Monday, March 16

3 p.m. Otolaryngology Grand Rounds, with rotating roster of speakers; 6150 Outpatient Center.

Tuesday, March 17

Noon. "Order from Disorder: How Cells Get the Right Chromosomes," a Cell Biology and Anatomy seminar with Bruce Nicklas, Duke University; 110 WBSB.

5 p.m. "Can Meta-Analysis Become a Rigorous Scientific Discipline?" a Center for Clinical Trials seminar with Salim Yusuf, McMaster University/Hamilton Civic Hospitals Research Centre; East Wing Auditorium, SHPH.

7 p.m. Christian Fellowship Meeting, musical worship and Bible study; Reed Hall Library. All are welcome.

Homewood

7:30 p.m. Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Discussion and Social Group; 217 Ames. For information, call Bob at 410-889-7081.

Wednesday, March 18

4 p.m. "Effect of Micro-Gravity on Muscle and Bone," Endocrine Grand Rounds with Jay Shapiro and Vincent Pisacane; 1 Marburg.

4 p.m. "The Composition, Structure and Intermolecular Interactions of a Human Cytomegalovirus Virion Complex Formed by the Protein Products of UL47 and UL48," a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences thesis defense by Mary-Elizabeth Harmon; 303 WBSB.

4 p.m. "Coagulation Disease" with William Bell; 1024 Blalock.

Thursday, March 19

Noon. Welch Internet Lecture--"The Research Paper: Creating Your First Draft," how to transform raw data into a rough draft; Hurd Hall. No registration required.

4 p.m. "'The Real Point is Control : Barbara McClintock and the Discovery of Genetic Transposition," a Molecular Biology and Genetics seminar with Nathaniel Comfort, George Washington University; 517 PCTB.

Friday, March 20

2 p.m. "Designer Resins for Environmental Remediation," a colloquium with Richard Fish, University of California, Berkeley; Parsons Auditorium. The program will be simulcast to 218 Maryland Hall on the Homewood campus.

East Baltimore

10 a.m. "A Paradigm Shift in Bioinformatics: From Gene Discovery to Information Management," a Biomedical Information Sciences seminar with Rainer Fuchs, ARIAD Pharmaceuticals/Hoechst-ARIAD Genomics Center; 517 PCTB. Part of the Bioinformatics in Gene Discovery and Analysis Seminar Series.

1 p.m. "Tactile Form Recognition: The Spatial and Temporal Structure of Neural Receptive Fields in Cortical Area 3b of the Alert Monkey," a Biomedical Engineering doctoral defense by James DiCarlo; 709 Traylor.

1 p.m. "Characterization of Arc: A Novel, Neuronal Immediate-Early Gene that Binds CaMKII," a Neuroscience thesis defense by Gregory Lyford; 811 WBSB.

Homewood

7:30 p.m. Agape Campus Ministry, weekly meeting; 100 Shaffer. All are welcome.

7:30 p.m. Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, weekly group meeting; Garrett Room, MSE Library.

8 p.m. Edward Albee s Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? a Theatre Hopkins production; Merrick Barn. Tickets are $10, $9 for senior citizens and $5 for full-time students. For information, call 410-516-7159 weekdays from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m.

8:30 p.m. Astronomy Open House, public viewing; Bloomberg Center Observatory. For more information, call 410-516-6525.

Saturday, March 21

11 a.m. "Malaria: An Ounce of Prevention," a Clinical Pharmacology conjoint clinic with Theresa Shapiro; Turner Auditorium.

Homewood

9 a.m. to 4 p.m. "Living and Learning," the second annual Women s Forum conferenc; Levering Union. For more information, call 410-516-7397.

8 p.m. Edward Albee s Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? a Theatre Hopkins production; Merrick Barn. Tickets are $12, $9 for senior citizens and $5 for full-time students. Final performance.

Monday, March 23

5 p.m. The Henry G. Kunkel Lecture 1998--"Evidence for a General Mode for T Cell Receptor Recognition of MHC/Peptide Complexes" by Don Wiley, Harvard University; Hurd Hall. An Immunology Council endowed lecture.

Homewood

3 p.m. The Don P. Giddens Inaugural Professorial Lecture--"Grace Under Pressure and the Secret Lives of Twins" by Kaliat Ramesh; Arellano Theater, Levering. Reception will follow in the Glass Pavilion. Sponsored by the Whiting School of Engineering.

4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in Neuroscience--"Neural Prosthetic Connections with the Central Nervous System" by F. Terry Hambrecht, NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke; 341 Krieger.

4 p.m. "Strangers in Their Own Land: Creole Identity in Colonial Spanish America," a National Cultures and the Construction of the Modern World seminar with David Brading, Cambridge University; 315 Gilman.

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