Mon., April 18, 12:15 p.m. "Genetic Screens,
Haploinsufficiency and Mating in the Human Fungal Pathogen
Candida albicans," a Carnegie Institution of Washington
Embryology seminar with Alexander Johnson, University of
California, San Francisco; Seminar Room, 115 W. University
Pkwy. HW
Mon., April 18, 12:15 p.m. "Incorporating Youth
Perspectives Into an Environmental Program to Improve Food
Stores in East and West Baltimore," a Population and Family
Health Sciences seminar with Joel Gittlesohn; W2030 SPH.
EB
Mon., April 18, 3:30 p.m. "Genomic Integrity in
Mammalian Cells and the Role of Double-Strand Break
Repair," a Molecular Biology and Genetics seminar with
Maria Jasin, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; 517
PCTB. EB
Mon., April 18, 4 p.m. "Hot Fluids, Sea Floor
Hydrogeology and Formation of the World's Largest Zinc
Deposit at Red Dog, Alaska" with Grant Garven; and
"Mineral-Solute Mass Balances in Crystalline Watersheds"
with Blair Jones, U.S. Geological Survey. Sponsored by
Earth and Planetary Sciences. Olin Hall Auditorium. HW
Mon., April 18, 4 p.m. "Curing Poetic Vocation: The
Example of Hart Crane's 'The Broken Tower,'" a Humanities
Center seminar with Alan Grossman; 111 Gilman. HW
Mon., April 18, 4 p.m. "Molecular Biomechanics and
Cell Motility," a Biophysics seminar with Yiider Tseng; 111
Mergenthaler. HW
Mon., April 18, 5 p.m. "Apolipoprotein L-I Lyses
Trypanosomes Through an Anionic Pore in Thelysosomal
Membrane," a Biological Chemistry special seminar with
David Perez-Morga, Free University of Brussels, Belgium;
612 Physiology. EB
Tues., April 19, 3:30 p.m. "No Excuses or No
Explanations: Why Schools Can't Do It Alone," a Social
Policy seminar with Richard Rothstein, Columbia University.
(See "Richard Rothstein to speak at Homewood, April 19," in
this issue.) Part of the Press and Public Policy series
sponsored by the Institute for Policy Studies. 111
Mergenthaler. HW
Tues., April 19, 4 p.m. "Remaking the Maternal Body
in the Commercial Revolution," a Women, Gender and
Sexuality seminar with Mary Fissell; 400 Macaulay. HW
Tues., April 19, 4 p.m. "'Times Have Changed':
Debating Modernity and African Socio-Cultural Change in
Post-World War II Colonial Zimbabwe," an African History
seminar with Otis Mushonga; 315 Gilman. HW
Tues., April 19, 4 p.m. "Long-span Bridges:
Aerodynamics in Japan and Akashi Kaikyo Bridge," a Civil
Engineering seminar with Hiroshi Katsuchi, Yokohama
National University; 110 Maryland. HW
Tues., April 19, 4:30 p.m. "New Directions in Robust
Automatic Speech Recognition," a Center for Language and
Speech Processing seminar with Richard Stern, Carnegie
Mellon University; 100 Shaffer. HW
Wed., April 20, 12:15 p.m. "The Young Adult Social,
Behavioral and Health Consequences of Adolescent Drug and
Alcohol Use: A Longitudinal Study of African Americans," a
Mental Health seminar with Kerry Green; B14B Hampton House.
EB
Wed., April 20, 12:15 p.m. "Redefining Success in
Aging: Contrasting Perspectives of Well-Being Among Older
Women," a Population and Family Health Sciences seminar
with Iveris Martinez; W2030 SPH. EB
Wed., April 20, 3:30 p.m. "Derived Categories of
Coherent Sheaves on K3 Surfaces, I," an Algebraic and
Complex Geometry seminar with Qing Wang; 302 Krieger.
HW
Wed., April 20, 3:30 p.m. "Plastic Deformation and
Stability of Nanolayered Metallic Composites," a Materials
Science and Engineering seminar with Amit Misra, Los Alamos
National Laboratory; 110 Maryland. HW
Wed., April 20, 4 p.m. "According to the Provisions
of a Written Rule: The Political Culture of Catholic
Women's Religious Communities in 19th-Century America," an
American History seminar with Sarah Mulhall; 315 Gilman.
