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Weekly Calendar
Colloquia
Wed., Sept. 10, 4:30 p.m. "Chromosome Odds and
Ends," a Biology colloquium with Joe Gall, Carnegie
Institution. Mudd Auditorium. HW
Conference
Thurs., Sept. 11, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Fri., Sept. 12, 9
a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Sat., Sept. 13, 9 a.m. to noon.
"Philology, History, Theory: Rethinking the New
Medievalism," an international conference in honor of
Stephen Nichols. Sponsored by German and Romance Languages
and Literatures. Sept. 11 session takes
place at Charles Commons, Sept. 12 and 13 sessions at the
Space Telescope Science Institute. HW
Discussion/Talks
Wed., Sept. 10, 4 p.m. "Dispelling Myths and
Providing Tips," a SOURCE Community Involvement panel
with community-engaged faculty and students, community
leaders and corporate security. W1214 SPH
(Sheldon Hall). EB
Mon., Sept. 15, 4 to 5:30 p.m. "We Three Deans: How
I Would Advise the Next President," a panel
discussion with Martha Hill, dean of the School of Nursing;
Ed Miller, dean of the School of Medicine;
and Michael Klag, dean of the Bloomberg School of Public
Health. E2014 SPH (Sommer Hall). EB
Forums
Mon., Sept. 8, noon. "The U.S. Healthcare System in
Crisis: Achieving Universal Coverage," kick-off
event to a yearlong series on approaches to national health
care, with U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-
Mich.); Mary Newman, Maryland Chapter, American College of
Physicians; and Barbra Lancelot,
spokesperson on behalf of the uninsured. Sponsored by
Students Promoting Healthcare Reform
(SPHERE), the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Health
Policy and Management, the Center for
Public Health and Human Rights, the Health and Human Rights
Group, the Center for Health
Disparities and the JHU Alumni Association. W1214 SPH
(Sheldon Hall). EB
Tues., Sept. 9, 12:15 p.m. "Medicine in Poor
Countries — Is a Double Standard Acceptable?" a
Global
Health Leaders forum with Tido von Schoen-Angerer, Campaign
for Access to Essential Medicines,
Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres. Sponsored
by Johns Hopkins Center for Global
Health and International Health. E2014 SPH (Sommer Hall).
EB
Sun., Sept. 14, 2:30 to 5:15 p.m. "Healthy Minds
Across America," a public forum on mental health
research, with Russell Margolis, SoM; Akira Sawa, SoM; and
David Valle, SoM; with moderators J.
Raymond DePaulo Jr. and Sol Snyder. Space is limited;
reservations are recommended. To RSVP, call
800-829-8289 or e-mail
healthyminds@narsad.org.
Grand Rounds
Fri., Sept. 12, 12:15 p.m. "The NIH Biomedical
Translational Research Information System," Health
Sciences Informatics grand rounds with James Cimino, NIH.
Co-sponsored by Health Policy and
Management. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB
Reading
Mon., Sept. 15, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Reading and book
signing by critically acclaimed Baltimore-based authors
Jessica Anya Blau and Michael Kimball, from their latest
novels. Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW
Seminars
Mon., Sept. 8, 12:15 p.m. "Notch and NF-kB Signaling
in Embryonic Neural Stem Cells," a Carnegie
Institution Embryology seminar with Nicholas Gaiano, SoM.
Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive.
HW
Mon., Sept. 8, 12:15 p.m. "African American
Bioethics: Culture, Race and Identity," a Berman Institute
of Bioethics seminar with Lawrence Prograis Jr., NIH. W4030
SPH. EB
Mon., Sept. 8, 3 p.m. "On Multi-Soliton Dynamics for
the Gravitational Nonlinear Hartree Equation in
3-D," an Analysis seminar with Joachim Krieger, University
of Pennsylvania. Sponsored by
Mathematics. 308 Krieger. HW
Mon., Sept. 8, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in
Neuroscience — "The Golden Ratio" with Mario Livio,
STScI. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338
Krieger. HW
Tues., Sept. 9, noon. "Making Brains Big With Beta
Catenin," a Biological Chemistry seminar with Anjen
Chenn, Northwestern University. 612 Physiology. EB
Wed., Sept. 10, 3 p.m. "Computing Donaldson's
T-iterations on the Space of Hermitian Metrics on
Projective Spaces," a Topics in Complex Geometry seminar
with Morgan Sherman, California
Polytechnic State University. Sponsored by Mathematics. 308
Krieger. HW
Wed., Sept. 10, 3:30 p.m. "Markov Chain Monte Carlo:
Can We Trust the Third Significant Figure?" a
Biostatistics seminar with Galin Jones, University of
Minnesota. W2030 SPH. EB
Wed., Sept. 10, 5 p.m. "Revolution or Evolution? The
Role of Knowledge and Organization in the
Establishment and Growth of R&D at Corning," an Institute
for Applied Economics and the Study of
Business Enterprise seminar with W. Bernard Carlson,
University of Virginia. Sponsored by History.
102B Dell House. HW
Thurs., Sept. 11, noon. "Mycobacterium tuberculosis:
Latency and Antibiotic Tolerance," a Molecular
Microbiology and Immunology/Infectious Diseases joint
seminar with Petros Karakousis, SoM. W2030
SPH. EB
Thurs., Sept. 11, 12:15 p.m. "Sustainable South
Bronx," a Connecting Health and Sustainability seminar
with Annette Williams, Bronx Environmental Stewardship
Training Program. First of a series co-
sponsored by the Center for a Livable Future; Health,
Behavior and Society; and the Program on Global
Sustainability and Health. (See "In Brief," in this issue.)
