Today
Patterns of Diversity in Southern California Beetles
Mike Caterino – UC Irvine
12:10 to 1 p.m., 122 Briggs
Sponsored by entomology
Roots of the Second Green Revolution
Jonathan Lynch – Penn State University
4:10 to 5:30 p.m., 3001 Plant and Environmental Sciences
Sponsored by land, air and water resources, and environmental science and policy
Study of the Hydrodynamic Model for Attachment in Giardia
Susan House
4:10 to 5 p.m., 1022 Life Sciences
Sponsored by microbiology
Thursday
Healthy Skin at Any Age
Jill Haynes
Noon to 1 p.m., Cabernet Room, Silo
Sponsored by staff development and professional services
System Optimization of Information Rich Complex Bio-systems – An Alternative Strategy”
Chih-Ming Ho, UCLA
4 to 5 p.m., Genome & Biomedical Sciences Facility Auditorium
Sponsored by biomedical engineering
Simulating Protein Folding in Vitro and in Vivo in All-atom Detail
Vijay Pande, Stanford University
4:10 to 5 p.m. 1022 Life Sciences
Sponsored by College of Biological Sciences
Graduate Groups in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Cell & Developmental Biology, Section of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Departments of Biological Chemistry and Cell Biology & Human Anatomy, the Molecular & Cellular Biology Training Grant (NIH), and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Friday
Myth Busting Algal Oil: Confirm, Plausible or Busted?
Ben Wu, Ph.D. – vice president of Chemical Process Development at LiveFuels, Inc.
11 to 11:50 a.m., 1022 Life Sciences
Sponsored by the biotechnology program
Spontaneous Brain Activity – A Key for Understanding the Mind?
Maurizio Corbetta – Washington University in St. Louis
12:10 to 1 p.m., 267 Cousteau Place, Large Conference Room
Sponsored by Center for Mind and Brain
New Therapies for Hepatitis C
Lorenzo Rossaro
12:10 to 1 p.m., 1005 Genome Biomedical Sciences Facility
Sponsored by School of Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Feb. 23
Phylogenetic Microarrays for Analysis of Microbial Community Dynamics
Gary Anderson, Lawerence Berkely National Laboratory
10 to 10:50 a.m., 115 Hutchison
Sponsored by plant pathology
Key Innovations in Nematode Evolution
Byron Adams, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
4:10 to 5 p.m., 102 Hutchison Hall
Sponsored by nematology
Feb. 24
What Songbirds Can Teach Us About Learning and the Brain
Allison Doupe
Noon to 1 p.m., Center for Neuroscience, 1544 Newton Court, Research Park
Sponsored by Center for Neuroscience
