Science in the Triangle

Events taking place the week of Nov. 2 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public:

MONDAY

7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
UNC Friday Center, 100 Friday Center Drive, Chapel Hill
RTI Fellows Symposium
RTI International, a research center in Research Triangle Park, sponsors a small group of distinguished scientists whose research interests span broad areas of health, medicine and social policy, basic science and engineering, environmental and industrial sciences and international health and development.
The day’s program will focus on: the future of personalized medicine, the behavioral neuroscience of alcoholism, global climate change and education opportunity and achievement.
More information here.

8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Hilton Research Triangle Park, 4810 Old Page Road, Durham
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: NTP/RoC expert panel meeting on formaldehyde

10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
NIEHS, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, RTP
Rall Bldg. Rodbell B
LMG Fellows Seminar: Class I ribonucleotide reductases: Use of unnatural amino acids to probe coupled electron transfer
Speaker: Joanne Stubbe, MIT chemistry professor

11:15 a.m.
N.C. State University, 3503 Gardner Hall, Stephens Room, Raleigh
Dept. of Entomology Seminar: Post transcriptional gene silencing of a cockroach-produced allergen: Insight into potential physiological functions in the German cockroach
Speaker: Alonso Suazo, NCSU

1:30 p.m.
N.C. State University, 3503 Gardner Hall, Stephens Room, Raleigh
Dept. of Genetics Seminar: Genotypic and phenotypic diversity in Africa: Implications for human evolution and disease.
Speaker: Dr. Sarah A. Tishkoff, Dept. of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

4 p.m.
N.C. State University, Riddick 301
Physics Colloquium: Friction, force chains and falling fruit
Speaker: Jacqueline Krim, visiting professor of physics, Duke University

4 p.m. to 4:50 p.m.
N.C. State University, 2010 Biltmore Hall, Raleigh
Forestry and Environmental Resources Seminar: Fire research and coastal North Carolina
Speaker: Bob Mickler

TUESDAY

7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
UNC Friday Center, 100 Friday Center Drive, Chapel Hill
RTI Fellow Symposium
The days program will focus on: cancer, genetics and health care disparities, community resilience following disasters, the role of biofuels in energy sustainability and high-performance cyberinfrastructures.
More information here.

8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Hilton Research Triangle Park, 4810 Old Page Road, Durham
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: NTP/RoC expert panel meeting on formaldehyde

9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
NIEHS, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, RTP
Rall Bldg. Rodbell C
Research Triangle Cytometry Association presentation: ImageStreamX - Imaging Flow Cytometry
Speakers: Jeff Hudson and Joanne Lannigan, Amnis Corp. and University of Virginia

11 a.m.
N.C. State University, 3503 Gardner Hall, Stephens Room, Raleigh
Dept. of Microbiology, Leo W. Parks Endowed Lecture: Using natural transformation to explore sources of bacterial diversity
Speaker: Nicholas Ornston, molecular, cellular and development biology, Yale University

11 a.m.
UNC-CH, 1131 Bioinformatics
Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar: Mass-action equilibrium and nonspecific interactions in yeast PPI network.
Speaker: Sergei Maslov

11 a.m. to noon
NIEHS, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, RTP
Rall Bldg. Rodbell A
Biostatistics branch seminar series: Bayes factors and p-values for hypothesis testing
Speaker: Jon Wakefield, University of Washington

Noon to 1 p.m.
NIEHS, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, RTP
Rall Bldg. Executive Conference Room
Receptor mechanisms discussion group: Nuclear xenobiotic receptor CAR: cell signals and toxicology
Speaker: Masahiko Negishi, head of NIEHS’ pharmacogenetics group

4 p.m.
N.C. State University, 101 David Clark Labs, Raleigh
Dept. of Plant Biology Seminar: Wind of change: new insights on the ecology and evolution of wind pollination.
Speaker: Dr. Jannice Friedmann, Dept. of Biology, Duke University

WEDNESDAY

8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Hilton Research Triangle Park, 4810 Old Page Road, Durham
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: NTP/RoC expert panel meeting on formaldehyde

3 p.m.
N.C. State University, SAS 4201, Raleigh
Dept. of Mathematics Seminar: Differential equations seminar: Darwin’s theorem, Taylor Diffusion and falling spheres in stratified fluids
Speaker: Rich McLaughlin, UNC applied math

3:30 p.m.
UNC-CH Marine Sciences, 328 Phillips Hall
Geological Sciences Seminar: Formation of replacement dolomites by infiltration of diffuse effluent: Latemar carbonate buildup, Dolomites, Northern Italy
Speaker: Sarah Carmichael, Dept. of Geology, Appalachian State University

6 p.m.
Love Auditorium, Levine Science Research Center, 308 Research Drive, Duke West Campus
2009 Duke Environment and Society Lecture: “Profitable Solutions for Climate, Oil and Proliferation.”
Speaker: Amory Lovins, chairman and chief scientist at the Rocky Mountain Institute in Snowmass, Colo., and one of Time magazine’s “Heroes for our Planet.”
The talk and a Q&A following will be streamed live on the Web at www.nicholas.duke.edu/deanseries, with the opportunity for members of the Web audience to send in questions via e-mail and Twitter.

THURSDAY

7 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Raleigh Convention Center, 500 S. Salisbury St., Raleigh
Internet Summit
Showcase of thought leadership on topics related to the Internet economy and Web-oriented technologies.
Cost: $395
More information here.

8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
NIEHS, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, RTP
Rall Bldg. Rodbell ABC
NIEHS Science Awards Day 2009

4 p.m.
N.C. State University, 101 David Clark Labs, Raleigh
Dept. of Biology Seminar: The genetics and evolution of complex adaptive traits: mimetic patterning in bumble bees and butterflies
Speaker: Heather Hines, NCSU genetics

FRIDAY

10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
NIEHS, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, RTP
Keystone Room 2164/2166
Seminar: Characterization of impulsive-like behavior produced by developmental deltametrin exposure: role of dopaminergic dysfunction
Speaker: Michele Taylor

11 a.m. to noon
NIEHS, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, RTP
Rall Bldg. Rodbell A
LRDT Seminar: Drug uptake transporters: cancer to personalized medicine
Speaker: Dr. Richard B. Kim, chair, division of clinical pharmacology, University of Western Ontario, Canada