Mon., Jan. 26, 12:15 p.m. "Rho GTPase Pathways in
Morphogenesis and Migration," a Carnegie
Institution Embryology seminar with Alan Hall,
Sloan-Kettering Institute. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San
Martin Drive. HW
Mon., Jan. 26, 12:15 p.m. "Public Genomics: Do We
Need Doctors Anymore?" a Berman Institute of
Bioethics seminar with Bob Cook-Deegan, Duke University.
Co-sponsored by the Johns Hopkins
Institute of Genetic Medicine and the Office of Human
Subjects Protection. W4030 SPH. EB
Mon., Jan. 26, 1 p.m. "Dissecting Neural Circuits
Controlling Behavior in C. elegans," a Neuroscience
faculty search seminar with Sreekanth Chalasani,
Rockefeller University. West Lecture Hall (ground
floor), WBSB. EB
Mon., Jan. 26, 3 p.m. "Of Mice and Women: How
Studying Development Informs Us About Breast
Cancer," a Cell Biology seminar with Zena Werb, UCSF. WBSB
Auditorium. EB
Mon., Jan. 26, 4 p.m. "Stem Cells, Insulin and the
Control of Oogenesis by Diet in Drosophila," a
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Daniela
Drummond-Barbosa, Vanderbilt University
Medical Center. W2030 SPH. EB
Mon., Jan. 26, 4 p.m. David Bodian Seminar in
Neuroscience — "Exploiting Vision and Proprioception
to
Build and Augment Cortically Controlled Brain Machine
Interfaces" with Nicholas Hatsopoulos,
University of Chicago. Sponsored by the Kriger Mind/Brain
Institute. 338 Krieger. HW
Mon., Jan. 26, 4 p.m. "The Body of the Artisan, The
Body of the Connoisseur: The Qing Inkstone
Carver Gu," a History seminar with Dorothy Ko, Columbia
University. 102B Dell House. HW
Tues., Jan. 27, noon. "Old Dogs and New Tricks:
Changing Paradigms in Resolution of Lung Injury," a
Biological Chemistry seminar with Landon King, SoM. 612
Physiology. EB
Tues., Jan. 27, 1:30 p.m. "Hemorrhagic Stroke in
Children: Treatment and Outcome," a Graduate
Training Program in Clinical Investigation thesis defense
seminar with Lori Jordan. E2527 SPH. EB
Tues., Jan. 27, 4:30 p.m. "Modeling Bottom-Up and
Top-Down Visual Attention in Humans and
Monkeys," a Center for Language and Speech Processing
seminar with Laurent Itti, USC. B17 CSEB.
HW
Wed., Jan. 28, 1 p.m. "Early Electrophysiological
Marker Predicts Functional Outcome After Cardiac
Arrest," a Biomedical Engineering seminar with Xiaofeng
Jia, SoM. (Seminar will be teleconferenced to
110 Clark on the Homewood campus.) 709 Traylor. EB
Wed., Jan. 28, 4 p.m. "Targeting Fatty Acid
Metabolic Pathways for Therapeutics in Obesity, Cancer
and Stroke," a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar
with Gabriele Ronnett, SoM. West
Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB
Thurs., Jan. 29, noon. "Going 'Deep' Into the RNA
Interference Pathway in Trypanosomes: Novel Genes
and the Repertoire of Endogenous Small Interfering RNAs," a
Molecular Microbiology and
Immunology/Infectious Diseases research seminar with
Elisabetta Ullu, Yale University School of
Medicine. W2030 SPH. EB
Thurs., Jan. 29, 1 p.m. "A Synaptic Memory Trace for
Cortical Receptive Field Plasticity," a
Neuroscience faculty search seminar with Robert Froemke,
University of California, San Francisco.
West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB
Fri., Jan. 30, noon. "PSI and Five and Alive —
Taking a Private Sector Approach to Child Survival," an
International Health special seminar with Karl Hofmann,
president and CEO, Population Services
International. W1020 SPH. EB
The Mid-Atlantic Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy,
sponsored by Philosophy. Sherwood Room,
Levering. HW
Sat., Jan. 31 —
Session 1, noon to 2:40 p.m. "Locke on Toleration"
with Ed Curley, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor; "Leibniz on Unity and Harmony" with Kurt Smith,
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.
Session 2, 3:10 to 7:10 p.m. "Leibniz, Spinoza and
the Cosmological Proof of God" with Mogens
Laerke, University of Chicago; "Malebranche's
'Inappropriate Comparison'" with Julie Walsh, University
of Western Ontario; and "The Reality of Finite Things and
the Principle of Sufficient Reason in
Spinoza" with Karolina Hubner, University of Chicago.
Sun., Feb. 1 —
Session 3, 8:30 to 11:10 a.m. "Prince of the
Nullibists: Descartes and the Location of the Mind"
with Dan Kaufman, University of Colorado, Boulder; "Could
Descartes' Body Be a 'Straddling Mode'?"
with Gideon Manning, Caltech.
Session 4, noon to 2:40 p.m. "Sympathy,
Representation and Humanity in Spinoza's Ethics" with
Justin Steinberg, Brooklyn College, CUNY; "Spinoza's Medea"
with Minna Koivuniemi, Ecole Normale
Superieure-Lyon/Uppsala University.
Mon., Feb. 2, 12:15 p.m. "As the Fat Flies: Dynamic
Lipid Droplets in Drosophila Embryos," a Carnegie
Institution Embryology seminar with Michael Welte,
University of Rochester. Rose Auditorium, 3520
San Martin Drive. HW
Mon., Feb. 2, 1 p.m. "Engineered Matrices for
Regenerative Medicine," a Biomedical Engineering
seminar with Glenn Prestwich, Center for Therapeutic
Biomaterials. 110 Clark. HW
Mon., Feb. 2, 3:30 p.m. "Average Results of Clinical
Trials Can Be Misleading to Doctors Taking Care of
Individual Patients," a Center on Aging and Health seminar
with David Kent, Tufts University. Co-
sponsored by the JH Older Americans Independence Center and
the Epidemiology and Biostatistics of
Aging Training Program. Suite 2-700, 2024 E. Monument St.
EB
Mon., Feb. 2, 4 p.m. "Abnormal DNA Methylation and
Gene Silencing — Molecular Progression to
Cancer?" a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with
Stephen Baylin, SoM. W2030 SPH. EB