Mary Lou King, professor of cell biology and anatomy at the Miller School of Medicine, will present “Preserving the Germline: Surprises in Gene Regulation” on Monday, February 8 at 12:20 p.m. in the Cox Science Center, Room 166. For more information, call Julia Dallman at 305-284-3954.

University of Miami graduate faculty are invited to attend the spring graduate faculty meeting, which will take place Monday, February 8 at 3 p.m. in the Learning Center, room 140, on the Coral Gables campus. For more information, contact Maria Torres at [email protected].

Lesley De Armas, graduate student in the laboratory of Eckhard Podack, professor and chair of Microbiology and Immunology, will present “Characterization of Perforin2, a Novel Pore-forming Protein in Macrophages” on Monday, February 8 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, Room 3109. For more information or to add your name to the distribution list, please contact Ilse Duarte at [email protected].

The Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (ICCAS) will host the panel discussion “Cuba: What to Expect” on Monday, February 8 at 7 p.m. at Casa Bacardi, 1531 Brescia Avenue, on the Coral Gables campus.

Panelists will include Brian Latell, senior research associate at ICCAS, who served as national intelligence officer for Latin America from 1990 to 1994 and is the author of After Fidel: The Inside Story of Castro’s Regime and Cuba’s Next Leader; and Jorge Castañeda, former foreign minister (from 2000 to 2003) of Mexico, senior fellow at the New America Foundation, and Global Distinguished Professor of Politics and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. Forum moderator Jaime Suchlicki, director of ICCAS and Emilio Bacardi Moreau Distinguished Professor of History at UM, is editor of Cuban Affairs, a quarterly electronic journal published by ICCAS, and the author of Cuba: From Columbus to Castro.

Admission is $10; free for UM students, faculty, and staff. To RSVP call 305-284-CUBA (2822).