Mon., April 24, 10 a.m. "The Role of Calcium and
Calcium-Dependent Effector Molecules in the Establishment
of the Plasma Membrane Block to Polyspermy in Mammalian
Cells," a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology thesis defense
seminar with Allison Gardner; W1214 SPH. EB
Mon., April 24, noon. "Global Paleoenvironmental
Change: Quantifying Earth's Responses and Feedbacks," an
Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Anthony Cohen,
The Open University, Milton Keynes, U.K.; Olin Auditorium.
HW
Mon., April 24, noon. "The Development of One of the
First Arabic Language Health Web Sites: The Jordan HCP Web
Portal," a Center for Communication Programs seminar with
Asma Fashho, Jordan Health Communication Partnership; Suite
310 (International Room), Candler Bldg., 111 Market
Place.
Mon., April 24, 12:15 p.m. "G-Protein Signaling
Networks and Cancer," a Carnegie Institution Embryology
seminar with J. Silvio Gutkind, NIH; 3520 San Martin Drive.
HW
Mon., April 24, 2 p.m. "Seminal Biology of Embryonic
Cortical Neural Stem Cells," an ICE seminar with Jeffrey
Barker, NINDS/NIH; West Lecture Hall (ground level), PCTB.
EB
Mon., April 24, 4 p.m. "A Yeast Under Cover:
Polysaccharide Capsule Synthesis in the Pathogenic Fungus
Cryptococcus neoformans," a Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology seminar with Tamara Doering, Washington University
Medical School; W2030 SPH. EB
Mon., April 24, 4 p.m. "The Gold Star Mother
Pilgrimages: Patriotic Maternalism and American Culture
Between the Wars," a History seminar with Rebecca Plant,
University of California, San Diego; 315 Gilman. HW
Mon., April 24, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in
Neuroscience — "Characterization of Neural Response
With Stochastic Stimuli" with Eero Simoncelli, HHMI/Courant
Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Sponsored by Krieger
Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW
Mon., April 24, 5:15 p.m. "Double Authorship:
Prophetic and Poetic Inspiration in Dante's Paradise," a
Romance Languages and Literatures seminar with Gerhard
Regn, University of Munich; 336 Gilman. HW
Tues., April 25, noon. "From Hotto Hotter:
Activation and Sensitization of TRPV Ion Channels," a
Biological Chemistry seminar with Michael Caterina, SoM;
612 Physiology. EB
Tues., April 25, noon. "Humanitarian Crises:
Challenges for Public Health Action," with Eric Noji,
consultant in emergency preparedness and humanitarian
affairs. Sponsored by the Anna Baetjer Society; the Dean's
Office and the MPH Office. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB
Tues., April 25, noon. "New Drugs, New Services and
the Employment Picture for Persons With Chronic Mental
Disorders," a Social Policy seminar with David Salkever,
UMBC. Sponsored by the Institute for Policy Studies,
Economics and Health Policy and Management. 526 Wyman Park
Bldg. HW
Tues., April 25, 12:15 p.m. "Impact of Newborn Skin
Cleansing With Chlorhexidine on Neonatal Mortality in
Nepal: Issues in Cluster Randomized Designs," a Center for
Clinical Trials research seminar with James Tielsch, SPH;
E9519 SPH. EB
Tues., April 25, 12:15 p.m. "So What's in It for Us?
Benefit and Information Sharing With Participants in Human
Genetic Research," a Berman Bioethics Institute seminar
with Eric Juengst, Case Western Reserve University.
Co-sponsored by McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic
Medicine, the Office of the Vice Dean for Clinical
Investigation and the Office of Research Subjects. No
registration required. W4030 SPH. EB
Tues., April 25, 3 p.m. "Unmasking the Pollution
Haven Effect," a Geography and Environmental Engineering
seminar with Arik Levinson, Georgetown University; 234
Ames. HW
Tues., April 25, 4 p.m. "Survivors, Scientists and
the State: The Politics of Disaster Response in Cameroon,
1986-2001," a Comparative and World History seminar with
Claire Breedlove, KSAS; 315 Gilman. HW
Tues., April 25, 4:30 p.m. "Learning to Model Text
Structure," a Center for Language and Speech Processing
seminar with Regina Barzilay, MIT; 3 Shaffer. HW
Wed., April 26, 9 a.m. "Perceived Morbidities and
Health Care Utilization for Neonatal Health in Rural Uttar
Pradesh, India: Effects of a Behavior-Change Communication
Intervention," an International Health thesis defense
seminar with Jeffrey Willis; W2009 SPH. EB
Wed., April 26, noon. "Worker Centers: Organizing
Community at the Edge of the Dream," a Political Science
seminar with Janice Fine, Rutgers University; 370
Mergenthaler. HW
Wed., April 26, noon. "Neighborhood Effects on
Economic Self-Sufficiency: A Reconsideration of the Moving
to Opportunity Experiment," a Sociology seminar with
Douglas Massey, Princeton University; 526 Mergenthaler.
