Herbert W. "Skip" Virgin, M.D., Ph.D.,
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Exhibitions
"Depicting Devotion: Illuminated Books of Hours From the Middle Ages." Through Feb. 22. Special Collections. Level 5, Olin Library. 935-5495. "Max Weber in America and Other Paintings." Werner Gephart, Fulbright Distinguished Chair for German Studies. Through March 31. Room 320 Anheuser-Busch Hall. 935-7988. Film Wednesday, Feb. 6 7 p.m. Henry Hampton Film Series. "Eyes on the Prize I: American Civil Rights Years (1954-65)." Sponsored by WU Libraries. Room 100 Brown Hall. 935-6154. Sunday, Feb. 10 1 p.m. Contemporary French Film Series. "Est-ouest." Regis Wargnier, Dir. Sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture. Room 100 Brown Hall. 935-4056. Lectures Friday, Feb. 1 9:15 a.m. Pediatric Grand Rounds. "Subtle Clues Can Lead to the Diagnosis of Immunodeficiency." Mary Ellen Conley, prof. of pediatrics and Federal Express Chair of Excellence, U. of Tenn., St. Jude Children's Research Hosp., Memphis. Clopton Aud., 4950 Children's Place. 454-6006. Noon. Cell biology and physiology seminar. "Latent TGF§ Binding Protein-1: Structure, Function and Assembly Into the Extracellular Matrix." Sarah L. Dallas, assoc. prof. of oral biology, U. of Mo., Kansas City, School of Dentistry. Room 426 McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg. 362-2254. 4 p.m. Anatomy and neurobiology seminar. "fMRI Studies of Language Development." Steven E. Petersen, prof. of neurology. Room 928 McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg. 362-7043. 6 and 8:30 p.m. Travel Lecture Series. "High Country Adventure: Yukon and Canadian Rockies." John Wilson. Cost: $5. Graham Chapel. 935-5212. Saturday, Feb. 2 11 a.m. Saturday Seminars: Empires and After. "Imagining the Imperium in the Midst of Disaster." Steven Zwicker, Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities. McDonnell Hall, Goldfarb Aud. 935-6700. Monday, Feb. 4 "Pathophysiology of Dystonia: Clues From Neuroimaging." Joel S. Perlmutter, prof. of neurology and of radiology and assoc. prof. of anatomy and neurobiology. Schwarz Aud., first floor, Maternity Bldg. 362-7316. 2:30 p.m. Chemical Engineering Seminar Series. "Nucleation Phenomena in Complex Systems of Environmental and Biological Significance." Ravi Radhakrishnan, MIT. Room 100 Cupples II (refreshments 2 p.m., Room 208 Urbauer Hall). 935-4988. 4 p.m. Immunology Research Seminar Series. "V(D)J Recombination, Somatic Hypermutation and Class Switching: Diverse Strategies for Diversity." David Schatz, Yale U. School of Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Inst. Eric P. Newman Education Center. 362-2763. 7 p.m. Architecture Monday Night Lecture Series. "Between Art and Architecture." Mikko Heikkinen, Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor in architecture, Heikkinen-Komonen Architects, Helsinki, Finland. Steinberg Hall Aud. (reception 6:30 p.m., Givens Hall). 935-6293. Tuesday, Feb. 5 5 p.m. Art History and Archaeology Lecture Series. "Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism and French North Africa, 1880-1930." Roger Benjamin. Room 200 Steinberg Hall. 935-5270. Wednesday, Feb. 6 11 a.m. Assembly Series. The Benjamin E. Youngdahl Lecture. "A Passion for Justice." Morris Dees, civil rights lawyer. Co-sponsored by the School of Law and the George Warren Brown School of Social Work. Graham Chapel. 935-5285. Noon. Orthopaedic research seminar. "Regulation of Osteogenesis and Osteocalcin Gene Expression by a Novel Ku Antigen Transcription Factor Complex." Dwight Towler, bone and mineral diseases div. Room 11300 West Pavilion, Barnes-Jewish Hosp. 454-7800. 1:30-3:30 p.m. National Library of Medicine Satellite Teleconference. "Sync or Swim: Managing the Flood of PDAs in Health Care." Sponsored by the Becker Medical Library. Moore Aud. To register, call 362-2782. 4 p.m. Physics colloquium. "Ferromagnetic Imprinting of Nuclear Spins in Semiconductors." Roland Kawakami, physics dept., U. of Calif., Santa Barbara. Room 204 Crow Hall (coffee, 3:30 p.m., Room 245 Compton Hall). 