Some upcoming events you’ll find on our calendar:

Tuesday:

The Secrets of Field Notes: Capturing Science, Nature, and Exploration Harvard Museum of Natural History

Michael Canfield, Harvard University

May 10, 2011 at 06:00 pm

Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA. 02138

In this fascinating new collection, Field Notes on Science and Nature, Harvard University Press provides a rare glimpse into the journals of top scientists such as Charles Darwin, George Schaller, and Kenn Kaufman. Editor Michael Canfield, lecturer in biology at Harvard, will discuss what makes these notes and journals so important, the secrets they reveal, and how they can help us cultivate skills as a bird watcher, citizen scientist, or adventure

Understanding Bacterial Transcription Regulation by Studying One Molecule at a TimeJeff Gelles, Brandeis University

May 10, 2011 at 12:30 pm

Harvard Medical School, Warren Alpert Building, 341, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA.

Wednesday:

RNA mimics of GFP: Biological engineering of genetically encoded fluorescent RNA and RNA devicesWednesday, May 11, 2011

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Wyss Institute, Room 521, 3 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA 02115