Friday, April 30

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 during rebound from surfaces for agricultural and consumer products. 2 p.m., 2045 Bainer Hall.

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.

Monday, May 3

CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING--Julia Slutsker: Phase field modeling of composites with self-assembling micro- and nanostructures. Noon, 1065 Kemper Hall.

POMOLOGY--Liya Yang: Investigation of the roles of polygalacturonase-inhibiting proteins in plant defense against pathogens. Noon, 2124 Wickson Hall.

ANIMAL SCIENCE--Carole Conway: An initial view of the global stock structure of blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) based on nuclear genetic variation. 12:10 p.m., Weir Room, 2154 Meyer Hall.

NEUROBIOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR--Ronald Harris-Warrick: Neuromodulation and homeostasis in a small neural network. 12:10 p.m., 1022 Life Sciences Addition.

PLANT PATHOLOGY--Nancy Keller: Topic to be announced. 12:10 p.m., 230 Wellman Hall.

CENTER FOR AQUATIC BIOLOGY AND AQUACULTURE--Walt Dickhoff: Juvenile salmon development (smoltification and precocious maturation) of Pacific salmon in hatcheries and the wild. 4:10 p.m., Temporary Classroom 3.

ECONOMICS--Carlos Dobkin: The impact of nearly universal insurance coverage on health care utilization and health--evidence from Medicare. 4:10 p.m., 1131 Social Sciences and Humanities Building.

GENETICS GRADUATE GROUP--David Francis: Toward a mechanistic understanding of QTL for disease resistance and nutritional quality in tomato. 4:10 p.m., 1022 Life Sciences Addition.

NUTRITION GRADUATE GROUP--Lucia Kaiser: Topic to be announced. 4:10 p.m., 1309 Surge III.

PHYSICS--Sunil Sinha: Diffuse scattering studies of lattice modulations and lattice distortions in complex oxides. 4:10 p.m., 55 Roessler Hall.

Tuesday, May 4

CENTER FOR COMPARATIVE MEDICINE, CALIFORNIA NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER--John Rutledge: Imaging the early events in atherosclerosis. Noon, California National Primate Research Center.

CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING--Raissa D'Souza: Networks, power laws and phase transitions. Noon, 1065 Kemper Hall.

CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN NUTRITION AND SOCIAL MARKETING--Dawn Wilcox: Packaging and promoting your social marketing research. 12:10 p.m., DeCarli Room, MU.

ROAD ECOLOGY CENTER, JOHN MUIR INSTITUTE OF THE ENVIRONMENT--Bill Ruediger: Wildlife-habitat linkages--high, wide, and handsome. 12:10 p.m., 3001 Plant and Environmental Sciences Building.

TEACHING RESOURCES CENTER--Instructional Design Workshop: MyUCDavis quiz builder. Visit http://trc.ucdavis.edu to register. 1:10 p.m., location to be announced.

CHEMISTRY--David Nesbitt: Single molecule kinetics. 4:10 p.m., 179 Chemistry Building.

ECONOMICS--Gabrielle Demange: On group stability in hierarchies and networks. 4:10 p.m., 1131 Social Sciences and Humanities Building.

ECONOMICS--Christopher Hanes: The rise of open-mouth operations and the disappearance of the borrowing function in the United States. 4:10 p.m., 5214 Social Sciences and Humanities Building.

Wednesday, May 5

PROFESSORS FOR THE FUTURE PROGRAM--Marty West and Isao Fujimoto: Being a scholar and an active citizen. Noon, 3201 Hart Hall.

AGRONOMY AND RANGE SCIENCE; ENTOMOLOGY--Rick Grosberg: Fair and foul are next of kin--the evolution of self/nonself recognition and individuality. 12:10 p.m., 3001 Plant and Environmental Sciences Building.

ENGLISH--George Anastaplo: The propriety of Duke Vincentio's courtship of Isabella in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. 12:10 p.m., 126 Voorhies Hall.

TEACHING RESOURCES CENTER--TA Work-shop: Taking teaching beyond the classroom. Visit http://trc.ucdavis.edu to register. 3:10 p.m., Fielder Room, Memorial Union.

BODEGA MARINE LABORATORY--Mark Carr: Pattern and process in California kelp forest fish assemblages. 4 p.m., Bodega Marine Laboratory lecture hall.

SOIL SCIENCE GRADUATE GROUP--Meagan Hynes: Phophorus and potassium leakage from mycorrhizal and uninoculated roots of Quercus douglasii; Zachary Aanderud: Exploring links between desert shrubs and ecosystem processes in a California cold desert ecosystem. 4 p.m., 2005 Plant and Environmental Sciences Building.

