Mon., April 23, noon. "Mechanisms of Air-Sea CO2
Flux Variability in the North Atlantic," an Earth and
Planetary Sciences seminar with Galen McKinley, University
of Wisconsin; Olin Auditorium. HW
Mon., April 23, 12:15 p.m. "Molecular Mechanisms
Regulating Adult Neural Stem Cells and Neurogenesis," a
Carnegie Institution seminar with Hongjun Song, SoM; Rose
Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW
Mon., April 23, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in
Neuroscience — "DARPA's Approach to Advancing
Science" with Geoffrey Ling, DARPA Defense Sciences Office.
Sponsored by Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger.
HW
Mon., April 23, 4 p.m. "Hex3-Slx8: A Ubiquitin
Ligase Involved in DNA Repair and Stimulated by Substrate
Sumolyation," a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar
with Oliver Kerscher, College of William and Mary; W2030
SPH. EB
Mon., April 23, 4 p.m. "The American Agent in His
Majesty's Secret Service: Espionage, Policy Formation and
Geopolitical Imagination in the Age of Revolution," a
History seminar with Leonard Sadosky, Patrick Henry Fellow;
315 Gilman. HW
Mon., April 23, 4 p.m. "Discrete Minimal Energy
Problems," an Analysis seminar with Edward Saff, Vanderbilt
University; 308 Krieger. HW
Mon., April 23, 4 p.m. "An Introduction to the
Arithmetic Geometry of the Functional Equation," a Working
Group in Noncommutative and Arithmetic Geometry seminar
with Frederic Paugam, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie,
Paris VII. 302 Krieger. HW
Tues., April 24, noon. "3-D Geologic Visualizations
Using gOcad," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with
Dean Peterson, University of Minnesota, Duluth; Olin
Auditorium. HW
Tues., April 24, 12:15 p.m. "Community Leadership in
Population and Reproductive Health in the Philippines: A
Presentation of the Findings," a Bill and Melinda Gates
Institute for Population and Reproductive Health seminar
with Jaime Galvez Tan, University of the Philippines
College of Medicine; W3008 SPH. EB
Tues., April 24, 1:30 p.m. "Statistical Aspects of
Quarantine Interventions and Incubation Periods in
Epidemics," a Biostatistics thesis defense seminar with
Xiaojun You; E9519 SPH. EB
Tues., April 24, 4 p.m. "Forming Cooperative
Families: Re-Figuring the Domestic" with Valeria Procupez,
KSAS; and "Education and Emergent Forms of Citizenship in
Germany" with David Schrag, KSAS. Sponsored by
Anthropology. 400 Macaulay. HW
Tues., April 24, 4 p.m. "A House Divided: Mass
Conversion, Divided Families and Shifting Conceptions of
Conversion in Late Medieval Spain," a European History
first-year presentation seminar with Jen Haasis; 315
Gilman. HW
Tues., April 24, 5 p.m. "Photojournalism and the
Rise of Civil Society in Late Imperial Russia," a European
History first-year presentation seminar with Chris
Stolarski; 315 Gilman. HW
Wed., April 25, noon. "Nuclear Membrane Proteins and
Signaling in Myogenesis," a Cell Biology seminar with Larry
Gerace, Scripps Research Institute; Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg.
EB
Wed., April 25, noon. "Severe Calorie Restriction:
Alteration of Respiratory Structure and Function," an
Environmental Health Sciences seminar with John Bishai,
SPH; W7023 SPH. EB
Wed., April 25, 12:15 p.m. "Depression, Diabetes and
Osteoporosis: A Cohort Analysis," a Mental Health seminar
with Briana Mezuk; B14B Hampton House. EB
Wed., April 25, 1 p.m. "Challenges in the Clinical
Care of the Uninsured," an Anna Baetjer Society seminar
with Miriam Alexander, SPH. Co-sponsored by the American
Association of Medical Colleges. Mountcastle Auditorium,
PCTB. EB
Wed., April 25, 1:30 p.m. "Dynamic Personalities of
Proteins," a Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry seminar
with Dorothee Kern, Brandeis University; 517 PCTB. EB
Wed., April 25, 2 p.m. "The Role of Nutritional and
Genetic Factors of One-Carbon Transfer Pathways in Frailty
Syndrome in Older Women," an Epidemiology thesis defense
seminar with Amy Matteini; W1020 SPH. EB
Wed., April 25, 4 p.m. "Inspiration From Nature:
Natural Products in Drug Discovery Efforts," a Pharmacology
and Molecular Sciences seminar with Coran Watanabe, Texas
A&M; West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB
Wed., April 25, 4 p.m. "Large Values of
Eigenfunctions on Arithmetic Hyperbolic Manifolds," a
Number Theory seminar with Djordje Milicevic, University of
Michigan; 304 Krieger. HW
Wed., April 25, 5 p.m. "Finding Genetic Causes of
Mental Disorders: Lessons From Genomics Studies of Other
Complex Traits," a Psychiatric Genetics seminar with
Mary-Claire King, University of Washington. (See "In Brief," in this issue.)
