Calendar

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

Dean's Lecture Series, 4 p.m., May 11, Medical School Building (MSB) 3.001, "Mechanism and Disease Implications of Intracellular Vesicle Traffic," Randy Schekman, Ph.D., professor of molecular and cell biology, University of California, Berkeley, and investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Integrative Program Lecture, noon, May 19, UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Hickey Auditorium, R11.1400, "Clinical Testing of Supplements: Trials at UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center," Zhongxing Liao, M.D., Radiation Oncology - Ku Mai Cai and Huachansu; Vassiliki Papadimitrakopoulou, M.D., Thoracic/Head and Neck Oncology - Phase II Green Tea; Ying Guo, M.D., Palliative Care -Haelan (fermented soybean extract) and Alph Lipolic Acid; Razelle Kurzrock, M.D., director, Phase I Program/Division of Cancer Medicine - Curcumin. Sponsored by Integrative Medicine Program, directed by Lorenzo Cohen, Ph.D., adjunct associate professor of behavioral sciences at UT School of Public Health at Houston, and Office of Academic Affairs. Lunch provided. See http://www.mdanderson.org/CIMER or contact Lisa Gower, (713) 563-8953 or lgower@mdanderson.org.

Neurobiology and Anatomy Seminar, 4 p.m., May 19, MSB 7.037, Carol Colby, Ph.D., associate professor of neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh. Contact David Marshak, Ph.D., (713) 500-5617.

9th Annual Houston Conference on Health Informatics, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., May 27, John P. McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science, "Is it Just a Game? Performance and Ethics in Sports Medicine." Carlos R. Hamilton Jr., M.D., executive vice president for external affairs, UT Health Science Center at Houston, and member, World Anti-Doping Agency, speaks at 1:15 p.m. on "Steroids and Drug Testing." Feee $15 in advance, $20 day of conference. See http://resource.library.tmc.edu/hchi2005/hchi2005.php.

Pathology Research Seminar, noon, May 27, MSB 2.204, "How is Allostery Modulated? A Story of Two Pyruvate Kinase Isozymes," James C. Lee, Ph.D., professor of human biological chemistry and genetics, UT Medical Branch at Galveston. Hosted by James K. Stoops, Ph.D. Contact (713) 500-5345, (713)500-5316 or Christine.M.Haverkorn@uth.tmc.edu.

Neurobiology and Anatomy Seminar, 4 p.m., May 27, MSB 7.037, Fabrizio Gabbiani, Ph.D., assistant professor of neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine. Contact David Marshak, Ph.D., (713) 500-5617.