[bioundgrd] BIOLOGY IAP 2012

Thu Jan 5 16:21:36 EST 2012

During January 2012, the Biology Department is sponsoring several seminar series and discussions.

LIFE AFTER MIT: A SAMPLING OF CAREERS IN BIOLOGY

Tue. Jan 10th A Career in the Biotechnology Industry
1:00-2:30pm, 68-181

Fri. Jan 20th A Career in Venture Capital/Enterpreneurship
1:00-2:30, 68-181

Mon. Jan 23rd Government and Policy Panel
  3:00-4:00pm, 32-155

Tue, Jan 24th Science Writing Panel
1:00-3:00pm, 68-181

Thur, Feb 2nd Intellectual Property and Patent Law
2:00-4:00 pm, Whitehead Auditorium

Fri, Feb 3rd Careers in Science Education & Outreach
2:30–4:00 pm, 68-181

LIFE AFTER MIT: TAKING THE NEXT STEP IN ACADEMIC SCIENCE

Thu Jan 12 Finding a Post Doc
2:00-3:30pm, 68-181

Fri Jan 13 New Professor Experience
1:30-3:00 pm, 68-181

Wed Jan 18 Finding a Faculty Position
  1:00-3:00pm, 68-181

Thu Jan 19 Protect and License Intellectual Property with MIT Technology
1:00-2:30 pm, 68-181

Fri. Jan 27 Grant Writing
2:00-4:00 pm, 68-181

Wed Feb 1 Work/Life Balance
1:00-2:00 pm, 68-181

NOT ACQUIRED, BUT REQUIRED: A GUIDE TO INNATE IMMUNITY AND INFLAMMATION

Fri Jan 13th "You can't catch me! The Red Queen and Other Evolving Concepts in Host Defense"

Lynda Stuart, Assistant Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital
Fri Jan 13, 11:00am-12:00pm, Broad Auditiorium

Tue, Jan 17th "DNA Drives the Innate Immune Response to Malaria"

Douglas Golenbock, Professor/Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology in the Department of Medicine, Umass Worcester
Tue Jan 17, 11:00am-12:00pm, Broad Auditiorium

Wed Jan 25th "Genes and networks of the immune system"

Nir Hacohen, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
Please note: different building/room location
Wed Jan 25,11:00am-12:00pm, Whitehead Auditorium

Mon. Jan 30th "Treg and Th17 cells in autoimmunity and tissue inflammation"

Vijay Kuchroo, Professor of Neurology at the Harvard Medical School and Associate Immunologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital
Mon Jan 30, 11:00am-12:00pm, Broad Auditiorium

Fri. Feb 3rd "Visualizing Anti-Viral Immunity"
Ulrich von Andrian, Mallinckrodt Professor of Immunopathology, Harvard Medical School

Fri Feb 3, 11:00am-12:00pm, Broad Auditiorium

REPAIR OF BASIC LABORATORY EQUIPMENT
Charles Moses

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 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. Session starts at 6:00 p.m. in Project Lab, Building 68, room 089.
Contact: Brenda Minesinger, 68-641, x3-4721, bminesin at mit.edu<mailto:bminesin at mit.edu>

Wed Jan 11, Wed Jan 25, 6:00pm-08:00pm, 68-089  (attend one session)

Also among the Biology listings on MIT's IAP website and sponsored by the libraries:

BIOBASE Knowledge Library and Explain Analysis System Training
Courtney Crummett
Thu Jan 26, 11am-01:30pm, 14N-132 DIRC

Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event

Interested in finding out what's known in the scientific literature about a particular gene, disease or drug? Want to apply that information to high-throughput data analysis? Learn to search the BIOBASE Knowledge Library (BKL) by topic or multi-gene data sets. Interested in human inherited diseases and their associated mutations? Learn to use the Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD), a comprehensive database on human germ-line mutations associated with disease, to determine whether an identified gene lesion is novel, search for known mutations within a given gene, or search for a type of gene mutation within a chromosomal location. In addition, see a demonstration of how Genome Trax, a new offering from BIOBASE not yet subscribed to by MIT Libraries, makes it easy to map human variations identified through NGS applications to biologically relevant sequence features such as HGMD mutations, known transcription factor binding sites and more. Registration is required and lunch will be provided! Register here: http://libraries.mit.edu/sites/events/biobase-training-8/131/
Web: http://libraries.mit.edu/get/biobase
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-134, (617) 324-8290, crummett at mit.edu<mailto:crummett at mit.edu>
Cosponsor: Libraries

Big Docs in Word: Tips and Tricks to Format your Thesis
Lourdes Aleman
Tue Jan 24, 11am-12:30pm, 14N-132 DIRC

Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 30 participants.
Single session event

