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Molecular Paths to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease
Title: Molecular Paths to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease
Date & Time: May 14, 2008 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: CHS 23-105

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16th Annual Samuel Eiduson Student Lecture
Title: 16th Annual Samuel Eiduson Student Lecture
Date & Time: May 20, 2008 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium

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CME COURSES
35th Annual Family Practice Refresher Course
Title: 35th Annual Family Practice Refresher Course
Date & Time: May 20, 2008 - May 24, 2008
Location: Hyatt Regency
Century Plaza Hotel & Spa
Los Angeles, California


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SEMINARS, SYMPOSIUMS, & TALKS
Eating and Walking Your Way to Wellness as a Cancer Survivor
Title: Eating and Walking Your Way to Wellness as a Cancer Survivor
Date & Time: May 13, 2008 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: RPB Auditorium, Jules Stein Plaza

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Photon Science and the Coming Revolution Enabled by X-ray Free Electron Lasers
Title: Photon Science and the Coming Revolution Enabled by X-ray Free Electron Lasers
Date & Time: May 13, 2008 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: CNSI Auditorium

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Predicting the Sizes of Large RNA Molecules
Title: Predicting the Sizes of Large RNA Molecules
Date & Time: May 13, 2008 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: 2033 Young Hall Physical Chemistry Graduate Student Seminar

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Telomeres and Telomerase: Their Implications for Human Health and Disease
Title: Telomeres and Telomerase: Their Implications for Human Health and Disease
Date & Time: May 13, 2008 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: CHS 73-105

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Nicotinic Control of Neural System Development
Title: Nicotinic Control of Neural System Development
Date & Time: May 13, 2008 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: The Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium (NRB);

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PGR - Gertrude Rogers Greenblatt, MD, Memorial Lecture
Title: PGR - Gertrude Rogers Greenblatt, MD, Memorial Lecture
Date & Time: May 13, 2008 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90024 (Semel Institute Jolyon Auditorium, C8-183)

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UCLA Clinical Microarray Core Open House
Title: UCLA Clinical Microarray Core Open House
Date & Time: May 14, 2008 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Room A311 Immunogenetics Center 1000 Veteran Ave., Los Angeles

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'Towards' Magnetic and Electronic Communication in Multimetallic f-Element Complexes
Title: 'Towards' Magnetic and Electronic Communication in Multimetallic f-Element Complexes
Date & Time: May 14, 2008 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: Cram Conference Room 3440 Mol. Sci. Bldg. Inorganic Chemistry Seminar Refreshments will be served

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Biological Links between Cofactors: Metabolism, Signaling and Dynamic Relationships between Iron, Manganese, and Chlorophyll in the Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Title: Biological Links between Cofactors: Metabolism, Signaling and Dynamic Relationships between Iron, Manganese, and Chlorophyll in the Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Date & Time: May 14, 2008 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: 2033 Young Hall Biochemistry Dissertation Seminar

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Signaling Behaviors Control Initiation and Persistence in the Vibrio-Squid Symbiosis
Title: Signaling Behaviors Control Initiation and Persistence in the Vibrio-Squid Symbiosis
Date & Time: May 15, 2008 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: MSB 1601

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Synthesis and Self-Organization of Hybrid Nanocrystals
Title: Synthesis and Self-Organization of Hybrid Nanocrystals
Date & Time: May 15, 2008 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Cram Conference Room 3440 Mol. Sci. Bldg. Organic Colloquium

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BMP Signaling Regulates Heart Development and Hematopoiesis in Drosophila
Title: BMP Signaling Regulates Heart Development and Hematopoiesis in Drosophila
Date & Time: May 16, 2008 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Boyer 159

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VE-Cadherin and 1 Integrin, Adhesion Molecules and their Roles in Hematopoiesis and Vasculogenesis
Title: VE-Cadherin and 1 Integrin, Adhesion Molecules and their Roles in Hematopoiesis and Vasculogenesis
Date & Time: May 16, 2008 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: BSRB 154

