Dear lab members, Graham Fleming will be here in April 5th. If you are interested in attending, the instructions are below. A. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Helen Schwickrath &lt;schwickrath(a)chemistry.harvard.edu&gt; Date: Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 4:13 PM Subject: Symposium in Engineering and Physical Biology To: "List\"" <"Seminar>, juliab(a)mcb.harvard.edu Dear Colleague: 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. Everyone in the community is cordially invited to attend. The schedule is as follows: 9:00 a.m. Doug Smith, Professor of Physics, UC-San Diego, "Dynamics of entangled DNA molecules and mechanisms of knot formation." 9:40 Mehran Kardar, Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Less can also be different." 10:20 Dennis Discher, Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Univ. of Pennsylvania, "Matrix to nucleus: Matrix elasticity directs stem cell differentiation." 11:00 Break 11:30 Kiyoshi Mizuuchi, Section Chief, Lab. of Molecular Biology, NIH NIDDK, "Diffusion-based biomolecular patterning systems." 12:10 Graham Fleming, Melvin Calvin Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, UC-Berkeley, "Photosynthesis: The details and the (very) big picture." Parking will be available in the Oxford Garage. Breakfast buffet will be available at 8:30 a.m. 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. We hope you will attend. Sincerely, Nancy Kleckner, MCB Host and organizer Helen L. Schwickrath Seminar and Events Coordinator Harvard University Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology 12 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 496-8190 (Voice) (617) 496-5618 (Fax) helen(a)chemistry.harvard.edu -- Alan Aspuru-Guzik Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology 12 Oxford Street Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: (617)384-8188 Group URL: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu