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SPRING 2005 Monday, February 7, 2005 Topic: Physiological Ecology of Eggs,
Embryos, and Larvae: Speaker: Amy Moran Directions: Click here.
Wednesday, February 9, 2005 Topic: Prey Capture in Fishes: Morphological Novelties and Functional Consequences. Speaker: Lara Ferry-Graham Directions: Click here.
Monday, February 14, 2005 Topic: From Hot Sunny Days to Microarrays:
Speaker: Dr. Jonathon Stillman Directions: Click here.
Wednesday, February 16, 2005 Topic: Corals and Killifish as Models for Comparative Endocrinology. Speaker: Dr. Ann Tarrant Directions: Click here.
Thursday February 17, 2005 Topic: Molecular Basis of Bacterial Innate Immunity in Arabidopsis thalianar Speaker: Dr. Brian Staskawicz, Professor, Plant
and Microbial Biology University of California, Berkeley Thursday February 24, 2005 Topic: The Y Chromosome and the Future of Men Speaker: Dr. Jenny Graves, Professor, Comparative
Genomics Group, Australian National University Friday, February 25, 2005 Topic: 1. Gas-phase Catalysis by Atomic
and Cluster Metal Ions: The Ultimate Single-site Catalysts Speaker: Prof. Helmut Schwarz, Technical University
of Berlin Friday, March 4, 2005 Topic: Molecular Aspects of Vitamin D Hormone Action Speaker: Elaine Collins, SJSU Dept. of Chemistry
and Biochemistry Monday, March 7, 2005 Topic: Environmental Change in the
Arctic: Speaker: Jean-Eric Tremblay, Laval University Directions: Click here.
Wednesday March 9, 2005 Topic: An invitation to Finite Fourier
Analysis
Speaker: Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University
Wednesday March 9, 2005 Topic: Monitoring Network Domains to Detect Service Violations and DoS Attacks Speaker: Ahsan Habib, University of California,
Berkeley
Thursday March 10, 2005 Topic: From Silent Spring to Silent
Night: Speaker: Dr. Tyrone Hayes, Professor, Developmental
Endocrinology, UC Berkeley Monday March 14, 2005 Topic: Frontiers in Ocean Exploration Abstract: The ocean is essential to life on Earth. The ocean is Earth's largest living space and contains most of its biomass. The ocean moderates our climate to keep Earth habitable, and it processes our wastes. The ocean provides protein to feed the global population. Yet 95% of the ocean is unknown and unexplored. Thanks to a number of technological innovations, we now have the tools necessary to undertake a systematic exploration of the ocean. Autonomous underwater vehicles execute precise surveys throughout the water column lasting up to two weeks without pause. Remotely operated vehicles function as our eyes, ears, noses, and hands in the deep sea. Ocean observatories extend multidisciplinary studies into the dimension of time. New data base systems allow researchers who did not participate in the explorations to answer questions that could not have even been posed at the time the data were collected. The discoveries being made with these new tools enrich our lives and deepen our understanding of the two-thirds of this planet covered by water. Speaker: Dr. Marcia McNutt, Monterey
Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Wednesday March 16, 2005 Topic: Securing Network Routing Abstract: Networks are increasingly used for
critical functions, such as e-commerce and online banking. Unfortunately,
networking services were designed for trusted environments, and are
consequently extremely vulnerable to attack. This protocol is the first that provides strong security properties even when relatively few ISPs deploy the protocol, and even when those ISPs are not directly connected. Furthermore, SPV is highly efficient in computation. Speaker: Yih-Chun Hu, University of California,
Berkeley Wednesday March 30, 2005 Topic: Whither Ubiquitous Video? Abstract: The first comercially available video phone service was offered in the late 1930's, videoconferencing systems were developed and deployed in the 1960's and 70's, Internet streaming media first began in the early 1990's. Over the past two decades research has shown how streaming audio and video can be used for a variety of applications. While some audio applications have achieved widespread use, for example, music swapping and radio webcasts, video is not widely used in everyday applications. This talk will explore this phenomena, suggest reasons why video is not ubiquitous like other media, and suggest directions for future research. Speaker: Lawrence A. Rowe , University of California,
Berkeley Wednesday April 6, 2005 Topic: The Search for New Antimalarial Therapeutics Abstract: Malaria is a devastating disease that affects 300 to 500 million people annually. 1.5 to 2.7 million of these infected individuals die every year, the majority of these deaths occurring in children under the age of five. The rates of malaria infection and death are increasing over the years instead of decreasing. IN the early 1960's, drug-resistant strains of Plasmodium falciparum (the major causative agent of lethal human malaria) were not prevalent. Today, drug-resistant strains have emerged in practically all malaria-endemic regions, and now 40% of the global human population is at risk. I will talk about our current efforts in antimalarial drug discovery in Professor DeRisi's lab at UCSF. We use a variety of techniques and approaches to increase our understanding of the malaria parasite and we thereby aim to determine better ways of treating the disease. One approach we use is high throughput screening of potential drug compounds against live parasite cultures. I will discuss some of the challenges we face in dealing with the large amounts of data we generate in our drug screening efforts. Speaker: Jennifer L. Weisman, UCSF Thursday April 7, 2005 Topic: Making segments in vertebrates: a genetic approach in zebrafish Speaker: Dr. Sharon Amacher, Assistant Professor,
Genetics and Development, UC Berkeley Wednesday April 13, 2005 SEMINAR CANCELLED Topic: Geometric examples of dynamical
systems
Wednesday April 13, 2005 Topic: Quantitative Analysis of radiation
induced chromosome aberrations
Speaker: Javier Arsuaga, Cancer Research Institute,
UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center
Wednesday April 13, 2005 Topic: RTP MIDI: Welding the plumbing for network musical performance Abstract: The speed of sound is slow compared to the speed of light. An Internet packet sent from Berkeley to Stanford nominally takes about 2 milliseconds to make the journey. Two musicians, sitting 2.4 feet apart, adapt to a 2 millisecond acoustic delay when they play. Packet delays from Berkeley to Caltech (Pasadena) correspond to the delays musicians sense when sitting 16 feet apart, not unsual on a performance stage. And so, physics supports network musical performance within the state -- all that's left to solve are the engineering problems. For the past 5 years, John Wawryznek and I have been working on solving those problems for an interesting special case: network musical performances that use MIDI, the standard way pianos, drums, and other electronic musical instruments send note information over wires. Most of that time has been spent working through the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the standards body for the Internet, to integrate MIDI transport into RTP, the standard protocol used for Internet telephony and Internet radio. Thankfully, our standards work is drawing to a close (we hope!). In this talk, I'll introduce the protocal the IETF and the MIDI Manufacturer's Association have been collaborating on: RTP MIDI. Speaker: John Lazzaro, University of California,
Berkeley Thursday April 14, 2005 Topic: Mapping genetic susceptibility and modeling pathogenesis in multifactorial disorders. The example of multiple sclerosis Speaker: Dr. Jorge Oksenberg, Associate Professor,
Department of Neurology School of Medicine, UCSF Friday, April 15, 2005 Topic: Cellular sensing of and adaptation to metal ion deficiencies Speaker: Zhiwu Zhu, UCSC Dept. of Environmental
Toxicology Monday April 18, 2005 Topic: The Quantum Universe: The Revolution in Twenty-First Century Particle Physics Abstract: Throughout human history, scientific theories and experiments of increasing power and sophistication have addressed basic questions about the universe such as What is the nature of the universe? What are matter, energy, space and time? How did we get here, and where are we going? Modern data and ideas are challenging long held beliefs about matter, energy, space and time as recent experiments have shown us that most of the universe is made of forms of matter and energy unlike anything we see around us on earth and out to the most distant galaxies. Dr. Drell will discuss the revolution underway in the field of particle physics and the quest to explain the universe in terms of the quantum physics which governs the behavior of the microscopic, subatomic world. She will describe new opportunities that have emerged for discovering the fundamental nature of the "Quantum Universe" that we never expected. Speaker: Dr. Persis Drell, Director
