Science in the Triangle

Events taking place the week of Feb. 22 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public:

Monday

11 a.m. to noon

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

Rall Bldg. Room F193

Seminar: Neuroinflammatory processes in Parkinson’s disease

Speaker: Dr. Etienne C. Hirsch

11:15 a.m.

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

Dept. of Entomology Seminar: Plant-insect interactions: Why is resistance heritable?

Speaker: Thomas Mitchell-Olds, Duke University

Noon to 1 p.m.

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

Keystone Room 2164/2166

Seminar: Using the comparative toxicogenomics database to explore chemical-gene-disease networks

Speaker: Carolyn Mattingly, Mount Deset Island Biological Labs

12:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Raleigh Convention Center, 500 S. Salisbury St., Raleigh

CED’s Biotech 2010: Fusing science, technology and industry leadership.

Cost: $400 for CED and NCBIO members/$500 for nonmembers

More information here.

1:30 p.m.

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

Dept. of Genetics Seminar: Recombination, speciation, and nucleotide diversity in the Drosophila pseudoobscura species group

Speaker: Dr. Mohamed Noor, Duke University

3:30 p.m.

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

Dept. of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Seminar: Onset of the South American Monsoon

Speaker: Dr. Christine Wiedinmyer, National Center for Atmospheric Research

3:30 p.m.

University of North Carolina, Phillips 385, Chapel Hill

Dept. of Mathematics GMS Visions Seminar: Facebook, HIV, and other connected phenomena

Speaker: Amanda L. Traud

4 p.m.

N.C. State University, Riddick 301, Raleigh

Dept. of Physics’s joint colloquium with N.C. State Graduate School’s “Responsible Conduct of Research” Seminar: Plastic fantastic: How the biggest fraud in physics shook the scientific world

Speaker: Eugenie Reich, Cambridge, Mass.

More information here.

4 p.m. to 5 p.m.

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

Dept. of Forestry and Environmental Resources Seminar: Forest ecosystem services

Speaker: Katrina Mullan, NCSU

4 p.m.

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

Dept. of Plant Pathology Seminar: Mycological herbaria: Applications for teaching and research (new uses for dead things)

Speaker: Dr. Larry Grand, NCSU

Tuesday

7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Raleigh Convention Center, 500 S. Salisbury St., Raleigh

CED’s Biotech 2010: Fusing science, technology and industry leadership.

Cost: $400 for CED and NCBIO members/$500 for nonmembers

More information here.

11 a.m.

University of North Carolina, Pagano, Lineberger, Chapel Hill

Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics: DNA replication licensing and cell cycle checkpoints

Speaker: Jean Cook, UNC

11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

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

Rall Bldg. Room D450

Seminar on ChIP from Invitrogen

Speaker: Dr. Amy Cuneo, Invitrogen

11:40 a.m.

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

Dept. of Chemistry: Development of caged-complexes for studying Zn2+ signaling and homeostasis

Speaker: Shawn Burdette, University of Connecticut

4 p.m.

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

Dept. of Plant Biology Seminar: Nuclear magnetic resonance applications and capabilities at the David H. Murdock Research Institute, Kannapolis

Speakers: Dr. Kevin Knagge, NMR manager, N.C. Research Campus, Kannapolis; Dr. Sarah Schwartz, proteomics laboratory manager-mass spectrometry, DHMRI

Wednesday

11 a.m. to noon

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

Rall Bldg. Room F193

Seminar: Bivalent mannose 6-phosphate-based ligands for the M6P/IGF-II receptor as novel anti-tumor agents

Speaker: Chris Connelly

3 p.m.

N.C. State University, SAS 4201, Raleigh

Dept. of Mathematic’s Differential Equations Seminar: Hydrodynamic instability of homogeneous and inhomogeneous viscous liquids in a rotating tilted tank

Speaker: Thomas Ward, NCSU mechanical and aerospace engineering

3:30 p.m.

Duke University, Physics 128, Durham

Physics Dept. Colloquium: Gravitational wave bursts and multimessenger astrophysics

Speaker: Laura Cadonati, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

4 p.m. to 5 p.m.

University of North Carolina, Phillips 381, Chapel Hill

Dept. of Mathematics Analysis/PDE Seminar: On a “classical” inequality and connections to Hardy spaces

Speaker: Galia Dafni, Concordia University

Thursday

10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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

Rall Bldg. Room D450

Seminar: Single molecule analysis of histone variant dynamics in human cancer cells

Speaker: Yamini Dalal, National Cancer Institute

11:40 a.m.

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

Dept. of Chemistry Seminar: Molecular Inorganic Photonics
Speaker: Felix N. Castellano, Bowling Green State University

4 p.m.

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

Dept. of Biology Seminar: Booze and Cues! Neurodynamics of brain reward circuits during alcohol drinking in rats

Speaker: Donita Robinson, UNC Chapel Hill

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

Hilton RDU Airport, 4810 Page Creek Lane, Durham

Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association: Embracing social media: Using it to our advantage

Cost: $70 for nonmembers

More information here.

Friday

11 a.m. to noon

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

Rall Bldg. Room D350

Seminar: Identifying risk factors for triple-negative breast cancer: Does a distinct tumor biology imply a distinct etiology?

Speaker: Amanda Phipps, University of Washington

Noon

University of North Carolina, Chapman 125, Chapel Hill

Dept. of Chemistry Analytical/Inorganic Seminar: Finding out Egyptian gods’ secret using analytical chemistry: Biomedical properties of Egyptian black makeup revealed by microamperometry at single cells

Speaker: Christian Amatore, Ecole Normale Superieure , Universite Pierre et Marie Curie

3:40 p.m.

N.C. State University, Dabney 124, Raleigh

Dept. of Chemistry Seminar: Selective light-induced reactions in solution and in water-soluble nanocontainers

Speaker: Sivaguru Jayaraman, North Dakota State University