uj0JiT9l8<wbr class="">oSumwPp2</a></span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class="m_39947214947076422m_-1463125772125710791gmail-m_2664449580700560487gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Eu7zygFhfLMJgQ__hVFXUlS3Z_czMHueQikYkuEM_O5zsV36XwgMtlycLI61zsu_boi4ILz5Rn-AWtyvEeRm6zhJ1S3g_8Qy6xk5oxLQnXRtWc8zDA4-9dy69-MsI6erq17XFZp_" class="m_39947214947076422m_-1463125772125710791gmail-CToWUd" width="220" height="220" style="border: none;"></span></div><br class=""><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">POWER’s professional career development seminars focus on the speaker’s personal experiences, insights into their current work, as well as work-life integration issues. Dr. Goodman will discuss what has contributed to her success, the challenges she has overcome, and advice for current postdocs. We hope that the interactions will assist postdocs in navigating their careers and will also help them build professional connections. </span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Speaker bio:</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Jessica leads the Corporate Alliances team at Harvard’s Office of Technology Development (OTD). Harvard’s Corporate Alliances team is dedicated to maximizing the value of research alliances by facilitating productive relationships between the faculty at Harvard and partners in Industry.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Prior to joining Harvard in 2016, Jessica was a Scientist in the Neurology Department at Biogen where she developed cell-based assays to understand disease mechanisms in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). Jessica also worked as a Senior Program Officer at Prize4Life, a non-profit dedicated to accelerating the discovery of a cure for ALS. Jessica was a NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellow at the Whitehead Institute where she used yeast to study neurodegenerative diseases. Jessica received her B.S. in Biochemistry from Nazareth College of Rochester and her Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University.</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Please note: The professional and socio-cultural activities of POWER are open to the entire MIT community. POWER does not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, ancestry, or national or ethnic origin. </span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Stay up to date on events!</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Join our mailing list: </span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 233); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><a href="mailto:power-postdocs@mit.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">power-postdocs@mit.edu</a></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Follow us on Twitter </span><a href="https://twitter.com/MIT_POWER" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">@MIT_POWER</span></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Check out our website: </span><a href="http://pda.mit.edu/power/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(4, 51, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">http://pda.mit.edu/power/</span></a></div><br class=""></span></span></body></html>