Please join us this Thursday at noon in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, third-floor auditorium for a microbiology and immunology seminar. Joseph Lustgarten, Ph.D., associate professor of immunology at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona, will present "Involvement of Tregs and Mac-Regs in Regulating Antitumor Immune Reponses in the Young and Old."

The Miami Institute for Human Genomics is proud to welcome a world-renowned leader in Alzheimer's research, Gary Small, M.D., Parlow-Solomon Professor on Aging, professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, and director of the Center on Aging and the Geriatric Psychiatry Division at UCLA Health System in California. Dr. Small will present "Banishing the Senior Moment: Detection and Prevention of Age-Related Cognitive Decline." Please join us for this special seminar this Friday at 1:30 p.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. For more information, please contact Nora Matelis at nmatelis@miami.edu or 305-243-8408.

The Greater Miami Association of Diabetes Educators will present its third annual diabetes education seminar this Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Baptist Hospital. The program, covering a broad range of diabetes-related topics, will provide six continuing education units and UM faculty and staff are encouraged to prepare a display table to present diabetes education initiatives being conducted at the Miller School. 

The cost is $35 for Greater Miami Association of Diabetes Educators chapter members and $60 for non-members. For more information and to receive a copy of the seminar brochure, please contact Arlynn Owens at asegal@med.miami.edu or 305-243-2920 ext. 4, Kellie Rodriguez at krodriguez1@med.miami.edu or 305-243-4090, or Gary Rothenberg at gary.rothenberg@med.va.gov or 305-324-4455 ext. 4920. 

There will be a Faculty Senate meeting tomorrow (Wednesday) at 3:30 p.m. at the M. Christine Schwartz Center for Nursing and Health Studies, room 106. All faculty members are welcome to attend. For more information, please visit the Faculty Senate Web site at http://www.miami.edu/FacultySenate.

The Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology will host Jeff Gerst, Ph.D., associate professor of molecular genetics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, for a seminar this Thursday at noon in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, conference room 6018. Dr. Gerst will present "The mRNA Localizome: A Whole Genome in Transit?"

For further information, please contact Nivia Machin Gonzalez at 305-243-1078.

Whether you just joined the faculty or you are being considered for a promotion soon, you will not want to miss this seminar on the Miller School's promotion and tenure process titled "Publish or Perish? That is the Question." The seminar, sponsored by Women in Academic Medicine, will be presented by Sherri H. Hayes, Ph.D., P.T., professor and chair of physical therapy and first vice chair of the Faculty Senate, and Ellen Barrett, Ph.D., professor of physiology and biophysics, on Thursday, August 27, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium.

The Training Division of the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) program will present a conference titled "Session A: Emerging Topics in Autism." The conference will be held tomorrow (Wednesday) from 8 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. at the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Speakers include Jeffrey Brosco, M.D., Ph.D., professor of clinical pediatrics; Heather Henderson, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology; Daniel S. Messinger, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology; John Gilbert, Ph.D., professor of human genetics; and Robert Tuchman, M.D., voluntary associate professor of neurology.

The conference is approved for seven continuing education units for psychologists, social workers and speech language pathologists/audiologists and 6.75 continuing education units for occupational therapists and physical therapists. Registration is $50 for professionals and parents and $35 for students. For additional information, please call 305-243-4466 or send an e-mail to wcastro@med.miami.edu.  

You are invited to a Pediatric Clinical Research Forum tomorrow (Wednesday) from noon to 1 p.m. at the Batchelor Children's Research Institute, conference room 508B. David Ludwig, Ph.D., professor of pediatrics and epidemiology and public health, will present "Heart Rate Variability and Complexity Measures: Clinically, Are They Worth the Effort?"

If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Jacqueline Henkel at jhenkel@med.miami.edu.

The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis will host a special seminar by Nagi G. Ayad, Ph.D., assistant professor of cancer biology at Scripps Florida. Dr. Ayad will present "Chemical Genetics, Ubiquitin and Neurological Disease" tomorrow (Wednesday) from 1 to 2 p.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium.

For more information, please visit www.themiamiproject.org/Lectures or call 305-243-7108.

The Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology wil present a seminar by Doug Boettner, Ph.D., post-doctoral scholar. Dr. Boettner will present "Trafficking Through Obstruction Using Genetics to Uncover Redundant Functions of the Yeast Clathrin Light Chain" this Thursday at noon in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, room 6018.


For additional information, contact Nivia Machin-Gonzalez at 305-243-1078.