Events Archive: 2012

• From Silent Spring to Silent Night: A Tale of Toads and Men
  Tyrone B. Hayes, Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
  Monday, January 9, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 221 Interdisciplinary Sciences Building
  
• Boronic acids in cross-coupling and beyond--New applications in stereoselective synthesis and catalysis
  Dennis Hall, Chemistry, University of Alberta
  Monday, January 9, 2012, 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• The California Condor and lead poisoning--After 20 years the recovery of a critically endangered species remains uncertain
  Myra Finkelstein, Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, UCSC
  Tuesday, January 10, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• UCSC Stem Cell Journal Club
  Wednesday, January 11, 2012, 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM, 506 Engineering 2
  
• UCSC RNA Club
  Thursday, January 12, 2012, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM, 123 Sinsheimer
  
• Science & Justice Working Group: Genomics, justice and privacy
  Ted Goldstein, Biomolecular Engineering, UCSC
  Thursday, January 12, 2012, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM, 399 Engineering 2
  
• Center for Computational Biology (CCB) Symposium on Human Genome Variation
  Friday, January 13, 2012, 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM, 245 Li Ka Shing Center, UC Berkeley
  
• Cell and molecular mechanisms of PCB developmental neurotoxicity
  Pamela Lein, Molecular Biosciences, UC Davis
  Tuesday, January 17, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• CANCELED: Sequencing B and T cell receptors at high-throughput--Basic immunology and clinical applications
  CANCELED: Harlan Robins, Adaptive TCR Technologies
  Thursday, January 19, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• Recent human evolution, revealed by Neandertals
  Ed Green, Biomolecular Engineering, UCSC
  Friday, January 20, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 101 Natural Sciences Annex
  
• Bugs, drugs, and parasites
  Joseph DeRisi, Biochemistry & Biophysics, UC San Francisco
  Monday, January 23, 2012, 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM, 206 Earth and Marine Sciences
  
• Targeting cancer--simulation tools to improve radiation therapy
  Joseph Perl, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
  Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM, 102 Interdisciplinary Sciences Building
  
• Metals in Sinaloa, Mexico
  Carlos Green René Ruiz, METX, Geomicrobiology and Sedimentology Laboratory in the Institute of Marine Sciences and Limnology
  Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• Bay Area RNA Club Meeting 2012
  Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM, Genentech Hall Auditorium, Mission Bay Campus, UCSF
  
• Deal or No Deal--the 'definite maybes' of conservation
  Andy Phillips, conservation consultant
  Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 101 Natural Sciences Annex
  
• Synthetic biology for natural product engineering and evolution
  Maureen Hillenmeyer, Stanford Genome Technology Center
  Thursday, January 26, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• Science & Justice Working Group--American metabolism
  Hannah Landecker, Center for Genetics and Society, UCLA
  Thursday, January 26, 2012, 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM, 399 Engineering 2
  
• Biophotonic sensors on a microchip
  Markus Pollnau, Integrated Optical MicroSystems Grp., MESA+ Inst. for Nanotech., University of Twente, Netherlands
  Friday, January 27, 2012, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, 599 Engineering 2
  
• Graphical models for sparse estimation and neuroscience
  Alyson Fletcher, UC Berkeley
  Monday, January 30, 2012, 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM, 599 Engineering 2
  
• Cell cycle dynamics
  Jan Skotheim, Biology, Chemical & Systems Biology, Stanford University
  Monday, January 30, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 101 Natural Sciences Annex
  
• Science & Justice Working Group: Scientific research on ayahuasca and health
  Bia Labate, Institute of Medical Psychology, Heidelberg University, Germany
  Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM, 599 Engineering 2
  
• Lean biotech startup
  Douglas Crawford, Associate Director, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3)
  Wednesday, February 1, 2012, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM, 599 Engineering 2
  
• Do we--should we--have an evolutionary ecology?
  Joseph Travis, Biology, Florida State University
  Wednesday, February 1, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 101 Natural Sciences Annex
  
• Shrink-film micro- and nano-fabrication for biomedical tools
  Michelle Khine, Biomedical Engineering, UC Irvine
  Thursday, February 2, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• Fluctuations in chromatin structure and gene expression
  Hinrich Boeger, MCD Biology, UCSC
  Monday, February 6, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 101 Natural Sciences Annex
  
