Science in the Triangle

Events taking place the week of Feb. 15 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public:

Monday

11:15 a.m.

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

Dept. of Entomology Seminar: Colony fissioning in honey bees: how is departure triggered, and what determines who leaves?

Speaker: Juliana Rangel-Posada, Cornell University

1:30 p.m.

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

Dept. of Genetics Seminar: Causes of heritable variation in C. elegans

Speaker: Matthew V. Rockman, department of biology, New York University

3 p.m.

N.C. State University, SAS 4201, Raleigh

Dept. of Mathematics Seminar: Climate response and fluctuation-dissipation theorem

Speaker: Boris Gershgorin, New York University

3:40 p.m.

N.C. State University, 105 Schaub Hall, Raleigh

Dept. of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences Seminar: Eating through American history: The more things change the more they stay the same

Speaker: Sarah Ash

4 p.m.

N.C. State University Centennial Campus, Toxicology Auditorium, Raleigh

Dept. of Plant Pathology Seminar: The phytophthora advance: ornamentals and Christmas trees

Speaker: Mike Benson, NCSU

4 p.m. to 5 p.m.

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

Dept. of Forestry and Environmental Resources Seminar: Fire research in coastal North Carolina

Speaker: Robert Mickler, program manager, Alion Science and Technology

5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Irregardless Cafe, 901 W. Morgan Street, Raleigh

UNC-CH’s Base speed networking for sustainable entrepreneurs

Cost: $25 for nonmembers of Base

More information here.

Tuesday

10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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

Keystone Room 1003B

Seminar: Endocrine profiling and prioritization of environmental chemicals using ToxCast data

Speaker: David Reif, EPA National Center for Computational Toxicology

11 a.m.

University of North Carolina, Pagano, Lineberger, Chapel Hill

Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar: Molecular switches in integrin adhesive signaling

Speaker: Jun Qin, Cleveland Clinic

11:40 a.m.

Duke University, French Family Science Center, Room 2231, Durham

Dept. of Chemistry Seminar: Nanogenerators and nanopiezotronics

Speaker: Zhong-Lin Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering

Noon to 1:15 p.m.

Research Triangle Park headquarters, 12 Davis Drive, Research Triangle Park

TARDC Luncheon: Realizing the promise of cancer vaccines in the era of personalized medicine

Speaker: Dr. Duane Mitchell, associate director in the brain tumor immunotherapy program of Duke University’s neurosurgery division

Cost: $35 for nonmembers

3:30 p.m.

University of North Carolina, Room 277, Phillips Hall, Chapel Hill

Triangle Nuclear Theory Colloquium: Neutron star seismology and the equation of state of dense matter

Speaker: Andrew Steiner, Michigan State

Wednesday

Noon

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

Seminar: Evaluating phylogenetic bias in ecological meta analysis

Speaker: Marc J. Lajeunesse, NESCent

2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

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

Rall Bldg. Room D350

Seminar: Perfluorinated chemicals and reproductive and child health outcomes in humans: A study within the Danish National Birth Cohort

Speaker: Chunyuan Fei, UCLA

2:50 p.m.

Duke University, French Family Science Center, Room 4233

Dept. of Biology Seminar: Microenvironmental independence in tumor progression: An integrated approach

Speaker: Sandy Anderson, Moffitt Cancer Center, Integrative Mathematical Oncology

3:30 p.m.

Duke University, Physics 128, Durham

Dept. of Physics Colloqium: Gravitational wave bursts and multimessenger astrophysics

Speaker: Laura Cadonati, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Thursday

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

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

Triangle Global Health Consortium Breakfast Discussion: Open source solutions for global health

Panel members: Dykki Settle, who heads IntraHealth International’s efforts in health worker informatics; Paul Jones, director of ibiblio.org, UNC-CH’s online library of open resources; W. Ed Hammond, Duke University and one of the pioneers of open source.

More information here.

10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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

Rall Bldg. Room D450

Seminar: The role of epigenetics in the therapeutic responsiveness of ovarian cancer and stem/tumor propagating cells

Speaker: Ken Nephew, Indiana University School of Medicine

Noon to 1:30 p.m.

Sigma Xi, 3106 East Hwy. 54, Research Triangle Park

American Scientist Pizza Luncheon: Cambodian attitudes and mental health on the eve of the Khmer Rouge trials

Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Sonis, assistant professor of social medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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

4 p.m.

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

Dept. of Biology Seminar: Historical biogeography of Madagascar: Time is of the essence

Speaker: Ann Yoder, Duke Lemur Center

Friday

Noon

University of North Carolina, Coker 215, Chapel Hill

Dept. of Biology Seminar: Smart spending: Energy budgets and biological tradeoffs

Speaker: Nick Garcia