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All events are funded by NIH-NIEHS grant P30-ES002109

CEHS 2008 Poster Session
will be held on May 22, 2008
at Morss Hall in Walker Memorial

CEHS Friday Forum

**4-6pm - MIT building 56-614 (*unless otherwise noted), refreshments**

2007
Oct. 12	John Essigmann	Departments of Biological Engineering and Chemistry, "Biochemical Factors that Define Sensitivity to the Liver Carcinogen Aflatoxin B1" *room NE47-189
Nov. 9	Douglas Lauffenburger	Uncas & Helen Whitaker Professor of Bioengineering and Head, Dept. of Biological Engineering "Hepatocytes and Cytokines (and Drugs)"
Dec. 14	Jongyoon Han	Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Dept. of Biological Engineering "Enhancing Enzyme Activity Assay using Nanofluidic Protein Preconcentration Device"
2008
Jan. 11	Paul Skipper	Principal Research Scientist, Dept. of Biological Engineering, "MIT BEAMS Lab: Accelerator Mass Spectrometry for tracking ultra-low levels of 14C through biological systems"
Feb. 8	Sangeeta Bhatia	Associate Professor, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Tech. and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science "Microtechnology Tools to Study the Hepatic Microenvironment"
Mar. 21	Bevin Engelward	Associate Professor, Dept. of Biological Engineering "New platforms to measure DNA damage and repair "
Apr. 11	Roman Stocker	Gilbert Winslow Career Dev. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering "Life in a Drop of Ocean: Microfluidic Insights into Microbial Ecology"
May 9	Lisiane Meira	Research Scientist, Dept. of Biological Engineering "TBD"

MIT's Boston DNA Repair and Mutagenesis (DRAM) Group

6:45-9pm - MIT building 56-614, refreshments

Contacts: Lisi Meira (lmeira@mit.edu) and Dragony Fu (dragony@mit.edu), Samson Lab, MIT

2007	Wednesdays
September 19	Joanna Klapacz, Samson Labs @ MIT, "Exonuclease1 of mismatch repair system contributes to O6-meG induced cell death in mice;" and Martin Cohn, D’Andrea Lab @ Dana Farber, "A UAF1-containing protein complex regulates the Fanconi Anemia DNA repair Pathway"
October 17	Mary Ellen Wiltrat, Walker Lab @ MIT, "Proteasomal Degradation of S.cerevisiae Rev1: More Than Simple Trash Collecting" and Kandchan Mirchandani, D’Andrea Lab @ Dana Farber, "A Role for the Fanconi Anemia Pathway in Error-Prone DNA Damage Tolerance"
November 28	Hajime Kobayashi, Walker Lab @ MIT, "Multiple Ku orthologs mediate DNA non-homologous end-joining in the free-living form and during chronic infection of Sinorhizobium meliloti" and Marcel van Vugt, Yaffe Lab @ MIT, "Feedback control in the DNA damage checkpoint response"
December 19	Ayelet Moar-Shoshani, Samson Lab @ MIT "3-methyladenine DNA glycosylase plays a role in psoralen interstrand cross-link repair" and Phyllis Strauss and Sean Fortier, Strauss Lab @ NEU “Base Excision Repair in Developing Zebrafish--A Few Surprises along the Way"
2008	Wednesdays
January 16	Ainsley Davis, Drennen Lab @ MIT and Raju Gondichatnahalli, Samson Lab @ MIT "Towards Understanding the Molecular Basis for Inhibition of AAG by eC-containing DNA"
February 27	Jeroen Guikema, Stavnezer Lab @ UMass Medical "Genome caretakers and gatekeepers in immunoglobulin class switch recombination" and Lisi Meira, Samson Lab @ MIT "Blinded and Dizzied by DNA Repair"
March 19	Dharini Shah, Samson Lab @ MIT "Role of ATM, ATR and Related Checkpoints in Cellular Responses to 3-Methyladenine" and Alex Abyzov, Strauss Lab @ Northeastern Univ. "AP endonuclease 1- DNA polymerase beta: Theoretical prediction of interacting surfaces"
April 16	Sergei Mirkin, Mirkin Lab @ Tufts "Large-scale expansions of triplet repeats in yeast" and David Lee, Elledge Lab @ HMS "Regulating the Ribonucleotide Reductase Pathway in S. cerevisiae through Nuclear Retention and Import Mechanism"
May 21	Werner Olipitz, Engelward Lab @ MIT and Brendan Price, Price Lab

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