BRAIN AWARENESS WEEK: Note to brain: March 10-16 is Brain Awareness Week, an international effort to advance public awareness about the progress and benefits of brain research.
Toward that end, George R. Mangun, °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ professor and director of the Center for Mind and Brain, plans a March 11 lecture, free and open to the public, on the topic "How the Brain Creates Human Experience" -- about the brain's role in helping us to understand the world around us. The lecture is scheduled from 6 to 7 p.m. in the University Club Lounge.
Sponsors are the Center for Mind and Brain, the °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience and the °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ Center for Neuroscience.
CHARLEY RICK SYMPOSIUM: The Plant Genomics Program has organized its 2008 Charley Rick Symposium around the topic Plant Responses to Biotic and Abiotic Stress. The biennial event is named after a longtime °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ professor, considered a legend in tomato genetics, who died in 2002.
The two-day symposium is set to begin March 13 with a reception at 5 p.m., introductions at 5:30 and the keynote address at 5:45 by Paul Schulze-Lefert, director of the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research.
The symposium continues in the same place, the AGR Room at the Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 14. °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ professors Eduardo Blumwald and Gitta Coaker are listed among the speakers.
Registration and more information: . Or contact Jeleana T. Johnson, (530) 754-2252 or jtejohnson@ucdavis.edu.
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