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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Hi all, </span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">There will be a seminar at noon tomorrow. Please see below. This is a chance to earn one of requirements for Tri-Beta membership.</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Soichi</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br></span></strong></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br></span></strong></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Human Genome Project pioneer, Russ Prize recipient Leroy Hood to lecture Feb. 23 </span></strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><br><br>Leroy Hood, 2011 Russ Prize recipient, will present a lecture as the guest of the Russ College on Thurs., Feb. 23 from 12-1:30 p.m. at the Baker University Center Theatre. <br><br>A reception will follow immediately from 1:30-2 p.m.<br><br>One of the world’s leading scientists in molecular biotechnology and genomics, Hood will present “Systems Biology, Emerging Technologies and the Transformation from Reactive to Proactive (P4) Medicine.”<br><br>The talk will cover Hood’s view of biology as an informational science requiring systems approaches, which leads to his conclusion that there are two fundamental types of biological information – the digital genome and environmental signal. Hood will explain how biological complexity is so complex that it must be revealed through perturbations of systems that generate enormous amounts of data. <br><br>Hood will then detail his lab’s efforts at a systems approach – via a neurodegenerative disease in mice – to disease. He also will discuss emerging technologies that will transform medicine over the next 10 years, and finally his theory that medicine will ultimately be transformed from its currently reactive state to a proactive, “P4” mode. Hood will argue that such P4 medicine – predictive, personalized, preventive and participatory – will force a revolution of the healthcare industry that will be primarily driven by patients using social networks.<br><br>Hood rose to the forefront of the scientific community for his hand in developing the DNA sequencer and synthesizer and the protein synthesizer and sequencer – four instruments that paved the way for the successful mapping of the human genome. He was an instrumental participant on the team that developed and led the Human Genome Project.<br><br>Hood has helped establish more than 14 biotechnology companies throughout his career and has 17 honorary degrees from universities in the United States and abroad.</span></span></div></body></html>