February 26, 1999
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Submit talks to Tamie Heisler by 9 a.m. one week prior to publication.
Fax (780)492-2997 or e-mail at
public.affairs@ualberta.ca.
Accounting and Management Information Systems
March 5, 2 pm
Jinhan Pae, University of British Columbia, "Earnings Management and the Information Content of Earnings Announcements." B-05 Business Building. Copies of the paper can be picked up from the Department of Accounting and Information Systems office, Room 3-20L.
Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research
March 8, 10 am
Zhixiang Wang, Assistant Professor, Northeastern Ontario Regional Cancer Centre, Department of Tumor Biology, University of Ottawa, "The Regulation of Growth Factor Receptor-Mediated Signal Transduction and Endocytosis. Presented by Cell Biology. 5-10 Medical Sciences Building.
March 15, 10 am
Philip Wong, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, "Copper Chaperone for SOD1(CCS) and Molecular Mechanisms of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis." Presented by Cell Biology. 5-10 Medical Sciences Building.
Anthropology
March 11, 5 pm
Frucht Memorial Lecture Series. Robert L Bettinger, University of California, Davis, "Prehistoric North China on the Eve of Agriculture."
March 12, 3:30 pm
Panel Discussion: Robert L Bettinger, University of California, Davis; David Anderson, University of Alberta; Pamela Willoughby, University of Alberta, "The Concept of Evolution in Hunter-Gatherer Research." Location TBA - contact the Department of Anthropology at 492-3879 for further details.
Biological Sciences
Department of Biological Sciences
February 26, 2:30 pm (refreshments available at 2:15 pm)
George Owttrim, "Cool and Illuminating RNA Helicases." V-121 Physics V-Wing.
March 12, 2:30 pm (refreshments available at 2:15 pm)
Joe Dulka, "Steroid-Induced Plasticity in Brain and Behavior in Weakly Electric Fish." V-121 Physics V-Wing.
Ecology Seminar Series (part of the Biology 631 series)
February 26, noon
Maarten J. Vonhof, "Roosting Habitat Requirements and Population Genetics of Forest-dwelling Bats." G-116 Biological Sciences Centre.
March 5, noon
Kevin Devito, "The Potential for Impact of Logging on Water Quality and Quantity of Western Boreal Lakes Following Tree Harvest: Developing Adaptive Buffer Width Management Strategies." G-116 Biological Sciences Centre.
March 12, noon
Chris Buddle, "A Complex Web: Harvesting, Wildfires, and Spider Succession in the Boreal Forests of Alberta." G-116 Biological Sciences Centre.
Molecular Biology and Genetics Research Group (part of the Genetics 605 series)
March 2, 3:30 pm
Elizabeth Goodwin, "Post-transcriptional Control of Sex Determination in C. elegans." G-116 Biological Sciences Centre.
March 5, 3:30 pm
York Marahrens, "X-inactivation in Mice." G-116 Biological Sciences Centre.
March 12, 3:30 pm
Gabrielle Boulianne, "The Role of Presenilin in the Notch Signalling Pathway." Supported by AHFMR. G-116 Biological Sciences Centre.
Physiology and Cell Developmental Biology Seminar Series (part of the Biology 642 series)
March 3, noon
Kevin Kane, "Regulation of Natural Killer Cells by Major Histocompatibility Complex Molecules." G-114 Biological Sciences Centre.
March 10, noon
James Lin, "Wound Healing in a Jellyfish Striated Muscle Sheet." G-114 Biological Sciences Centre.
Thesis Seminars
March 1, 3:30 pm
David Hansen, "The Nematode Sex Determining Protein, FEM-2, is a Rapidly Evolving Protein Phosphatase." G-217 Biological Sciences Centre.
March 4, 11:30 am
Jeanette E Evans, "Dissolved Phosphorus Dynamics in Shallow Subsurface Waters in Cut and Uncut Subcatchments of a Lake on the Boreal Plain." M-141 Biological Sciences Centre.
Chemical and Materials Engineering
March 4, 3:30 pm
Faical Larachi, Department of Chemical Engineering, Laval University, Sainte-Foy, Quebec, "Gas-Liquid Packed and Ebullated-Bed Reactors: Making Order Out of Chaos." 345 Chemical & Materials Engineering Building. Website: http://www.ualberta.ca/chemeng (NEWS & EVENTS)
Chemistry
March 8, 11 am
Jeffrey Keillor, Department of Chemistry, University of Montreal, "Mechanistic Investigations of gamma-Glutamyl Transferases." V-107 Physics Wing.
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
February 26, 3 pm
Jeffrey W. Hedenquist, Consultant, Ottawa, "The Porphyry to Epithermal Continuum: Evidence from Volcanoes and Ore Deposits." Joint talk with Society of Economic Geologists - Student Chapter. Funded by SEG and PS Warren. 3-36 Tory Building.
March 4, 7 pm
Robert Wharton, Jr, Desert Research Institute, University of Nevada, "Life on Ice: Antarctica and Mars." 3-27 Earth Sciences Building.
March 5, 3:30 pm
Dr Wharton, Jr, "Long Term Change in Antarctic Cold Desert Ecosystems." 3-36 Tory Building.
