{"id":369,"date":"2014-05-09T10:39:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T14:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwic\/?p=369"},"modified":"2016-05-04T09:40:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T13:40:21","slug":"buwic-invited-colloquium-speaker-2013-2014-prof-emily-balskus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwic\/2014\/05\/09\/buwic-invited-colloquium-speaker-2013-2014-prof-emily-balskus\/","title":{"rendered":"BUWIC Invited Colloquium Speaker 2013-2014: Prof. Emily Balskus!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">BUWIC hosted a lunch\u00a0seminar series <\/span><b style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Monday, May 12th<\/b><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\u00a0at\u00a0<\/span><b style=\"font-size: 13px;\">12pm<\/b><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\u00a0in\u00a0<\/span><b style=\"font-size: 13px;\">LSE 103 <\/b><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">with our invited colloquium speaker <\/span><b style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Emily Balskus<\/b>\u00a0(Harvard Univeristy, <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/balskus\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Balskus Home Page<\/a>).<b style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\u00a0<\/b><\/h4>\n<h4>Dr. Balskus graduated from Williams College in 2002 as valedictorian with highest honors in chemistry. She later pursued graduate studies in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University,\u00a0receiving\u00a0her PhD in 2008. From 2008-2011 she was an\u00a0NIH postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School in the lab of Prof. Christopher T. Walsh. Today, she is an assistant professor in Harvard&#8217;s Department of\u00a0Chemistry and Chemical Biology, where her research focuses on the merging of organic chemistry, biosynthesis, &amp; microbiology.<\/h4>\n<h4><b>What<\/b>:\u00a0Lunch\u00a0Seminar<\/h4>\n<h4><b>Where<\/b>: LSE 103<\/h4>\n<h4><b>When<\/b>: Monday, May 12th at 12:00<\/h4>\n<h4><b>Who<\/b>: All grad students, post-docs, and undergrads<\/h4>\n<h4>We hope to see many of you there!<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/buwic\/files\/2014\/05\/Microsoft-PowerPoint-BUWIC_lunch_Balskus-page-0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/buwic\/files\/2014\/05\/Microsoft-PowerPoint-BUWIC_lunch_Balskus-page-0-491x636.jpg\" alt=\"Microsoft PowerPoint - BUWIC_lunch_Balskus-page-0\" class=\" wp-image-405 aligncenter\" height=\"636\" width=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwic\/files\/2014\/05\/Microsoft-PowerPoint-BUWIC_lunch_Balskus-page-0-491x636.jpg 491w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwic\/files\/2014\/05\/Microsoft-PowerPoint-BUWIC_lunch_Balskus-page-0-791x1024.jpg 791w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<h4>The 2013-2014 Colloquium Series continues Monday at 4:00pm with\u00a0Prof.\u00a0Emily Balskus from Harvard University. She will be speaking on:<\/h4>\n<h4>&#8216;Gut Reactions: Understanding the Chemistry of the Human Microbiota&#8217;<\/h4>\n<h4>As a note, the lecture series has been moved from SCI 113 to SCI 117 for this semester. Talk begins at 4:00pm, with refreshments served\u00a0at 3:30pm.<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/buwic\/files\/2014\/05\/Balskus-2013-2014-Colloquium-Series-page-0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/buwic\/files\/2014\/05\/Balskus-2013-2014-Colloquium-Series-page-0-503x636.jpg\" alt=\"Balskus 2013-2014 Colloquium Series-page-0\" class=\" wp-image-404 aligncenter\" height=\"636\" width=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwic\/files\/2014\/05\/Balskus-2013-2014-Colloquium-Series-page-0-503x636.jpg 503w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwic\/files\/2014\/05\/Balskus-2013-2014-Colloquium-Series-page-0-811x1024.jpg 811w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUWIC hosted a lunch\u00a0seminar series Monday, May 12th\u00a0at\u00a012pm\u00a0in\u00a0LSE 103 with our invited colloquium speaker Emily Balskus\u00a0(Harvard Univeristy, Balskus Home Page).\u00a0 Dr. Balskus graduated from Williams College in 2002 as valedictorian with highest honors in chemistry. She later pursued graduate studies in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University,\u00a0receiving\u00a0her PhD in 2008. 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