Friday, April 23
CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION--Pharmacology 2004 for the Practitioner. Napa Valley Marriott Hotel and Spa, Napa. Continues April 24. For details or to register, visit http://cme.ucdavis.edu.
CENTER FOR COMPARATIVE RESPIRATORY BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE--Carol Rose Norris: Immunomodulation in an experimental model of feline asthma. Noon, 2016 Haring Hall.
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND OTHERS--Tina Stott, Rob Thayer: Steering a bioregional organization. 12:10 p.m., 1150 Hart Hall.
PLANT BIOLOGY GRADUATE GROUP--Chris Somerville: Genetic dissection of cell wall structure and function. 12:10 p.m., 1022 Life Sciences Addition.
ANIMAL BEHAVIOR GRADUATE GROUP--Terry Ord: Trends in animal behavior research (1968-2002)--bioinformatics and the mining of library databases. 1:10 p.m., 1022 Life Sciences Addition.
ECONOMICS--Massimiliano Marcellino: Structural impulse response analysis of dynamic factor models for large datasets. 1:10 p.m., 1131 Social Sciences and Humanities.
M.I.N.D. INSTITUTE--Piotr Winkielman: Emotion-al responses in people with autism. 3 p.m., M.I.N.D. Institute, second floor boardroom, 2825 50th St., UCDMC.
Monday, April 26
GENOME CENTER--Michael Wright: Proteomic analysis of androgen receptor function in prostate cancer cells. 10 a.m., 1022 Life Sciences Addition.
ANIMAL SCIENCE--Bill Muir: Genome-wide marker assisted selection--reductionism finally meets holism. 12:10 p.m., Weir Room, 2154 Meyer Hall.
NEUROBIOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR; DIVISION OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES--Jochen Ditterich: Decision-related activity in an eye-movement planning area. 12:10 p.m., 1022 Life Sciences Addition.
PLANT PATHOLOGY--James Ng: Topic to be announced. 12:10 p.m., 230 Wellman Hall.
EAST ASIAN STUDIES, ANTHROPOLOGY--Jennifer Robertson: Talking feet--performance and perfomativity in Japanese eugenics. 4 p.m., 184 Young.
OFFICE OF RESEARCH; CONSORTIUM FOR WOMEN AND RESEARCH--Bonnie Bassler: Building your scientific reputation. 4 p.m., Cabernet Room, Silo.
CENTER FOR AQUATIC BIOLOGY AND AQUACULTURE--Michael Banks: Beyond microsatellites--resolving differences among salmon life histories for endangered species protection. 4:10 p.m., Temporary Classroom 3.
GENETICS GRADUATE GROUP--Esther van der Knaap: Variation in tomato fruit morphology--a tool to unravel molecular mechanisms of fruit development. 4:10 p.m., 1022 Life Sciences Addition.
NEMATOLOGY--Michael McKenry: Replanting walnut orchards without methyl bromide--comparison of a dozen tools. 4:10 p.m., 115 Wellman Hall.
NUTRITION GRADUATE GROUP--Robert Chapkin: Chemopreventive lipids--molecular mechanisms of action. 4:10 p.m., 1309 Surge III.
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND OTHERS--Urban landscape architect Ken Smith. 6 p.m., Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center.
Tuesday, April 27
CENTER FOR COMPARATIVE MEDICINE, CALIFORNIA NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER--Judy Van de Water: The immunobiology of autism. Noon, Calif. National Primate Research Center.
ROAD ECOLOGY CENTER, JOHN MUIR INSTITUTE OF THE ENVIRONMENT--Lenore Fahrig: Wildlife-road interactions. 12:10 p.m., 3001 Plant and Environmental Sciences Building.
TEACHING RESOURCES CENTER--Instructional Design Workshop: Create a basic course Web site (Dreamweaver). To register visit http://trc.ucdavis.edu. 1:10 p.m., location to be announced.
OFFICE OF RESEARCH; CONSORTIUM FOR WOMEN AND RESEARCH--Bonnie Bassler: Cell-to-cell communication in bacteria. 4 p.m., Cabernet Room, Silo.
TRANSPLANT RESEARCH PROGRAM--Rick Vulliet: Stem Cell Journal Club--adult stem cells in the cardiovascular system--fact, fantasy and fiction. 4 p.m., 1002 Research Building 1, 4635 Second Ave., UCDMC.
CENTER FOR HISTORY, SOCIETY AND CULTURE--Alice Conklin: Skulls on display--racism, science and empire at Paris' Musée de l'Homme, 1920-1940. 4:10 p.m., 2203 Social Sciences and Humanities.
CHEMISTRY--Arthur Mar: Structure and properties of ternary rare-earth antimonides. 4:10 p.m., 179 Chemistry Building.
ECONOMICS--Nicholas Economides: Dynamic oligopoly with network effects. 4:10 p.m., 1131 Social Sciences and Humanities Building.
Wednesday, April 28
GENOME CENTER--Dachuang Cao: Quantitative trait locus analysis in polyploids. 10 a.m., 1022 Life Sciences Addition.
