[bioundgrd] Biology IAP 2008

[Betsey Walsh]

During January 2008, 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 talking 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, "THE WIDE WORLD OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES:  MICROBES &  
MECHANISMS OF PATHOGENESIS" will highlight topics in host-pathogen  
interactions, covering a diversity of pathogens that each utilize  
distinct mechanisms to avoid host defenses and cause disease.


LIFE AFTER MIT: A SAMPLING OF CAREERS IN BIOLOGY

Tue. Jan 8			BioTech/Pharma		
			1-2:30pm, 68-181

Thu. Jan 17			Science Communication and Publishing
					1-02:30pm, 68-181

Fri.  Jan 25			Consulting & Venture Capital
					1-02:30pm, 68-181

Mon. Jan 28			Law and Intellectual Property
					1-02:30pm, 68-181

LIFE AFTER MIT: TAKING THE NEXT STEP IN ACADEMIC SCIENCE

Thu. Jan 10			Teaching Positions
					1-03:00pm, 68-181

Mon. Jan 14			Finding a Faculty Position
					3-04:00pm, 68-181

Tue. Jan 22			Postdoc Boot Camp
					1-02:30pm, 68-181

Wed. Jan 23			Women in Science
					3-04:00pm, 68-181

Wed. Jan 30			Finding a Postdoc
					1-02:30pm, 68-181

Thu. Jan 31			Grant Writing
					1-02:30pm, 68-121


THE WIDE WORLD OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE:  MICROBES & MECHANISMS OF  
PATHOGENESIS

Fri. Jan 11		Prospects for an HIV Vaccine
				Bruce Walker, HHMI, Partners AIDS Research Center, Harvard  
Medical School
				11-12:00am, NE30-1154

Mon. Jan 14		Herpes Viruses: Masters of Deception
				Hidde Ploegh, Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of  
Technology
				11am-12:00pm, NE30-1154

Wed. Jan 16		From Genes to Genomes: Genetic Diversity in Malaria,  
Implications for Biology
				and Pathogenesis
				Dyann Wirth, Harvard School of Public Health
				11am-12:00pm, NE30-1154

Wed. Jan 23		The Microbe Within: Legionella and Manipulation of  
Membrane Trafficking in
				Host Cells
				Ralph Isberg, HHMI, Tufts University School of Medicine
				11am-12:00pm, NE30-1154

Fri. Jan 25		New Approaches to the Study of Chronic Infections in the  
Cystic Fibosis Lung
  				Roberto Kolter, Harvard Medical School
				11am-12:00pm, NE30-1154

Mon. Jan 28		Toxoplasma Modulates the Host Immune Response and Co- 
opts Host Gene
				Expression through Injection of Polymorphic Protein Kinases
				Jeroen Saeij, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
				11am-12:00pm, NE30-1154

Thu. Jan 31		The Ins and Outs of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
				Eric Rubin, Harvard School of Public Health
				11am-12:00pm, NE30-1154



REPAIR OF BASIC LABORATORY EQUIPMENT
Charles Moses
Mon Jan 21, 06-09:00pm, 68-077

Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: none

Sponsored by Graduate Women in Science.--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  
disassemeble, 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.  
Session starts at 6:00 p.m. in Project Lab, Bldg 68.
Contact: Kay Jones, 68-641, x3-4721, kmjones at mit.edu


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