[bioundgrd] RSVP: LUNCHEON w/HHMI Lecturer, Prof CAROL GREIDER, March 15th: Few Sports Left

[Joyce Roberge]

Dear Biology Majors:

There are just a few spaces left at the table to join Dr. Carol Greider and your Biology colleagues for a luncheon on March 15th, 12-1:00pm, in 68-180.  RSVP at your earliest convenience if you interested and available to attend the luncheon.

Again, due to the limited seating and high demand, please send a positive response only if you are certain you can attend, will be on time, and can stay for the duration. Thank you.

--Joyce


ps. if you have already responded to me or bexec, no need to respond again. I have received your email.

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From: Joyce Roberge <roberge at mit.edu<mailto:roberge at mit.edu>>
Date: February 27, 2013 10:06:16 AM EST
To: "<bioundgrd at mit.edu<mailto:bioundgrd at mit.edu>>" <bioundgrd at mit.edu<mailto:bioundgrd at mit.edu>>
Subject: RSVP: LUNCHEON w/HHMI Lecturer, Prof CAROL GREIDER, Friday, March 15th, 12pm, 68-180

Dear Biology Majors,

As undergraduates in Course 7 or 6/7, you are cordially invited to attend the luncheon with Dr. Carol Greider<http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/health/july-dec09/nobel_10-05.html>, this year's distinguished HHMI Lecture speaker.

Dr. Greider pioneered research on the structure of telomeres, and she was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Elizabeth Blackburn and Jack Szostack for their discovery that telomeres are protected from progressive shortening by the enzyme telomerase

Luncheon: Friday, March 15th, 12:00--1:30pm, 68-180<http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E17>. Open to Biology undergraduates only.

RSVP for luncheon only:  bexec at mit.edu<mailto:bexec at mit.edu> by Friday, March 8th. Seating is limited to the first 20 students to respond.

Please note: a positive RSVP represents a firm commitment to attend this luncheon, and your presence is expected. We ask that you respond with a "yes" only if you are certain that your schedule will allow, and you can be there on time and stay for the duration of the event, 12:00-1:30pm.

(The lecture, itself, will take place later that day from 4-5pm in the Koch Auditorium, 76-156. All are welcome).



Joyce Roberge
Undergraduate Program
Biology Education Office 68-120
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
31 Ames Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-253-4718
fax: 617-258-9329
email: roberge at mit.edu<mailto:roberge at mit.edu>




Joyce Roberge
Undergraduate Program
Biology Education Office 68-120
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
31 Ames Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-253-4718
fax: 617-258-9329
email: roberge at mit.edu<mailto:roberge at mit.edu>



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