HW
Wed., April 20, 4 p.m. "Ribonucleotide Reductases as
Therapeutic Targets," a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
seminar with JoAnne Stubbe, MIT; West Lecture Hall (ground
floor), WBSB. EB
Wed., April 20, 5 p.m. "Pillage in Mesopotamia: The
Plunder of Iraq's Museums and Archaeological Sites," a Near
Eastern Studies seminar with F. Mario Fales, University of
Udine; 123 Gilman. HW
Thurs., April 21, noon. "Tales From the Dark Side:
Novel Endosomal Protein Sorting Pathways Revealed During
Melanosome Biogenesis," a Cell Biology seminar with Michael
Marks, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Suite
2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB
Thurs., April 21, noon. "Microbial Cytometry: For
Richer, For Poorer?" a Molecular Microbiology/Immunology
and Infectious Diseases seminar with Howard Shapiro,
Shapiro Lab; W2030 SPH. EB
Thurs., April 21, 1 p.m. "Genetic and Environmental
Influences on Psychological Traits: A Sampler of Findings,"
a Neuroscience research seminar with Thomas Bouchard,
University of Minnesota; West Lecture Hall (ground floor),
WBSB. EB
Thurs., April 21, 1:30 p.m. "Antisense
Oligonucleotides directed to the HIV-1 Rev Response
Element: Effects of Nucleotide Modification on Oligo
Binding Affinity, Nuclease Stability and Cellular Uptake,"
a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology thesis defense seminar
with Chrissy Prater; W1020 SPH. EB
Thurs., April 21, 3 p.m. "Progress in Continuum
Simulation and Experimental Validation of Grain-Level," a
Mechanical Engineering seminar with R. Raadovitsky, MIT;
210 Hodson. HW
Thurs., April 21, 4 p.m. "Projection Methods," an
Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with Shih-Ping
Han; 304 Whitehead. HW
Thurs., April 21, 4 p.m. "Single Chip Integration of
3-D Imaging Systems," an Electrical and Computer
Engineering seminar with Ralf Philipp; 117 Barton. HW
Thurs., April 21, 7:30 p.m. "Facial Rejuvenation, a
Dermatologist's Perspective" with Patrick McElgunn; and
"The Face: Enhancing Its Beauty" with Patrick Byrne, a
Johns Hopkins Cosmetic Center joint seminar; Suite 350,
Pavilion I, Green Spring Station.
Fri., April 22, 10 a.m. "The Mammalian Membrane
Block to Polyspermy: Contributions of the Sperm, the Egg
Actin Cytoskeleton, the Membrane Protein CD9 and
Post-Ovulatory Aging," a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
thesis defense seminar with Genevieve Wortzman; W1020 SPH.
EB
Mon., April 25, 12:15 p.m. "Signal Networks in
Chemotaxis and Cytokinesis," a Carnegie Institution of
Washington Embryology seminar with Peter Devreotes; Seminar
Room, 115 W. University Pkwy. HW
Mon., April 25, 12:15 p.m. "Trends in HIV Prevalence
and Incidence in Rakai, Uganda: Not as Simple as ABC," a
Population and Family Health Sciences seminar with Maria
Wawer, Columbia University; W2030 SPH. EB
Mon., April 25, 4 p.m. "Cystatin-related Epididymal
Spermatogenic (CRES) Protein: The Defining Member of a New
Cystatin Family 2 Subfamily With Roles in Reproduction," a
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Gail
Cornwall, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center;
W2030 SPH. EB
Mon., April 25, 4 p.m. "DNA Replication and Repair:
Biophysical and Biochemical Studies of Specificity," a
Biophysics seminar with Wei Yang; 111 Mergenthaler. HW
Days of Being Wild,
Thursday, April 21, 8 p.m. Wong Kar Wai directed
this visually stunning film about the young and boyishly
handsome Yuddy, who learns from the drunken ex-prostitute
who raised him that she is not his real mother.
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