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The Role of the Intrasubunit Disulfide Bond in the Maturation and Activity of Yeast Copper-Zinc Superoxide Dismutase" and "Investigating the mechanism of the Copper Chaperone for Superoxide Dismutase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Title: "The Role of the Intrasubunit Disulfide Bond in the Maturation and Activity of Yeast Copper-Zinc Superoxide Dismutase" and "Investigating the mechanism of the Copper Chaperone for Superoxide Dismutase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae "
Date & Time: May 16, 2008 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: Cram Conference Room 3440 Mol. Sci. Bldg. Biochemistry Midstream Graduate Seminar

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IPAM workshop: Optimal Transport in the Human Body: Lungs and Blood
Title: IPAM workshop: Optimal Transport in the Human Body: Lungs and Blood
Date & Time: May 19 - May 23, 2008
Location: Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)

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Conflicts in Medical Decision Making
Title: Conflicts in Medical Decision Making
Date & Time: May 20, 2008 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: CLASSROOM 723, 7TH Floor Tower
SM-UCLA Medical Center & Orthopaedic Hospital, 1225 15th Street, Santa Monica

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A Role for Molecular Diversity and Specificity in Wiring the Fly Brain
Title: A Role for Molecular Diversity and Specificity in Wiring the Fly Brain
Date & Time: May 20, 2008 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: The Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium (NRB);

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FoS - Open Mind Lecture "The Center Cannot Hold"
Title: FoS - Open Mind Lecture "The Center Cannot Hold"
Date & Time: May 20, 2008 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: 720 Westwood Plaza, UCLA, CA 90024 (Jolyon Auditorium, Semel Institute)

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The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
Title: The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
Date & Time: May 20, 2008 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Semel Institute Auditorium 720 Westwood Boulevard, UCLA

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Development of High Performance Organic Light-Emitting Devices for Lighting Application
Title: Development of High Performance Organic Light-Emitting Devices for Lighting Application
Date & Time: May 20, 2008 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: CNSI Auditorium

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Public Lecture: "From the Lung to the Cells' Powerhouses: Symmorphosis in the Design of the Pathway for Oxygen"
Title: Public Lecture: "From the Lung to the Cells' Powerhouses: Symmorphosis in the Design of the Pathway for Oxygen"
Date & Time: May 21, 2008 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: Franz Hall, Room 1178 (Reception at IPAM following lecture)

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PGR - Re-Examining the Role of Antidepressants in Bipolar Depression
Title: PGR - Re-Examining the Role of Antidepressants in Bipolar Depression
Date & Time: May 20, 2008 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90024 (Semel Institute Jolyon Auditorium, C8-183)

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Robert Goldberg's Science Faculty Research Colloquium
Title: Robert Goldberg's Science Faculty Research Colloquium
Date & Time: May 21, 2008 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: Physics and Astronomy Building, Room 1425

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What are the Genes Required to Make a Seed? Importance for Food, Fuel and Engineering New Crops
Title: What are the Genes Required to Make a Seed? Importance for Food, Fuel and Engineering New Crops
Date & Time: May 21, 2008 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Physics & Astronomy 1425

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New Minimally Invasive Approaches for Pituitary Tumors
Title: New Minimally Invasive Approaches for Pituitary Tumors
Date & Time: May 21, 2008 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Location: 18-250 Semel (First Floor of Medical Center, near "H" Hospital Elevators)

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Regulation of Cancer Metabolism
Title: Regulation of Cancer Metabolism
Date & Time: May 21, 2008 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: Room 43-105 CHS

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Specification of Heme Trafficking Pathways in Eukaryotes
Title: Specification of Heme Trafficking Pathways in Eukaryotes
Date & Time: May 22, 2008 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: CHS 23-105

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Ubiquitin-Proteasome System Function at the ER and Inner Nuclear Envelope
Title: Ubiquitin-Proteasome System Function at the ER and Inner Nuclear Envelope
Date & Time: May 22, 2008 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Boyer 159

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13th Annual Human Gene Medicine Symposium
Title: 13th Annual Human Gene Medicine Symposium
Date & Time: May 23, 2008 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: RPB Auditorium Jules Stein Eye Institute

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The dynamics of transposable elements in genetically modified mosquito vectors
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Seminar

The dynamics of transposable elements in genetically modified mosquito vectors

John Macky Marshall

Doctoral Graduate Student
Department of Biomathematics
UCLA

Friday, May 23, 2008
12:00 PM (noon)
AV-139 CHS
Cultural Neuroscience: Investigating Cultural Influences on Brain Function, Denise
Title: Cultural Neuroscience: Investigating Cultural Influences on Brain Function, Denise
Date & Time: May 24, 2008 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM
Location: Chicago, IL

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Mathematics in Brain Imaging: Summer School
Title: Mathematics in Brain Imaging: Summer School
Date & Time: Jul 14- Jul 25, 2008
Location: at UCLA's Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)

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Ferromagnetic III-V Semiconductors
Title: Ferromagnetic III-V Semiconductors
Date & Time: May 27, 2008 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: CNSI Auditorium

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PGR - Re-imagining the Protective Treatment of those Destabilized by Mental Illness
Title: PGR - Re-imagining the Protective Treatment of those Destabilized by Mental Illness
Date & Time: May 27, 2008 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90024 (Semel Institute Jolyon Auditorium, C8-183)

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Beyond the Asylum and the Jail: A Mental Illness Forum
Title: Beyond the Asylum and the Jail: A Mental Illness Forum
Date & Time: May 27, 2008 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: Louis Jolyon West Auditorium, C8-183, Semel Institute

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Of Mice, Men, and Microscopes: Imaging the Brain Dynamics of Motor Control at the Cellular Scale in Behaving Subjects
Title: Of Mice, Men, and Microscopes: Imaging the Brain Dynamics of Motor Control at the Cellular Scale in Behaving Subjects
Date & Time: May 27, 2008 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: The Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium (NRB);

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6th Annual Collins Lecture - "Primary Progressive Aphasia" by Dr. Marsel Mesulam
Title: 6th Annual Collins Lecture - "Primary Progressive Aphasia"
Date & Time: May 28, 2008 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Northwest Campus Auditorium/Covel Commons

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5th Annual Neuroscience Postdoctoral Fellow Lecture & Social
Title: 5th Annual Neuroscience Postdoctoral Fellow Lecture & Social
Date & Time: June 03, 2008 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium and Foyer

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Postdoctroal Fellows in Neuroscience Lecture & Social
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS IN NEUROSCIENCE LECTURE & SOCIAL

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

4:00 p.m.
Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium and Foyer
The Seventh Annual Southern California Learning & Memory Symposium
The Seventh Annual Southern California Learning & Memory Symposium
Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium, UCLA
June 4, 2008
MINDFULNESS for WOMEN with CANCER and their CAREGIVERS
Learn about and experience mindfulness meditation to support the healing process.
Nanomechanical Testing Workshop: Frontiers of Materials Characterization
Title: "Nanomechanical Testing Workshop: Frontiers of Materials Characterization"
Date & Time: Jun 10, 2008 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Location: The Edward K. Rice Room
Located in Boelter Hall, Room 6764
UCLA Campus

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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Spring issue of 'Partners in Discovery UCLA Neurology Newsletter"

UCLA Neurology is pleased to send you the web link for the spring issue of Partners in Discovery UCLA Neurology Newsletter

Summary: Featured in this issue: Sleep Disorders Art of the Brain Gala Donor Recognition and more.

http://www.neurology.ucla.edu/html/HowtoHelp/SpringNewsletter2008.pdf
 

Semel Institute Lunch Hour Concert
The next concert is on Friday 5/23/08 from noon to 1:00 PM. It will be held in the Jolyon West Auditorium on the "C" level of the Semel Institute, Room C8-183. (Old NPI Auditorium)
Mindful Awareness Practices - classes available now!
MAY-JUNE CLASSES

