May 15, 1998
Submit talks to Tamie Heisler by 9 a.m. one week prior to publication. Fax 492-2997 or e-mail at public.affairs@ualberta.ca.

ALBERTA HERITAGE FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH

May 29, 10 a.m.

Peter Rottier, Professor in the Institute of Virology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, "Protein Targeting and Viral Assembly in Epithelial Cells: Implications for Virus Entry and Spread." Presented by Cell Biology and Anatomy. 5-10 Medical Sciences Bldg.

CANADIAN FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN (EDMONTON)

June 1, 6 p.m.

Linda Cook, Director of Libraries, Edmonton Public Libraries, "Is the Book Dead?" Tickets: $25 and can be ordered by phoning 426-4110 by May 22, 1998. Faculty Club.

CENTRE FOR GERONTOLOY

May 25, 7:30 p.m.

Sheree Kwong-See, "Stereotyping the Elderly: Perceptions of Older People and Patronizing Speech." 2-07 Corbett Hall.

CHEMISTRY

The Reuben Benjamin Sandin Lecture Series. Christopher T. Walsh, Hamilton Kuhn Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, will present the following lectures:

May 27, 11 a.m.

"Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Resistance to Vancomycin." E1-60 Chemistry Centre.

May 28, 11 a.m.

"Biogenesis of Thiazole and Oxazole-Peptide Antibiotics: Enzymatic Machinery." E1-60 Chemistry Centre.

May 29, 11 a.m.

"Phosphopantetheinyl Transferases: Covalent Priming of the Multicatalytic Polyketide and Nonribo-somal Peptide Synthases." E1-60 Chemistry Centre.

COMPUTING SCIENCE

May 20, 3:30 p.m.

Ian Foster, Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago, "High Performance Computational Grids." 112 V-Wing.

ECO-RESEARCH CHAIR IN ENVIRONMENTAL RISK MANAGEMENT

May 24, 1:30 p.m.

Dipankar Chakraborti, Director, School of Environmental Studies, Jadavpur University, India, "The Biggest Arsenic Calamity in the World: Exposure and Health Effects from Arsenic in Drinking Water in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India." 2F1.04 (Classroom D) Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre.

MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY

May 22, 1 p.m.

Chris Arendt, "Insights into the Function of the CD45 Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase." 2J4.02 (Classroom F) Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre.

PERINATAL RESEARCH CENTRE

May 19, 4 p.m.

Peter Mitchell, "Paracrine Regulation of Myometrial Activity." 207 Heritage Medical Research Centre.

PHYSIOLOGY

May 15, 3:30 p.m.

Bruce Pitt, Professor of Pharmacology and of Anesthesiology, University of Pittsburgh, "Stress Genes and Endothelial Cell Defense Mechanisms." 207 Heritage Medical Research Centre.

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