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Other talks and seminars happening in 2008

The following talks and seminars, scheduled for 2008, are not directly connected with the Huck Institutes but may be of interest to visitors to this site.
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Thu Jan 24 at 07:00PM Brian Fagan (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Who owns the past? An archaeologist looks at stakeholders, tourism, and cultural heritage
The Nittany Lion Inn, Ballroom C
Thu Feb 21 at 04:00PM Janet Chernela (University of Maryland)
Keeping time: genes, wives, and history in Yanomami blood collections and the debates about them
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building
Fri Feb 29 at 12:00PM Lorraine Santy, Rick Ordway, Richard Cyr, and Wendy Hanna-Rose (Penn State)
Four short talks by Center for Cellular Dynamics members
301 Life Sciences Building
Thu Mar 06 at 04:00PM Gisli Palsson (University of Iceland)
Biosocial relations of production: The bio-graphies of body parts
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building
Fri Mar 07 at 12:00PM Doug Cavener, Erin Sheets, Zhi-Chun Lai, Aimin Liu (Penn State)
Four short talks by Center for Cellular Dynamics members
301 Life Sciences Building
Fri Mar 07 at 01:15PM Iain Couzin (Princeton)
Collective motion and decision-making in animal groups
510A Mueller Lab
Tue Mar 18 at 04:00PM Nancy Thomson (University of North Carolina)
Total internal reflection with fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
102 Chemistry Building
Wed Mar 19 at 04:00PM Carol Rouzer (Vanderbilt University)
Exploring macrophage arachidonic acid metabolism through global lipid profiling
101 ASI
Wed Mar 19 at 07:00PM Marc Feldman (Stanford University)
Genomic ancestry of humans and mycobacterium tuberculosis
110 Wartik Lab
Thu Mar 20 at 04:00PM Marc Feldman (Stanford University)
The meaning of modern human genetic variation
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building/ CG624F, Hershey
Thu Apr 03 at 07:00PM Maeve Leakey (Stony Brook University and National Geographic Society)
Who owns the bones? Pondering the ethical issues surrounding the recovery and display of ancient human remains
The Nittany Lion Inn, Ballroom C
Fri Apr 04 at 02:00PM Daniel Huson (Tuebingen University, Germany)
Methods for metagenome analysis
5th floor, Wartik Lab
Wed Apr 09 at 04:00PM Norbert Kaminski (Michigan State University)
Suppression of humoral immune responses by 2, 3, 7, 8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin involves deregulation of the B cell differentiation program
101 ASI
Thu Apr 10 at 10:00AM Francis J. Doyle III (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Robust timekeeping in circadian rhythm: From genes to cells to systems
102 Chemistry, University Park
Mon Apr 14 at 01:30PM Stefan Schulz (Institute of Organic Chemistry, TU Braunschweig, Germany)
Cuticle and silk of arthropods: chemistry and chemical ecology
101 ASI
Tue Apr 15 at 04:00PM Daniel Dennett (Tufts University)
From animal to person: how cultural evolution builds our minds
100 Life Sciences/Berg Auditorium
Thu Apr 17 at 04:00PM William Eddy (Carnegie Mellon University)
Magnetoencephalography and the Hunt for HFO'S
100 Thomas Building
Thu Apr 17 at 04:00PM David McMillen (University of Toronto)
Quantitative studies of bacterial gene expression: Of cells and beakers
107 Osmond Laboratory
Mon Apr 21 at 04:00PM Anne C. Hart (Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, Cancer Center)
Soluble-Notch Ligands Regulate Development and Adult Behavior
Tue Apr 22 at 04:00PM Madhu Reddy (Penn State)
Examining the role of information technology in health care: a socio-technical perspective
100 Life Sciences, University Park; Room E308 Olmsted Building, Harrisburg; Room GC628, Hershey
Thu Apr 24 at 04:00PM Robert Proctor (Stanford University)
The secular sacred in archaeological preservation ethics: academic enclosures, chimpanzee artifacts, and conflicting epistemologies of loot
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building
