Mon., Oct. 23, 10 a.m. "The Effects of Maternal
Depressive Symptoms on Behavior and Cognition in Young
Children," a Mental Health thesis defense seminar with
Melissa Azur; 845 Hampton House. EB
Mon., Oct. 23, noon. "A Maximum Entropy Approach to
Water Mass Analysis," an Earth and Planetary Sciences
seminar with Francois Primeau, University of California,
Irvine; Olin Auditorium. HW
Mon., Oct. 23, noon. "The Effects of Child Care
Costs and Taxes on the Employment of Single Mothers:
Evidence From a SIPP-CPS Matching Procedure," an Institute
for Policy Studies brown-bag seminar with Christopher
Herbst, University of Maryland; 526 Wyman Bldg. HW
Mon., Oct. 23, 12:15 p.m. "Frizzled Receptors in
Mammalian Development and Disease," a Carnegie Institution
Embryology seminar with Jeremy Nathans, SoM; 3520 San
Martin Drive. HW
Mon., Oct. 23, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in
Neuroscience — "A Spatial Attentional Mechanism in
the Midbrain of Birds" with Gonzalo Marin, Universidad de
Chile. Sponsored by Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338
Krieger. HW
Mon., Oct. 23, 4 p.m. "Launching and Sustaining the
Confederate Project in Civil War-Era Savannah," a History
seminar with Jacqueline Jones, Brandeis University; 315
Gilman. HW
Mon., Oct. 23, 4 p.m. "Fluid-Structure Interaction
in 3-D," an Analysis seminar with Zoran Grujic, University
of Virginia; 308 Krieger. HW
Mon., Oct. 23, 4 p.m. "Protein Folding: From
Physical Modeling to Structure Prediction," a Biophysics
seminar with Ken Dill, University of California, San
Francisco; 272 Bloomberg Center. HW
Tues., Oct. 24, 10 a.m. "The Significance of Plant
Underground Storage Organs in Human Evolution," a Center
for Functional Anatomy and Evolution seminar with Nate
Dominy, University of California, Santa Cruz; Suite 2-200,
1830 Bldg. EB
Tues., Oct. 24, noon. "The Complexities of
Posttranslational Protein Modulation: Facing the Scale as
Well as the Detail," a Biological Chemistry seminar with
Alma Burlingame, University of California, San Francisco;
612 Physiology. EB
Tues., Oct. 24, 4 p.m. "Prevention of
Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Successes and Challenges," an Office of the Dean seminar
with Taha El Tahir Taha, SPH. Reception to follow. W2030
SPH. EB
Wed., Oct. 25, 9:30 a.m. "The Success and Impact of
Presidential Bioethics Commissions: An Assessment of
Outcomes in Public Bioethics," a Health Policy and
Management thesis defense seminar with Summer Johnson; 339
Hampton House. EB
Wed., Oct. 25, noon. "Does Familiarity Breed
Contempt? Interethnic Contact and Democracy in Comparative
Perspective," a Political Science seminar with Jeffrey
Kopstein, University of Toronto; 366 Mergenthaler. HW
Wed., Oct. 25, 12:15 p.m. "Prison Inmates as
Research Subjects: Opening the Prison Gates to Drug
Companies?" an Office for Research Subjects seminar with
Jack Schwartz, Maryland Attorney General's Office; W3031
SPH. EB
Wed., Oct. 25, 1 p.m. "Systems Biology of
Macrophages," an Institute for Computational Medicine
seminar with Shankar Subramaniam, University of California,
San Diego; 110 Clark. HW
Wed., Oct. 25, 3:30 p.m. "Heteroepitaxial Quantum
Dots: Evolution vs. Intelligent Design," a Materials
Science and Engineering seminar with Jerry Floro,
University of Virginia; 110 Maryland. HW
Wed., Oct. 25, 4 p.m. "Transformation of Human Cells
by a Novel Oncogene: Activation of Several Signaling
Pathways," a Biology seminar with Rou-Li Zhou, Beijing
University Medical School; 100 Mudd. HW
Thurs., Oct. 26, noon. "Making Muscle in Flies and
Vertebrates: Remodeling of the Actin Cytoskeleton Is
Required for Myoblast Fusion," a Cell Biology seminar with
Mary Baylies, Sloan Kettering Institute; Suite 2-200, 1830
Bldg. EB
Thurs., Oct. 26, noon. "Blueprint of Breast and
Colorectal Cancer Genomes," an Environmental Health
Sciences seminar with Victor Velculescu, SoM; W3030 SPH.