935-6276. Thursday, Feb. 7 11 a.m. Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Grand Rounds. "Pathogenesis of Post-transplant Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome." Thalachallour Mohanakumar, the Jacqueline and William Maritz Prof. of surgery. East Pavilion Aud., Barnes-Jewish Hosp. Bldg. 362-6904. Noon. Genetics seminar. "Patterning Adult Abdominal Segments in Drosophila." Ian Duncan, prof. of biology. Room 823 McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg. 362-2062. 4 p.m. Vision Science Seminar Series. "Identification of Differentially Expressed Genes in Human Astrocytes From Normal and Glaucomatous Optic Nerve Head by Oligonucleotide Microarray." M. Rosario Hernandez, prof. of ophthalmology. East Pavilion Aud., Barnes-Jewish Hosp. Bldg. 362-1006. 7 p.m. Architecture Monday Night Lecture Series. VADC and St. Louis Art Museum lecture. Ursula Frohne. Steinberg Hall Aud. (reception 6:30 p.m., Givens Hall). 935-6293. Friday, Feb. 8 9:15 a.m. Pediatrics Grand Rounds. The Julio V. Santiago, M.D. Memorial Lecture. "Why Do We Grow? Human Growth From an Evolutionary Perspective." Ron G. Rosenfeld, prof. and chair of pediatrics dept.; prof. of cell and developmental biology, Oregon Health Science U. and physician-in-chief of Doernbecher Children's Hosp., Portland. Clopton Aud., 4950 Children's Place. 454-6006. 4 p.m. Anatomy and neurobiology seminar. Gilles Laurent, biology dept., Calif. Inst. of Technology, Pasadena. Room 928 McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg. 362-7043. 4 p.m. History of medicine lecture. "The Application of Chemistry to 'Obstinate' Diseases in Anglo-American Medicine, 1780-1840." James Alsop, prof. of history, McMaster U., Canada. King Center, 7th floor, Becker Library. 454-2531. 4 p.m. Music dept. lecture. "Trickster Dance: Hermeneutic Discourse in Native American Women's Popular Musics." Celia Cain, visiting lecturer in ethnomusicology, music dept. Room 102 Music Classroom Bldg. 935-4841. Saturday, Feb. 9 11 a.m. Masters of Liberal Arts Saturday seminar. Empires and After. "Ends of Chinese Empires, 17th and 19th Centuries." Robert E. Hegel, prof. of Asian and Near Eastern languages and literatures and chair of comparative literature dept. in Arts & Sciences. Room 162 McDonnell Hall. 935-4806. 1 p.m. Joint Center for East Asian Studies symposium. "East Asian Studies and Public Policy: The U.S. and East Asia in a Post 9-11 World." Akira Iriye, the Charles Warren Prof. of American History, Harvard U. and Tu Wei-ming, prof. of Chinese history and philosophy and dir., the Harvard-Yenching Inst., Harvard. Room 331 Social Sciences and Business Bldg., U. of Mo., St. Louis. 935-4448. Monday, Feb. 11 Noon. Neurology and neurological surgery research seminar. Barbara Joy Snider, instr. in neurology. Schwarz Aud., first floor, Maternity Bldg. 362-7316. 2:30 p.m. Chemical Engineering Seminar Series. "Hepatic Tissue Engineering - From Xenogenic Bioartificial Liver to Self-assembled Organoids." Wei-Shou Hu, prof., U. of Minn. Room 100 Cupples II (refreshments 2 p.m., Room 208 Urbauer Hall). 935-4988. 4 p.m. Immunology Research Seminar Series. "What Can Human Cytomegalovirus Teach Us About Immunoreceptors?" David Cosman, molecular biology, Immunex Corp., Seattle. Eric P. Newman Education Center. 362-2763. 7 p.m. Monday Night Lecture Series. "Big Room." Carol Burns, architect, Taylor MacDougall Burns Architects, Boston. Steinberg Hall Aud. (reception 6:30 p.m., Givens Hall). 935-6293. Tuesday, Feb. 12 Noon-1 p.m. Alzheimer's Disease Research Center seminar. "The Potential for PET Imaging of Brain Amyloid." Mark A. Mintun, prof. of radiology and assoc. prof. of psychiatry. East Pavilion Aud., Barnes-Jewish Hosp. Bldg. 286-2881. Noon. Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis Seminar Series. "Experimental and Computational Analyses of DNA-protein Interactions and Gene Regulation." Gary D. Stormo, prof. of genetics. Cori Aud., 4565 McKinley Ave. 362-3692. Noon-1 p.m. Program in Physical Therapy seminar. "Comparison of Physical Activity and Cumulative Plantar Tissue Stress Among Subjects With and Without Diabetes Mellitus and a History of recurrent Plantar Ulcers." Katrina Maluf, doctoral student, Program in Physical Therapy. Room B108/B109 4444 Forest Park Blvd. Bldg. 286-1404. 