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Events Archive

Science & Justice Working Group--Altruism and its limits: a conversation with Rene Almeling and Jenny Reardon
Wednesday January 14, 2009
599 Engineering 2
Science & Justice Working Group--Art, the death penalty, and questions of representation: a conversation with Dee Hibbert-Jones
Wednesday January 28, 2009
599 Engineering 2
Comprehensive monitoring of RNAs and proteins that define immune repertoire during pathogenesis: opportunities and challenges
Friday January 30, 2009
Natural Sciences Annex 101
Translational studies and molecular strategies to improve breast cancer treatment and prevention
Wednesday February 4, 2009
599 Engineering 2
Science & Justice Working Group--Software design and social justice: a conversation with Warren Sack
Wednesday February 11, 2009
599 Engineering 2
UCSC Stem Cell Journal Club
Friday February 13, 2009
123 Sinsheimer Labs
Science & Justice Working Group--"Public good" science: a conversation with Cori Hayden
Wednesday February 25, 2009
599 Engineering 2
UCSC Stem Cell Symposium
Wednesday February 25, 2009
UC Santa Cruz
Imaging information in DNA
Thursday March 12, 2009
180 Engineering 2, The Simularium
Science & Justice Working Group--Ethics and exposure in the time of extinctions
Wednesday April 1, 2009
Humanities 210
Science & Justice Working Group--Energy worlds: climate change and our 21st Century energy needs
Wednesday April 15, 2009
Engineering 2 Simularium, room 180
Better living through chemistry: marine natural products in neglected disease research
Thursday April 16, 2009
305 Physical Science Building
Optoelectronic retinal prosthesis for restoration of sight to the blind
Thursday April 16, 2009
Thimann Lecture Hall 1
Science & Justice Working Group--Technoscience and social change
Thursday April 16, 2009
599 Engineering 2
Wind, Sea, Algae: International Workshop on Offshore Algae Production for Biofuels and Beyond
Monday April 20, 2009
Lolland, Denmark
Mosquito behavior and malarial interventions
Thursday April 23, 2009
305 Physical Sciences Building
UCSC Stem Cell Journal Club
Monday May 4, 2009
123 Sinsheimer Labs
Science & Justice Working Group--After the beep: answering machines and creaturely life
Tuesday May 5, 2009
Humanities 210
Bioinformatic Approaches to DNA Sequence Analysis: Examples from human infectious disease
Tuesday May 12, 2009
Physical Sciences Building, Room 305
Exploring Human Body Shape and Motion
Tuesday May 12, 2009
Baskin Engineering Building, room 301A
Science & Justice Working Group--A conversation with Elizabeth Shove
Wednesday May 13, 2009
599 Engineering 2
Selective Genotyping and Phenotyping Strategies in a Complex Trait Context
Monday May 18, 2009
330 Baskin Engineering
The Origins of Genome Complexity
Wednesday May 20, 2009
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)
Happy Phase A Haplotyping Phasing Method
Thursday May 21, 2009
305 Physical Sciences Building
Human Genome Annotation
Friday May 22, 2009
599 Engineering 2
Understanding HAR1 and ZLA long non-coding RNAs in the cerebral cortex
Friday May 22, 2009
Natural Sciences Annex 101
Science & Justice Working Group--Technoscience and social change
Wednesday May 27, 2009
599 Engineering 2
Senkei Umehara & Jing Zhu
Thursday May 28, 2009
305 Physical Sciences Building
Angeline Lim: Motor Proteins in Axonal Transport
Friday May 29, 2009
101 Natural Sciences Annex
Charlie Boone: Global Mapping of Genetic and Chemical-Genetic Networks in Yeast
Friday May 29, 2009
101 Natural Sciences Annex
UCSC Stem Cell Journal Club
Monday June 1, 2009
123 Sinsheimer, UC Santa Cruz
Paul Koch: The Distribution and Ecology of Southern Elephant Seals and AdAlie Penguins on the Holocene Ross Sea Coast
