Friday, April 16

BIOPHYSICS GRADUATE GROUP--Melissa Jurica: Structural analysis of the spliceosome by cryo-EM. 12:10 p.m., 1128 Bainer Hall.

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND OTHERS--Andrew Fulks: The nature of the Putah-Cache-Sacramento River region. 12:10 p.m., 1150 Hart Hall.

PLANT BIOLOGY GRADUATE GROUP, PLANT GENE EXPRESSION CENTER--Hugo Dooner: Maize genome organization revealed from recombination and transposition studies of the bronze region. 12:10 p.m., 1022 Life Sciences Addition.

BIOLOGICAL AND AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING--John Beneman: Biohydrogen. 2 p.m., 2045 Bainer.

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR GRADUATE GROUP--Shirli Bar-David: Spatial modeling of reintroduced Persian fallow deer in Israel and its conservation implications. 1:10 p.m., 1022 Life Sciences Addition.

PHILOSOPHY--Daniel Stoljar: Ignorance and experience. 3:10 p.m., 1231 Social Sciences and Humanities.

AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS AND OTHERS--David Zilberman: Regulation, intellectual property rights and the adoption and impact of agricultural biotechnology. 4 p.m., 3001 Plant and Environmental Sciences Building.

Monday, April 19

NEUROBIOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR; DIVISION OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES--Keir Pearson: Plasticity, learning and memory, and the walking system of mammals. 12:10 p.m., 1022 Life Sciences Addition.

GENOME CENTER--Byung-Joon Hwang: Genome annotation and transcriptional regulation. 10 a.m., 1022 Life Sciences Addition.

POMOLOGY--Maria de la Paz Celorio Mancera: Polygalacturonase role in plant damage caused by lygus bug and polygalacturonase inhibiting protein role in plant defense; Alonso Perez: Studies of Pierce's disease in grapevines--what MRI analysis can tell us about xylem function and ethylene effects. Noon, 2124 Wickson.

ANIMAL SCIENCE--Silas Hung: From sturgeon nutrition to toxicology and back. 12:10 p.m., 2154 Meyer.

PLANT PATHOLOGY--Kendra Baumgartner: New approaches to post-infection control of Armillaria root disease of grapevine. 12:10 p.m., 230 Wellman Hall.

CENTER FOR AQUATIC BIOLOGY AND AQUACULTURE--Peter Rand: Progress and challenges in documenting the status of salmon across the Pacific Rim. 4:10 p.m., Temporary Classroom 3.

GENETICS GRADUATE GROUP--Steve Knapp: Multiple strategies for identifying genes underlying complex traits in sunflower. 4:10 p.m., 1022 Life Sciences Addition.

NEMATOLOGY--Surindar Paracer: Symbiosis--some common molecular themes and new lessons. 4:10 p.m., 115 Wellman Hall.

NUTRITION GRADUATE GROUP--Jose Santos: Lipids and gossypol--effects on establishment and maintenance of pregnancy in dairy cattle. 4:10 p.m., 1309 Surge III.

ANTHROPOLOGY--Chris Hann: Postsocialist civil religion. 4:30 p.m., 2203 Social Sciences and Humanities.

Tuesday, April 20

CENTER FOR COMPARATIVE MEDICINE, CALIFORNIA NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER--William Chang: Use of modern tools to figure out an old cytokine--how IL-10 functions, why everybody wants it. Noon, Calif. National Primate Research Center.

ROAD ECOLOGY CENTER, JOHN MUIR INSTITUTE OF THE ENVIRONMENT--Vic Claassen: Revegetation of drastically disturbed field sites--a process to sort through multiple plant growth limitations. 12:10 p.m., 3001 Plant and Environmental Sciences.

TEACHING RESOURCES CENTER--Instructional Design Workshop: Advanced MyUCD Web site builder. To register visit http://trc.ucdavis.edu. 1:10 p.m., location to be announced.

SPANISH AND CLASSICS--Kelli Stanley: Suffering Sappho! Wonder Woman as mass-market Amazon. 4 p.m., 53A Olson Hall.

CENTER FOR HISTORY, SOCIETY AND CULTURE--Jorge Canizares: Demons, knights and saints--early modern colonialism and new world landscapes. 4:10 p.m., 2203 Social Science and Humanities.

