Calendar

See the online calendar and submit items at http://www.uthouston.edu/calendar/.

PARTNERS Lecture, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Jan. 5, St. Martin's Episcopal Church, 717 Sage Road at Woodway, Room 210, Education Building, "Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease" by K. Lance Gould, M.D., the Martin Bucksbaum Distinguished University Chair, professor of medicine/cardiology, and director of the Weatherhead PET Center for Preventing and Reversing Atherosclerosis, UT Medical School at Houston. Bring a brown bag lunch or purchase lunch at the church. Dessert and beverages provided. Contact Anne Roberts, (713) 500-2003.

Neurobiology and Anatomy Seminar, 4 p.m., Jan. 6, Medical School Building (MSB) 7.037, Elisabeth Glowatzki, Ph.D., assistant professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, Johns Hopkins University. Contact David Marshak, Ph.D., (713) 500-5617.

UT-TORCH Core Seminar, 5-6:30 p.m., Jan. 6, Dental Branch Building (DBB) 446, "A Common Sense Approach to Grant Writing" by George Stancel, Ph.D., dean of the UT Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston and the John P. McGovern Endowed Professor. Participants are expected to obtain a certificate in human subjects research from http://www.training.arc.ucla.edu. Contact John.M.Powers@uth.tmc.edu or (713) 500-4470.

Neurobiology and Anatomy Seminar, 4 p.m., Jan. 13, MSB 7.037, Lynn Nadel, Ph.D., Regents' Professor, professor of psychology - cognition and neural systems, University of Arizona. Contact David Marshak, Ph.D., (713) 500-5617.

School of Nursing Research Seminar, noon, Jan. 28, Center for Nursing Research Conference Room, School of Nursing and Student Community Center 508, "Hypertensive Vascular Disease in Children" by Ronald Portman, M.D., professor of pediatrics, UT Medical School at Houston. Attendees are welcome to bring their lunch. Contact Maggie.L.Downey@uth.tmc.edu or (713) 500-2041.

Association of Women Faculty's Professional Development Conference, registration deadline Jan. 31; event 8 a.m.-3 p.m., Feb. 11, Trevisio's, Texas Medical Center Commons. Open to women and men. Speakers: Patricia Buffler, Ph.D. , dean emerita, University of California at Berkeley School of Public Health, and previously professor of epidemiology, UT School of Public Health at Houston; Jeanne Sinkford, D.D.S., Ph.D., associate executive director, Center for Equity and Diversity, American Dental Education Association; Patricia Starck, D.S.N., dean, UT School of Nursing at Houston, and the John P. McGovern, M.D., Distinguished Professor; and Laura Schweitzer, Ph.D., associate vice president for health affairs and vice dean for faculty affairs, University of Louisville School of Medicine. See http://www.uth.tmc.edu/ut_general/special_interest/committees/awf/programs.html.

Conference on "Frontiers of Medicine: Society, Pharmacology and Membrane Biology in the Genomic Era," registration deadline Jan. 31; event March 7-9, Rice University. Co-Chair: John L. Spudich, Ph.D., holder of the Robert A.Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry and director, Center for Membrane Biology, UT Medical School at Houston and UT Graduate School of Biomedical Science at Houston. Sponsored by Rice University and the Gulf Coast Consortium for Membrane Biology, of which the UT Health Science Center at Houston is a member, with the support of the British Consulate-General Houston. For more information see http://delange.rice.edu or contact Ellen Butler, (713) 348-4695 or butler@rice.edu.

Neurobiology and Anatomy Seminar, 4 p.m., Feb. 3, MSB 7.037, Erin Schuman, Ph.D., associate professor of biology, California Institute of Technology, and associate investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Contact David Marshak, Ph.D., (713) 500-5617.