Mon., Dec. 5, 12:15 p.m. "Controlling Gene
Expression by ATP Dependent Chromatin Remodeling
Complexes," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with
Carl Wu, NIH/NCI; 3520 San Martin Drive. HW
Mon., Dec. 5, 12:15 p.m. "Saving Mothers' Lives: 50
Years of Clinical and Public Health Lessons From the
Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths in the UK," a
Population and Family Health Sciences seminar with Gwyneth
Lewis, National Health Service; W3008 SPH. EB
Mon., Dec. 5, 1 p.m. "Characterization of the
Vall08met Cathechol-O-Methyltransferase (COMT)
Polymorphism," an Environmental Health Sciences thesis
defense seminar with Anne Elizabeth Doyle; W7023 SPH.
EB
Mon., Dec. 5, 4 p.m. "Expression and Function of the
PGD2/SOX9 Pathway in Embryonic and Pathologic Gonad," a
Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Safia Malki;
3520 San Martin Drive. HW
Mon., Dec. 5, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in
Neuroscience--"Application of the State-Space Model
Paradigm to Neural Data Analysis" with Emory Brown, Harvard
Medical School/MIT. Sponsored by Krieger Mind/Brain
Institute. 338 Krieger. HW
Tues., Dec. 6, 9 a.m. "Adult Outcomes of Early Onset
Mental Illness: Impact on Income, Health Insurance Status
and Mental Health Service Utilization in Adulthood," a
Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with
Audra Bosco; 688 Hampton House. EB
Tues., Dec. 6, noon. "CMS Pay for Performance
Demonstrations, a Health Services Research and Development
Center seminar with CMS senior staff; 250 Hampton House.
EB
Tues., Dec. 6, noon. "MicroRNAs in Development and
Disease," a Biological Chemistry seminar with Victor
Ambros, Dartmouth Medical School; 612 Physiology. EB
Tues., Dec. 6, noon. "Community Perspectives:
Strengths and Challenges of CBPR," a Community-Based
Participatory Research seminar with Mindi Levin, SOURCE.
Sponsored by Health Behavior and Society. 208 Hampton
House. EB
Tues., Dec. 6, 12:15 p.m. "Drosophila Pericentrin
Like Protein (D-PLP) Maintains the Structural Integrity of
the Centrosome," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar
with Nina Peel, Wellcome Trust/Gurdon Institute; 3520 San
Martin Drive. HW
Tues., Dec. 6, 3 p.m. "Mapping Energy Efficiency
Potential Into the International Energy Agency's World
Energy Outlook 2006," a Geography and Environmental
Engineering seminar with John "Skip" Laitner, EPA Office of
Atmospheric Programs; 234 Ames. HW
Tues., Dec. 6, 4 p.m. "Religious Iconography,
Violence and the Making of a Series," an Anthropology
seminar with Mani Singh, KSAS; 400 Macaulay. HW
Tues., Dec. 6, 4:30 p.m. "Strategies for
Co-Reference From the Perspective of Information
Exploitation," a Center for Language and Speech Processing
seminar with Breck Baldwin, Alias-i; 3 Shaffer. HW
Wed., Dec. 7, 8:15 a.m. "Publication Policies and
Procedures in Multicenter Trials," a Center for Clinical
Trials seminar with Neil Bressler, SoM; W2030 SPH. EB
Wed., Dec. 7, 10 a.m. "Condom Use Among Albania
Youth," a Health Behavior and Society thesis defense
seminar with Pamela Kowalski; 688 Hampton House. EB
Wed., Dec. 7, 12:15 p.m. "Strategies for Using
Evidence-Based Mental Health Assessments in Schools," a
Mental Health seminar with Jessica Mass Levitt, Columbia
University/NYSPI; B14B Hampton House. EB
Wed., Dec. 7, 5 p.m. "Regulation of Nuclear
Organization by Chromatin Insulators," a Biology seminar
with Victor Corces, KSAS; Mudd Auditorium. HW
Thurs., Dec. 8, 11 a.m. "How DNA Worms Through
Protein Channels," a Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
seminar with Murugappan Muthukumar, University of
Massachusetts; 110 Maryland. HW
Thurs., Dec. 8, noon. "Epsin Endocytic Adaptors:
Essential vs. Redundant Functions," a Cell Biology seminar
with Beverly Wendland, KSAS; Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB
Thurs., Dec. 8, 12:10 p.m. "An Introduction to
Concept Mapping as a Participatory Public Health Research
Method," a Health, Behavior and Society seminar with
Jessica Burke, University of Pittsburgh School of Public
Health; 250 Hampton House. EB
Thurs., Dec. 8, 12:15 p.m. "Lobbyists: Hired Guns or
Passionate Advocates?" a Health Policy and Management
seminar with various speakers; Hampton House Lecture Hall.
EB
Thurs., Dec. 8, 1 p.m. "Gene Expression Profiling in
Ischemic and Nonischemic Cardiomyopathy," a Clinical
Investigation thesis defense seminar with Michelle
Kittleson; W2029 SPH. EB
Thurs., Dec. 8, 3 p.m. "A Systems Approach to
Improve Performance of Haptic Devices," a Mechanical
Engineering seminar with Marcia O'Malley, Rice University;
210 Hodson. HW
Thurs., Dec. 8, 3:30 p.m. "Diversity-Generating
Retroelements," a Molecular Biology and Genetics seminar
with Jeff Miller, University of California, Los Angeles.
Co-sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. 517
PCTB. EB
Thurs., Dec. 8, 4 p.m. "Simulation and
Characterization of Composite Materials," an Applied
Mathematics and Statistics seminar with Lori Graham-Brady;
304 Whitehead. HW
Thurs., Dec. 8, 4 p.m. "Systems Biology from the
Bottom Up: Computational Analysis of Membrane-Mediated
Events," a Biology seminar with Diana Murray, Weill Medical
College, Cornell University; 100 Mudd. HW
Thurs., Dec. 8, 6 p.m. "No Man's Land, Where Growing
Companies Fail" a Hopkins Biotech Network seminar with
William Fisher III, Tatum Partners. To RSVP, e-mail noraz@jhu.edu. E301
JH@Eastern. HW
Fri., Dec. 9, 9 a.m. "Visual Acuity Loss Among
Patients with AIDS and Cytomegalovirus Retinitis in the Era
of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy," an Epidemiology
thesis defense seminar with Jennifer Thorne; W2029 SPH.
EB
Fri., Dec. 9, noon. "O-GlcNAcylation on p53 and
NF-kappaB," a Biological Chemistry special seminar with Jin
Won Cho, Yonsei University, Korea; 612 Physiology. EB
Fri., Dec. 9, 12:15 p.m. "Control of Checkpoint
Silencing," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with
Andreas Hochwagen, MIT Center for Cancer Research; 3520 San
Martin Drive. HW
Mon., Dec. 12, 4 p.m. "Insights Into the Mechanisms
of DNA Replication and Repair from DNA Ligases," a
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Alan
Tomkinson, University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center;
W2030 SPH. EB