Science in the Triangle

Events taking place the week of Feb. 1 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public:

Monday

11:15 a.m.

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

Dept. of Entomology Seminar: Why scientists are rhetoricians, too: They don’t have any choice

Speaker: Carolyn Miller, NCSU

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

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

Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Dept. Seminar: Waveform modeling of volcano explosions and source dynamics: Karymsky, Sangay, Santiaguito

Speaker: Jonathan Lees, UNC-Chapel Hill

4 p.m.

N.C. State University, 2010 Biltmore Hall, Raleigh

Dept. of Forestry and Environmental Resources Seminar: The process of mitigation banking

Speaker: Norton Webster, Environmental Banc and Exchange

Tuesday

10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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

Rall Bldg. Rodbell AB

Seminar: Mitochondrial signaling in disease and aging

Speaker: Gerald Shadel, Yale University School of Medicine

Followed by postdoc lunch with speaker from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Rall Bldg. Executive Conference Room.

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

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

Rall Bldg. Room D350

Seminar: Integrating in vivo and in vitro transcription factor binding data to distinguish direct from indirect TF-DNA interactions

Speaker: Raluca Gordon, Harvard University

4 p.m.

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

Dept. of Plant Biology Seminar: Moving parts: traffic and signaling control cell adhesion in Arabidopsis flowers

Speaker: Sarah Liljegren, department of biology, UNC-Chapel Hill

Wednesday

Noon

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

Seminar: Using the past to predict the future: Extinction selectivity and ecological change on Pacific Islands

Speaker: Alison G. Boyer, Yale University

3:30 p.m.

Duke University, Physics 128, Durham

Physics Dept. Colloquium: Carbon capture and storage

Speaker: Thomas C. Halsey, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co.

Thursday

10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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

Rall Bldg. Room D450

Seminar: Estrogen receptors: One, then two and then none

Speaker: Kenneth S. Korach, NIEHS

4 p.m.

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

Dept. of Biology Seminar: Curation to conservation: genetics at the forefront of species discovery, rediscovery and management

Speaker: Morgan Raley, N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences

5 p.m.

National Humanities Center, 7 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park

Lecture: Shamanic time travels in southern Chile

Speaker: Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, State University of New York, Buffalo

Friday

3 p.m.

N.C. State University, SAS 1230, Raleigh

Dept. of Mathematics Colloqium: Spectrahedra

Speaker: Bernd Sturmfels, University of California, Berkley

3:30 p.m.

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

Seminar: Simultaneous alignment and phylogeneic tree estimation

Speaker: Tandy Warnow, University of Texas

3:40 p.m.

N.C. State University, Dabney 124, Raleigh

Dept. of Chemistry Seminar: Revealing protein motion with single molecule fluorescence

Speaker: Keith Weninger, NCSU

6:30 p.m.

Duke University Teaching Observatory, Cornwallis Road, Durham

Public stargazing: Observe the sky through modern 10-inch telescopes, guided by Duke physicists (dependent on weather)

More information here.

Saturday

8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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

Rall Bldg. Rodbell ABC

Triangle Consortium for Reproductive Biology Conference: Immune mechanisms in reproduction

Keynote speaker: Joy Pate, department of dairy and animal science, Penn State University

More information here.