A Race Against Resistance - Lecture at The Broad Institute

A Race Against Resistance
Deb Hung, MD, PhD
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
7 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142
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In the Auditorium, Free, 1 hr

Where to meet:
T.J. Maher will be waiting outside the Broad Institute from 5:30 pm to 5:45 pm. He is 5 foot 7, blue eyes, brown hair, and will be wearing a "Hello, My Name is T.J." nametag. A red MEETUP sign will be on his messenger bag. Coming from the Kendal T Station, you walk towards Ames Street, Legal Seafoods and the Bookstore, cross Ames Street, and walk in front of the first building on the right. See the granite sign saying "The Broad Institute" near the sidewalk? Underneath the overhang there, near the doors, is where I will be waiting. Next to that entrance, just around the corner to the left, to the left of the receptionist's desk stationed in the lobby, are the doors to the auditorium.

About the Event:
http://www.broad.mit....

"At every turn, it seems there is another report of dangerous bacteria outwitting the antibiotics designed to kill them. Scientists have been racing to find new antibiotics but alarmingly, progress has been slow, with few new antibiotic classes discovered in the past forty years. Deb Hung will describe how new genomic technologies may enable the discovery of new antimicrobial therapies, thereby helping to turn the tide against drug-resistant bacteria".

Interested in going?
You need to Register for the event at: < http://www.broad.mit.... >. Before you register you need to create a Profile at < http://www.broad.mit.... >. They state that [masked] can be entered as a valid phone number if you don't want to share that information.

About Deb Hung:
http://www.broad.mit....
Deborah Hung is a physician-scientist combining chemical and genomic approaches to define host-pathogen interactions and to reveal the critical pressure points of infectious disease. By deploying small organic molecules on a genome-wide scale to both perturb and understand bacterial infection, she hopes to identify new therapeutic prospects for a variety of devastating pathogens, including Vibrio cholerae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

About the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard was founded in 2003 to bring the power of genomics to biomedicine. It pursues this mission by empowering creative scientists to construct new and robust tools for genomic medicine, to make them accessible to the global scientific community, and to apply them to the understanding and treatment of disease.

For more information about the Broad Institute, go to http://www.broad.mit.... .

About Midsummer's Night Science:
http://www.broad.mit....

Midsummer Night's Science will recount the scientific transformation that began more than a century ago with the seminal studies by the Austrian monk Gregor Mendel - the "father of genetics" - who observed the ways in which physical traits were passed from one pea plant to another. In honor of the scientific field it helped to launch, the pea plant provides the inspiration for the seminar series, which takes its name from one of William Shakespeare's well-known plays.

Midsummer Nights' Science at the Broad Institute takes place at 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge. The series will run on Wednesday evenings on July 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th from 6 - 7 o'clock.