• Formation of C-C bonds via catalytic hydrogenation and transfer hydrogenation--Merged redox-construction events for organic synthesis
  Michael Krische, Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Texas, Austin
  Monday, February 6, 2012, 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• Science & Justice Working Group: Cells, race and stories
  Priscilla Wald, English & Center for Genome Ethics, Law, and Policy, Duke University
  Monday, February 6, 2012, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM, 599 Engineering 2
  
• Leona Samson pre-seminar reception
  Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 11:30 AM to 11:59 AM, Second Floor Atrium, Physical Sciences Building
  
• Complex biological responses to alkylation and inflammation
  Leona D. Samson, Director, Center for Environmental Health Sciences, Biological Engineering, MIT
  Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• UCSC Stem Cell Journal Club
  Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM, 599 Engineering 2
  
• Reproductive strategies of reef fishes predict both within-species genetic differentiation and within-family species
  Cynthia Riginos, Biology, University of Queensland
  Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 101 Natural Sciences Annex
  
• Biosynthesis of hybrid natural products in marine bacteria
  Peter Bernhardt, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego
  Thursday, February 9, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• Wnt signaling, stem cells, and tissue repair
  Roel Nusse, Developmental Biology, School of Medicine, Stanford University
  Monday, February 13, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 101 Natural Sciences Annex
  
• Molecular traps, masks, and meditopes--The use of multivalency in the next generation therapeutic design
  John Williams, Molecular Medicine, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope
  Monday, February 13, 2012, 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• Lost, and losing ground Helicobacter pylori chemotactic mutants and susceptibility to antibiotic therapy
  Susan Williams, Molecular & Environmental Toxicology, UCSC
  Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• Developing sustainable water use strategies for California agriculture--insights from the insides of plants
  Andrew McElrone, USDA-ARS Department of Viticulture and Enology, UC Davis
  Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 101 Natural Sciences Annex
  
• Whole genome mapping: a new paradigm for sequence assembly and genomic characterization
  Erin Newburn, Applications Scientist, OpGen, Inc.
  Thursday, February 16, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• Genome-scale simultaneous inference of species and gene trees
  Bastien Boussau, Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
  Thursday, February 16, 2012, 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM, 599 Engineering 2
  
• DNA sequencing degrees...
  Daniel Fisher, Applied Physics & Biology and Bioengineering, Stanford
  Thursday, February 16, 2012, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, 102 Interdisciplinary Sciences Building
  
• Fred Keeley Lecture on Environmental Policy
  Sylvia Earle, Explorer-in-residence, National Geographic
  Thursday, February 16, 2012, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM, Music Recital Hall
  
• Analyzing genomic-scale population genetic data
  John Novembre, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UCLA
  Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 101 Natural Sciences Annex
  
• BME 280 Seminar: A sludgy human mouth
  Cleber Ouverney, Biological Sciences, San Jose State University
  Thursday, February 23, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• Cancer and aging: Rival demons
  Judith Campisi, Buck Institute for Research and Aging
  Monday, February 27, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 101 Natural Sciences Annex
  
• TBD
  Spiros Liras, Pfizer
  Monday, February 27, 2012, 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• QB3 Cancer Club II: Surprising roles of a potassium channel in brain tumor pathogenesis
  Monday, February 27, 2012, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, 212 Byers Hall, UCSF Mission Bay
  
• Regulation of arsenic metabolism in Shewanella sp.ANA-3
  R. Pamela Watson, MCD Biology, UCSC
  Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• Data management workshop
  Carly Strasser, DCXL Project Manager, UC3, California Digital Library
  Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 3:30 PM to 5:15 PM, 599 Engineering 2
  
• The history of biotic diversification in the North American deserts--surprising generality and cryptic complexity
  Brett Riddle, Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 101 Natural Sciences Annex
  
• CANCELLED: Tracking expression one cell at a time
  Thursday, March 1, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• Using drosophila models of neurodegenerative disease to identify therapeutic strategies
  Larry Marsh, Director, Developmental Biology Center, UC Irvine
  Monday, March 5, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 101 Natural Sciences Annex
  
• Kinesthetics for wearable robotic exoskeleton
  Hyunshul Kim, Electrical Engineering, UCSC
  Monday, March 5, 2012, 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM, 280 Engineering 2
  
