Fourth Annual Undergraduate Life Science Research Symposium

Date and time: Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:07pm

The 4th Annual Undergraduate Life Science Research Symposium will be held
Monday, March 29. This yearly event showcases interdisciplinary life science
research at the undergraduate level. Students conducting independent research
with a life science focus are encouraged to participate. Dr. Darrell J. Irvine
of MIT will give this year's keynote lecture "The Bionic Immune System: Using
Biomaterials to Empower and Understand Immunity". All poster presenters are
entered to win a Wii game console and are invited to attend a dinner reception
held after the keynote lecture. The poster session begins at 1pm in the Campus
Center Auditorium, followed by the keynote lecture at 4pm in the Engineering Lab
II 119 Auditorium. For more information and to submit abstracts online, please
visit the symposium website: http://bcrc.bio.umass.edu/hhmi/node/47. Abstract
deadline is March 22.