Calendar

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

BioTexas Summit 05, June 7-8, InterContinental Stephen F. Austin Hotel, Austin, exploring the Texas health care landscape from a political, economic, social, cultural and ethical perspective. Hosted by: Texas Healthcare and Bioscience Institute, UT Medical Branch at Galveston, Central Texas Institute, and UT School of Public Health. For information and registration see http://www.cti-med.org/biotxsummit.htm.

Neurobiology and Anatomy Seminar, 4 p.m., June 9, Medical School Building 7.037, "Exocytotic Release of Glutamate," Vladimir Parpura, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California, Riverside.

Disparities in Health in America: Working Toward Social Justice, 3rd Annual Summer Workshop, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., June 4-10, U.T. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Robert C. Hickey Auditorium, 11th Floor, R. Lee Clark Clinic. Among sessions: "Overview of Social Determinants," Benjamin C. Amick III, Ph.D., associate professor of behavioral sciences and epidemiology, School of Public Health. Directed by Lovell A. Jones, Ph.D., director, Center for Research on Minority Health, and professor, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Registration on site daily or in advance at http://www.mdanderson.org/crmh. Contact cyclark@mdanderson.org or (713) 563-4005.

Academic and Administrative Leadership Development Program (AALDP) application deadline June 15 for the fall 2005 program, which begins in October. See http://www.uth.tmc.edu/academic/aldp/
AALDPFactSheet.pdf. Contact Kathy.Rodgers@uth.tmc.edu or (713) 500-3065.

Integrative Medicine Program Lecture, noon, June 16, M. D. Anderson (R11.1400) Hickey Auditorium, "Potential Preventative Actions of Genistein Combined Polysaccharide Against Genitourinary Cancers," Debra L. Bemis, Ph.D., Department of Urology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Sponsored by Office of Academic Affairs and Integrative Medicine Program, directed by Lorenzo Cohen, Ph.D., adjunct associate professor of behavioral sciences, School of Public Health. Lunch provided. See http://www.mdanderson.org/CIMER or contact lgower@mdanderson.org or (713) 563-8953.