Events


2007-2008 Events


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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