Events
Postdoctoral Fellowship Position Available - Application Deadline May 15th
The American Academy of Microbiology (Academy) is accepting applications for its next Colloquium Fellow. The full job description can be found here. Application instructions can be found here.
Upcoming Events
5/3/2013 - Therapeutics, Targets & Discovery at Harvard Medical School
Research Seminar Series
“Encoding information through p53 dynamics in individual cells”
Galit Lahav, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
12:30 - 1:30 PM
Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School
5/14/2013 - 2013 Susan Swerling Lectures
"Targeted Therapy for Cancer: Moving Beyond Kinase Inhibitors"
2-5 PM
Jimmy Fund Auditorium
See attached flyer for more information.
5/22/2013 - ChemBio/LSP Seminar
"Identification of Small Molecule Inhibitors to Difficult-to-Drug Therapeutic Targets using a New Discovery Paradigm"
Dr. Rick Wagner
President & Founder of X-Chem, Inc.
10:00 AM
Warren Alpert Bldg., Room 563
Harvard Medical School
5/28/2013 - Lab of Systems Pharmacology Seminar
" Systems-level Understanding of Signaling Regulation on the Cell Fate Decisions between Proliferation and Differentiation"
10:00 AM
Warren Alpert Bldg., Room 563
Harvard Medical School
5/30/2013 - Lab of Systems Pharmacology Seminar
"Drug-Independent Stress Factors as Determinants of Idiosyncratic Liver Toxicity"
Dr. Susanne Ramm, Postdoctoral Candidate, Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology
10:00 AM
Warren Alpert Bldg., Room 563
Harvard Medical School
5/31/2013 - The Dissertation Defense Seminar of Michael Xiang
Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Degree Subject: Cell Biology
Dissertation Advisor: David Frank, Department of Medicine
Dissertation Title:Physiological and Pharmacological Regulation of the STAT3 Pathway in Cancer
Seminar: 10:00 AM
Harvard Medical School
Tosteson Medical Education Center
260 Longwood Ave., Room 250
Boston, MA 02115
6/6/2013 - Nanotherapeutics & Diagnostics: Wyss Institute symposium on medical technologies inspired by Nature
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center
Registration is required: contact Jermaine Reid; jermaine.reid@wyss.harvard.edu
8:15 am – 6:30 pm
6/6/2013 - Therapeutics Spring Symposium
This year's symposium includes a seminar with speaker Levi Garraway, titled "Systematic Studies of Resistance to Targeted Anticancer Agents", and a poster session presented by the student trainees. The poster session will begin at 10:30 am outside the Cannon Room and Levi will speak at 12:30 pm in the Cannon Room. The students will then have lunch with Levi, and a feedback session with program leadership.
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6/17 - 6/19/2013 - Next-gen Kinase Inhibitors
This meeting being held in Boston that focuses on kinase inhibitors, and a related meeting that focuses on structure based design may be of interest. Register by March 22nd for reduced rates here. For more information visit http://www.healthtech.com/kin.
6/19 - 6/21/2013 - Cambridge Healthtech Institute and Bio-IT World's Thirteenth Annual Structure-Based Drug Design: Genome to Drug Lead with Big Data Approach
The Revere Hotel | Boston, MA
Register here.
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