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<div><font face="Times" color="#000000">Independent Activities Period
Lectures and Poster Presentations<br>
January 17, 2008; 9:30 am-3:00 pm, Grier Room (34-401, A & B)<br>
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</font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Interrogating
the magic of cells: <br>
Probing and prodding the cell's machinery at the molecular level<br>
</b></font><font face="Times" color="#000000">IAP lecture program,
9:30 am - 11:30 am<br>
<br>
<br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Darrell Irvine,
MIT Dept. of Material Science & Engineering and Biological
Engineering<br>
<b>Controlling access to the cytosol<br>
<br>
</b>Peter Sorger, MIT Dept. of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
and Dept. of Biological Engineering<br>
<b>Measuring and modeling ensemble and single-molecule processes in
single cells<br>
<br>
</b>Matthew Lang, MIT Dept. of Biological Engineering<br>
<b>Probing the kinesin powerstroke and actin machinery<br>
</b></font><font face="Times" color="#000000"><b>Poster session and
lunch<br>
</b>11:30 am - 1:30 pm<br>
</font><font face="Arial" color="#000000"><i>Prizes awarded for the
posters with the most science, the most spectroscopy, and the most
originality!<br>
</i></font><font face="Times" color="#000000"><b>Graduate student
talks<br>
</b>1:30 pm -3:00 pm<br>
<b>Introduction: Michael Feld<br>
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</b></font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Federico
Villalpando, Kong Group<br>
<b>Raman spectroscopy of isolated double wall carbon nanotubes<br>
<br>
</b>C. Franklin Goldsmith, Green Group<br>
<b>Laser probing and theoretical calculations on free radical
reactions<br>
<br>
</b>Lisa Marshall<b>,</b> Bawendi Group<br>
<b>Photon correlation Fourier spectroscopy: A way to watch single
nanocrystal<br>
spectra evolve<br>
<br>
</b>Poul Petersen, Tokmakoff Group<br>
<b>Third-order nonlinear IR spectroscopies of proton-transfer
interfaces</b></font></div>
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