Dear lab members,<br>Graham Fleming will be here in April 5th. If you are interested in attending, the instructions are below.<br>A.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Helen Schwickrath</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:schwickrath@chemistry.harvard.edu">schwickrath@chemistry.harvard.edu</a>&gt;<br>
Date: Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 4:13 PM<br>Subject: Symposium in Engineering and Physical Biology<br>To: &quot;List\&quot;&quot; &lt;&quot;Seminar&gt;, <a href="mailto:juliab@mcb.harvard.edu">juliab@mcb.harvard.edu</a><br><br>
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<font size="2">Dear Colleague:<br><br>
On Saturday, April 5, the first Symposium in Engineering and Physical
Biology will be held, beginning at 9:00 a.m., in the Sherman Fairchild
Biochemistry Building lecture hall, presented by the FAS PhD EPB
Track.&nbsp;&nbsp; Everyone in the community is cordially invited to
attend.&nbsp; The schedule is as follows:<br><br>
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9:00 a.m.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Doug
Smith, Professor of Physics, UC-San Diego, &quot;Dynamics of entangled
DNA molecules and mechanisms of&nbsp; knot formation.&quot;<br><br>
9:40&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Mehran Kardar, Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, &quot;Less can also be different.&quot;<br><br>
10:20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Dennis Discher, Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Univ. of
Pennsylvania, &quot;Matrix to nucleus:&nbsp;&nbsp; Matrix elasticity
directs stem cell differentiation.&quot;<br><br>
11:00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Break<br><br>
11:30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Kiyoshi Mizuuchi, Section Chief, Lab. of Molecular Biology, NIH NIDDK,
&quot;Diffusion-based biomolecular patterning systems.&quot;<br><br>
12:10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Graham Fleming, Melvin Calvin Distinguished Professor of Chemistry,
UC-Berkeley, &quot;Photosynthesis:&nbsp; The details and the (very) big
picture.&quot;<br><br>
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Parking will be available in the Oxford Garage.&nbsp; Breakfast buffet
will be available at 8:30 a.m.&nbsp; Please RSVP to this email if you
plan to attend, so that we have an idea of attendance and can also send
you schedule updates, parking permit, etc.&nbsp; We hope you will
attend.<br><br>
Sincerely, <br><br>
Nancy Kleckner, MCB Host and organizer<br><br>
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Helen L. Schwickrath<br>
Seminar and Events Coordinator<br>
Harvard University<br>
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology<br>
12 Oxford Street<br>
Cambridge, MA&nbsp; 02138<br>
(617) 496-8190 (Voice)<br>
(617) 496-5618 (Fax)<br>
<a href="mailto:helen@chemistry.harvard.edu" target="_blank">helen@chemistry.harvard.edu</a></p></div>

</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><br>Alan Aspuru-Guzik<br>Assistant Professor<br>Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology<br>12 Oxford Street<br>Harvard University<br>Cambridge, MA 02138<br><br>Tel: (617)384-8188<br>
Group URL: <a href="http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu">http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu</a>