E2030 SPH (Feinstone Hall). EB
Thurs., Sept. 11, 1 p.m. "Gliogenesis and Glial
Repair in the Mammalian Brain," a Neuroscience research
seminar with Vittorio Gallo, Children's National Medical
Center. West Lecture Hall (ground floor),
WBSB. EB
Thurs., Sept. 11, 3:30 p.m. "RNA-mediated Epigenetic
Programming of Genome Rearrangements," a
Molecular Biology and Genetics seminar with Laura
Landweber, Princeton University. 517 PCTB. EB
Thurs., Sept. 11, 4 p.m. "Probing the Biological
Diversity of Enteric Pathogens in the Post-9/11 Era," a
Biology seminar with Thomas Cebula, USFDA. 100 Mudd. HW
Fri., Sept. 12, 12:15 p.m. "Risk Factors and
Consequences of S. pneumoniae Colonization of the
Nasopharynx of Infants in Vellore, India," an International
Health thesis defense seminar with Ingrid
Friberg. W2030 SPH. EB
Fri., Sept. 12, 12:15 p.m. "Diabetes Mellitus Among
Injection Drug Users With and Without Human
Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection in Baltimore,
Maryland," an Epidemiology thesis defense
seminar with Asantewa Gyekye. W3030 SPH. EB
Fri., Sept. 12, 1 p.m. "Human Opportunistic
Protozoan Parasites (Cryptosporidia, Giardia and
Microsporidia)," a Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
seminar with Thaddeus Graczyk, SPH. 181
Broadway Research Building. EB
Mon., Sept. 15, 12:15 p.m. "Live Imaging in
Zebrafish Reveals a Critical Period for Axon Regeneration
in
the Skin," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with
Alvaro Sagasti, UCLA. Rose Auditorium,
3520 San Martin Drive. HW
Mon., Sept. 15, 12:15 p.m. "Studying Medication
Adherence in Hypertension and Beyond," an
Epidemiology faculty candidate seminar with Paul Muntner,
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. W3030 SPH.
EB
Mon., Sept. 15, 1 p.m. "Useful Signals From Motor
Cortex," a Biomedical Engineering seminar with
Andrew Schwartz, University of Pittsburgh. G007 Broadway
Research Building. EB
Mon., Sept. 15, 1:30 p.m. "Lifestyle Risk Factors
for Cancer Among Diverse Populations," an
Epidemiology faculty candidate seminar with Meira Epplein.
W2017 SPH. EB
Mon., Sept. 15, 3 p.m. "Global Existence for the
Defocusing Cubic Wave Equation in Dimension 3," an
Analysis seminar with Tristan Roy, UCLA. Sponsored by
Mathematics. 308 Krieger. HW
Mon., Sept. 15, 4 p.m. "Discovery of a
Ubiquitin-like Protein Involved in the Proteasome Pathway
of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis," a Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology seminar with Heran Darwin, NYU
School of Medicine. W2030 SPH. EB
Mon., Sept. 15, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in
Neuroscience — "Manipulating Intra- and Inter-
Hemispheric Motor Cortical Excitability: A Candidate
Priming Mechanism for Walking Training Post-
Stroke," with James Stinear, Northwestern University.
Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain
Institute. 338 Krieger. HW
Special Events
Tues., Sept. 9, 8 p.m. The 2008 Milton S. Eisenhower
Symposium presents a lecture by Tucker Carlson,
MSNBC's senior campaign correspondent. (See story, "Tucker
Carlson of MSNBC to kick off 2008
MSE Symposium," in this issue.) Shriver Auditorium. HW
Fri., Sept. 12, 5:30 p.m. Gatsby's Great Garden
Party, with special al fresco screening of The Great
Gatsby, set against Evergreen's Gilded Age mansion. (See
story, "A madcap evening of art, film set for
Evergreen Museum & Library," in this issue.) $8 general
admission, $5 for Evergreen members and
children under 12. Advance tickets available at www.missiontix.com or
at the door. (Rain location:
Carriage House) Gates open at 5:30 p.m. Film begins at 7:30
p.m. Sponsored by Evergreen Museum &
Library.
Sat., Sept. 13, 3 to 6 p.m. "Convergence," a
JHU-community block party for students and residents of
the neighborhoods surrounding the Homewood campus. (See "In
Brief," in this issue.) Sponsored by
Community Affairs. St. Paul Street between 32nd and 33rd.
HW
Sports
Sat., Sept. 13, 2 p.m. Men's Soccer, Blue Jays vs.
Bridgewater. Homewood Field. HW
Theater
Fri., Sept. 12, 8 p.m. Buttered Niblets, a student
improv group, performs. Sponsored by Student
Activities. Arellano Theater, Levering. HW
Sat., Sept. 13, 9 p.m. Throat Culture, a sketch
comedy group, performs. Sponsored by JHU
Barnstormers and Throat Culture. Arellano Theater,
Levering. HW
Workshops and Training
Tues., Sept. 9, 9 a.m. "Scientific Presentations," a
workshop on the content and delivery of biomedical
research presentations, with Donna Vogel, SoM. Cost is
$1,250 for staff, $625 for postdocs and
fellows. Sponsored by Professional Development. 360 Phipps.
EB
Thurs., Sept. 11, 1 p.m. "Podcasting 101," a Center
for Educational Resources workshop and
demonstration. Open to faculty, staff and students only.
Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW
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