• Small molecules as chemical tools and potentaial therapeutics for human neurodegenerative diseases
  Mi Hee Lim, Chemistry, University Michigan
  Monday, March 5, 2012, 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• Following adaptive evolution in yeast using high-throughput population sequencing
  Gavin Sherlock, Genetics, Stanford University
  Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• Growing up and getting home--contributions towards understanding recruitment in rockfishes
  Eric Bjorkstedt, Fisheries Biology, Humboldt State University
  Wednesday, March 7, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 101 Natural Sciences Annex
  
• Startup Boot Camp Preview
  Partners, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
  Thursday, March 8, 2012, 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM, 506 Engineering 2
  
• Optical tweezers in the study of mechanobiology
  Elliot Botvinick, Biomedical Engineering, UC Irvine
  Thursday, March 8, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• How bacterial chemotaxis and endogenous gut microbiota alter disease outcome of Helicobacter pylori infection
  Annah Rolig, Ottemann laboratory, MCD Biology, UCSC
  Friday, March 9, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 101 Natural Sciences Annex
  
• Science & Justice Working Group: The Black Panther Party and the fight against medical discrimination
  Alondra Nelson, Sociology, Columbia University
  Monday, March 12, 2012, 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM, 301 College 8
  
• Genetic and molecular dissection of a simple circadian system
  Jay Dunlap, Genetics, Dartmouth Medical School
  Monday, March 12, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 101 Natural Sciences Annex
  
• Discovery in marine metagenomic datasets at distributed lab sites
  Jonathan Magasin, Gerloff laboratory, UCSC
  Monday, March 12, 2012, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM, 506 Engineering 2
  
• Structure and dynamics at buried interfaces of nanopaticles, thin films and biological cells probed by nonlinear light scattering
  Hai-Lung Dai, Chemistry, Temple University
  Monday, March 12, 2012, 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• METX second-year student talks
  Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, 240 Physical Science Building
  
• Science & Justice Working Group: Can science have progressive goals? The case of African American genetic ancestry testing
  Alondra Nelson, Sociology, Columbia University
  Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM, 599 Engineering 2
  
• Bayesian nonparametric inference methods for mean residual life functions
  Valerie Poynor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics
  Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM, 305 Physical Sciences Building
  
• UCSC Stem Cell Journal Club
  Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM, 599 Engineering 2
  
• Through the looking glass--host-parasite coevolution and sex
  Curt Lively, Biology, University of Indiana
  Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 101 Natural Sciences Annex
  
• BME 280B Seminar Series: Boaz Vilozny and Paolo Actis
  Thursday, March 15, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:45 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• Cell cycle control by multi-site phosphorylation: a big job for a little protein
  Eva Balog, Rubin laboratory, MCD Biology, UCSC
  Friday, March 16, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 101 Natural Sciences Annex
  
• Biochemical and structural investigations of the ribosomal GTPase associated center
  Eric Maklan, Noller laboratory, MCD Biology, UCSC
  Monday, March 19, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• Hyperpolarized Carbon-13 MRI Technology Development Workshop
  Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM, Genentech Hall Auditorium, UCSF Mission Bay Campus
  
• Biomolecular Engineering senior design seminar
  Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM, 180 Engineering 2
  
• PBSE/BME Winter 2012 Graduate student rotation talks--Part 1
  Wednesday, March 21, 2012, 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• PBSE/BME Winter 2012 Graduate student rotation talks--Part 2
  Thursday, March 22, 2012, 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• PBSE/BME Winter 2012 Graduate student rotation talks--Part 3
  Friday, March 23, 2012, 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• The placenta pushes back
  Anna Bakardjiev, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Microbial Host and Pathogenesis Program, UC San Francisco
  Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• Robots, climate, and the life and death of marine microbes
  James Bellingham, Chief Technologist, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
  Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, 595B Engineering 2
  
• Tracking expression one cell at a time
  Caroline Dando, Fluidigm Corporation
  Thursday, April 5, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• Science & Justice Working Group: Too many Ps? Personal, political, publics, and potatoes
  Ruth Ozeki, author of All Over Creation
  Thursday, April 5, 2012, 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Oakes Mural Room
  
• Using single particle EM to dissect the structure and function of dynamic molecular machines
  Melanie Ohi, Assistant Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
  Friday, April 6, 2012, 12:30 AM to 1:30 PM, 101 Natural Sciences Annex
  
