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May 16, 2012

12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m. Role of Negative Signaling in a Superorganism: the Honey Bee Stop ...

The UC Davis Department of Entomology has announced its list of speakers for the spring seminars, which began April 4 and will continue through May 23.

Coordinators Louie Yang and Joanna Chiu, assistant professors, said the seminar series will take place on Wednesdays from 12:10 to 1 p.m. in ...

4:10 p.m. - 5:10 p.m. Evolutionary Potential, Cross-Stress Behavior and the Genetic Basis ...

MIC 291 Seminar Series

May 17, 2012

1 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Meat Lab Sale

3 p.m. - 4 p.m. EndNote Advanced for the Health Sciences

Assumes attendees already understand how to export citations from research databases and manage citations in an EndNote library, and send citations to a manuscript to create in-text citations and a bibliography. This class will build upon this foundation by introducing more advanced EndNote ...

4 p.m. - 5 p.m. Seminar: Translational Genomic Medicine: From the Science of ...

Dr. Khoury is the first director of the CDC's National Office of Public Health Genomics. In 2000, he received the CDC Research Honor Award for outstanding national leadership in genetics and public health. In 2005, he received the National Cancer Institute visiting scholar award for leadership and ...

4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m. Artist Shimon Attie

Shimon Attie, a New York-based photographer, has exhibited widely in both the United States and Europe, including shows at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. His work is held in the permanent collections of the ...

May 18, 2012

11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Environmental Aspects of Bioenergy

Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology

11 a.m. - 12 p.m. The Use of Nanolipoprotein Particles for Medical Applications

12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m. Topic to Be Announced (Medical Microbiology and Immunology)

MMI 291 Seminar Series

1 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Meat Lab Sale

2 p.m. - 3 p.m. EndNote for the Health Sciences: licensed free download for UC Davis ...

Want to use EndNote to manage the heaps of literature you gather? We can help! Learn to collect, store, organize, and retrieve articles, and how to cite them in your posters or publications. Discover how to export citations from your favorite sources into EndNote, to attach and access the full text ...

3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Britney Haapanen, Soprano

Senior Recital: Britney Haapanen, soprano. Free.

May 19, 2012

9 a.m. - 1 p.m. UC Davis Arboretum Spring Plant Sale: Some Like it Hot! Summer ...

It's our last public sale of the spring season! At this sales event we will be helping you get your landscape ready for summer by highlighting ways you can create a kaleidoscope of color from an array of sustainable warm weather bloomers! Find a great selection of plants that thrive in the Central ...

7 p.m. - 8 p.m. Early Music Ensemble

Early Music Ensemble | David Nutter, director. Monteverdi: Laetatus sum. $6 Students & Children, $12 Adults Suggested Donation| General Admission (unreserved seating).

May 20, 2012

1 p.m. - 4 p.m. Wild Family Day

Join Wild Campus in partnership with the arboretum for our first annual Wild Family Day! All ages invited. We are raising awareness about native wildlife and what the community can do to help them. There will be games, activities, and live animals provided by the Wildlife Care Association. Enter in ...

3 p.m. - 5 p.m. UC Davis Symphony Orchestra: Family Concert

Program featuring Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, with Provost Ralph Hexter as the narrator, and a work to be announced by the winner of the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra's Concerto Competition.

6 p.m. - 8 p.m. Community Outreach Public Lecture on Lotus Valley Meteorite Fall

In this general public talk, Dr. Yin will review what scientists could learn about the origin of our solar system from the similar meteorite fall like the one in Lotus Valley; why scientists need a lot more materials; how to identify the general features of CM carbonaceous chondrites in the field, ...

7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Gamelan Sekar Jaya

Gamelan Sekar Jaya | Emiko Saraswati Susilo and I Dewa Putu Berata, directors. This special performance begins with a Kecak performance in the Corin Courtyard outside of the Studio Theatre by UC Davis students under the direction of Emiko Saraswati Susilo and I Dewa Putu Berata. Afterwards the ...

May 21, 2012

12 p.m. - 1 p.m. Nanowires for Future Photovoltaics and Energy Efficient Applications

Speaker Biography and Research Interests: Christopher Miller is currently a 5th-year graduate student in the Yu Lab within the Department of Physics at UC Davis. He is currently investigating narrow bandgap semiconducting nanostructures through the use of Scanning Photocurrent Microscopy. Hes ...