Thu Apr 24 at 04:00PM Susan Hardin (President of Visigen and PSU alumnus)
Real-time DNA sequencing: The NEXT Next-Gen sequencer
108 Wartik Laboratory
Thu Apr 24 at 06:30PM Robert N. Proctor (Stanford University )
The cigarette in global lung history: How flue curing, matches, mechanization, and mass marketing led to mass death and deception
124 Sparks Building/Registration required
Fri Apr 25 at 10:10AM Richard Dixon (Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation)
Gene discovery and metabolic engineering in plant phenylpropanoid biosynthesis
101 ASI
Fri Apr 25 at 04:00PM Nina V. Fedoroff (US Department of State and Penn State University)
Science and technology, diplomacy in the 21st century
HUB Auditorium
Mon Apr 28 at 03:30PM Marty B. Dickman (Texas A&M University)
Death be not proud: Modulation of programmed cell death for disease/stress tolerance in plants
112 Buckhout
Mon Apr 28 at 06:00PM C. David Allis (Rockefeller University)
Translating the histone code: a tale of tails
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building
Tue Apr 29 at 11:30AM C. David Allis (Rockefeller University)
The 'marriage' of covalent and non-covalent mechanisms of chromatin remodeling: until gene activation do us part
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building
Tue Apr 29 at 05:00PM Amory Lovins (Rocky Mountain Institute)
Whole system thinking and radical energy efficiency
HUB-Robeson Auditorium
Fri May 02 at 02:30PM Bill Hansson (Max Planck Institute of Chemical Ecology, Germany)
Drosophila olfaction in pollination: function and evolution
101 ASI
Tue May 06 at 02:30PM Mike Thompson (University of Toronto, Canada)
Label-free detection of biochemical interactions using vibrational and Kelvin fields
100 Life Sciences Building/Berg Auditorium
Fri May 09 at 12:00PM Kristen Verhey (University of Michigan)
Road signs for kinesin motor transport
301 Life Sciences
Fri May 09 at 02:30PM William Conner (Wake Forest University)
Sound strategies: acoustic aposematism, mimicry, and sonar jamming in the bat-moth arms race
101 ASI
Wed May 14 at 12:00PM Richard Samkurashvili (Ariadne Genomics Inc)
Demonstration of the Pathway Studio software for Gene Expression
301D Life Sciences Building
Thu May 15 at 09:00AM Manujendra Ray (Penn State University)
The RON receptor Tyrosine Kinase, a negative regulator of Interferon-y and endotoxin induced macrophage activation
324 ASI
Tue Jun 24 at 04:00PM Aravinda Chakravarti (Johns Hopkins University Medical School)
Title to be announced
100 Life Sciences Building, Berg Auditorium
Wed Jun 25 at 11:10AM Ted Farmer (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
The jasmonate signaling pathway and the red/green (animal/plant) balance in nature
101 ASI
Tue Aug 12 at 04:00PM Nick Talbot (University of Exeter, Exeter, UK)
Investigating the Biology of Plant Infection by the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe grisea using Functional Genomics
100 Thomas Building
Mon Sep 22 at 03:00PM Nancy Olivieri (University of Toronto)
Privilege, power, and pharmaceuticals: medical research in a new era
Foster Auditorium, 101 Pattee Library
Mon Oct 13 at 03:00PM David Himmelstein (Harvard Medical School)
Sham health care reforms: the ethics of health policy placebos
Foster Auditorium, 101 Pattee Library
Fri Oct 17 at 04:00PM Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz (NIH)
Title to be announced
location to be announced
Mon Oct 27 at 04:30PM Vilayanur Ramachandran (University of California at San Diego)
The biological basis of aesthetics and the laws of art
Berg Auditorum, 100 Life Sciences
Thu Nov 06 at 03:00PM Allen Hornblum and Edward "Yusef" Anthony
Cheap and available: the American medical and pharmaceutical community’s love affair with prison inmates
Foster Auditorium, 101 Pattee Library
Wed Dec 03 at 03:00PM Rebecca Kukla (University of South Florida)
The transformation of women's health care into reproductive medicine: a cautionary tale
Foster Auditorium, 101 Pattee Library
Wed Dec 10 at 04:00PM Leslie Loew (University of Connecticut)
To be announced
108 Wartik Laboratory, CG623 Hershey