Mon., Oct. 2, 12:15 p.m. "Massive Nucleosome
Replacement in the Sex Chromosomes During Mammalian Male
Meiosis," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with
Godfried van der Heijden, Radbond University, Netherlands;
3520 San Martin Drive. HW
Mon., Oct. 2, 4 p.m. "Neural Mechanisms of Visual
Perception," a Krieger Mind/Brain Institute seminar and lab
presentation with Rudiger von der Heydt, JHU; 338 Krieger.
HW
Mon., Oct. 2, 4 p.m. "'All Politics is Local' The
Baltimore Bank Riot and the Political Culture of Antebellum
Maryland," a History seminar with Robert Shalhope,
University of Oklahoma; 315 Gilman. HW
Tues., Oct. 3, 9 a.m. "Determining Optimal
Breastfeeding in HIV Affected Resource-Limited Settings,"
an International Health thesis defense seminar with Danstan
Bagenda; W2030 SPH. EB
Tues., Oct. 3, noon. "Signal Coding and Information
Flow in Taste Buds: Unusual Synaptic Mechanisms," a
Biological Chemistry seminar with Stephen Roper, University
of Miami, Miller School of Medicine; 612 Physiology. EB
Tues., Oct. 3, noon. "Values, Agendas and
Priorities: The Challenges of Community-Based Participatory
Research With Women in Afghanistan," a Health, Behavior and
Society seminar with Anne Brodsky, UMBC. Co-sponsored by
the Urban Health Institute. 208 Hampton House. EB
Tues., Oct. 3, 4 p.m. "Some Mathematics of Sudoku,"
an Applied Mathematics and Statistics student seminar with
Eric Harley; 304 Whitehead. HW
Wed., Oct. 4, 8:15 a.m. "Uveitis and the Tower of
Babel: Standardizing Clinical Research," a Center for
Clinical Trials seminar with Douglas Jabs, SoM; W4030 SPH.
EB
Wed., Oct. 4, noon. "Magnesium Transport in
Salmonella Virulence and the Crystal Structure of the CorA
Magnesium Channel," a Physiology seminar with Michael
Maguire, Case Western Reserve University School of
Medicine; 202 Physiology (Library). EB
Wed., Oct. 4, noon. "Racial Orders in Contemporary
America," a Political Science seminar with Rogers Smith,
University of Pennsylvania; 366 Mergenthaler. HW
Wed., Oct. 4, 12:15 p.m. "Handling Confounders With
Care in Risk-Factor Epidemiology: New and Not-So-New
Statistical Methods," a Mental Health seminar with Ravi
Varadhan, SoM; B14B Hampton House. EB
Wed., Oct. 4, 3:30 p.m. "Soft Errors in Modern
Semiconductor ICs: Nuclear Particles Collide with Silicon
Scaling," a Materials Science and Engineering seminar with
Kenneth Rodbell, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center; 110
Maryland. HW
Wed., Oct. 4, 4 p.m. "'Go West! Young Women':
Hollywood-Bohemia and Redefinition of Modern Femininity," a
History seminar with Hilary Hallett, Rutgers University;
315 Gilman. HW
Wed., Oct. 4, 4 p.m. "Modifications in Neuronal
Function by the Sphingolipid Ceramide: A Biomarker for
Neurodegeneration," a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
seminar with Norman Haughey, SoM; West Lecture Hall (ground
floor), WBSB. EB
Thurs., Oct. 5, 11 a.m. "Homogenous Nucleation: What
Is It? What Do We Know?" a Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering seminar with Joseph Katz, WSE; 110 Maryland.
HW
Thurs., Oct. 5, noon. "Uses of the Department of
Defense Serum Repository in Support of Vaccine-Related
Studies: Case-Control, Cohort and Cross-Sectional Designs,"
an International Health seminar with Angela Eick and
Remington Nevin, U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and
Preventive Medicine. Part of the Program in Disease
Prevention and Control Seminar Series. W2008 SPH. EB
Thurs., Oct. 5, 12:15 p.m. "What I Will Do for
Maryland's Health If Elected Governor," a Health Policy and
Management seminar with Martin O'Malley, mayor of Baltimore
and Democratic candidate for governor. E2014 SPH (will be
shown on closed-circuit TV in rooms W1020 and W1214).
EB
Thurs., Oct. 5, 1 p.m. "Gating Ion Channels With
Light," a Neuroscience research seminar with Ehud Isacoff,
University of California, Berkeley; West Lecture Hall
(ground floor), WBSB. EB
Thurs., Oct. 5, 3 p.m. "A Versatile Immersed
Boundary Method with Application to Biological Flows," a
Mechanical Engineering seminar with Rajat Mittal, George
Washington University; 210 Hodson. HW
Thurs., Oct. 5, 4 p.m. "Stochastic Protection of
Confidential Information in Databases: A Hybrid of Data
Perturbation and Query Restriction," an Applied Mathematics
and Statistics seminar with Robert Garfinkel, University of
Connecticut School of Business; 304 Whitehead. HW
Thurs., Oct. 5, 4 p.m. "Unraveling Transcriptional
Regulation of Early Development in Transgenic Zebrafish," a
Cell Biology seminar with Shannon Fisher, SoM; Suite 2-200,
1830 Bldg. EB
Thurs., Oct. 5, 4 p.m. "Olfaction Targeted," a
Biology seminar with Peter Mombaerts, Rockefeller
University; 100 Mudd. HW
Mon., Oct. 9, 12:15 p.m. "Dynamics and Gene
Expression of the Blastoderm Margin During Zebrafish
Gastrulation," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar
with Benjamin Feldman, NIH; 3520 San Martin Drive. HW
Mon., Oct. 9, 12:15 p.m. "Opening the Doors to the
Department of Defense Serum Repository: A How-To Look at
Using DoD Resources for Surveillance and Research —
Past, Present and Future," an Epidemiology seminar with
Angela Eick and Remington Nevin, U.S. Army Center for
Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine; W4030 SPH. EB
Mon., Oct. 9, 1:30 p.m. "Risk Factors for
Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Northern Thailand," an
Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Kimberly
Brodovicz; W2033 SPH. EB
Mon., Oct. 9, 2 p.m. "Examining School and
Neighborhood Variation in Violence During Adolescence for a
Baltimore City Cohort, 1990-1997," a Population and Family
Health Sciences thesis defense seminar with Julia
Rajaratnam; E4130 SPH. EB
Mon., Oct. 9, 4 p.m. "Singularities for Lagrangian
Mean Curvature Flow," an Analysis seminar with Andre Neves,
Princeton University. Sponsored by Mathematics. 308
Krieger. HW
Mon., Oct. 9, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in
Neuroscience — "Neural Basis of Reward-Based Action
Selection in the Basal Ganglia and the Centromedian Nucleus
of Thalamus" with Minoru Kimura, Kyoto Prefectural
University of Medicine. Sponsored by Krieger Mind/Brain
Institute. 338 Krieger. HW