Northwest Labs is located at 52 Oxford Street in Cambrige.  
View the Harvard Map here, and a Google Map here. 

MSI strongly recommends the use of public transportation to travel to the Symposium.  Northwest Labs is a 10 minute walk from the Harvard Square T Station, and close to several bus lines, including the 77, 83, & 96.  Bike racks are conveniently located in several locations around the perimeter of the building. 

Not-driving directions from Harvard Square:  
Enter Harvard Yard.  Keeping the statue of John Harvard on your right, traverse diagonally through the yard and exit onto the Science Center Plaza. Continue following the directions below.

Not-driving directions from the Science Center Plaza:
From there, cross at the crosswalk (where Kirkland Street becomes Oxford Street) between Memorial Hall (on your right) and the Science Center (on your left).  Continue to the left down Oxford Street for a little over a tenth of a mile (~700 feet, or the length of two football fields).  On your right, there will be a large open green space, and you will see the Harvard Museum of Natural History.  Enter the green space, and Northwest Hall is the large glass building on your far left.  Enter the main doors by the plaza, and head downstairs underneath the large hanging fossil to reach the registration table. Click here for a map of the path from the Science Center to Northwest. 

The 2024 MSI Symposium takes place at 52 Oxford Street, in the lower atrium level of the Northwest Building.  

For those who need or prefer to drive, parking permits for the underground facility at 52 Oxford Street can be purchased through the Harvard Online Parking Portal (HOPPS).  

Note that permits must be purchased in advance of arrival, and are not available at the lot itself. 

To get from the parking facility to the symposium, please use the elevators from parking to the ground floor and exit the parking lobby. Walk alongside the building past the overpass, and enter the doors on your right. (see map below)  For GPS coordinates to the parking facility, here is the exact location of the garage

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Check-in for pre-registered attendees, which is required, begins at 8:15am in B100 at the table at the bottom of the stairs and continues as needed throughout the day.  No new registrations will be sold at the door on the day of the event.

While each of our catering partners make every effort to avoid cross-contamination, all food is prepared in shared facilities.

A reception with appetizers and drinks will immediately follow the symposium, beginning at 5:45pm in the Northwest Labs lower lobby.

Coffee will be available before the event begins, and throughout the event.

There will be AM & PM breaks with snacks provided in the back of the atrium.

New this year, we are pleased to offer our participants a boxed lunch during the 60-minute break mid-day. Our catering partners will provide vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free boxes, in addition to omnivore options.

Fermented Food Festival vendors will be sampling their wares during the AM, lunch, and PM breaks!

Synchronous online viewing will not be offered Symposium. However, a selection of talks will be recorded and may subsequently made available online in MSI's growing collection of archived microbial science talks.