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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Upcoming seminars

Today

 

Transforming Transportation and Energy: Politics and Technology

Dan Sperling, director, Institute of Transportation Studies, and professor of civil engineering and environmental science and policy – UC Davis

360 Shields Library 12:10 to 1 p.m.

Sponsored by the Institute of Governmental Affairs

 

Sequential Speciation: Why Are There So Many SMALL Animals?

Andrew Forbes, postdoctoral scholar – UC Davis department of entomology

122 Briggs 12:10 to 1 p.m.

Sponsored by entomology

 

Signaling in Electric Fish: Behavior, Neurobiology, Molecular Evolution

Harold Zakon, Dr. – University of Texas at Austin

1022 Life Sciences 1:10 to 2 p.m.

Sponsored by Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior College of Biological Sciences

 

Thursday

 

Oncogenomics Approaches for Investigating Mechanisms of Cancer Pathogenesis and Therapy Resistance

Dr. Cliff Tepper & Dr. Jeff Gregg, assistant research biochemist, dept. of biochem & mol. med. & assoc. professor, dept. of pathology – UC Davis

UCD Medical Center auditorium 9 to 10 a.m.

Sponsored by UC Davis Cancer Center

 

Mechanisms Underlying Accurate Meiotic Chromosome Segregation in C. elegans

Monica Colaiacovo, assistant professor – Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School

1022 Life Sciences 4:10 to 5 p.m.

Sponsored by the College of Biological Sciences and various graduate groups

 

Friday

 

What Is the Mouse Trying to Tell Us? The Post-genomic World and One Medicine

Robert D. Cardiff, M.D., Ph.D., director, Center for Genomic Pathology

1022 Life Sciences 11 a.m. to noon

Sponsored by the Biotechnology Program

 

Stem Cell Therapies – Options for Avoiding Immune Rejection

Jan Nolta

1005 Genome Biomedical Sciences Facility 2:10 to 3 p.m.

Sponsored by medical microbiology and immunology

 

Arboretum Talk: California Native Plants for the Garden

David Fross, founder of Native Sons Wholesale Nursery in Arroyo Grande and co-author of California Native Plants for the Garden

Wyatt Theater, Old Davis Road 7 to 8 p.m.

Sponsored by Friends of the UC Davis Arboretum

 

Sunday

 

Film Screening: Atom Smashers

Directors Clayton Brown and Monica Ross – directors of the documentary

194 Chemistry 7 to 10:30 p.m.

Sponsored by HEFTI, dept. of physics

 

Monday

 

Cognition and Dogs – Why Does It Matter?

List Lit, graduate student – M.I.N.D. Institute and departments of neurology & psychiatry, UCD

Weir Room, 2151 Meyer noon to 1 p.m.

Sponsored by animal science

 

Identification of Factors Mediating Cold Therapy of Xylella fastidiosa-infected Grapevines

Melody Meyer – department of plant pathology, UC Davis

115 Hutchison 12:10 to 1 p.m.

Sponsored by plant pathology

 

Tuesday, April 28

 

Spray Nozzel and Fluid Property Sensors for Process Control: Theory, Experiments and Development

Ken Giles, UC Davis

2045 Bainer 1:10 to 2 p.m.,

Sponsored by biological agricultural engineering

 

More seminars can be found at calendar.ucdavis.edu. If you’d like to publish a seminar here, send an e-mail to campus@theaggie.org. XXX

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