• Making the most of your presentation
  Jean-luc Doumont, Principiae
  Monday, April 9, 2012, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, 180 Engineering 2, The Simularium
  
• To grow or not to grow: Regulation of microtubule plus-end dynamics by kinesin-8 motors
  Ryoma (Puck) Ohi, Cell & Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  Monday, April 9, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 101 Natural Sciences Annex
  
• Seminar: modeling dependence in multivariate time series with applications to brain signals
  Hernando Ombao, Professor, Department of Statistics, UC Irvine
  Monday, April 9, 2012, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, 180 Engineering 2, The Simularium
  
• Recombination hotspots and fine scale population structure and history in the UK
  Peter Donnelly, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
  Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, 599 Engineering 2
  
• UCSC Stem Cell Journal Club
  Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM, 599 Engineering 2
  
• Cactus graphs and AVGs
  Daniel Zerbino & Benedict Paten, UCSC Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering
  Thursday, April 12, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM, 305 Physical Sciences Building
  
• UCSC RNA Club
  Thursday, April 12, 2012, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM, 123 Sinsheimer
  
• Engineering is elementary
  Christine M. Cunningham, Vice President, Museum of Science, Boston
  Friday, April 13, 2012, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, 599 Engineering 2
  
• MicroRNA-mediated regulation of synapse mophogenesis in drosophila
  David Van Vactor, Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
  Friday, April 13, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 101 Natural Sciences Annex
  
• In vivo imaging of adult born neurons in the mouse olfactory bulb
  Adi Mizrahi, Neurobiology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  Monday, April 16, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 101 Natural Sciences Annex
  
• BME 280B Seminar Series: Peter Waltham & Artem Sokolov
  Thursday, April 19, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• Mechanisms of co-translational protein folding
  Bernd Bukau, Director, Center for Molecular Biology, University of Heidelberg
  Friday, April 20, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 101 Natural Sciences Annex
  
• A nifH sequence pipeline, and diel gene expression of marine cyanobacteria
  Philip Heller, Biomolecular Engineering, UCSC
  Monday, April 23, 2012, 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• Guts and gastrulation--Cell behaviors driving morphogenesis of the early mouse embryo
  Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis, Center for Stem Cell Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Monday, April 23, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 101 Natural Sciences Annex
  
• METX Seminars: Juan Castellon & Cherie Musgrove
  Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• Research training opportunities in genetics and genomics at Stanford University
  Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 599 Engineering 2
  
• Reprogramming and programming in human development--From classic to modern embryology
  Vittorio Sebastiano, Research Director, Human Embryonic Stem Cell Core Facility, Stanford University
  Thursday, April 26, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• Today's biomedical innovation--Lost in translation?
  Janet Woodcock, Director, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  Thursday, April 26, 2012, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Byers Auditorium, Genentech Hall, UCSF Mission Bay
  
• Oakes history and diversity in the medical sciences
  Herman Blake, Humanities, Medical University of South Carolina
  Thursday, April 26, 2012, 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM, Guzman Room, Oakes College
  
• Generation of temporal identity in drosophila neuroblasts
  Chris Doe, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon
  Monday, April 30, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 101 Natural Sciences Annex
  
• Defining the envelope for the search for life in the universe
  Lynn Rothschild, NASA Ames Research Center & Brown University
  Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• Decoding RNA secondary structure from multiple homologs--A “turbo-decoding” approach
  Gaurav Sharma, Electrical and Computer Engineering & Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester
  Thursday, May 3, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• Establishing the first two lineages in the mammalian embryo
  Stephanie Vanderweide, Ralston Lab, MCD Biology, UCSC
  Friday, May 4, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 101 Natural Sciences Annex
  
• Fidelity in chromosome segregation
  Arshad Desai, Cellular & Molecular Biology, UC San Diego
  Monday, May 7, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 101 Natural Sciences Annex
  
• The Biology of Genomes pre-meeting workshop on working with ENCODE data
  Tuesday, May 8, 2012, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York
  
• METX Seminars: Samar Abedrabbo & Cardius Richardson
  Tuesday, May 8, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• Science & Justice Working Group: Are you my data?
  Tuesday, May 8, 2012, 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Alumni Room, University Center
  
