[bioundgrd] Biology IAP 2006

[Betsey Walsh]

During January 2006, the Biology Department is sponsoring several 
seminar series and discussions.

One series of events, called "LIFE AFTER MIT", will include 
discussions that provide guidance for taking the next step in 
academic research and examine some of the career options in biology 
outside of academic research and clinical medicine. It will include a 
selection of roundtables on the practice of science, navigating 
academia, and balancing it all with a life outside the lab as well as 
covering non-traditional paths for Biology PhD's. 

A second series, "PROTEOMICS AND PROTEIN TECHNOLOGIES" will welcome 
to our IAP series world leaders in proteomics and protein science 
from the Boston area. Talks will describe a wide range of cutting 
edge technologies and large-scale approaches for characterizing the 
proteome, as well as strategies for interpreting and using the 
resulting data.

LIFE AFTER MIT:  A SAMPLING OF CAREERS IN BIOLOGY

Thu. Jan 19	Editing and Publishing
		noon-1:30pm, 68-121

Tue. Jan 24	Careers in Law
		12:30-2pm, 68-181

Wed. Jan 25	Entrepeneurship & Venture Capital
		12:30-2pm, 68-181

Thu. Jan 26	Biotech
		12:30-2pm, 68-121

TBD		Consulting
		TBD

LIFE AFTER MIT:  TAKING THE NEXT STEP IN ACADEMIC RESEARCH

Wed. Jan 11	Finding a Faculty Postition
		noon-1:30pm, 68-181

Thu. Jan 12	Life as a Postdoc at MIT
		noon-1:30 pm, 68-181

Wed. Jan 18	Balancing Family and Science
		12:30-1:30 pm, 68-181

Fri. Jan 20	Grant Writing/R01s
		1:00-2:00 pm, 68-181

Mon. Jan 30	Women in Science
		noon-1:30 pm, 68-181

Thu. Feb 2	Academic Teaching Positions
		12:30-2pm, 68-121

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PROTEOMICS AND PROTEIN TECHNOLOGIES

Wed. Jan 11	Quantitative Proteomic Analysis of Cellular Signaling
		Networks				      
		Forest White, Ph.D., MIT Division of Biological Engineering
		3:30-04:30pm, Whitehead Auditorium

Fri. Jan 13	Proteomics in Biology and Medicine
		Steven A. Carr, Ph.D., Broad Institute
		3:30-04:30pm, Whitehead Auditorium

Tue. Jan 17	Interactome Networks
		Marc Vidal, Ph.D., Dept of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
		3:30-04:30pm, Whitehead Auditorium

Thu Jan 19	Systems-Based Approaches to Studying RTK Signaling
		Gavin MacBeath, Ph.D., Harvard Department of Chemistry
		3:30-04:30pm, Whitehead Auditorium

Tue Jan 24	Functional Proteomics for Biomarker and Target Discovery
		Joshua LaBaer, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Biological Chemistry
		and Molecular Pharmacology and Institute of Proteomics,
		Harvard Medical School
		3:30-04:30pm, Whitehead Auditorium

Wed Jan 25	Towards in vivo Structural Biology: A Model of the Septin
		Complex Determined by FRET Microscopy
		Kurt Thorn, Ph.D., Bauer Center for Genomics, Harvard Univ.
		3:30-04:30pm, Whitehead Auditorium

Thu Jan 26	Protein Engineering & Biomedicine
		K. Dane Wittrup, Ph.D., MIT Div of Biological Engineering
		3:30-04:30pm, Whitehead Auditorium

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Repair of Basic Laboratory Equipment
Charles Moses
Wed Jan 11, Wed Jan 25, 06-08:00pm, 68-077

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: none

  Engineer Charles Moses will conduct a course on repair of laboratory 
equipment, geared toward but not limited to beginners. Equipment will 
include: electrophoresis units, spectrophotometers, motors on shakers 
and centrifuges, etc. General topics will also include: assessing the 
tools required to disassemble, fix and reassemble a piece of 
equipment; tool quality; and rational disassembly of equipment when 
the function of some component is not known. Bring broken equipment 
on which to practice.
  Contact: Shartoka Godzina, 68-641, x3-4721, sgodzina at mit.edu

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CSBi 2006 Symposium in Systems Biology
	"Systems Biology of the Stem Cell"

Thursday, January 12th
8:00am-5:00pm, Kresge Auditorium (W16)

A detailed agenda is posted on the CSBi website.  For all details, 
registration information and deadlines, please refer to the website.

http://csbi.mit.edu/events/annualsymposium/2006
Contact:  csbi at mit.edu


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Below is a list of the events, dates, and times.  Specific 
information on the Biology IAP offerings is at 
http://student.mit.edu/iap/ns7.html.
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