HW
Wed., April 26, 12:15 p.m. "Emerging Issues and
Future Directions in Environmental Health Risk Assessment:
The U.S. EPA Perspective," a Risk Sciences and Public
Policy Institute seminar with Ila Cote, EPA National Center
for Environmental Assessment; W3030 SPH. EB
Wed., April 26, 12:15 p.m. "Healing Across the
Divides: Forging Peace Through Public Health in the
Occupied Palestinian Territories," an Anna Baetjer Society
seminar with Elizabeth Arend. Co-sponsored by the JB Grant
Society. W2008 SPH. EB
Wed., April 26, 12:15 p.m. "Propensity for Marijuana
Use and Depression; Causation?" a Mental Health seminar
with Valerie Harder; B14B Hampton House. EB
Wed., April 26, 4 p.m. "Reading Barbara Johnson in
the Wake of Deconstruction," a Women, Gender and Sexuality
seminar with Jane Gallop, University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee; 113 Greenhouse. HW
Wed., April 26, 4 p.m. "Unequal Fellowship: White
and Black Baptists in Wilkes County, Georgia," an American
History seminar with Gabe Klehr; 315 Gilman. HW
Wed., April 26, 5:15 p.m. "Portrait de Groupe avec
Proust," a Romance Languages and Literatures seminar with
Roxana Verona, Dartmouth College; 336 Gilman. HW
Thurs., April 27, 10:45 a.m. "Distributed
Multithreaded Volume Rendering Utilizing Dynamic
Scheduling," a Computer Science seminar with Joseph
Hennessy, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center; 3 Shaffer.
HW
Thurs., April 27, noon. "Regulation of Cholesterol
Synthesis Through Accelerated Degradation of HMG CoA
Reductase," a Cell Biology seminar with Russell
DeBose-Boyd, University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center; Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB
Thurs., April 27, noon. "Surgical Planning and
Principles," an Animal Care and Use Committee seminar with
Diana Scorpio, Research Animal Resources; 403 Ross. EB
Thurs., April 27, 1 p.m. "Emergence of Excitability
and Synaptic Transmission in the Developing Xenopus Visual
System," a Neuroscience research seminar with Carlos
Aizenman, Brown University; West Lecture Hall (ground
floor), WBSB. EB
Thurs., April 27, 3 p.m. "Multi-Scale Imaging of the
Nervous System: Where's the Dark Matter?" an ICE seminar
with Mark Ellisman, University of California, San Diego;
110 Clark. HW
Thurs., April 27, 3 p.m. "Modern Polymer Transducers
and Arrays for Air and Solid-Borne Sound," a Mechanical
Engineering seminar with James West, WSE; 210 Hodson.
HW
Thurs., April 27, 4 p.m. "Ceasefire: Getting
Baltimore Drug Dealers Out of the Game," a SOURCE (Student
Outreach Resource Center) seminar with Dan Rodricks,
Baltimore Sun; E2014 (Sommer Hall) SPH. EB
Thurs., April 27, 4 p.m. "Group Testing in
Genomics," an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar
with Joel Bader, WSE; 304 Whitehead. HW
Thurs., April 27, 4 p.m. "Circadian Oscillators in
the Brain: Politics of Periodicity," a Biology seminar with
Eric Herzog, Washington University; 100 Mudd. HW
Fri., April 28, noon. "Research Into Action: Policy
and Program Lessons From the Multi-Country Evaluation of
IMCI (MCE)," an International Health/Health Systems Program
special seminar with Jennifer Bryce; W3008 SPH. EB
Fri., April 28, 2 p.m. "Thinking About American
Philosophy," a Political Science seminar with Dylan Weller;
366 Mergenthaler. HW
Mon., May 1, 10:30 a.m. "Transforming Growth Factor
Beta and Colorectal Neoplasia: A Case-Control Investigation
of Adenoma and Carcinoma in Hawaii," an Epidemiology thesis
defense seminar with Barbara Saltzman; W2008 SPH. EB
Mon., May 1, noon. "The Coldest Subduction Zone
Metamorphic Terrane on Earth: Field Studies and CL-Guided
Microanalysis of Guatemala Jadeitites and Lawsonite
Eclogites," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with
Sorena Sorensen, Natural History Museum, Smithsonian
Institute; Olin Auditorium. HW
Mon., May 1, 3 p.m. "The Partition Function
Associated to a Topological Conformal Field Theory," a
Topology seminar with Kevin Costello; 308 Krieger. HW
Mon., May 1, 5:30 p.m. "A Bronze Age Nexus of Trade
and Culture: New Discoveries on the Iranian Plateau," a
Near Eastern Studies seminar with Holly Pittman, University
of Pennsylvania; 123 Gilman. HW