EB
Thurs., Oct. 26, noon. "Common Research-Animal
Diseases," an Animal Care and Use Committee seminar with
Tracy Gluckman, SoM; 403 Ross. EB
Thurs., Oct. 26, 1 p.m. "Control Theoretic Analysis
of Biological Signaling Systems," an Electrical and
Computer Engineering seminar with Burton Andrews, WSE; 225
Barton. HW
Thurs., Oct. 26, 1 p.m. "Sensitization of Cutaneous
Nociceptors Following Peripheral Injury," a Neuroscience
research seminar with H. Richard Koerber, University of
Pittsburgh School of Medicine; West Lecture Hall, WBSB.
EB
Thurs., Oct. 26, 3:30 p.m. "KSR and CNK: Two
Scaffolds Regulating RTK-mediated RAF Activation," a Howard
Hughes Medical Institute/Molecular Biology and Genetics
seminar with Marc Therrien, University of Montreal; 517
PCTB. EB
Thurs., Oct. 26, 4 p.m. "Economic and National
Security Threats: What Is the Policy Response?" a Social
Policy seminar with Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Center for
Geoeconomic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
(See "In Brief," in this issue.) Co-sponsored by the
Institute for Policy Studies; Economics; and Health Policy
and Management. 526 Wyman Park Bldg. HW
Thurs., Oct. 26, 4 p.m. "Mass Spectrometry of Intact
Complexes Isolated Directly From Cells," a Pharmacology and
Molecular Sciences seminar with Carol Robinson, University
of Cambridge, UK; West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB.
EB
Thurs., Oct. 26, 4 p.m. "Multiscale Analysis of
Diffusion Processes on Graphs and Analysis of
High-Dimensional Data," an Applied Mathematics and
Statistics seminar with Mauro Maggioni, Duke University;
304 Whitehead. HW
Thurs., Oct. 26, 4 p.m. "Slowing Light in Passive
and Active Coupled Resonators," an Electrical and Computer
Engineering seminar with Joyce Poon, California Institute
of Technology; 117 Barton. HW
Thurs., Oct. 26, 4 p.m. "From Talcott Parsons to the
'End of Philosophy' in West German (Social) Thought,
1955-1971," a European History seminar with Matt Sekerke;
315 Gilman. HW
Thurs., Oct. 26, 4 p.m. "Vascular Adhesion of Colon
Carcinoma Cells: Roles of CD44V and Alternate
Sialofucosylated Selectin Ligands," a Biology seminar with
Kostas Konstantopoulos, WSE; 100 Mudd. HW
Fri., Oct. 27, 4 p.m. "Humanity's Place in the
Universe: Modesty and Morality in American Deism," a
History special seminar with Kirsten Fischer, University of
Minnesota; Clipper Room, Shriver Hall. HW
Mon., Oct. 30, noon. "Thermodynamics of Mantle
Materials," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with
Lars Stixrude, University of Michigan; Olin Auditorium.
HW
Mon., Oct. 30, 12:15 p.m. "Aberrant DNA Repair
Increases Antibody Diversity," a Carnegie Institution
Embryology seminar with Patricia Gearhart, NIA/NIH; 3520
San Martin Drive. HW
Mon., Oct. 30, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in
Neuroscience — "Muscle-like Commands in the Motor
Cortex: The Basis for Natural Brain Machine Interface?"
with Lee Miller, Northwestern University Medical School.
Sponsored by Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger.
HW
Mon., Oct. 30, 4 p.m. "Chemical Approaches to
Sorting Out Signaling," a Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology seminar with Philip Cole, SoM; W2030 SPH. EB
Mon., Oct. 30, 4 p.m. "Volumes of Balls in Large
Riemannian Manifolds," an Analysis seminar with Larry Guth,
Stanford University; 308 Krieger. HW
Mon., Oct. 30, 4 p.m. "A Fresh Look at Medieval
Sanctuary," a History seminar with William Jordan,
Princeton University. Co-sponsored by Jewish Studies. 315
Gilman. HW