RTP Weekahead 3/15
Sunday, March 14, 2010, 3:21 pm No Comments | Post a CommentEvents taking place the week of March 15 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public:
Monday
Noon University of North Carolina, Chapman 125, Chapel Hill Dept. of Chemistry, GlaxoSmithKline Lecture: Unraveling the secrets of the brain with new analytical techniques Speaker: Jonathan V. Sweedler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign1 p.m. Duke University, French Science Auditorium 2231, Durham Dept. of Biology Seminar: Contemporary evolution as an agent of ecological change Speaker: Eric Palkovacs, Duke Marine Lab
7:30 p.m. Tyler’s Taproom, American Tobacco Campus, 318 Blackwell St., Durham Brain Awareness Week@Duke: Would you take a genetic test to predict depression in response to stressful events? Speakers: Terrie Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi, professors of psychology and neuroscience
Tuesday
11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park Rall Bldg. Rodbell ABC Seminar: Organophosphate pesticide exposure and the development of children living in an agricultural community: Results of the CHAMACOS study Speaker: Brenda Eskenazi, University of California, Berkeley11 a.m. University of North Carolina, G202 MBRB, Chapel Hill Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar: Characterization of the gut microbiome’s role in regulating host gene expression and metabolism in the mammalian colon Speaker: Scott Bultman, UNC
11:40 a.m. Duke University, Room 2231, French Family Science Center, Durham Dept. of Chemistry Seminar: Exploring new ligand designs for asymmetric catalysis Speaker: Sukwon Hong, University of Florida
Noon to 1:15 p.m. Research Triangle Park Headquarters, 12 Davis Drive, Research Triangle Park TARDC Luncheon: Using simulation to develop strategies and skills to thrive in a real-time world Speaker: Phaedra Boinodiris, serious games program manager at IBM Cost: $35 for nonmembers, RSVP at rousseau@rtp.org
1 p.m. to 2 p.m. NIEHS, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park Rall Bldg. Room D350 Seminar: Identifying transcription factor and its cofactor binding sites using a mixture model Speaker: Dr. Leping Li, NIEHS
4:15 p.m. Love Auditorium, Levine Science Research Center, 450 Research Drive, Durham Brain Awareness Week@Duke: From brain to society: Neuroeconomics and neuroethology of social behavior Speaker: Michael Platt, director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
7 p.m. N.C. Museum of History, 5 East Edenton St., Raleigh National Humanities Center lecture: The little girl who fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America Speaker: John F. Kasson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Wednesday
11 a.m. to noon NIEHS, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park Rall Bldg. Room F193 Seminar: Protein Kinase D1: A New Mediator of Activity-Dependent Gene Expression, Synaptic Plasticity, and Behavior Speaker: Dr. Steven Finkbeiner, University of California, San FranciscoNoon National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, 2024 W. Main St., Suite A200, Durham Seminar: Genetic algorithms and phylogenetic methods in the study of animal communication Speaker: Carlos A. Botero, NESCent
Noon University of North Carolina, Chapman 125, Chapel Hill Dept. of Chemistry Seminar: Systems biology eats synthetic biology Speaker: Andy Ellington, University of Texas, Austin
4 p.m. Research Triangle Park Headquarters, 12 Davis Drive, Research Triangle Park Innovation@RTP Speaker Series: Emerging Smart Grid technologies and trends Speaker: Dave Ayers, vice president of research and development at Sensus, a Raleigh-based utility management company 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: RNAi Screen Identified Novel Players in Embryonic Stem Cell Self-Renewal Speaker: Guang Hu, Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sheraton Imperial, 4700 Emperor Blvd., Durham 2010 Technology Exhibition: Over 60 exhibitor booths of laboratory automation hardware, software and services will exhibit, demonstrating their latest offerings. More information here.
2 p.m. Duke University, Physics 298, Durham TUNL Seminar Series: Pinning down the nucleon’s quark distributions at large Bjorken-x Speaker: Simona Malace, University of South Carolina
5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. N.C. Biotechnology Center, 15 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park FISH Foundation Introductory Lecture: Sheila Mikhail, managing member of Life Sciences Law in Chapel Hill, and her daughter, Megan founded FISH to increase the interest of minority students in pursuing careers in science and healthcare Speaker: Louis Martin-Vega, dean of the engineering school at NCSU More information here.
5 p.m. Love Auditorium, Levine Science Research Center, 450 Research Drive, Durham Brain Awareness Week@Duke: Murderous chimpanzees and promiscuous bonobos: What does having an ape brain mean for your behavior? Speaker: Brian Hare, professor of evolutionary anthropology
Friday
8 a.m. to 2 p.m. N.C. Biotechnology Center, 15 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park N.C. Central Law Symposium: Hot topics and developments in biotechnology and pharmaceutical law More information here and here.11 a.m. to noon NIEHS, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park Rall Bldg. Rodbell A Seminar: Epigenetics, fertility, and paternal routes of disease in offspring Speaker: Sarah Kimmins, assistant professor, department of animal sciences & pharmacology and therapeutics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
7 p.m. Duke Teaching Observatory, Cornwallis Road, Durham Public Stargazing: Observe the sky through modern 10″ telescopes, guided by Duke physicists. Weather dependent. More information here.
7 p.m. The Regulator bookshop, 720 Ninth St., Durham Brain Awareness Week@Duke: If I could take good advice I wouldn’t need therapy! Neuroscience and how we change Speaker: Alison Adcock, professor of psychiatry and behavioral science
Saturday
8:40 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. N.C. State University, SAS Hall, Raleigh Southeast-Atlantic Section of the Society for the Industrial and Applied Mathematics Conference 2010 Cost: $50 faculty/postdoc, $30 student/unemployed More information here.Noon to 4 p.m. Levine Science Research Center, 450 Research Drive, Durham Brain Awareness Week@Duke: Open house with lab tours, hands-on anatomy and kids-judge science fair. RSVP at brainweek@duke.edu More information here.
Sunday
9 a.m. to 3 p.m. N.C. State University, SAS Hall, Raleigh Southeast-Atlantic Section of the Society for the Industrial and Applied Mathematics Conference 2010 Cost: $50 faculty/postdoc, $30 student/unemployed More information here.
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