2008-2009 CEHS Events
CEHS Friday Forum
4-6pm - MIT building 56-614 (*unless otherwise noted), refreshments served.
2008 |
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| Sept. 19 |
Leona Samson Uncas and Helen Whitaker Professor, American Cancer Society Professor and Director, MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences |
| "Genomic predictors of interindividual differences in response to DNA damaging agents" | |
| Nov. 14 |
David Walt, Robinson Professor of Chemistry, Tufts University |
| "Optical Fiber Arrays: From Genomes to Single Molecules" | |
| Dec. 12
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Peter Dedon, Professor of Toxicology & Biological Engineering; Associate Head, Dept. of Biological Engineering; Deputy Director, MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences, Underwood-Prescott Professor |
| "Mass Spectrometry in the MIT CEHS: tRNA Modifications as Biomarkers of Exposure" | |
2009 |
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| Jan. 9 |
Forest White, Associate Professor Dept. of Biological Engineering |
| "Quantitative Analysis of Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Signaling Networks" | |
| Feb. 13 |
Jacquelyn Yanch, Professor, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering & Whitaker College of Health Sciences & Technology |
| "Radiation in the Environment: What is it doing to us?" | |
| Apr. 10 |
Catherine Drennan, Professor, Dept. of Chemistry & Biology |
| "Crystallographic snapshorts of DNA binding proteins" | |
| Apr. 24 |
Martin Polz, Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| "Microbial diversity in the wild: From clones to populations and species" | |
| May 8 |
Susan Erdman, Principal Research Scientist and Asst. Director, Div. of Comparative Medicine |
| "Development of a mouse model for studying environmental connections of inflammation and prostate cancer" | |
| Jun. 12 | Ernest Fraenkel, Assistant Professor Dept. Of Biological Engineering |
| Using high-throughput data to understand disease" | |
MIT's Boston DNA Repair and Mutagenesis (DRAM) Group
6:45-9pm - MIT building 56-614, refreshments
Contact: Dragony Fu, Samson Lab, MIT
2008 |
Wednesdays
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| Oct. 15 | Phyllis Strauss, Strauss Lab; "A fundamental role for AP endonuclease in cellular response to oxidative damage" and Irina Voineagu, Mirkin Lab; "Replication fork stalling and replisome stabilization at non-B DNA structures" |
| Nov. 19 |
Carol E. Schrader, Schrader Lab; "The role of AP endonuclease 2 in B lymphocyte biology"and Bogdan Fedeles, Essigmann Lab "Investigating the cellular responses to a novel bifunctional genotoxicant" |
| Dec. 17 | Agata Smogorzewska, Elledge Lab; "Whole genome genetic screen to identify proteins important for DNA crosslink resistance in human cells" and David Wood, Engelward Lab; "The New Comet Assay: high throughput, multiplexed, and more" |
2009 |
Wednesdays
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| Jan. 21 |
Ericka Noonan, Samson Lab; "Understanding the cell decision process in response to O6meG DNA lesions" and Yingli Sun, Price Lab; "Mechanistic links between DNA repair, Tip60 and histone methylation codes" |
| Feb. 18 |
Brenda Minesinger, Walker Lab; "Overlapping roles for the translesion polymerases Pol kappa and Rev1 in fission yeast" and Dragony Fu, Samson Lab; "Exploring the role of human AlkB dioxygenases in DNA damage repair" |
| Mar. 18 |
Younghoon Kee, D'Andrea Lab; "A regulatory mechanism for cell cycle-specific activation of the Fanconi Anemia DNA repair signaling pathway" and Amy Yu, McVey Lab; "Alternative end-joining repair of DNA double strand breaks: unwinding the enigma" |
| Apr. 15 |
Carol Schrader, Stavnezer Lab; "APE1 may be essential, but B lymphocytes need APE2 too" and Lijian Yu, Volkert Lab; "The role of PC4 in DNA repair" |
| May 20 |
Chandni Valiathan, Samson Lab; "Transcriptional control of cell death or survival after DNA damage" and Ranjith Anand, Freudenreich Lab; "Srs2 helicase prevents chromosomal breaks and stabilizes triplet repeats by restraining recombination" |
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