<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#20380E" face="Herculanum" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Please join us for a talk and reception </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#20380E" face="Herculanum" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Cole science center, room 333 </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#20380E" face="Herculanum" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Wednesday October 25 at 4:30 </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#20380E" face="Herculanum" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">(reception with refreshments at 4:00)</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#77171C" face="Herculanum" size="7"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 36px;">Xiang Yu </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Herculanum; min-height: 10px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#77171C"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#4A0E12" face="Herculanum" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">B. A. from Hampshire College 2000 </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#4A0E12" face="Herculanum" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">PhD from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#4A0E12" face="Herculanum" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Department of Phar</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#293A32" face="Herculanum" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">macology and Molecular Sciences</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#293A32" face="Herculanum" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">September 2006 ! ! ! </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Herculanum" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#8C0D09">congratulations xiang ! ! !</FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Herculanum" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#8C0D09"> </FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1D55E4"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#293A32" face="Arial" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><B>Xiang will talk about his transitions from </B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#293A32" face="Arial" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><B>Fuzhou (Fujian province) China to Hampshire College </B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#293A32" face="Arial" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><B>to Johns Hopkins graduate school. </B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; min-height: 10px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#293A32"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#293A32" face="Arial" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><B>And he will discuss his thesis:</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#860D08">The Role of AOR* in Chemoprevention of Cancer</FONT></B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; min-height: 18px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#B2385C"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2B0809" face="Herculanum" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">There will be several opportunities to meet informally with Xiang. </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2B0809" face="Herculanum" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Please let Merle know if you'd like to join him for lunch at noon on Wednesday.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2B0809" face="Herculanum" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2B0809" face="Herculanum" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">xiang will also be talking to Rayane Moriera's Organic Chemistry class at </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2B0809" face="Herculanum" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">11:00 am Wednesday</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2B0809" face="Herculanum" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Contact Rayane if you'd like to attend that talk</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Herculanum; min-height: 14px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2B0809"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2B0809" face="Herculanum" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">If you are interested in attending the morning talk, please e mail Rayane about when to arrive so you don't interrupt the earlier part of her class.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; min-height: 18px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#B2385C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1F381E"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">* For the molecular biologists and chemists in the crowd, the actual title of Xiang's thesis is</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1F381E"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><B>Role of Alkenal/one Oxidoreductase (AOR) and Serum Deprivation Response Factor (sdr)-related Gene Product </B></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1F381E"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><B>that Binds to c-kinase (SRBC) in Chemoprevention of Cancer.</B> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1F381E"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">He won't have time to talk about all of this in the Wednesday afternoon class, but you can hear more at 11:00 in Rayane's class and at lunch or informally. </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1F381E"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">If you'd like to meet with him these other times, check with Merle or Rayane.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>