Academic Perspectives/Panel Discussion
Academic Perspectives/Panel Discussion
01/09/2004 3:15 PM Wong AuditoriumDouglas A. Lauffenburger, Ford Professor and Head of the Department of Biological Engineering, MIT; James Cassatt, Director, Division of Cell Biology and Biophysics ; National Institute of General Medical Sciences; Acting Director, Center for Bioinformatics ...
An Introductory Science Curriculum for 21st Century ...
An Introductory Science Curriculum for 21st Century Biologists
01/09/2004 1:00 PM Wong AuditoriumDavid Botstein, Director and Anthony B. Evnin Professor of Genomics Lewis-Sigler Institute of Integrative Genomics, Princeton University Description: How will biology move beyond the Human Genome Project and the task of reducing ...
Animal Models of Cancer
Animal Models of Cancer
06/07/2006 11:00 AM 46-3002Jacqueline Lees, SM '86, PhD '90, Associate Director, Center for Cancer Research and Professor, Dept of BiologyDescription: Jacqueline Lees holds the lowly mouse in high regard. It is -beautifully developed" as a model system for cancer. Lees says that while ...
Artificial Life: A global good or evil? CIS audits the ...
Artificial Life: A global good or evil?
CIS audits the ...
The Center's series Audit of the Conventional Wisdom continues with a look at the recent discovery out of the Venter laboratory: artificial life. Is this a global good or evil? Ken Oye, director of the Center's Program on Emerging Technologies and associate professor ...
Autism: What Do We Know, What Do We Need?
Autism: What Do We Know, What Do We Need?
"I'll give you the 30,000 foot view of autism."
Cancer Research in the Genomic Era
Cancer Research in the Genomic Era
06/07/2006 2:30 PM 46-3002Eric S. Lander, Professor of Biology ; Founding Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Member, Whitehead InstituteDescription: Eric Lander likens the current age of biological discovery to the days of great ocean-going exploration. After the world was mapped, ...
Computational and Systems Biology at MIT
Computational and Systems Biology at MIT
01/09/2004 2:45PM Wong AuditoriumPeter Sorger, Director, Computational and Systems Biology Initiative (CSBi),MIT ; Description: Once the young field of systems biology really picks up steam, there will be reams of difficult new data to sort through, warns Peter Sorger. As scientists move away ...
Stephen Quake, $500K Lemelson-MIT Prize winner
Dr. Stephen Quake - 2012 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize Winner
Profile of Dr. Stephen Quake, winner of the 2012 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for his revolutionary work in drug discovery, genome analysis and personalized medicine.
Evolution: From the Fossil Record to Genomic Revolution ...
Evolution: From the Fossil Record to Genomic Revolution Probing the Origin ...
06/09/2001 KresgeCharles Marshall, Professor of Geology and Biology; Curator, Invertebrate Paleontology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University; Dr. Maria T. Zuber, E.A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics, Head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and ...
How Can Engineers Contribute to the Fight Against Malaria?
How Can Engineers Contribute to the Fight Against Malaria?
05/11/2010 6:00 PM MuseumSubra Suresh, ScD '81, Dean, MIT School of Engineering; ; Monica Diez"Silva, Post"doctoral fellow, DMSE; David Quinn, Graduate student, Mechanical EngineeringDescription: Malaria has afflicted mankind from time immemorial, confounding many ...
Human Genetics: Our Past and Our Future
Human Genetics: Our Past and Our Future
11/15/2005 6:00 PM MuseumDavid Altshuler, '86, Founding Member, and Director of the Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute; Associate Professor, Genetics and Medicine, Harvard Medical SchoolDescription: Will genomics vanquish our most common diseases, or create a society ...
Immunology and Cancer
Immunology and Cancer
06/08/2006 9:00 AM 46-3002Jianzhu Chen, Cottrell Professor of Biology;; Professor of ImmunologyDescription: Jianzhu Chen lays out the thorny challenges of harnessing the immune system to fight cancer. He starts with the basics: how the body employs two levels of defense against pathogens: ...
Introduction and Overview
Introduction and Overview
06/07/2006 8:00 AM 46-3002Susan Hockfield, President, MIT; ; Tyler Jacks, Director, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and David H. Koch Professor, MITInvestigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Description: This inaugural address lays the groundwork for an 11-part ...
Introduction to Cancer Genetics
Introduction to Cancer Genetics
06/07/2006 8:30 AM 46-3002Robert A. Weinberg, '64, PhD '69, Daniel K. Ludwig and American Cancer Society Professor for Cancer Research Department of BiologyDescription: During the human lifetime, there are 10 million billion cell divisions and each division represents, as Robert Weinberg puts ...
Keynote Presentation: Academic Perspectives
Keynote Presentation: Academic Perspectives
01/09/2004 10:15 AM Wong AuditoriumLeroy Hood, President, Institute for Systems BiologyDescription: Very simply stated, systems biology attempts to "capture the dynamic nature of living systems." To accomplish this, says Hood, you "have to bring together the flavors ...
Lunch with a Laureate: Robert Horvitz
Lunch with a Laureate: Robert Horvitz
As an undergraduate at MIT, Robert Horvitz did not take a biology course until his senior year.
Metastasis
Metastasis
06/07/2006 1:45 PM 46-3002Richard O. Hynes, PhD '71, Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research, Department of Biology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical InstituteDescription: No diagnosis of cancer is welcome, but some scenarios are more dreaded than others. Richard Hynes discusses ...
New Frontiers in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Research
New Frontiers in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Research
05/04/2009 3:00 PM 46"3002Ed Scolnick, Director, Psychiatric Disease Program and the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad InstituteDescription: In contrast to cardiovascular disease, few breakthrough remedies for psychiatric illness have emerged in the past ...
New Lessons in Cancer Research
New Lessons in Cancer Research
10/24/2007 6:00 PM MuseumJacqueline Lees, SM '86, PhD '90, Associate Director, Center for Cancer Research and Professor, Dept of BiologyDescription: Cancer is a conniving enemy. Try to kill it off through surgery or chemotherapy, and it finds a way to sneak back in. Jacqueline Lees tells an ...
Paradigm Shifts: From Biology to Technology to Medical ...
Paradigm Shifts: From Biology to Technology to Medical Applications
03/16/2011 1:30 PM KresgeRichard O. Hynes, PhD '71, Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research, Department of Biology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Eric S. Lander, Professor of Biology ; Founding Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; ...