AGRONOMY AND RANGE SCIENCE; ENTOMOLOGY--Maureen Stanton: Mutualisms as interacting guilds--conflict and cooperation. 12:10 p.m., 3001 Plant and Environmental Sciences Building.
INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS--Deanne Vochatzer: Steroids and the future of sports. 12:10 p.m., 360 Shields Library.
TEACHING RESOURCES CENTER--TA Work-shop: Promoting higher levels of thinking. For more information visit http://trc.ucdavis.edu. 3:10 p.m., Moss Room, Memorial Union.
BODEGA MARINE LABORATORY--Peter Klimley: The hunting strategy of white sharks at a pinniped colony. 4 p.m., Bodega Marine Laboratory lecture hall.
SOIL SCIENCE GRADUATE GROUP--Kun Yang: Perchlorate and nitrate reduction in contaminated vadose soil; Vincent Battaglia: Fate of tert butyl alcohol (TBA), an MTBE metabolite, in two different soils. 4 p.m., 2005 Plant and Environmental Sciences.
ENTOMOLOGY, ECONOMICS, AGRICULTURAL HISTORY CENTER, GRADUATE GROUP IN ECOLOGY--Ronald Lee: Rethinking the evolutionary theory of aging--transfers, not births, shape senescence in social species. 4:10 p.m., 122 Briggs Hall.
JOHN MUIR INSTITUTE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, GEOGRAPHY GRADUATE GROUP--Tom Birmingham: Sustaining California's agricultural water supplies. 4:10 p.m., 179 Chemistry Building.
TEACHING RESOURCES CENTER; STUDENT AFFAIRS RESEARCH AND INFORMATION--Colloquia/Faculty Roundtable: Millennials--is this student generation different? 4:10 p.m., Fielder Room, MU.
Thursday, April 29
UC DAVIS CANCER CENTER--BASIC SCIENCE--Georg Weber: Molecular mechanisms of metastasis--lessons from a cytokine. 9 a.m., Cancer Center auditorium, 4501 X St., UCDMC.
INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORTATION STUDIES--Hyung Jin Kim: 2002 household travel survey and data analysis--the case study of Seoul, Korea. 12:05 p.m., 1065 Kemper Hall.
PLANT PATHOLOGY--Mycology Seminar with Carolyn Rasmussen: A novel Rho-type GTPase is required for septation in Neurospora crassa. 12:10 p.m., 355A Hutchison Hall.
EXERCISE SCIENCE GRADUATE GROUP--Jack Rutledge: New approaches to unraveling vascular inflammation in the postprandial state. 4 p.m., 197 Briggs.
CHEMISTRY--David Bocian: Hybrid semiconductor/molecular memories. 4:10 p.m., 179 Chemistry.
PHYSICS--Damon Jackson: Designer diamond anvils--a novel technique for electrical transport and AC susceptibility measurements. 4:10 p.m., 416 Physics/Geology Building.
Friday, April 30
CENTER FOR COMPARATIVE RESPIRATORY BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE--David Peden: The effect of ozone and LPS on macrophage function in humans in vivo. 8 a.m., 2016 Haring Hall.
BIOTECHNOLOGY PROGRAM, STRUCTURE ASSISTED DRUG DISCOVERY PROGRAM--Paul Ortiz de Montellano: KatG, EtaA and AhpC/AhpD--drug resistance in M. tuberculosis. 11 a.m., 1022 Life Sciences Addition.
TEACHING RESOURCES CENTER, UNIVERSITY WRITING PROGRAM--Faculty Writing Workshop: Effective grading and commenting on papers--with or without TAs and readers. 11 a.m., 21 Olson Hall.
PSYCHIATRY--Grand Rounds with Donald Robinson, Victor Perez: Bipolar spectrum disorders, issues in diagnosis. 11:30 a.m., G300 Patient Support Services Building.
BIOPHYSICS GRADUATE GROUP--Yu-Fung Lin: How does nitric oxide modulate the ATP-sensitive potassium channel? Involvement of Ras/MAPK signaling pathway. 12:10 p.m., 1128 Bainer Hall.
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND OTHERS--David Robertson, Gina Werfel, Hearne Pardee: Imagining the life-place--art in the bioregion. 12:10 p.m., 1150 Hart Hall.
PLANT BIOLOGY GRADUATE GROUP--David Ehrhardt: Cytoskeletal dynamics in Arabidopsis. 12:10 p.m., 1022 Life Sciences Addition.
ANIMAL BEHAVIOR GRADUATE GROUP--Jonathan Rosenfield: Topic to be announced. 1:10 p.m., 1022 Life Sciences Addition.
BIOLOGICAL AND AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING--Herbert Scher: Control of droplet size during the spray process and rebound from surfaces for agricultural, consumer products. 2 p.m., 2045 Bainer.
AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS--John Giles: "Inequality and growth" or "growth and inequality"? Identifying causality in the evolution of inequality. 3:30 p.m., 2102 Social Sciences and Humanities Building.
SOCIOLOGY--Tyrone Forman: Pet or threat? Minority concentration, school racial context and white youths' racial attitudes. 4 p.m., 1291 Social Sciences and Humanities Building.