12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m. Animal Epigenetics and Stress Physiologist Candidate Seminar

2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. The Shale Gas Revolution: Implications for the United States

Abstract: The past decade has yielded substantial change in the natural gas industry, stemming from transformational changes in technology allowing the recovery of oil and natural gas from shale formations. The advent of shale gas is changing the competitive landscape for fuel sources worldwide. ...

May 22, 2012

12 p.m. - 1 p.m. Transcriptional Regulation and Pharmacologic Activation of Latent FIV ...

What's Up Seminar Series.

4 p.m. - 5 p.m. Accessing the Veterinary Medicine, Public Health and Medical ...

Want help accessing the online and print published literature in the fields of Veterinary Medicine, Public Health and Medicine? We can help! Learn the ins and outs of using online textbooks, PubMed, CAB Abstracts, Web of Science and Google Scholar; accessing or ordering articles and books; ...

May 23, 2012

12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m. Survey of Culex Bloodfeeding Patterns in California"

Postdoctoral scholar Tara Thiemann of the William Reisen lab, UC Davis, will speak on "Survey of Culex Bloodfeeding Patterns in California" from 12:10 to 1 p.m., Wednesday, May 23 in 122 Briggs. She is the last speaker in the Department of Entomology's spring seminars.

Host is William Reisen, ...

12:10 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. UC WALKS

Join the third annual UC Walks, a systemwide walking event for employees and retirees. Volunteers will lead one 30-minute walk leaving each site at 12:15pm. All locations will be open at 11:45am to start handing out UC Walks T-shirts, lip balm and sunscreen while supplies last. There is no ...

3 p.m. - 4 p.m. EndNote Web (at Blaisdell Library in Sacramento)

This class assumes attendees already know how to use the client-based version of EndNote. Participants will learn how to use EndNote Web, including how to create an account, add citations from research databases into their EndNote Web library, add citations to a manuscript from EndNote Web, and ...

4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m. nvironmental Regulations, the State's Role in Protecting Aquatic ...

Ecological/Watershed Risk Assessment

7 p.m. - 9 p.m. UC Davis Concert Band

May 24, 2012

11 a.m. - 1 p.m. EndNote Workshop

Use EndNote to store, manage, and format references in your writing. Class will cover: creating EndNote libraries, adding citations to your libraries, direct export of citations from article databases, output styles, and Cite While You Write (using EndNote with Microsoft Word).

12 p.m. - 1 p.m. Clear Your Clutter

Are you sick and tired of feeling like your belongings are closing in on you? Do you lose things and have to buy duplicates? Do you attempt to organize your home or office but change your mind because it feels so overwhelming? If you answered yes to any of these questions this motivating and fun ...

12 p.m. - 1 p.m. Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Info Session

Join Niki Davisson, Program Manager, for an information session on the upcoming programs presented by the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, including the three-day Green Tech, Biomed Engineering, UC Entreprepreneurship Academies, and year-long Business Development Fellows program. The ...

12 p.m. - 1 p.m. New Opportunities for Molecular Imaging at UC Davis, Bench to Bedside

Please register to attend at: http://ctsc05242012.eventbrite.com

12:05 p.m. - 1 p.m. Undergraduate Composers Concert

Shinkoskey Noon Concert: Undergraduate Composers Concert. Free.

1 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Meat Lab Sale

2 p.m. - 3 p.m. SciVal and Other Collaboration Tools

This session will cover SciVal (formerly Collexis), a licensed database that provides researchers with a number of tools, perhaps most importantly the capability of finding research collaborators based on their research interests.

3 p.m. - 4 p.m. EndNote Advanced for the Health Sciences

Assumes attendees already understand how to export citations from research databases and manage citations in an EndNote library, and send citations to a manuscript to create in-text citations and a bibliography. This class will build upon this foundation by introducing more advanced EndNote ...

4:10 p.m. - 5:10 p.m. Before It Strikes: Viral Forecasting for Pandemic Prevention

Author of The Viral Storm. GVF was formed as an early warning system for pandemics by monitoring the transmission of diseases from animals to humans.

5 p.m. - 8 p.m. Big Bang! Business Plan Competition Final Awards Presentation

Come see the Big Bang! finalist teams as they compete for 1st, 2nd and People's Choice Awards. Reception from 5 - 6 pm, followed by presentations and awards ceremony from 6 - 8 pm.

May 25, 2012

11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Contamination and Toxicity of Stream Sediments in Seven Metropolitan ...

Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology

11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Metabolic Engineering for the Production of bio-based Chemicals: ...

