Mon., Oct. 24, 12:15 p.m. "Experimental Research on
WIC Health Outcomes: Resituating the Problem of Equipoise,"
a Berman Bioethics Institute seminar with Rebecca Kukla,
Carleton University and Georgetown University; W2030 SPH.
EB
Mon., Oct. 24, 12:15 p.m. "The Precocious Activation
of Maturation Promoting Factor in C. elegans Disrupts
Oocyte Maturation and Fertilization," a Carnegie
Institution Embryology seminar with Andrew Golden,
NIH/NIDDK; 3520 San Martin Drive. HW
Mon., Oct. 24, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in
Neuroscience — "Why Does the Brain Oscillate? Role of
Theta/Gamma Coding" with John Lisman, Brandeis University.
Sponsored by Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger.
HW
Mon., Oct. 24, 4 p.m. "Building Babel: Money, Morals
and Mortar in Andrew Dexter's Boston," a History seminar
with Jane Kamensky, Brandeis University; 315 Gilman. HW
Tues., Oct. 25, noon. "The Taste of a Female:
Receptors, etc., in Male Courtship of Drosophila," a
Biological Chemistry seminar with Hubert Amrein, Duke
University; 612 Physiology. EB
Tues., Oct. 25, 3 p.m. "Rethinking the Costs and
Benefits of Municipal Water and Sanitation Investments in
Developing Countries," a Geography and Environmental
Engineering seminar with Dale Whittington, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill; 234 Ames. HW
Tues., Oct. 25, 4:30 p.m. "Deformations of
Singularities and Variations of GIT Quotients," an
Algebraic and Complex Geometry seminar with Radu Laza,
Columbia University; 308 Krieger. HW
Tues., Oct. 25, 4:30 p.m. "On the Parameter Space of
Lexicalized Statistical Parsing Models," a Center for
Language and Speech Processing seminar with Daniel Bikel,
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; 3 Shaffer. HW
Wed., Oct. 26, 10:45 a.m. "Sexual Dimorphism and
Craniofacial Growth," a Center for Functional Anatomy and
Evolution seminar with Rebecca German, SoM; 107A WBSB.
EB
Wed., Oct. 26, noon. "Time and Discontinuity:
Aristotle, Bergson, Deleuze," a Political Science seminar
with Nathan Widder, University of Exeter; 338 Mergenthaler.
HW
Wed., Oct. 26, 12:15 p.m. "Successful Cognitive
Aging: New Interventions for Older Adults," a Mental Health
seminar with George Rebok, JHSPH; B14B Hampton House.
EB
Wed., Oct. 26, 2 p.m. "The World Bank/ORG
Tuberculosis Patient Survey: Lessons From Three States of
India," an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Pankaj
Sadaphal; E6519 SPH. EB
Wed., Oct. 26, 3:30 p.m. "Structure and Specificity
of Transmembrane Domain Interactions of BNIP3, a
Pro-apoptotic Member of the Bcl-2 Superfamily," a Materials
Science and Engineering seminar with Kevin MacKenzie, Rice
University; 110 Maryland. HW
Wed., Oct. 26, 4 p.m. "Adam Smith's Critique of
International Trading Companies: Theorizing Globalization
in the Age of Enlightenment," a History seminar with Sankar
Muthu, Princeton University; 315 Gilman. HW
Wed., Oct. 26, 4 p.m. "Using Small Molecules to
Identify Novel Targets for the Treatment of Cancer,
Neurodegeneration and Drug-Resistant Bacteria," a
Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Paul
Hergenrother, University of Illinois; West Lecture Hall,
WBSB. EB
Wed., Oct. 26, 4 p.m. "Matching With Multiple
Control Groups and Adjusting for Group Differences," a
Biostatistics seminar with Elizabeth Stuart, Mathematica
Policy Research Inc.; W2030 SPH. EB
Wed., Oct. 26, 5:15 p.m. "L'Hospitalite," a Romance
Languages and Literatures seminar with Yves Charles Zarka,
University of Paris I; 336 Gilman. HW
Thurs., Oct. 27, 11 a.m. "Biosimulation in
Rheumatoid Arthritis: Potential Mechanisms Underlying
Non-Response to TNF-Alpha Targeted Therapies," a Chemical
and Biomolecular Engineering seminar with Saroja Ramanujan,
Entelos Inc. Co-sponsored by the Whiting School of
Engineering Dean's Office and the Institute in Multiscale
Modeling of Biological Interactions. 110 Maryland. HW
Thurs., Oct. 27, noon. "Mouse Models for Human
Disease Involving Cytoplasmic Myosin II," a Cell Biology
seminar with Robert Adelstein, National Heart, Lung and
Blood Institute, NIH; Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB
Thurs., Oct. 27, 12:15 p.m. "Managing Montgomery
County," a Health Policy and Management seminar with Doug
Duncan, Montgomery County executive; Hampton House Lecture
Hall. EB
Thurs., Oct. 27, 1 p.m. "Cellular Mechanisms of
Synapse Formation Between Cortical Neurons," a Neuroscience
research seminar with Kimberley McAllister, University of
California, Davis; West Lecture Hall, WBSB. EB
Thurs., Oct. 27, 3 p.m. "Development and
Applications of Reactive Multi-Layers," a Mechanical
Engineering seminar with Omar Knio, WSE; 210 Hodson. HW
Thurs., Oct. 27, 4 p.m. "Responsive Materials From
De Novo-Designed Peptides: Progress Toward Novel Tissue
Engineering Scaffolds," a Biology seminar with Joel
Schneider, University of Delaware; Mudd Auditorium. HW
Fri., Oct. 28, 11 a.m. "How Density Currents Set the
Vertical Stratification of Deep Oceanic Basins and Lakes,"
a CEAFM seminar with Mathew Wells, Yale University; 110
Maryland. HW
Fri., Oct. 28, 12:15 p.m. "Providing Post-Trial
Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) to Participants in ART Trials
in Developing Countries," a Berman Bioethics Institute
seminar with Maria Merritt, Harvard University and College
of William and Mary; 250 Hampton House. EB
Mon., Oct. 31, 12:15 p.m. "Genes, Proteins and
Parkinson's Disease," a Carnegie Institution Embryology
seminar with Ted Dawson, JHMI; 3520 San Martin Drive.
HW
Mon., Oct. 31, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in
Neuroscience — "Is the Cortex a Digital Computer?"
with Dana Ballard, University of California. Sponsored by
Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW