SEMINARS/ LECTURES

Shipping
Purchasing Services, along with Livingston International Inc. will present a half-day customs brokerage information session entitled How to Get Your Import Shipment Released on Time Jan. 31 from 8:30-noon in the VIDO lecture theatre. To register, call 966-6704 or e-mail purchasing.services@usask.ca

Management Development
The Business Advisory Services’ Management Development Program includes the following workshops:
• Feb. 9, Corporate Sponsorship Marketing (half-day), $200
• Feb. 12, Project Management Primer, $350
• Feb. 13, Strategy Implementation, $350
• Feb. 13/14, Fuzzy #’s – Finance for Non-Finance Folks, $700
• Feb. 14, Coaching, Mentoring and Team Building, $350
• Feb. 15, IT Security (half-day), $200
• Feb. 15, Marketing Communications Clinic (2-day), $700
For information and to register, call 966-8686.

Whelen Lecture
Steven Shapin, historian and sociologist of science, and the Franklin L. Ford Professor of History of Science at Harvard University, will present the 2007 Whelan Visiting Lectureship Jan. 9 at 7 pm in Convocation Hall. The title of his address is “Thinking Different … Science and the Modern World.”

Share Conversion Seminar
The Centre for the Study of Co-operatives is sponsoring a seminar entitled “Declining Economic Linkage: The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool Share Conversion Story” Jan. 17 at 3 pm in Agriculture 1E80. Speakers will be Murray Fulton and Kathy Lang.

CIHR Education Session
An educational session of CIHR’s guidelines for health research involving aboriginal people will take place Jan. 12 from 8:30-12:30, Room 146 Kirk Hall. To register, e-mail gail.flynn@usask.ca

Veterinary Microbiology
Fridays at 12:30 pm
• Jan. 5 in VIDO lecture theatre, Lilani Munasinghe presents “Pathogenic T Cells in African Trypanosomiasis”
• Jan. 12 in Room 2105 WCVM, John Mapletoft presents “Adjuvants and BRSV.”
• Jan. 19 in VIDO lecture Theatre, Amanda Wisner presents “Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis SPI-2 TTSS: Construction of Mutants and Expression of TTSS Components.”

Microbiology and Immunology
Thursdays at 4 pm in B450 Health Sciences
• Jan. 11, Peter Bretscher presents “Macroimmunology and Strategies for Preventing and Treating Cancer.”
• Jan. 18, Yu Fu, PhD student, presents “The Regulatory Network Controlling DNA Damage Response in Yeast.”
• Jan. 25, Andrew Potter, VIDO, presents “Strategies for the Control of Foodborne Pathogens.”

Applied Microbiology and Food Science
Mondays 12:30-1:20 pm in 2C71 Agriculture
• Jan. 8, Karthikeyan Narayanan presents “Transcriptional Control of Stress Responses in Plants”
• Jan. 15, Zafer Dallal Bashhi presents “The Plant Hypersensitive Response: When a Defense Mechanism Gets Misused”
• Jan. 22, Majid Hassas Roudsari presents “Antioxidant Activity Assessment Techniques”
• Jan. 29, Shannon Hood presents “Legume Proteins: Properties and Uses”

Geography Colloquia
Fridays at 2:30 pm in Arts 256
• Jan. 26, Alec Aitken and Zulin Guo present “Monitoring Prairie Lake Area Changes with MODIS.”

Commerce Friday Seminars
Fridays from 1:30-4:30 pm in the College of Commerce. Call 966-8686 to register.
• Jan. 19, Spreadsheet Modeling
• Jan. 26, Exploring for New Business Models: Finding Blue Oceans