Sponsored by Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Hurd Hall.
EB
Thurs., April 26, noon. "Relapse in Smoking
Cessation: Causes and Cures," an Environmental Health
Sciences seminar with Maxine Stitzer, SoM; W3030 SPH.
EB
Thurs., April 26, 1 p.m. "Neurogenic Astrocytes Send
Survival Cues to Migrating Neuroblasts via NMDA Receptors,"
a Neuroscience research seminar with Angelique Bordey, Yale
University; West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB
Thurs., April 26, 4 p.m. "Can Foundations Alter
Faculty Behavior? The Mellon Foundation's Graduate
Education Initiative," a Social Policy seminar with Ronald
Ehrenberg, Cornell University. Sponsored by the Institute
for Policy Studies; the Krieger School of Arts and
Sciences; and Health Policy and Management, SPH. 526 Wyman
Park Bldg. HW
Thurs., April 26, 4 p.m. "Regulation of
Protease-Activated Receptor-1 Signaling: A Trafficking
Solution to a Signaling Problem," a Biology seminar with
JoAnn Trejo, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; 100
Mudd. HW
Thurs., April 26, 4 p.m. "Jewish Physicians and the
Black Death: Memory, Medicine and Literature," a European
History seminar with Susan Einbinder, Hebrew Union College.
Co-sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program. 315 Gilman.
HW
Fri., April 27, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. "HAUSA: Hopkins
All-University Seminar on Africa," with faculty and
students from all schools at Johns Hopkins presenting their
research on Africa. Sponsored by the Center for Global
Health. Rooms 9 and 10 Anne M. Pinkard Bldg. EB
Fri., April 27, 11 a.m. "Ultrasound Image Analysis:
Speckle Tracking for Recovery of Cardiac Motion," an
Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with Robert
Azencott, University of Houston; 101 Shaffer. HW
Fri., April 27, 12:15 p.m. "Lost in Transition:
Reaping the Benefits of Non-Hypothesis-Driven Genomics and
Its Multi-Colored Low-Hanging Fruit," a Carnegie
Institution Embryology seminar with Henry Krause,
University of Toronto; Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin
Drive. HW
Mon., April 30, 9 a.m. "Bankbook, Mapbook or
Textbook: Migration, Local Age Structure and Funding of
Public Primary and Secondary Schools in the United States,"
a Population, Family and Reproductive Health thesis defense
seminar with Daniel Mercer; E4611 SPH. EB
Mon., April 30, noon. "Three Rocks, Three Planets, A
Common Theme and a Big Puzzle," an Earth and Planetary
Sciences seminar with Glenn MacPherson, National Museum of
Natural History, Smithsonian Institute; Olin Auditorium.
HW
Mon., April 30, 12:15 p.m. "A Protein-Lipid Complex
Transduces Touch in C. elegans," a Carnegie Institution
Embryology seminar with Martin Chalfie, Columbia
University; Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW
Mon., April 30, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in
Neuroscience — "Activity in Gap-Junctionally Coupled
Networks Depends on Dendrite Diameter," with Jorge
Golowasch, New Jersey Institute of Technology. Sponsored by
the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW
Mon., April 30, 4 p.m. "An Extreme Case of
Regionalism: The Dilemma of the Psychological Sciences in
the American South During the Era of Segregation," a
History seminar with Anne Rose, Pennsylvania State
University; 315 Gilman. HW
Mon., April 30, 4 p.m. "Bost-Connes-Marcolli Systems
for Shimura Varieties," a Working Group in Noncommutative
and Arithmetic Geometry seminars with Frederic Paugam,
Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VII. 302 Krieger.
HW