Science in the Triangle

Events taking place the week of Jan. 25 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public:

Monday

11 a.m.

University of North Carolina, 1131 Bioinformatics, Chapel Hill

Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar: Single-event approaches to biological interactions

Speaker: Eli Rothenberg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

11:15 a.m.

N.C. State University, Stephens Room, 3503 Thomas Hall, Raleigh

Dept. of Entomology Seminar: Pumping and jumping: Toward simple rules for creatures great and small

Speaker: Steve Vogel, Duke University

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

N.C. State University, 1216 Jordan Addition, Raleigh

Dept. of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Seminar: Toward a coordinate strategy on ozone: Reducing air pollution, long-range transport, and climate forcing

Speaker: Jason West, UNC-Chapel Hill

4 p.m.

N.C. State University, Riddick 301, Raleigh

Physics Dept. Colloqium: Solar fuels: Fundamentals and options in research and development

Speaker: H. Joachim Lewerenz, Institute of Solar Fuels and Energy Storage Materials, Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy, Berlin, Germany

Tuesday

11 a.m.

University of North Carolina, Pagano, Lineberger, Chapel Hill

Biochemistry and Biophysics Dept.: Exploiting cool techniques at the Mac-In-Fac for your research

Speaker: Ashutosh Tripathy, UNC

Noon to 1:30 p.m.

Sigma Xi, 3106 E. Hwy. 54, Durham

American Scientist Pizza Luncheon: Challenges of conserving and restoring North Carolina’s coastal ecosystems

Speaker: David Eggelston, a marine biologist and director of the Center for Marine Science and Technology at N.C. State University

RSVP required for accurate slice count at cclabby@amsci.org

4 p.m.

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

Dept. of Plant Biology Seminar: Micro RNAs: Identification and functional analysis in plants

Speaker: Baohong Zhang, East Carolina University

4 p.m.

University of North Carolina, Coker 201, Chapel Hill

Dept. of Biology Seminar: High-resolution maps of nucleosome organization in human blood cells: How static and dynamic forces define the chromatin architecture

Speaker: Anton Valouev, Stanford University

Wednesday

11 a.m. to noon

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

Rall Bldg, Room F193

Seminar: Illuminating the epigenome landscape by deep sequencing

Speaker: Yuan Gao, Virginia Commonwealth University

Noon

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

Seminar: Postdoc professional development - negotiating your first faculty position

Speakers: Craig R. McClain and Jory P Weintraub, NESCent

Thursday

7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.

N.C. Biotechnology Center, 15 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park

Triangle Global Health Consortium: Unsafe abortion as a key global health issue: What more can be done to address this preventable cause of maternal mortality and morbidity?

Speaker: Barbara Crane, executive vice president, Ipas

More information here.

8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, Durham

Solutions Lab 2010: Green innovation in business

The goal is to connect local innovators to share experiences, ideas, trends and opportunities and to brainstorm out-of-the-box solutions to today’s most pressing environmental problems.

Cost: $75.

More information here.

10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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

Rall Bldg. Room D450

Seminar: Dynamics of nuclear-receptor-mediated transcription mechanisms

Speaker: Sayura Aoyagi, laboratory of molecular carcinogenesis

1:30 p.m.

N.C. State University, Stephens Room, 3503 Thomas Hall, Raleigh

Genetics Dept. Seminar: Genetic studies of complex phenotypes in a founder population

Speaker: Carole Ober, Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago

3 p.m. to 4 p.m.

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

Rall Bldg. Room F193

Seminar: Super resolution and high speed imaging with delta vision OMX

Speaker: Paul Goodwin

4 p.m.

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

Dept. of Biology Seminar: Climate change, land use and biodiversity conservation in the Andes and Amazon

Speaker: Miles Silman, Wake Forest University

4 p.m.

N.C. State University, SAS 4201, Raleigh

Math Dept. Special Seminar: Total positivity in loop groups

Speaker: Pavlo Pylyavskyy, University of Michigan

4 p.m.

University of North Carolina, Coker 201, Chapel Hill

Dept. of Biology Seminar: Consequences of disease-associated mutations on the human transcriptome

Speaker: Alain Laederach, Wadsworth Center/SUNY Albany

Friday

3:40 p.m.

N.C. State University, Dabney 124, Raleigh

Chemistry Dept. Seminar: Molecules for peeking and poking at living systems to elucidate rapid network signaling

Speaker: Klaus Hahn, UNC-Chapel Hill