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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Upcoming seminars

Today

A Tangled Web: Exploring the Interplay of Omnivory and Wound-Inducible Plant Responses

Ken Spence

122 Briggs, noon to 1 p.m.

Sponsored by the Entomology department

 

The Strange Abjuration of the Last Inca Sovereign

Marco Curatola Petrocchi

5214 Social Sciences and Humanities, 12:05 to 1:30 p.m.

Sponsored by the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas

 

The Digital Uncanny: Reconfiguring Embodiment in the Age of Surveillance

Kriss Ravetto

126 Voorhies, 4 to 5:30 p.m.

Sponsored by the Science and Technology Studies Program, the English department, and the Davis Humanities Institute

 

Thursday, Apr. 3

Vitamin D and Cancer: It’s Not Just For Bones Anymore

David Feldman

UCDMC Cancer Center auditorium, 4501 X St., Sacramento, 9 to 10 a.m.

Sponsored by the Cancer Center Basic Sciences

 

Friday, Apr. 4

Fixing the Broken Heart: From Protein Engineering, Gene Therapy to Human Embryonic Stem Cells

Ronald Li

1005 Genome Biomedical Sciences, 12:10 p.m.

Sponsored by the UC Davis School of Medicine

 

Overlapping Functions of Carotenoids and Vitamin E in Chloroplasts

Kris Niyogi

1022 Life Sciences, 12:10 to 1 p.m.

Sponsored by the Plant Biology Graduate Group

 

Markets and Bazaars: Carbon Trading in the New World

Deb Niemeier

1065 Kemper, 1:30 to 3 p.m.

Sponsored by the Institute of Transportation Studies

 

Monday, Apr. 7

The Microbial Ecology of Dairy Waste Treatment

Jeff McGarvey

2154 Meyer, 12:10 to 1 p.m.

Sponsored by the Animal Science department

 

Lessons Learned from George: Virology from Yellowstone to Nanotechnology

Mark Young

115 Hutchison, 12:10 to 1 p.m.

Sponsored by the plant pathology department

 

Immunoassay Methods for Pesticide Exposure Monitoring

Shirley Gee

3201 Hart, 4 to 5 p.m.

Sponsored by the Public Health Sciences and the Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety

 

The Evolution of Human Diets

Michael Richards

184 Young, 4:10 to 6 p.m.

Sponsored by the anthropology department

 

Tuesday, Apr. 8

My Six-Year-Old Son Should Get a Job: What Is Wrong With the Free Trade Orthodoxy?

Ha-Joon Chang

2203 Social Sciences and Humanities, noon to 1:30 p.m.

Sponsored by the Center for History, Society and Culture

 

The Ecology of Resource Pulses and Other Extreme Events

Louie Yang

1022 Life Sciences, noon to 1 p.m.

Sponsored by the Department of Entomology and Department of Nematology, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

 

Regulation of ErbB Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Signaling in Breast Cancer

Kermit Carraway

California National Primate Research Center Seminar Hall, noon to 1 p.m.

Sponsored by the Center for Comparative Medicine

 

More seminars can be found at calendar.ucdavis.edu. If you’d like to publish a seminar here, email science@californiaaggie.com. XXX

 

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