Entomology
March 11, 4 pm
Andrea Durand, "You Are What You Eat: Implications for Forest Tent Caterpillar Feeding on Previously Damaged Trembling Aspen Trees." TBW-1 Tory Breezeway.
Environmental Research and Studies Centre
March 3, 4:30 pm
Karen Smoyer, "The Human Health Implications of Climate Change and Variability." Alumni Room, Students' Union Building.
Hope Foundation
March 2, 7 pm
Karen Massey, "Hope in Counseling." Hope House, 11032 - 89 Avenue.
Human Ecology
March 11, noon
Elizabeth Richards, "Aquatextiles: The Use of Polypropylene Textiles to Enhance Filtration in Water Treatment." Interdisciplinary research in textile science and environmental engineering. 3-05 Human Ecology Building (formerly Printing Services).
Interdisciplinarity and Cultural Studies: Methods, Explorations, Translations
March 3, 2 pm
Jane Samson, "A Historian Among Post-Colonial Theorists." 4-29 Humanities Centre.
Lemieux Lecture on Biotechnology
March 11, 4 pm
Gregory Winter, Cambridge Centre for Protein Engineering in England, "Synthetic Human Antibodies for Therapy." B-01 Tory Lecture Theatre.
Dr. Gregory Winter is Joint Head of the Division of Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry at the Medical Research Council, Laboratory for Molecular Biology and Deputy Director of the Cambridge Centre for Protein Engineering in England. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and was the 1995 recipient of the King Faisal International Prize in Medicine.
Oncology
March 11, noon
Joseph Slupsky, Senior Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Institut für medizinische Strahlenkunde und Zelleforschung, Universitä Würzburg, Germany. "Platelet-expressed CD40L Plays a Role in the Induction of Inflammation and Angiogenesis." Michael Hutchinson Room, 2279 Cross Cancer Institute.
February 26, 3:30 pm
Calvin Normore, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles, "What Was Contingency." 4-29 Humanities Centre.
March 1, 3:30 pm
Marina Oshana, Department of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University, "The Autonomy Bogeyman." L-2 Humanities Centre.
March 2, 3:30 pm
David Copp, Department of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University, "Rationality and Autonomy." L-2 Humanities Centre.
March 4, 3:30 pm
Bernard Linsky, "Principia Mathematica Revisited." L-2 Humanities Centre.
Physics
February 26, 3:15 pm
A B McDonald, Queen's University, Kingston, "The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory." V-129 Physics Building.
Physiology
February 26, 3:30 pm
Carlos Fernandex-Patron, "A New Role for Matrix Metaloproteinases in Vascular Function." 207 Heritage Medical Research Centre.
Political Science
February 26, 3 pm
John Saul, Department of Political Science, York University, "Africans and Africanists: Globalization, Socialism and Political Science Fiction." 10-4 Tory Building.
March 5, 3 pm
David Schneiderman, "Investment Rules: The New Constitutionalism." 10-4 Tory Building.
March 5, 6 pm (cocktails), 7 pm (dinner)
Peter Meekison, "Looking Forward, Looking Back: Canada in the 21st Century." Tickets: $20, call Sharon Moroschan, 492-3429. Banquet Room, Lister Hall.
Psychology
February 26, 1 pm
Thirteenth Annual Joseph R Royce Research Conference. Jan M Morse, "Qualitative Methods: The State of the Art." P-121 Biological Sciences Centre.
Public Health Sciences
March 3, noon
Douglas Wilson, "The Provincial Health Council of Alberta: A Three Year Perspective." Classroom D, 2F1.04 Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre.
Renewable Resources
March 4, 12:30 pm
Clara Qualizza, Syncrude Canada Limited, Fort McMurray, and Len Leskiw, Can-Ag Enterprises Ltd., "The Future of Soil Assessments and Evaluation of Land Capabilities in the Oil Sands Region." 2-36 Earth Sciences Building.
March 11, 12:30 pm
Don Scott, "The Evolution of Oil Sands Tailings as an Engineered Deposit." 2-36 Earth Sciences Building.
University Teaching Services
March 2, 2 pm
David Kahane, Kent Rondeau, Laura Shanner, "Tenure and Promotion: Preparing a Teaching Dossier." 281 CAB.
March 3, 3 pm
Sonja Arntzen and Jim Corrigan, "Print Study Centre: An Interdisciplinary Teaching Resource." 3-78 Fine Arts Building (Print Study Centre).
March 4, 2 pm
Deborah James and Theresa Murzyn, "Computer-Conferencing: Marking 'Connexions'." 281 CAB.
March 8, 3 pm
Candide Sloboda, "Lecturing Creatively." 281 CAB.
March 10, 3 pm
David Percy, "Easing Pressure Without Sacrificing Standards." 281 CAB.
March 11, 2 pm
Allison Fallowfield, "Custom Printed Course Materials." 281 CAB.
Women's Studies/Religious Studies
March 5, 10 am
David Forsee, Canadian author of Can You Listen to a Woman, A Man's Journey to the Heart will speak on his experiences as a man of having a female spiritual teacher, Swami Sivananda Radha. This special presentation is part of Professor Dold's Women's Studies/Religious Studies course on "Feminine Images of the Divine." Supported by the Employment Equity Discretionary Fund. B-76 Tory Building (basement).
