Events


2006-2007 CEHS Events



CEHS POSTER SESSION

Thursday, May 31, 2007
2:30 PM to 5:30 PM

Walker Memorial Hall


CEHS Friday Forum

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

2006

   
Sept. 8
Bernadette Johnson Group Leader, Lincoln Laboratory
"Overview of Bio/Chem Defense Activities at MIT Lincoln Laboratory"

*room 56-154
Oct. 13
Charles Harvey
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
"Mass Poisoning on the Ganges Delta -- Why are Arsenic Concentrations So High in Drinking Water"
Nov. 17
Arlin Rogers
CEHS Pilot Project Grant Recipient
Chief, Comparitive Pathology Lab
"Sex, Mice, and Liver Cancer"
Dec. 8
Kim Hamad-Schifferli CEHS Pilot Project Grant Recipient
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Eng. "Nanoparticles to Control Biology: Understanding the Interface"

2007

   
Jan. 12
Paul Skipper Principal Research Scientist, Biological Engineering
Cancelled
Feb. 9
Patrick Doyle
CEHS Pilot Project Grant Recipient
Associate Professor,
Chemical Engineering
"Microfluidic Technologies to Probe DNA Molecules"
Mar. 9
David Schauer
Professor, Biological Engineering
"Infectious Disease and Responses to Environmental Exposures"
Apr. 13
Peter So
Professor, Mechanical &
Biological Engineering
"High Throughput Microscopy for Multi-Scale Imaging of Animal Organs"
May 11
Koli Taghizadeh
Research Scientist, Co-Director, CEHS Bioanalysis Core
"Analysis and Quantification of Small and Polar Compounds by GC/MS"



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

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

Contacts: Lisi Meira (lmeira@mit.edu) and Jamie Bugni (jbugni@mit.edu), Samson Lab, MIT

2006

Wednesdays

September 20

Anetta Nowosielska (Marinus Lab, UMass Worcester) "DNA Mismatch Repair-Induced Double Strand Breaks in E. coli"

Sharotka Simon (Walker Lab, MIT) "Regulation of E. coli Mutagenesis by Natively Unfolded umuD Gene Products"

October 18

Yi Wang and Phyllis Strauss (Strauss Lab, Northeastern Univ.) "A Role for AP Endonuclease in Vertebrate Development"

November 15

Dominika Wiktor-Brown (Engelward Lab, MIT) "Age Dependent Accumulation of Recombinant Cells in Mouse Pancreas Revealed by in Situ Fluorescence Imaging"

Shan Yan (Michael Lab) "DNA Replication and Checkpoint Activation Functions of XtopBP1"

2007

Wednesdays

January 17

Chris Sansam (Lees/Hopkins Lab, CCR/MIT) "Using the Zebrafish to Identify Novel DNA Damage Response and Cell Cycle Genes"

Brenda Minesinger (Walker Lab, MIT) "In Pursuit of S. pombe Pol Kappa"

February 21

Lyle Simmons (Walker Lab, MIT) "Replication is Required for the RecA Localization Response to DNA Damage in Bacillus Subtilis"

J. Peter Svensson (Samson Lab, MIT) "Radiotherapy Induced Late Toxicity Predicted by Gene Expression Profiling"

March 21

Xiaozhe Wang (d' Andrea Lab, Dana Farber) "CHK1 Mediated Phosphorylation and Degradation of Fance Activates the Fanconi Anemia/BRCA Pathway"

Carol Schrader (Stavnezer Lab, UMass Med) "APE1 and APE2 -- Dependent DNA Breaks in Immunoglobulin Class Switch Recombination"

April 18

Elena Gostjeva (Thilly Lab, MIT) "Stem Cells, Syncytia, Metakaryotic Phenomenon in Human Organogenesis and Carcinogenesis"

Bill Thilly (Thilly Lab, MIT) "Where, When and How Do Oncomutations Arise in Humans"

May 16

James Bugni (Samson Lab, MIT) "Repair of Alkylation Damage in DNA Suppresses Colon Cancer in Mice"

Mitch McVeigh (McVeigh Lab, Tufts) "Mechanisms of DNA Double-Strand Gap Repair in Drosophila"


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