• UCSC Stem Cell Journal Club
  Wednesday, May 9, 2012, 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM, 599 Engineering 2
  
• BME 280B Seminar Series: Shaila Kotadia & Anna Beaudin
  Thursday, May 10, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM, 305 Physical Sciences Building
  
• RNA Club: Ribosome profiling of mouse embryonic stem cells
  Liana Lareau, Brown laboratory, Stanford University
  Thursday, May 10, 2012, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, 123 Sinsheimer
  
• Investigating the role of asymmetric cell divisions in mammary gland morphogenesis
  Mimmi Ballard, Hinck Lab, MCD Biology, UCSC
  Friday, May 11, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 101 Natural Sciences Annex
  
• 8th Annual UCSC Graduate Research Symposium
  Friday, May 11, 2012, 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM, University Center, second floor
  
• In vitro and in vivo evolution of catalytic RNAs
  Ulrich Müller, Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC San Diego
  Monday, May 14, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 101 Natural Sciences Annex
  
• METX Seminars: Kingsley Odigie & Jaime Hernandez
  Tuesday, May 15, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• OpenHelix Webinar: Introduction to the Genome Browser
  Thursday, May 17, 2012, 10:00 AM to 11:15 AM,
  
• Machine learning, cloud compute, and drug design
  Nigel Duffy, CTO, Numerate Inc.
  Thursday, May 17, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM, 240 Physical Sciences Building
  
• Tuning the magnetization dynamics of nanomagnetic elements through irradiation, composition and shape
  Rebekah Brandt, Electrical Engineering
  Friday, May 18, 2012, 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM, 330 Jack Baskin Engineering
  
• The role of the POU-domain transcription factor Oct3/4 during mouse development
  Tristan Frum, Ralston laboratory, MCD Biology, UC Santa Cruz
  Friday, May 18, 2012, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, 101 Natural Sciences Annex
  
• Science & Justice Working Group--Authority, expertise, and power in Mexican forests
  Andrew Mathews, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz
  Tuesday, May 22, 2012, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM, 599 Engineering 2
  
• OpenHelix Webinar: Advanced Genome Browser topics
  Thursday, May 24, 2012, 10:00 AM to 11:15 AM,
  
• Science & Justice Working Group party and fellows project showcase
  Tuesday, May 29, 2012, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM, 231 Oakes
  
• Science & Justice Research Center opening celebration
  Tuesday, May 29, 2012, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM, Mural Room Oakes College, 231 Oakes College
  
• UCSC CIRM Scholar Research Review Day
  Monday, June 4, 2012, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, 180 Engineering 2, The Simularium
  
• EMT programs and therapeutic resistance of breast cancer stem cells
  Jeffrey M. Rosen, Molecular & Cellular Biology and Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine
  Monday, June 4, 2012, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, 180 Engineering 2, The Simularium
  
• Correlating time-lapse imaging and molecular data in human embryo development and pluripotent stem cells
  Renee Reijo Pera, Director, Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Education, Stanford University
  Monday, June 4, 2012, 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM, 180 Engineering 2, The Simularium
  
• UCSC Stem Cell Journal Club
  Wednesday, June 13, 2012, 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM, 599 Engineering 2
  
• QB3/GE Bioprocessing Course, June 18-22, Day 1
  Monday, June 18, 2012, 10:00 AM to 5:30 PM, Cardiovascular Research Institute, 555 Mission Bay Blvd South, UCSF Mission Bay
  
• QB3/GE Bioprocessing Course, June 18-22, Day 2
  Tuesday, June 19, 2012, 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM, Cardiovascular Research Institute, 555 Mission Bay Blvd South, UCSF Mission Bay
  
• QB3/GE Bioprocessing Course, June 18-22, Day 3
  Wednesday, June 20, 2012, 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM, Cardiovascular Research Institute, 555 Mission Bay Blvd South, UCSF Mission Bay
  
• QB3/GE Bioprocessing Course, June 18-22, Day 4
  Thursday, June 21, 2012, 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM, Cardiovascular Research Institute, 555 Mission Bay Blvd South, UCSF Mission Bay
  
• QB3/GE Bioprocessing Course, June 18-22, Day 5
  Friday, June 22, 2012, 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM, Cardiovascular Research Institute, 555 Mission Bay Blvd South, UCSF Mission Bay