Science in the Triangle

Events taking place the week of Dec. 14 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public:

Monday

9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Progress Energy Performing Arts Center, 2 E. South St., Raleigh

N.C. Chamber of Commerce’s Economic Forecast Forum and Luncheon

Special session: Health care

Cost: $65

More information here.

Tuesday

Noon to 1 p.m.

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

Rall Bldg., Executive Conference Room

Seminar: Estrogen down-regulation of the gene is mediated by the opposing strand-overlapping gene

Speaker: Yukitomo Arao, laboratory of reproductive & developmental toxicology, NIEHS

2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

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

Keystone Room 1003AB

Superfund Research Program Strategic Planning Meeting

Wednesday

Noon

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

Seminar: Evolution of complex traits in posion frigs: Scale, metabolic rates and aposematism

Speaker: Juan C. Santos, NEScent

2 p.m.

N.C. State University, 1132 Jordan Hall, Raleigh

Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Ammonium Fluxes from Channel Deposits in the Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina: Implications for Ammonium Increase in Estuarine Waters

Speaker: Kimberly Null, NCSU

Thursday

10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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

Rall Bldg., Room D450

Seminar: SIRT1 and metabolic diseases

Speaker: Xiaoling Li, laboratory of signal transduction, NIEHS