Johns Hopkins Gazette | December 13, 2004
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The newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University December 13, 2004 | Vol. 34 No. 15
 

Weekly Calendar

Discussion/Talks | Lectures | Music | Seminars |

 

Discussion/Talks

Tues., Dec. 14, noon. Discussion with Karen Arnold of The Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez; last in the Food for Thought lunchtime series. Sponsored by WORKlife Programs. W1030 SPH. EB

Tues., Dec. 14, 12:15 p.m. "The Ethical Limits of Science," a Bioethics Interest Group lunch talk with Michael Boylan, Marymount University. Sponsored by the Phoebe R. Berman Bioethics Institute. 250 Hampton House. EB

Thurs., Dec. 16, 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. "FDA: The Critical Path to New Medical Products," a breakfast meeting and discussion with Janet Woodcock, FDA. Co-sponsored by JHU and the Technology Council of Maryland's BioAlliance. $20 for TCM members and guests, $50 for non-members. Reservations are recommended; 240-453-6200 or chiqui@mdhitech.org. Montgomery County Campus, 9601 Medical Center Drive.

The Peabody Jazz Orchestra welcomes a trio of special guests for a concert on Tuesday night. See Music.

 

Lectures

Mon., Dec. 13, noon. "Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction and Symptom Management in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: Results of a Pilot Study," a Complementary and Alternative Medicine lecture by Mary Joe Kreitzer, University of Minnesota; Weinberg Auditorium. EB

Mon., Dec. 13, 5 p.m. Special Dean's Lecture by Mark McClellan, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Stanford University. (See "In Brief," this issue.) Hurd Hall. EB

Mon., Dec. 20, noon. "Spiritual Well-Being and Depression in Lung Cancer," a Complementary and Alternative Medicine lecture by David Bekelman; Room 322, 1830 Bldg. EB

 

Music

Tues., Dec. 14, 7:30 p.m. Peabody Jazz Orchestra performs, with special guests Gil Evans, Bob Brookmeyer and Bob Mintzer. $18, $10 for senior citizens, $8 for students with ID. East Hall. Peabody

 

Seminars

Mon., Dec. 13, 10:45 a.m. "Protein and Lipid Motifs Regulating Phospholipid Traffic in Membrane Biogenesis," a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology seminar with Dennis Voelker, National Jewish Medical and Research Center; W1020 SPH. EB

Mon., Dec. 13, 12:15 p.m. "Population Health — Multiple Determinants and Lifespan Frameworks," a Carnegie Institution of Washington Embryology seminar with Bernard Guyer; Seminar Room, 115 W. University Pkwy. HW

Mon., Dec. 13, 12:15 p.m. "Breastfeeding and HIV Mothers," a Population Center seminar with Margaret Bentley, University of North Carolina. Co-sponsored by Population and Family Health Sciences. W2030 SPH. EB

Mon., Dec. 13, 12:15 p.m. "The View From Within: Violation of the Human Rights of Drug Users in Russia," an Epidemiology seminar with Dascha Ocheret, Kolodetz charity foundation. Co-sponsored by the Center for Public Health and Human Rights. W3030 SPH. EB

Mon., Dec. 13, 1 p.m. "Specification of Temporal Identity in the Drosophila CNS," a Neuroscience research seminar with Chris Doe, University of Oregon; West Lecture Hall, WBSB. EB

Mon., Dec. 13, 4 p.m. "Does Oxidative Stress Play a Role in the Aging Process?" a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Arlan Richardson, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio; W2030 SPH. EB

Mon., Dec. 13, 4 p.m. "Aminocoumarin Antibiotic Biosynthesis," a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Caren Meyers; 303 WBSB. EB

WORKlife Programs seminar — "Financial Planning: Phase 3" with Bill Leeb and Pete Dixon, Financial Council Inc.

Tues., Dec. 14, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. W1030 SPH. EB

Thurs., Dec. 16, 9 a.m to 1 p.m. B102 JH@Eastern.