CHEMISTRY--Sergei Tretiak: Excited states and nonlinear optical response of electronic materials. 4:10 p.m., 179 Chemistry Building.

ECONOMICS--Guofu Tan: The market for sweepstakes. 4:10 p.m., 1131 Social Sciences and Humanities.

ART AND ART HISTORY--Visiting artist lecture series with New York-based sculptor Jeanne Silverthorne: Topic to be announced. 4:30 p.m., Main Theatre.

Wednesday, April 21

AGRONOMY AND RANGE SCIENCE, ENTOMOLOGY--Jessica Flack: Conflict management mechanisms and social system robustness in primate societies. 12:10 p.m., 3001 Plant and Environmental Sciences.

TEACHING RESOURCES CENTER--TA Work-shop: Getting students active. For more information visit http://trc.ucdavis.edu. 3:10 p.m., Moss Room, MU.

BODEGA MARINE LABORATORY--Inge Werner: Effects of dormant-spray pesticides on juvenile chinook salmon. 4 p.m., Bodega Marine Laboratory lecture hall.

ECONOMICS--David Papell: Long run purchasing power parity--Cassel or Balassa-Samuelson? 4:10 p.m., 1131 Social Sciences and Humanities Building.

JOHN MUIR INSTITUTE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, GEOGRAPHY GRADUATE GROUP--Richard Katz: Water quality and water policy in California. 4:10 p.m., 179 Chemistry Building.

Thursday, April 22

CANCER CENTER--Dihau Yu: Novel mechanism of taxol and Herceptin-resistance of ErbB2 overexpressing breast cancers: sneakier than Houdini? 9 a.m., Cancer Center auditorium, 4501 X St., UCDMC.

GENOME CENTER--John Nolan: Molecular cytometry--new approaches to large-scale cell and molecular analysis. 10 a.m., 1022 Life Sciences Addition.

AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS--John Hartwick: Investing capital rentals for sustainable motion in classical mechanics and economics. 11 a.m., 2102 Social Sciences and Humanities Building.

INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORTATION STUDIES--Norman Garrick: Topic to be announced. 12:05 p.m., 1065 Kemper Hall.

PLANT PATHOLOGY--Mycology Seminar with Kathleen Treseder: Microbial mediation of ecosystem responses to global change. 12:10 p.m., 355A Hutchison.

CENTER FOR NEUROSCIENCE, DIVISION OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES--John Gabrieli: Topic to be announced. 4 p.m., 1544 Newton Court, Research Park.

CHEMISTRY--Zhiping Zheng: Metal cluster-supported supramolecular design and discovery. 4:10 p.m., 179 Chemistry Building.

JOINT SEMINARS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY--Patricia Wadsworth: Building a mitotic spindle. 4:10 p.m., 1022 Life Sciences Addition.

LUTHERAN EPISCOPAL CAMPUS MINISTRY--St. Augustine Chair Lecture Series with Martin Marty: Mainlines and hardlines in a mixed-up spiritual world. 7:30 p.m., 1100 Social Sciences and Humanities.

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--Ching-Yu Lin: Protein targets of reactive naphthalene and 1-nitronaphthalene metabolites in airways of mouse and rhesus macaque. 8 a.m., 2016 Haring Hall.

M.I.N.D. INSTITUTE--Daphne Maurer: Role of early experience in driving human development--lessons from children treated for congenital cataracts. 10 a.m., M.I.N.D. Institute auditorium, 2825 50th St., UCDMC.

BIOTECHNOLOGY PROGRAM, IGERT PROGRAM ON BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS--William Muir: Impact of transgenic fish on the environment. 11 a.m., 1022 Life Sciences Addition.

TEACHING RESOURCES CENTER, UNIVERSITY WRITING PROGRAM--Faculty Writing Workshop: Integrating writing into lecture classes--without getting buried. 11 a.m., 21 Olson Hall.

PSYCHIATRY--Grand Rounds with Alla Volvich: Clinical work with refugees from the former Soviet Union. 11:30 a.m., G300 Patient Support Services.

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: Studies of emotional responses in people with autism. 3 p.m., M.I.N.D. Institute, second floor boardroom, 2825 50th St., UCDMC.