Are you writing and formatting your thesis this year? Don’t let WORD get you down. This 1.5 hour interactive tutorial led by an MIT PhD graduate will illustrate some simple shortcuts you can take in Word 2008 for Macs to make thesis formatting a breeze (automatically generating/updating table of contents, applying consistent formatting throughout the document, etc.), saving you many precious hours. The hands-on workshop will be conducted on Word for Macs ONLY. Please bring your own laptop. If you have a PC and would still like to come to the workshop, printed instructions for Word 2007 for PCs will be available but please note that the workshop will be conducted using a Mac. Note: this workshop will not cover formatting a bibliography or reference managing programs.Please register for this IAP session at http://libraries.mit.edu/sites/events/?p=378
Contact: Lourdes Aleman, NE48-308, 715-5348, laleman at mit.edu<mailto:laleman at mit.edu>
Cosponsor: Libraries

Bioinformatics for Beginners
Courtney Crummett, Amy Stout
Wed Jan 11, 10-11:30am, 14N-132 (DIRC)
Tue Jan 17, 03-04:30pm, 14N-132 (DIRC)

Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 20 participants.
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Entrez family of databases is the foundation of knowledge for molecular level bioscience research. Class attendees will learn about the organization of and interconnectedness of NCBI databases while focusing on several specific databases. The session is a hands-on practicum and an excellent starting point for people who are new to, or curious about bioinformatics research tools. Participants welcome at any session.

1/11 session taught by Bioinformatics Librarian, Courtney Crummett (please register at: http://libraries.mit.edu/sites/events/?p=346, and 1/17 session taught by Courtney Crummett
and Computer Science Librarian, Amy Stout (please register at http://libraries.mit.edu/sites/events/?p=347).
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-134, x4-8290, crummett at mit.edu<mailto:crummett at mit.edu>
Cosponsor: Libraries

Biotech Business Information for Engineers and Scientists
Courtney Crummett
Wed Feb 1, 02-03:00pm, 14N-132 (DIRC)

Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 30 participants.
Single session event

It's not Brain Surgery...it's Market Research. This session will introduce scientists and engineers to information resources that cover biotechnology industries and markets. We will use realistic examples and hands-on exercises with key resources to demonstrate how to match your ideas and discoveries with the opportunities and realities of the marketplace.

The training room has 20 PC terminals and a large table in the back for laptop use. Please register at: http://libraries.mit.edu/sites/events/?p=351.
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-134, x4-8290, crummett at mit.edu<mailto:crummett at mit.edu>
Cosponsor: Libraries

Get the most from your "omics" analysis: GeneGo MetaCore Software Training
Courtney Crummett, GeneGo Trainer
Thu Feb 2, 02-04:00pm, 14N-132 DIRC

Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event

Attend this IAP session and learn how to use GeneGo's MetaCore,a bioinformatics software tool licensed by the MIT Libraries with support from the Whitehead Institute, the Koch Insitute, and MIT's Department of Biology. MetaCore provides a solution for using "omics" gene lists to generate and prioritize hypotheses. Learn how to work with different types of data (genomics, proteomics, metabolomics and interaction data) beginning with how to upload gene lists and expression data. Use GeneGo software to upload, batch upload, store, share and check data properties and signal distribution; extract functional relevance by determining the most enriched processes across several ontologies; emphasize the role of expression data in your analysis; visually predict experimental results, associate disease and possible drug targets; and compare data sets and work with experiment intersections. Register here: http://libraries.mit.edu/sites/events/?p=338
Web: http://libraries.mit.edu/get/metacore
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-M48, x4-8290, crummett at mit.edu<mailto:crummett at mit.edu>
Cosponsor: Libraries

Learn to use IPA during IAP
Courtney Crummett, IPA Trainer
Wed Jan 18, 01-04:00pm, 14N-132 DIRC

Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event

Attend this introductory and hands-on training session and learn how to use Ingenuity Pathways Analysis (IPA), newly licensed by MIT Libraries and friends. IPA is an all-in-one software application that helps researchers model, analyze, and understand complex biological and chemical systems relevant to their experimental data. Researchers can search the scientific literature and find insights most relevant to their experimental data; analyze and build pathways for targets, biomarkers, diseases and biological functions from various data types; compare and contrast across list, pathways, biomarkers and analyses; and share and collaborate with colleagues. Please register at http://libraries.mit.edu/sites/events/?p=344
Web: http://libraries.mit.edu/get/ipa
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-M48, x4-8290, crummett at mit.edu<mailto:crummett at mit.edu>
Cosponsor: Libraries

Protocols and Methods: Recipes for Successful Research
Howard Silver
Wed Jan 18, 05-06:00pm, 14N-132

Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 17-Jan-2012
Limited to 30 participants.
Single session event
Prereq: none

A couple hours in the Library can save you a couple of weeks in the lab. Don’t waste your time reinventing the gelatin sponge-choriallantoic membrane assay. Improve your efficiency by learning strategies for finding published research protocols and methods. This session is a hands-on practicum and an excellent introduction to resources that support bioscience bench research. Please register at: http://info-libraries.mit.edu/events/
Contact: Howard Silver, 14S-136, x3-9319, hsilver at mit.edu<mailto:hsilver at mit.edu>
Cosponsor: Libraries

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Undergraduate Program
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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