4 p.m. Tumor Genetics Seminar series. "Differentiation, Translation and the Origins of Glial Tumors." Eric C. Holland, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, N.Y. Room 426 McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg. 454-8566. 4:30 p.m. Art History and Archaeology Lecture Series. "A Twentieth Century Paradigm: On Black and White or Color." Ulf Ziegler, German art critic. Room 200 Steinberg Hall. 935-5270. 5:30 p.m. Biophysical Evenings seminar. "Mass spectrometry for H/D Exchange in Proteins." Michael L. Gross, prof. of chemistry. Cori Aud., 4565 McKinley Ave. 362-0261. Wednesday, Feb. 13 11 a.m. Assembly Series. "Sex and Intimate Relationships." Pepper Schwartz, author and prof. of sociology at the U. of Washington. Graham Chapel. 935-4620. 4 p.m. Biochemistry and molecular biophysics seminar. "Structural Insights Into Type III Bacterial Pathogenesis." Erec Stebbins, asst. prof., The Rockefeller U., Lab. of Structural Microbiology. Cori Aud., 4565 McKinley Ave. 362-0261. Music Thursday, Feb. 7 8-10 p.m. Holmes Jazz Series. Ptah Williams Trio. Holmes Lounge, Ridgley Hall. 935-4841. Friday, Feb. 8 8 p.m. Acoustic City Concert Series. Christine Kane, CD release party. Cost: $12 in advance, $15 day of show, free to WU students and faculty. Ike's Place. 935-7576. Sunday, Feb. 10 3 p.m. Faculty recital. Sonatas by Mendelssohn and Barber and works of Prokofiev and Skryabin. Elizabeth Macdonald, cellist, and Hugh Macdonald, pianist. Steinberg Hall Aud. 935-4841. Sports Friday, Feb. 8 6 p.m. Women's basketball vs. Case Western Reserve. Field House. 935-5220. 8 p.m. Men's basketball vs. Case Western Reserve. Field House. 935-5220. Sunday, Feb. 10 1 p.m. Men's basketball vs. Emory U. Field House. 935-5220. 3 p.m. Women's basketball vs. Emory U. Field House. 935-5220. Worship Friday, Feb. 1 11:15 a.m. Catholic Mass. Catholic Student Center, 6352 Forsyth Blvd. 935-9191. 1:15 p.m. Jummuah Prayers. Prayer service. Lower level, Lopata House. 920-1625. Friday, Feb. 8 11:15 a.m. Catholic Mass. Catholic Student Center, 6352 Forsyth Blvd. 935-9191. 1:15 p.m. Jummuah Prayers. Prayer service. Lower level, Lopata House. 920-1625. And moreÉ Thursday, Feb. 7 8 a.m. STD/HIV course. "Laboratory Methods." (Thursdays through Feb. 28.) Cost: $60. Various Distance Learning Sites. To register, call 747-0294. Saturday, Feb. 9 7:30 a.m. Continuing Medical Education seminar. "Annual Update in the Management of Hypertension and Cardiovascular Diseases." Presented by the Cardiovascular Imaging and Clinical Research Core Lab, Cardiovascular Div. Cost: $55. Steinberg Amphitheater, Barnes-Jewish Hosp. To register, call 362-6891. The Record calendar lists a portion of the activities taking place at Washington University Feb 1 - 13. For a full listing of medical rounds and conferences, see the School of Medicine's Web site. Also, for more events, please see the expanded Hilltop Campus calendar Web site. Events sponsored by the University -- its departments, schools, centers, organizations and recognized student organizations -- are published in the calendar. All events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. Calendar submissions should state time, date, place, sponsor(s), title of event or lecture, name(s) of speaker(s), speaker(s) affiliations and admission cost. Mail items to Calendar at Campus Box 1070 or fax to 935-4259 or e-mail at record_calendar@aismail.wustl.edu. Submission forms are available by calling 935-4926 and information can be found here. The deadline for all entries is noon Tuesday one week prior to publication. Late or incomplete entries will not be printed. The Record is published every Friday during the school year, except holidays, and monthly during the summer. |
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