Mon., Dec. 12, 12:15 p.m. "Dynamic Localization of
Fus2p During Cell Fusion," a Carnegie Institution
Embryology seminar with Joanna Paterson, Princeton
University; 3520 San Martin Drive. HW
Mon., Dec. 12, 12:15 p.m. "Innovative Approaches to
Health Promotion and Prevention for Children and Families,"
a Health Policy and Management seminar with Debbie I.
Chang, Nemours Health and Prevention Services. Co-sponsored
by the Women's and Children's Health Policy Center and
Population and Family Health Sciences. W2030 SPH. EB
Mon., Dec. 12, 12:15 p.m. "Inflammation and Prostate
Cancer: Working Together at the Interface of the Clinical,
Basic and Observational Sciences," a Molecular Epidemiology
seminar with Elizabeth Platz, SPH, and Angelo deMarzo, SoM;
W4030 SPH. EB
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
Mon., Dec. 12, 4:30 p.m. "Iven and Gary: Can We Do
More for Baltimore's Unstably Housed Youth?" a Center for
Adolescent Health seminar with Liz Bowie, Baltimore Sun;
Ross Pologe, Fellowship of Lights; Mathew Stagner, the
Urban Institute; and Samuel Chambers Jr., Baltimore City
Department of Social Services. Co-sponsored by the Center
for the Prevention of Youth Violence, and the Center for
Injury Research and Policy. W2030 SPH. EB
Tues., Dec. 13, noon. "NF-kB in Synaptic Function
and Learning," a Biological Chemistry seminar with Mollie
Meffert, SoM; 612 Physiology. EB
Tues., Dec. 13, 12:15 p.m. "So What's In It for Us?
Benefit and Information Sharing with Participants in Human
Genetic Research," a Berman Bioethics Institute seminar
with Eric Juengst, Case Western Reserve University.
Co-sponsored by the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic
Medicine. W2030 SPH. EB
Wed., Dec. 14, noon. "Structure, Function and
Regulation of the Vacuolar (H+)-ATPases," a Physiology
seminar with Michael Forgac, Tufts University School of
Medicine. Part of the Wednesday Seminar Series. Physiology
Library. EB
Wed., Dec. 14, 12:15 p.m. "Quality Assessment and
Improvement in School Mental Health: Background and
Preliminary RCT Findings," a Mental Health seminar with
Mark Weist, University of Maryland School of Medicine; B14B
Hampton House. EB
Wed., Dec. 14, 12:15 p.m. "UNICEF State of the
World's Children Report, 2006: Excluded and Invisible," an
International Health Society seminar with Michael Klag,
SPH; Rudolph Knippenberg, UNICEF; Andrea Rossi, UNICEF;
Christine Sarbanes, UNICEF; W1020 SPH. EB
Wed., Dec. 14, 4 p.m. "Regulation of Smad Activity
by Phosphorylation," a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
seminar with Fang Liu, Rutgers University School of
Pharmacy; West Lecture Hall (ground floor) WBSB. EB
Thurs., Dec. 15, noon. "Defining the Role of Id1 in
Tumor Angiogenesis," a Cell Biology seminar with Rhoda
Alani, SoM; Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB
Thurs., Dec. 15, noon. "The Problems in Hazard
Identification of Human Carcinogens: Formaldehyde and the
Precautionary Principle," an Environmental Health Sciences
seminar with Bernard Goldstein, University of Pittsburgh.
Co-sponsored by the NIEHS Center in Urban Environmental
Health and the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing.
W1020 SPH. EB
Thurs., Dec. 15, 12:10 p.m. "Issues and Challenges
in Public Health in a State Health Department," a Health,
Behavior and Society brown bag lunch seminar with Joan
Stine, Maryland Center for Health Promotion. 250 Hampton
House. EB
Thurs., Dec. 15, 12:15 p.m. "The Path to
Preparedness: CCP's Project for Homeland Security," a
Center for Communication Programs seminar with James
Williams, Douglas Storey, Sufia Dadabhai and David Windt,
CCP; Suite 310, Candler Bldg., 111 Market Place. EB
Thurs., Dec. 15, 1 p.m. "Modular Organization of
Neural Circuitry in the Spinal Substantia Gelatinosa," a
Neuroscience research seminar with Edward Perl, University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; West Lecture Hall (ground
floor), WBSB. EB
Thurs., Dec. 15, 2:30 p.m. "Actinohivin Blocks HIV
Entry by Specific Binding to gp 120," a Biology special
seminar with Haruo Tanaka, Kitasato Research Institute,
Tokyo; 23 Mudd. HW
Thurs., Dec. 15, 3:30 p.m. "The Means to the Ends:
mRNA Localization, Translation and Membrane Trafficking," a
Molecular Biology and Genetics faculty search seminar with
Jim Wilhelm, Carnegie Institution of Washington; 517 PCTB.
EB
Thurs., Dec. 15, 4 p.m. "Visual Signal Constancy in
a Variable Environment," a Biology seminar with Thomas
Cronin, UMBC; 100 Mudd. HW
Fri., Dec. 16, 10:30 a.m. "Epidemiology of High-Risk
HPV Infection and Tolerability of Self-Testing Among
Northern Vietnamese Women," an Epidemiology thesis defense
seminar with Hanh La, W2030 SPH. EB
Fri., Dec. 16, 10:45 a.m. "Autism, Fever and the
Study of Short-Term Behavior Change," an Epidemiology
thesis defense seminar with Laura Kresch Curran; W4019 SPH.
EB
Fri., Dec. 16, 12:15 p.m. "Disasters and Epidemics:
A Common Paradigm," an Epidemiology seminar with Haroutune
Armenian and Tom Glass, SPH; W4030 SPH. EB
Mon., Dec. 19, 12:15 p.m. "Characterization of Human
TorsinA and Its Dystonia-Associated Mutant Form," a
Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Zhonghua Liu,
Kansas State University; 3520 San Martin Drive. HW
Mon., Dec. 19, 12:15 p.m. "Lipoprotein(a): A
Hereditable Cardiovascular Risk Factor with Dramatic Racial
and Protein Variation," an Epidemiology seminar with Josef
Coresh, SPH, and Wen Hong Linda Kao, SPH; W4030 SPH. EB
Mon., Dec. 19, 4 p.m. "The Role of the Aryl
Hydrocarbon Receptor in the Ovary," a Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology seminar with Jodi Flaws, University of
Maryland School of Medicine. Co-sponsored by Urology and
Gynecology/Obstetrics. W2030 SPH. EB