[bioundgrd] events this week

[Rachel McPherson]

Monday, February 6, 2006    * REG DAY *

Biology Colloquium
LURIA LECTURE
Dr. Tony Pawson
Mount Sinai Hospital
"Signaling Networks for Cellular Architecture and Polarity"
32-123 Stata Center Auditorium
4pm (refreshments at 3:30)
Hosted by Dr. Mike Yaffe

Tuesday, Feb 7
First day of classes!
Ready to get your academic groove on?

Wednesday, Feb 8
CME information session
hosted by Dr. Paul Matsudaira
find out about spending your junior year studying in Cambridge, England
5:00pm @ 68-181
with refreshments (tea and crumpets!?)

Dinner at Six
Free dinner with MIT faculty
5:45-7:00pm W11 Small Dining Room

Thursday, Feb 9
12:00-1:00
@ MIT Chapel W15
A program of Spanish music from 1470-1600
Concordia Consort (Audrey Benevento, Mark Maiden, 
George Mastellone, Brian Warnock; recorders; 
Sheila Beardslee, director) with guest 
countertenor Andrei Caracoti.

Friday, Feb 10
* last day to apply for June 2006 graduation without late fees

4:00p-5:00p @ 46-3002
Brain & Cognitive Sciences Colloquium
Diverse roles for activity-dependent genes in brain development and plasticity
Elly Nedivi, Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT




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http://events.mit.edu/
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Rachel McPherson

Administrative Assistant, Undergraduate Education
Biology Education Office     68-120
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge MA 02139-4307

» 617.253.4718
» rachelm at mit.edu



Biology Colloquium
LURIA LECTURE
Monday, February 6, 2006
Dr. Tony Pawson
Mount Sinai Hospital
"Signaling Networks for Cellular Architecture and Polarity"
32-123 Stata Center Auditorium
4pm (refreshments at 3:30)
Hosted by Dr. Mike Yaffe



The Biology Department is proud to host the 
yearly Salvador E. Luria Lecture in the Life 
Sciences, to honor Dr. Luria, the founder of the 
MIT Center for Cancer Research.
Dr. Luria became a professor at MIT in 1959. He 
won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1969 for his 
research in molecular biology, a field in which 
he was a pioneer. He also became the world's 
leading expert in the genetic structure of 
viruses. He was appointed Institute Professor, 
one of the highest honors the MIT faculty confers 
on its own, in 1970.
In 1972 Dr. Luria founded the MIT Center for 
Cancer Research and was its director for the next 
thirteen years. Salvador Luria died in Lexington, 
Massachusetts, on February 6th, 1991.



This year Dr. Tony Pawson will be giving the 
Luria Lecture.  Tony Pawson obtained his Ph.D. at 
the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London with 
Dr. Alan Smith, working on retroviral gene 
expression. He undertook postdoctoral work at the 
University of California at Berkeley with G. 
Steven Martin (1976-1980), where he identified a 
variety of retroviral oncogene products, and 
provided early evidence for the role of tyrosine 
phosphorylation in malignant transformation.

He moved to the University of British Columbia, 
Vancouver as an Assistant Professor in 1981, and 
then to the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute 
of Mt. Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, in 
1985. Over the last 25 years has explored the 
mechanisms through which cell surface receptors 
control intracellular signaling pathways, and the 
organization of cell regulatory systems, building 
on his identification of the SH2 domain as the 
prototypic interaction module.

Tony Pawson is a University Professor of the 
University of Toronto, Director of Research at 
the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mt. 
Sinai Hospital, and a Distinguished Scientist of 
the Canadian Institutes for Health Research.

He has received a number of awards, including the 
Gairdner Foundation International Award, the 
AACR/Pezcoller International Award for Cancer 
Research, the Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and 
Biophysics ( Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts 
and Scences) , the Killam Prize for Health 
Sciences, the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, the 
Wolf Prize in Medicine, and the Royal Medal from 
the Royal Society.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Societies of London 
and Canada, a Foreign Associate of the National 
Academy of Sciences (US), an Associate Member of 
EMBO, and a recipient of the Order of Canada.
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