Thursday June 4, 2009
305 Physical Sciences Building
Mark O'Neil-Johnson: Bringing back nature to drug discovery preferred, neglected and novel scaffolds uncovered
Monday June 8, 2009
240 Physical Sciences Building
Monica Lares: Towards the function of a novel RNA gene, HAR1
Tuesday June 9, 2009
240 Physical Sciences Building
Marc Gartenberg: Revisiting roles for sir2 in transcriptional silencing and sister chromatid cohesion
Wednesday June 10, 2009
123 Sinsheimer Labs
Visual recognition in the three-dimensional world
Tuesday June 16, 2009
280 Engineering 2 Building
Modeling human brain dynamics via multiscale electrophysiology
Wednesday June 17, 2009
399 Engineering 2 Building
2009 UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium
Friday June 19, 2009
University of California, Merced
Sydney Brenner: Reading the human genome
Wednesday July 1, 2009
180 Engineering 2, The Simularium
Eric Schadt: Networks as the sensors and drivers of disease
Tuesday July 7, 2009
599 Engineering 2
Sean Mooney--Understanding the biochemical effects of genetic variation data using computational biology and informatics
Wednesday July 22, 2009
599 Engineering 2
Beth Duncan: Discovery of the ultimate irreversible post-translational histone modification, cleavage of the histone H3 tail, during embryonic stem cell differentiation
Thursday July 23, 2009
301 Sinsheimer Labs
Chen-Hsiang Yeang: An integrated analysis of molecular aberrations in cancer
Tuesday July 28, 2009
305 Physical Sciences Building
Baskin Summer Undergraduate Research Poster Event
Thursday August 20, 2009
E2 Courtyard
Francois Major: Structure, Energy, and Role of Non-Watson-Crick Base Pairs in RNAs
Tuesday August 25, 2009
305 PSB
Robert Edgar--Simulating whole-genome sequence evolution with EVOLVER
Thursday September 3, 2009
599 Engineering 2
2009 Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology Symposium
Thursday September 10, 2009
Takamaro Kikkawa: UWB CMOS transmitter and receiver for breast cancer detection
Friday September 18, 2009
280 Engineering 2
Kuan Fu Chen: Eyelid reanimation system for facial nerve palsy
Friday September 18, 2009
280 Engineering 2
Paul Whitford: Simulating large-scale motions of the ribosome
Monday September 21, 2009
240 Physical Sciences Building
Jonathan Trent: Algae OMEGA: Offshore Membrane Enclosures for Growing Algae
Wednesday September 23, 2009
357 Physical Science Bldg
Chad Saltikov: How Bacteria Breathe Arsenic
Tuesday September 29, 2009
240 Physical Sciences Building
Grant writing basics and keys to successful grant writing
Wednesday September 30, 2009
180 Engineering 2, The Simularium
Thomas James: Discovery of small molecule ligands via virtual screening and NMR: targeting RNA, including human telomerase RNA
Wednesday September 30, 2009
240 Physical Science Building
Kevin Karplus: What the Karplus lab does
Thursday October 1, 2009
305 Physical Sciences Building
Dietland Gerloff: Looking for the unusual: hunting protein interactions with help of structural and evolutionary thinking...and a bit of common sense
Thursday October 1, 2009
305 Physical Sciences Building
Dr. Irving Loh: Harnessing Medical Information Technology to Improve Care and Outcome
Friday October 2, 2009
506 Engineering 2
Guillaume Bourque: Next-generation sequencing--challenges and opportunities
Monday October 5, 2009
305 Physical Sciences Building
David Feldheim: Mechanisms of mammalian visual system development
Monday October 5, 2009
101 Nat Sci Annex
Applying for NSF dissertation fellowships
Tuesday October 6, 2009
Cervantes & Velasquez, 3rd Floor of the Bay Tree Building
Science & Justice Working Group
Wednesday October 7, 2009
599 Engineering 2
Dr. Kosuke Fujishima: Discovery of jigsaw-like tRNA pieces and unique mobile tRNA introns in deep-branching archaeal order Thermoproteales
