Science in the Triangle

Events taking place the week of Feb. 8 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public:

Monday

8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Raleigh Convention Center, 500 S. Salisbury Street, Raleigh

Emerging Issues Forum: How to enhance creative thinking and embrace new ideas — the very creativity that is needed for true innovation.

More information here.

11:15 a.m.

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

Dept. of Entomology: Do birds chose habitats based on arthropod abundance?

Speaker: Chris Moorman, NCSU

1:30 p.m.

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

Dept. of Genetics Seminar: The evolution of phenotypic and genetic novelty in drosophila

Speaker: Corbin D. Jones, Carolina Center for Genome Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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

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

Dept. of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Seminar: Character displacement and competitive exclusion in the carnivora: past, present and future

Speaker: Julie Meachen-Samuels, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center

4 p.m.

N.C. State University, Riddick 301, Raleigh

Dept. of Physics Colloquim: Designing lenses, antennas and invisibility cloaks with space warps

Speaker: David Schurig, electrical and computer engineering, NCSU

4 p.m. to 5 p.m.

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

Dept. of Forestry and Environmental Resources Seminar: Private financing for land protection

Speaker: Guenevere Abernathy and Jeff Fisher, Unique Places

4 p.m.

University of North Carolina, Chapman 125, Chapel Hill

UNC-Duke Theoretical Chemistry Seminar: Towards a mechanistic understanding of the dynamics of supercooled liquids

Speaker: David Reichman, professor at Columbia University

Tuesday

8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Raleigh Convention Center, 500 S. Salisbury Street, Raleigh

Emerging Issues Forum: How to enhance creative thinking and embrace new ideas — the very creativity that is needed for true innovation.

More information here.

9 a.m.

N.C. Biotechnology Center, 15 T.W. Alexander Drive, Durham

Ph.D. Workshop Series: Part 1: Bench to boardroom

More information here.

9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

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

Rall Bldg. Rodbell ABC

Seminar: Advances in super-resolution imaging

Speaker: Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, head of organelle biology, cell biology and metabolism branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

11:40 a.m.

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

Dept. of Chemistry Seminar: Tuberculosis: Looking for an achilles heel

Speaker: John S. Blanchard, professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine

7 p.m.

Broad Street Cafe, 1116 Broad Street, Durham

Museum of Life and Science’s Periodic Tables: Genetically modified foods: The long path from the lab, to the field and finally to your plate

More information here.

Wednesday

7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Sheraton Imperial, 4700 Emperior Blvd., Durham

Nu-Tech Showcase 2010: Cutting-edge life science and engineering technologies from Japanese university labs, including experimental malaria medicines, e-coli detection and “green” rubber silicone

More information here.

9 a.m. to 10 a.m.

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

Rall Bldg. Rodbell C

Seminar: Utilization of pathology data in the FDA approval process

Speaker: Dr. Sabine Francke-Carroll, Food and Drug Administration

10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

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

Rall Bldg. Room D450

Seminar: Functional characterization of transcription factor motifs using cross-species comparison across large evolutionary distances

Speaker: Jaebum Kim, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

11 a.m. to noon

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

Rall Bldg. Room F193

Seminar: Discovering Rac GTPase signaling through the PP5 protein phosphatase by going through channels

Speaker: David Armstrong

Noon

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

Seminar: Sex and the single cell

Speaker: John M. Logsdon, University of Iowa

2:50 p.m.

Duke University, French Family Science Center, Room 4233, Durham

Duke Center for Systems Biology Seminar: Network analysis of microbial pathogens

Speaker: Jason Papin, biomedical engineering, University of Virginia

3:40 p.m.

N.C. State University, Dabney 124, Raleigh

Chemistry Dept. Seminar: Metal oxo catalysts for deoxygenation and conversion of biomass

Speaker: Mahdi Abu-Omar, Purdue University

4 p.m. to 5 p.m.

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

Innovation@RTP: How iContact delivers WOW!

Speaker: Chuck Hester, iContact

More information here.

Thursday

10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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

Rall Bldg. Room D450

Seminar: Gene silencing in cancer: Setting and re-setting epigenetic switches

Speaker: Paula Vertino, Winship Cancer Center, Emory University

4 p.m.

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

Dept. of Biology Seminar: Effects of climate change on the geographical ranges of species (particularly alpine/arctic plants)

Speaker: Bill Morris, Duke University

Friday

6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences, 11 W. Jones Street, Raleigh

National Evolutionary Synthesis Center’s Shark Frenzy: Big, fast and bulletproof: What one biologist has learned from 300 million years of shark evolution

Speaker: Adam Summers, associate director of Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington

7 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.