12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m. Topic to Be Announced (Medical Microbiology and Immunology)

MMI 291 Seminar Series

3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Brent Curriden, Guitar

Senior Recital: Brent Curriden, guitar. Free.

5 p.m. - 6 p.m. Milena Schaller, Cello

Senior Recital: Milena Schaller, cello. Free.

May 29, 2012

12 p.m. - 1 p.m. Development and Immunopathologic Characterization of SIV-Plasmodium ...

What's Up Seminar Series

4 p.m. - 5 p.m. Accessing the Veterinary Medicine, Public Health and Medical ...

Want help accessing the online and print published literature in the fields of Veterinary Medicine, Public Health and Medicine? We can help! Learn the ins and outs of using online textbooks, PubMed, CAB Abstracts, Web of Science and Google Scholar; accessing or ordering articles and books; ...

May 30, 2012

12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Intergenerational Dynamics of Poverty and Inequality

1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. EndNote Introduction (at Blaisdell Library in Sacramento)

Assumes attendees have loaded EndNote, but haven't used it. Class will cover the basics - how to create and manage an EndNote library; how to export references from PubMed and searching PubMed from within EndNote; how to use EndNote to add and format references in a WORD document; how to delete ...

3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Amy Lui, saxophone

Senior Recital: Amy Lui, saxophone, with John Cozza, piano Free

4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m. Fish Toxicology

Ecological/Watershed Risk Assessment

4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m. In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman: Mathematics at the Limits of ...

Abstract: The traveling salesman problem is easy to state: given a number of cities along with the cost of travel between each pair of them, find the cheapest way to visit them all and return to your starting point. Easy to state, but difficult to solve. Despite decades of research, in general it ...

7 p.m. - 9 p.m. UC Davis Jazz Bands

May 31, 2012

12:05 p.m. - 1 p.m. Susan Lamb Cook, cello

Shinkoskey Noon Concert: Susan Lamb Cook, cello, and Gayle Blankenburg, piano; Rachmaninov: Cello Sonata. Free.

1 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Meat Lab Sale

3 p.m. - 4 p.m. EndNote Advanced for the Health Sciences

Assumes attendees already understand how to export citations from research databases and manage citations in an EndNote library, and send citations to a manuscript to create in-text citations and a bibliography. This class will build upon this foundation by introducing more advanced EndNote ...

4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Let Burn: Landscape in the age of natural disasters

Born in Seoul, Korea, Youngsuk Suh has received his BFA at Pratt Institute and his MFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. His photographic work often deals with the complicated nature of the human involvement in managing natural resources and the shifting concepts of nature in the ...

4:10 p.m. - 5:10 p.m. Functional Neuroimaging Using MR: Moving From Basic Research to ...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been used extensively for noninvasively imaging and mapping brain function in neuroscience research. Such research is aimed at understanding the locations and mechanisms of brain activity, the flow of information and the origins of neurological ...

June 1, 2012

11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Bioavailability of Environmental Contaminants

Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology

11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Boehringer Ingelheim: Value through Innovation - Commitment, ...

1 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Meat Lab Sale

7 p.m. - 9 p.m. University Chorus and the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra

Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Christian Baldini, conductor; Howells: Hymnus Paradisi, Jeffrey Thomas, conductor.

June 3, 2012

2 p.m. - 4 p.m. Rites of Spring

Two back-to-back choreographies by spring 2012 Granada Artists-in-Residence Rennie Harris and Ellen Bromberg. Choreographer and hip-hop artist Rennie Harris creates a new work; video artist Ellen Bromberg and choreographer Della Davidson devise a new mediated piece. 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, May ...

June 4, 2012

12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m. Animal Epigenetics and Stress Physiologist Candidate Seminar

7 p.m. - 9 p.m. Empyrean Ensemble: New Music From Davis

Composers include Gabriel Bolanos Chamorro, William Cooper, Alex Van Gils, Bryce Cannel, Scott Perry, Garrett Shatzer, Ben Irwin, and Hendel Almetus.

June 5, 2012

5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why ...

Simon Johnson is the Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship and a Professor of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics; co-founder of BaselineScenario.com -- a much-cited website ...

June 6, 2012

4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m. Ecological/Watershed Risk Assessment

Discussion. Integration of information. Case study-Dry Creek WRA if time permits.

June 7, 2012

1 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Meat Lab Sale

June 8, 2012

1 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Meat Lab Sale

June 14, 2012

1 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Meat Lab Sale

June 15, 2012

1 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Meat Lab Sale