These ongoing 6-week class series have at their core the teaching of Mindful Awareness Practices (MAPs). This approach has scientific support as a means to reduce stress, improve attention, boost the immune system, reduce emotional reactivity, and promote a general sense of health and wellness. CME/BBS credits available

For more information or to register:
www.marc.ucla.edu Call: 310-206-7503 or email: marcinfo@ucla.edu
Freedom From Smoking Class
Want to quit smoking? New "Freedom From Smoking" class beginning on May 27th. Call (310) 825-0015 for more information.
Third Annual NIH National Graduate Student Research Festival
Third Annual NIH National Graduate Student Research Festival

September 11-12, 2008
Bethesda, Maryland
Award for Excellence in Education Reception

You are cordially invited to attend a reception honoring the 2008 recipients of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Award for Excellence in Education. The award was established to recognize outstanding dedication, innovation, and sustained excellence in education. The recipients have truly distinguished themselves as exceptional educators.

Date: Thursday, May 22, 2008; 5:00 to 6:30 pm
Location: Wilson Student Center Terrace (on the rooftop of Westwood Plaza, formerly Jerry Lewis Building, corner of Westwood & Charles E. Young Drive. Enter using outside corner stairway)

The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is particularly pleased and grateful for their contributions. We could not be successful without the enthusiastic devotion to our most basic responsibility -- the education of future physicians.

Mandated Clinical Trials Registration
It is now a requirement for nearly all clinical trials/studies to be registered on ClinicalTrials.gov regardless of the source of funding. Clinical trials should be registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov.

For PI-initiated studies, registration of the trial will be required after IRB approval, but prior to execution of the contract. For detailed guidance and information see the attached 4/23/08 memo from Dr. Peccei, Vice Chancellor of Research and Dr. Robinson, Executive Associate Dean.
For help in registering a clinical trial please contact Marcia Malmet at mmalmet@mednet.ucla.edu or 310-794-8766.
Clinical Research: The Basics
Title: Clinical Research: The Basics
Date & Time: Jun 04, 2008 9:00 AM
Location: Office of Clinical Trials 10911 Weyburn Avenue, Third Floor Los Angeles, CA 90095

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Good Clinical Practices: Source Documentation and Data Management
Title: Good Clinical Practices: Source Documentation and Data Management
Date & Time: Jun 05, 2008 1:00 - 4:00 pm
Location: Wilshire Center, 10920 Wilshire Blvd., #1080 Los Angeles, CA 90095

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2008 Essentials of Clinical Investigation: Developing a Research Proposal
This is the first announcement for the 15th Annual Clinical Research Course organized through the General Clinical Research Center.
The course will be held this year on July 7-18th, 2008, from 8am-12noon in the Gonda building (Goldschmied Neuroscience & Genetics Research Center), 1st Floor Conference room, #1357.
Pathology announces its Core Laboratories for Translational Research
The Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine is pleased to announce its new Research Services Website highlighting the core technologies and services provided for basic and translational research. Our mission is to provide high quality services in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
Announcing a new clinical trials website
THE OFFICE OF CLINICAL TRIALS IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE A NEW CLINICAL TRIALS WEBSITE at www.clinicaltrials.ucla.edu.
This site is composed of the following three main sections: a restricted "For Faculty/Staff" section that includes multiple pages with a wealth of information, tools, and links: a "For Patients/Community" section that includes a "Search Clinical Trials" feature; and a "For Sponsors" section.

Please read the body of this annoucement for more information and special log-in credentials required for UCLA employee access to the "For Faculty/Staff" section.
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Apply Now-NIGMS T32 Clinical Pharmacology Training Program

Apply Now-(NIGMS)/NIH T32 Clinical Pharmacology Training Program.

UCLA Interdepartmental Clinical Pharmacology Program (ICPTP) Institutional T32 Fellowship Award in Clinical Pharmacology, begins July 1, 2008.

visit us at: www.k30.ucla.edu for more detailed program information.

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POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW POSITION IN CANCER IMMUNOLOGY/IMMUNOTHERAPY.



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