Science in the Triangle

Events taking place the week of Jan. 18 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public:

Tuesday

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 ABC

Seminar: Role of environmental and intrinsic factors in the differentiation of inflammatory T cells

Speaker: Dr. Dan Littman, New York University School of Medicine

11 a.m.

University of North Carolina Medical School, 1131 Bioinformatics, Chapel Hill

Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar: Metabolism and cancer

Speaker: Yue Xiong, UNC

11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.

Duke Energy EnVision Center, 909 Capability Drive, N.C. State University Centennial Campus, Raleigh

TARDC: Tour of the center, a movie-style studio that offers a glimpse at the smart home in the year 2015

Cost: $20 for non-members

1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

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

Keystone Room 1003AB

Seminar: Advances in measuring cellular bioenergetics using extracellular flux (XF)

Speaker: David Ferrick, Seahorse Bioscience

3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

N.C. State University, 132 Jordan Hall, Raleigh

Dept. of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Seminar: Space-based lidar remote sensing of the atmosphere, ocean and land surface

Speaker: Yongxiang Hu, NASA Langley Research Center

4 p.m.

N.C. State University, 101 David Clark Labs, Raleigh

Dept. of Plant Biology Seminar: The computable root

Speaker: Siobhan M. Brady, Department of Plant Biology, University of California at Davis

6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Busy Bee Cafe, 225 S. Wilmington St., Raleigh

Raleigh Science Cafe: The technology behind GPS — from satellites and trilateration to binary codes and radio frequencies — some of its surprising and innovative applications and glimmers into the future of this technology.

Speaker: James Jeuck, extension specialist at NCSU Extension Forestry

More information here.

Wednesday

11 a.m. to noon

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

Rall Bldg. Room D450

Seminar: Systems approach to microbial pathogenesis: Complex patterns emerge from simple interactions

Speaker: Dr. Suzy Vasa, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Noon to 1:30 p.m.

CED Entrepreneurship Center, 100 Capitola Drive, Suite 106, Durham

The 2010 forecast for entrepreneurs

More information here.

Noon

National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, 2024 W. Main St., Suite A200, Durham

Seminar: Prospects of discovering geographic and climatological patterns in plants with large datasets

Speaker: Steven Smith, NESCent

3:30 p.m.

Duke University, Physics 128, Durham

Physics Dept. Seminar: The Student-Centered Active Learning Environment for Undergraduate Programs (SCALE-UP) project

Speaker: Robert Beichner, NCSU

4 p.m.

N.C. State University, SAS 4201, Raleigh

Dept. of Mathematics Seminar: Diophantine numbers in dynamics

Speaker: Yitwah Cheung, San Francisco State University

4 p.m.

University of North Carolina, Phillips 385, Chapel Hill

Dept. of Mathematics Ergodic Theory Seminar: A variation-norm Carleson theorem

Speaker: Professor Richard Oberlin

Thursday

7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.

CED Entrepreneurship Center, 100 Capitola Drive, Suite 106, Durham

CED Cafe: Outsourcing - technology, human resources and finance

Cost: $40 for non-members

More information here.

10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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

Rall Bldg. Room 450

Seminar: Cox-2 driven pancreatitis and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Speaker: Dr. Susan Fischer, Anderson, Texas

4 p.m.

N.C. State University, 101 David Clark Labs, Raleigh

Dept. of Biology Seminar: CART peptides and drug abuse - or what are all these genes for anyway?

Speaker: Dr. Mike Kuhar, head of neuroscience division at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University

Friday

11 a.m. to noon

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

Rall Bldg. Rodbell A

Seminar: Role of estrogen receptor in TLR induced immune responses and angiogenesis

Speaker: Dr. Gary S. Gilkeson, Medical University of South Carolina

Noon

University of North Carolina, Lohman Lab, Chapel Hill

Dept. of Biology Lunch Bunch: Oceanographic and geomagnetic influences on sea turtle migrations

Speaker: Nathan Putman

2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

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

Rall Bldg. Rodeball B

Seminar: Horror Autoinflammaticus: The expanding spectrum of systemic autoinflammatory diseases

Speaker: Dr. Daniel L. Kastner, National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases