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Deadline extended/Last call: "Exploring the Micro-Universe" -- Whitehead Institute tour (SAA 2004) 

Forwarded from Ewa Basinska:


Come and join us in Exploring the Micro-Universe:

Date and time: 
- Wednesday, 8/4/04, 2-4pm, followed by a visit to the Institute Archives, at MIT

Tour Beginning Location: 
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Nine Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142

Tour Ending Location: 
- Institute Archives and Special Collections, MIT, Room 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139

RSVP by July 19, 2004 to: 
- Ewa M. Basinska, Institute Archives and Special Collections, MIT, Room 14N-118, 
Cambridge, MA 02139, 617-258-5533, basinska@mit.edu. 
Please include "Whitehead Tour" in the subject line of your e-mail message.


The tour will take visitors to the Whitehead Institute (located at the edge of the MIT 
campus), a leading research and educational institution in biomedical sciences. While 
the Whitehead Institute is affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
in its teaching activities, it is fully independent in its research programs, governance, 
and finance. Its research programs range from cancer and infectious disease research, 
structural biology, genetics, and developmental biology research, to transgenic science. 
Research efforts at the former Center for Genome Research, the largest federally funded 
center for genome mapping and sequencing in the United States, contributed one third of 
the human genome sequence announced in June 2000. In spring 2003, Whitehead, MIT, and 
Harvard entered into an unparalleled partnership, promoting the natural outgrowth of 
the Genome Center into the Broad Institute. The Broad is poised to become a world 
leader in the development of genetics-based medicine. After a brief overview of the 
Whitehead Institute’s history, visitors, guided by the Whitehead Institute fellows, 
will have a chance to see the research facilities and to visit the newly formed Broad 
Institute. 

The tour will end at the Institute Archives and Special Collections of the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology with an exhibit of selected archival and manuscript materials 
from the holdings.

Additional Comments: 
- The total number of participants is limited to 25. There are some additional restrictions: 
no one under the age of 14 can enter the lab, and no one under the age of 18 can enter 
without parental consent. A list of names will be needed in advance, for security registration. 
In addition to the your name, please provide your title and your institutional affiliation.

Transportation: 
- The Whitehead Institute is only two subway stops away from the Boston Park Plaza Hotel. It 
is located on the MBTA Red Line at the Kendall Square/MIT stop. Exit the T station and walk 
away from Boston (away from the river) on Main Street. The Whitehead Institute is two blocks 
up on the right, at the corner of Main Street and Galileo Galilei Way. For driving directions 
see: http://www.wi.mit.edu/who/who_directions.html 

Those participants who would like to gather in the lobby of the Boston Park Plaza Hotel and 
depart for the trip from there are asked to indicate so in their response to Ewa Basinska. 

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