Science in the Triangle

Events taking place the week of Jan. 11 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public:

Monday

11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park

Rall Bldg. Rodbell AB

Seminar: Genomic disorders: Mechanisms and assays for Copy Number Variation (CNV) that cause human disease

Speaker: Dr. James R. Lupski – Baylor College of Medicine; Department of Molecular & Human Genetics

Tuesday

3:30 p.m.

N.C. State University, Raleigh

Triangle Nuclear Theory Colloqium: Characterizing the QCD X-Matter from “Little Bang”

Speaker: Jinfeng Liao, NCSU

5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

UNC Gillings School of Global Publc Health, Room 133, Chapel Hill

Forum: Toward health care reform through electronic medical records

More information here.

Wednesday

11:45 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.

Durham Technical Community College, Southbank Bldg.

400 W. Main Street, Suite 300, Durham

CED’s: Basic Internet marketing

More information here.

4 p.m.

Research Triangle Park Headquarters, 12 Davis Drive, Research Triangle Park

Innovation@RTP Speaker Series: SCYNEXIS:  21st century, hyper-competition in the global pharmaceutical services industry and discovery and development industry

Speaker: Bryce Chaney, market development manager

Thursday

8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.

4020 Westchase Blvd., Suite 350, Raleigh

NCTA’s Emerging Technologies and Trends in RTP: Open source – the source code of collaboration

cost: $30 NCTA members/$49 non-members

More information here.

8:45 a.m. to 6 p.m.

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill campus, Carolina Alumni Hall II and III

Solar fuels and energy storage: The unmet needs

Cost for two-day conference: $175

More information here.

9 a.m. to 10 .m.

NIEHS, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park

Keystone Room 1003AB

Seminar: Modeling human population-level genetic variation to better predict environmental risk and disease susceptibility

Speaker: David Threadgill, N.C. State University

10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

NIEHS, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park

Rall Bldg. Room D450

Seminar: Slugging it out: Roles of the snail family of transcription factors in epithelial to mesenchymal transitions

Speaker: Archana Dhasarathy, NIEHS, Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis

1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

NIEHS, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park

Rall Bldg. Room F193

Seminar: Conformational changes and active site remodeling accompany E1 activation of SUMO, a ubiquitin-like modifier

Speaker: Professor Christopher D. Lima, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York

6:30 p.m.

Alivia’s Bistro, 900 West Main St., Durham

Early bird dinner with The Monti: Five local scientists will be talking about the things in their pasts that ignited the fire in them and propelled them forward in life, love and career.

Cost: $10

More information here.

Friday

9 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill campus, Carolina Alumni Hall II and III

Solar fuels and energy storage: The unmet needs

Cost for two-day conference: $175

More information here.

9:45 a.m.

4911 S. Alston Ave., Durham

Food Tour: Counter Culture Coffee: Master roasters teach how to distinguish flavors in coffee

More information here.

10 a.m. to noon

Park Research Center, Research Triangle Park

ScienceOnline2010: Workshops on blogging, podcasting and social media tools

More information here.

5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Friday Center, 100 Friday Center Drive, Chapel Hill

Solar fuels and energy storage: The unmet needs

Forum: A public dialog on a sustainable energy future – mapping the way

More information here.

6 p.m.

Duke University, David Thomas Conference Center, Durham

Southeast Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics

More information here.

6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Research Triangle Park Headquarters, 12 Davis Drive, Research Triangle Park

Gala dinner with guest speaker Michael Specter, science writer for The New Yorker and author of “Denialism: How irrational thinking hinders scientific progress, harms the planet and threatens our lives.”

Saturday

9 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.

Sigma Xi, 3106 E. Hwy. 54, Research Triangle Park

ScienceOnline2010: Fourth annual conference on science and the Web

More information here.

7 p.m.

Radisson Hotel, 150 Park Drive, Research Triangle Park

Banquet and Ignite talks

Cost: $36.

More information here.

Sunday

9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Sigma Xi, 3106 E. Hwy. 54, Research Triangle Park

ScienceOnline2010: Fourth annual conference on science and the Web

More information here.