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for November 12, 2009

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November 12, 2009

12 noon Film: The Power of the Powerless

Film featuring the student staging of the velvet revolution in 1989.

9 a.m. - 10 a.m. 8q24 and Cancer Risk

Cancer Biology Research Seminar Key words: chromosomes, androgen receptor, transcription

9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Motherhood and the State: Women, Surrogacy and (Trans)Nationalism in ...

Speakers: Amrita Pande, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Elly Teman, Penn Center for the Integration of Genetic Healthcare Technologies; Aditya Bharadwaj, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburg, Scotland; Susan Khan, Associate Director, Center for Middle Eastern ...

11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Tales of Microbial Terroir: Fermentative Microbes From Foods to Gut ...

Kinsella Endowed Chair Recruitment Seminar

11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Pattern Separation and the Aging Hippocampus

12 p.m. - 1 p.m. Poetry in the Arboretum

Please join us for a free lunchtime reading at the Wyatt Deck in the beautiful UC Davis Arboretum with Kel Munger and Sandra Gilbert. (If it rains, the reading will be held in 126 Voorhies Hall.)

Kel Munger is book editor at the Sacramento News & Review and author of the poetry collection, ...

3:10 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. EndNote for the Biological and Agricultural Sciences

Learn to format bibliographies easily and automatically using EndNote, a bibliographic management tool. Discover how to download and export citations from catalogs and selected biological and agricultural databases. You will also learn how to access EndNote through the web.

4 p.m. - 6 p.m. True Demons of Cognition: When Computers Were Glad, Sad, and Mad Yet ...

This talk proposes that we are approaching the limits of a cognitive neuroscience approach that adopts a too-simple model of circuits to account for emotions, pathology, meditation, and subjectivity. During the 1950s and 60s, experimentation with circuits co-produced computers, cognitive ...

4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m. Mechanisms for Maintaining Genome Stability at the Replication Fork ...

5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. Beyond Academic Walls: Unpacking the Latino Threat Narrative

Leo Chavez, professor of anthropology at UC Irvine, will draw upon his own research on the "Latino threat" to consider both the challenge and the necessity of bridging the gap between practical politics and socially relevant scholarship, especially in hard times.