of Research, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 Topic: Assessing, Modeling and Predicting Short and Long Term Coastal Change for Ocean Beach and the mouth of SF Bay Speaker: Patrick Barnard, PhD., Research Geologist,
USGS, Pacific Science Center
Wednesday April 20, 2005 Topic: The Apache Software Foundation: History, Purpose, and How We Can Help The Planet Abstract: The Apache Software Foundation got its start in 1998, but the project'sroots go back to 1995 when a group of webmasters decided to take their future into their own hands and combine their patches to the NCSA's web server. When the popularity of this "patchy" server reached unimaginable heights, this group realized they needed to find a way to scale this approach for many other kinds of projects, to give some sort of respectability to their work to the business community, and also provide a solid legal background for the whole effort. Thus was born the ASF. As the world clues into Open Source, especially developing economies, the ASF is being looked to as a model for how to write software as a community. Speaker: Brian Behlendorf, CollabNet Thursday April 21, 2005 Topic: Condensin and gene regulation: lessons from dosage compensation Speaker: Dr. Gyorgi Czankovszki, Postdoctoral
Fellow, University of California, Berkeley Friday, April 22, 2005 Topic: Nanoparticles and materials Speaker: Shaowei Chen, UCSC Dept. of Chemistry
and Biochemistry Monday April 25, 2005 Topic: A Swift View of the Gamma-Ray Universes Abstract: NASA's Swift mission was launched into orbit on November 20, 2004. A blast of gamma-ray bursts rapidly followed and bursts are now being "caught on the fly." The first exciting results fro the mission will be presented and explained within the historical context of gamma-ray astronomy. Gamma-rays are emitted from the most extreme objects in the Universe, including blazing galaxies, exploding stars, and monstrous black holes. Opportunities for students to engage in gamma-ray astronomy research will also be discussed. Speaker: Prof. Lynn Cominsky, Sonoma
State University
Thursday April 28, 2005 Topic: DNA Degradation by Enzymes and Chemicals Speaker: Dr. Renato Aguilera, Professor, Department
of Biological Science, UT El Paso Friday, April 29, 2005 Topic: Controlling RNA function with small molecules: An approach to new antibiotics Speaker: Peter Beal, University of Utah Wednesday May 4, 2005 Topic: A Dual Method for Total Variation-Based
Image Restoration
Speaker: Jamylle Carter, MSRI Thursday May 5, 2005 Topic: Understanding the molecular basis of cell movements during embryonic development Speaker: Dr. Karen Symes, Assistant Professor,
Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine Friday, May 6, 2005 Topic: Structure and protein design of EF-hand Ca2+-binding proteins Speaker:Walter Chazin, Vanderbilt University Friday, May 6, 2005 Student Project Showcase and Alumni Reception Viewing of projects - anytime after 3 pm - Gym 100 Reception - 6 pm - Gym 118 Thursday May 12, 2005 Topic: Mechanisms for ATP-Dependent Chromatin Remodelling Speaker: Dr. Geeta Narlikar, Assistant Professor,
Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF Thursday May 12, 2005 Topic: Mechanisms for ATP-Dependent Chromatin Remodelling Speaker: Dr. Geeta Narlikar, Assistant Professor,
Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF Thursday May 19, 2005 Topic: Algorithmic Explorations in Molecular Similarity and Molecular Structure Property Relationships Speaker: Dr. Rahul Singh, Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science, SFSU August 8-12, 2005 NSF - CBMS Regional Conference on Algebraic and Topological Combinatorics of Ordered Sets Anders Björner, Principal Lecturer, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm, Sweden Sponsor: Department of Mathematics Click here for more information
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