ECONOMICS--Kevin Lansing: Lock-in of extrapolative expectations in an asset pricing model. 4:10 p.m., 1131 Social Sciences and Humanities Building.

FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY--Janna Smith: Genetic taste markers, food preferences and dietary practices of children; Michael Gabel: Energy reduction and improved quality attributes in onion dehydration with infrared radiation technology. 4:10 p.m., 107 Cruess Hall.

GEOLOGY--Naomi Oreskes: Consensus in science--how do we know we're not wrong? 4:10 p.m., 55 Roessler Hall.

JOHN MUIR INSTITUTE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, GEOGRAPHY GRADUATE GROUP--Greg Thomas: Water marketing and groundwater storage--policy and management. 4:10 p.m., 179 Chemistry Building.

PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY MEDICINE--Evan Snyder: Biology of neural stem cells may equip them for therapeutic use. 5 p.m., M.I.N.D. Institute.

Thursday, May 6

CANCER CENTER; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; BASIC SCIENCE--Andy Wyrobek: Are differential cellular mechanisms involved in the low dose response of cells to ionizing radiation? 9 a.m., UCDMC, 2230 Administrative Support Building, 2450 48th St., UCDMC.

PACIFIC REGIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER--David Mas Masumoto: Writing rural. Noon, 126 Voorhies Hall.

TEACHING RESOURCES CENTER--Instructional Design Studios: MyUCDavis Lunch. Discuss features and improvements with other instructors and MyUCDavis developers. Noon, 161 Everson (The Arbor).

INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORTATION STUDIES--Lester Hoel: A Virginia perspective on transportation research and mobility. 12:05 p.m., 1065 Kemper Hall.

PLANT PATHOLOGY--Mycology Seminar with Tom Rambo: Ecological roles and indirect mutualisms of lichenized fungi in the Sierra Nevada. 12:10 p.m., 355A Hutchison Hall.

EXERCISE SCIENCE GRADUATE GROUP, DIVISION OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES--Jennifer Neugebauer: Biomechanical and muscular differences in three jump conditions. 3:30 p.m., 197 Briggs Hall.

CHEMISTRY--Robert Continetti: Three-body dissociation dynamics of the low-lying Rydberg states of H3. 4:10 p.m., 179 Chemistry Building.

JOINT SEMINARS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY--Linda Hicke: Regulation of receptor endocytosis by monoubiquitin signals. 4:10 p.m., 1022 Life Sciences Addition.

NEMATOLOGY--R. Charudattan: Plant pathogens as weed control agents--successes, challenges and new developments. 4:10 p.m., 103 Hutchison Hall.

Friday, May 7

BIOTECHNOLOGY PROGRAM, STRUCTURE ASSISTED DRUG DISCOVERY PROGRAM--Glenn Prestwich: Targeting the PI 3-kinase pathway in human diseases. 11 a.m., 1022 Life Sciences Addition.

HUMAN AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT--Esther Prins: Confronting the obstacles to solidarity in community development--a case study from rural El Salvador. Noon, 3201 Hart Hall.

WESTERN CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL HEALTH AND SAFETY--John Miles: Ergonomic intervention in labor-intensive crops. Noon, TB 137.

BIOPHYSICS GRADUATE GROUP--Ching-Yao Fong: Topic announced. 12:10 p.m., 1128 Bainer Hall.

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND OTHERS--Gail Feenstra, Ann Evans: Foodsheds--sustaining a regional agriculture. 12:10 p.m., 1150 Hart Hall.

PLANT BIOLOGY GRADUATE GROUP--John Hays: DNA mismatch repair--a decisive genomic-fidelity function in plants. 12:10 p.m., 1022 Life Sciences Addition.

M.I.N.D. INSTITUTE--Autism, Genes and Environment, symposium at the International Meeting for Autism Research. For more information call the Center for Children's Environmental Health, (530) 754-8157. 1-6 p.m., Hyatt Regency, Sacramento.

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR GRADUATE GROUP--Elena Berg: Reproductive options in the white-throated magpie-jay, a cooperative breeder with female helpers. 1:10 p.m., 1022 Life Sciences Addition.

SOCIOLOGY--Amanda Lewis: Everyday race-making. 4 p.m., 1291 Social Sciences and Humanities.

Saturday, May 8

OFFICE OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS--Women in Medicine. Workshop for women faculty on negotiation skills. Lectures and mock scenarios followed by a keynote speaker who is a successful woman in the community. Free and open to all women faculty. 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Marriott Inn ballroom, Sacramento.