Thursday October 8, 2009
305 Physical Sciences Building
William Scott: RNA structure, catalysis and the origin of life
Friday October 9, 2009
101 Nat Sci Annex
Bin Chen: Transcriptional regulation of neuronal cell fate specification
Monday October 12, 2009
101 Nat Sci Annex
Dr. Charlie Vaske: Using gene perturbations to learn pathways and model pathway activations
Thursday October 15, 2009
305 Physical Sciences Building
Robert Sclafani: Checkpoint protein kinases regulate DNA replication and cancer chemoprevention by resveratrol
Monday October 19, 2009
101 Nat Sci Annex
Science & Justice Working Group: Collaborating across the arts and sciences
Wednesday October 21, 2009
599 Engineering 2
Mark Akeson & David Deamer: Nanopore analysis of nucleic acids
Wednesday October 21, 2009
240 Physical Sciences
School of Engineering Research Review Day
Thursday October 22, 2009
Baskin School of Engineering (Details to follow)
Camilla Forsberg: Stem cells - promises and challenges
Thursday October 22, 2009
Jack Baskin School of Engineering
Andrea Benucci: Stimulus dependence of the functional connectivity between neurons in primary visual cortex
Friday October 23, 2009
280 Engineering 2
Joshua Stuart: Integrative Genomics Analysis Of Stem Cells And Cancer
Tuesday October 27, 2009
240 Physical Sciences Building
Jacob Rosen: Medical robotics and the human-machine interface
Wednesday October 28, 2009
506 Engineering 2
Karen Ottemann: Chemotaxis and infection by Helicobacter pylori
Thursday October 29, 2009
305 Physical Sciences
Phil Berman: HIV vaccine research--development of antigens to elicit broadly neutralizing antibodies
Thursday October 29, 2009
305 Physical Sciences
Tara Davis: Cyclophilins in the spliceosome--can structure lead to function?
Friday October 30, 2009
101 Nat Sci Annex
Pepper Schedin: Pro-inflammatory tissue remodeling of the postpartum breast and breast cancer progression
Monday November 2, 2009
101 Nat Sci Annex
Dr. Howard Hu: Lead toxicity: twenty years of research on the poison that keeps on poisoning
Tuesday November 3, 2009
240 Physical Sciences Building: 3:00-4:00 and 2nd floor Atrium: 4:00-5:00 PM
Simon Cherry: Integrated Magnetic Resonance Imaging & Positron Emission Tomography: A New Tool for Biomedical Imaging?
Wednesday November 4, 2009
506 Engineering 2 Building
Kurt Haas: In vivo imaging of neural circuit structural and functional development in the awake embryonic brain
Monday November 9, 2009
101 Nat Sci Annex
Science & Justice Working Group--Vicki Kirby: Language, models, mediation--"the two cultures" revisited
Tuesday November 10, 2009
599 Engineering 2
Dr. Dula Man: microRNA profiling technique using DNA charge transfer principle
Tuesday November 10, 2009
280 Engineering 2 Building
Camilla Forsberg: High- (and not so high) throughput analysis of stem cell function
Thursday November 12, 2009
305 Physical Sciences Building
Lisa Petrella: Distinguishing germline and somatic cells-- competition between the MES and synMuv chromatin modifiers
Friday November 13, 2009
101 Nat Sci Annex
Biology and Mathematics in the Bay Area
Saturday November 14, 2009
Kresge Town Hall, UC Santa Cruz
Todd Lowe: Casting A Giant Net For Small RNAs In Archaea
Tuesday November 17, 2009
240 Physical Sciences Building
UCSC Stem Cell Journal Club
Tuesday November 17, 2009
599 Engineering 2
Science & Justice Working Group--Kimberly TallBear & Jenny Reardon: Indigenous Rights and Genomic Research
Wednesday November 18, 2009
599 Engineering 2
Dejan Milutinovic: Stochastic Components of the Immune System Response
Friday November 20, 2009
231 Interdisciplinary Sciences Building
Science & Justice Working Group
Wednesday December 2, 2009
599 Engineering 2