Tues., Dec. 14, noon. "Challenges in Scaling Up Antiretroviral Therapy in Rwanda," a JHU Center for STD Research and Prevention seminar with Miriam Schneidman, World Bank. Part of the Sexually Transmitted Infections seminar series. W2030 SPH. EB

Tues., Dec. 14, 12:15 p.m. "Exploring the Social Dimensions of Race Differences in Blood Pressure: The Southwest Baltimore Community Health Study," a Social and Behavioral Sciences seminar with Thomas LaVeist; Hampton House Auditorium (basement). EB

Wed., Dec. 15, 1:30 p.m. "The Role of S-Nitrosylation and Parkin in Defective Ubiquitination in Parkinson's Disease," a Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry seminar with Ted Dawson; 517 PCTB. EB

Wed., Dec. 15, 2:30 p.m. "Normalizing and Background Correcting Affymetrix and cDNA Arrays," a JHMI Microarray Core Facility seminar with Rafael Irizarry. Co-sponsored by the Hopkins Expressionists and Biostatistics. Part of the series Top 10 Things to Know in Microarray Data Analysis. E9519 SPH. EB

Wed., Dec. 15, 4 p.m. "Regulation of Oncogene-driven Apoptosis by BCL-2 Family Proteins and Therapeutic Opportunities," a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Gordon Shore; 303 WBSB. EB

Thurs., Dec. 16, 10:30 a.m. "A Survey-based Assessment of Children With Special Health Care Needs Enrolled in Medicaid Managed Care Plans," a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Susan Milner; 461 Hampton House. EB

Thurs., Dec. 16, noon. "Regulation of IFN-Gamma and IL-10 Expression," a Molecular Microbiology/Immunology and Infectious Diseases seminar with Jay Bream; W2030 SPH. EB

Thurs., Dec. 16, 12:15 p.m. "Web-based SCOPE," a Center for Communication Programs seminar with Benjamin Lozare; Suite 310, 111 Market Place. EB

Thurs., Dec. 16, 12:30 p.m. "The Effects of Gonadotrophic Hormone Withdrawal on the Seminiferous Epithelium and Germ Cell Apoptosis," a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Matthew Show; W1020 SPH. EB

Thurs., Dec. 16, 1 p.m. "Regulated Repression Checkpoints in Neurogenesis," a Neuroscience research seminar with Michael Rosenfeld, University of California, Los Angeles; West Lecture Hall, WBSB. EB

Thurs., Dec. 16, 3 p.m. "Ecological and Genetic Factors Contributing to Enzootic Lyme Disease in Southern Maryland," a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology thesis defense seminar with Jennifer Anderson; W2029 SPH. EB

Thurs., Dec. 16, 3:30 p.m. "The Molecular Basis of Odor and Taste Coding in the Fly," a Molecular Biology and Genetics seminar with John Carlson, Yale University; 517 PCTB. EB

Thurs., Dec. 16, 4 and 4:45 p.m. "Toward Geometric Applications of Log Hodge Structures" with Sampei Usui; and "Differentials of Log Period Maps: Infinitesimal Logarithmic Torelli Problem for Hypersurfaces in Toric Varieties" with Atsushi Ikeda. Sponsored by Mathematics and JAMI. 308 Krieger. HW

Thurs., Dec. 16, 4 p.m. "Mechanisms of CA2+ Inhibition and CL- Depolarization in Olfactory Sensory Neurons," a Biology seminar with Jonathan Bradley; 100 Mudd. HW

Thurs., Dec. 16, 7:30 p.m. "Cosmetic Eyelid and Facial Surgery" with Michael Grant; and "The Face: Enhancing Its Beauty" with Patrick Byrne. Sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Cosmetic Center. Suite 350, Pavilion I, Green Spring Station.

Fri., Dec. 17, 1:30 p.m. "The Role of the Design, Analysis and Computation in Addressing Etiology in Three Types of Studies in Public Health," a Biostatistics thesis defense seminar with Ravi Varadhan; W2030 SPH. EB

Mon., Dec. 20, 4 p.m. "Carbohydrate Microarrays and Small Molecule Targeting of RNA," a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Matthew Disney, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; 303 WBSB. EB

Mon., Dec. 20, 4 p.m. "Zinc Uptake Transporter Down Regulated in Prostate Cancer: A Metabolic/Bioenergetic Concept of Prostate Malignancy," a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Renty Franklin, University of Md. Dental School; W2030 SPH. EB

 
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