Jeffrey A. Bluestone, director of the UCSF Diabetes Center and Immune Tolerance Network and A.W. and Mary Clausen Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology at the University of California, San Francisco, will present “Pursuing the Elusive Goal of Tolerance in Autoimmune Diabetes.” The seminar will be held Wednesday, March 24, at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building’s fourth-floor auditorium.

Bluestone and his research team study the fundamental events that regulate T-cell activation and development during immune responses to autoantigens and transplantation antigens. They have focused on understanding the basic processes that control T-cell activation and tolerance with the overall goal of developing a new generation of toleragenic drugs that will “turn off” selected parts of the immune system, leaving the disease-fighting capabilities intact.

For more information or to add your name to the distribution list, please e-mail Ilse Duarte at [email protected].

Alice Conklin, associate professor of history, The Ohio State University, presents “From Race to Culture: The Museum of Man in Interwar France” on Wednesday, March 24 at 12 p.m. in the Frances L. Wolfson Communications Building, room 5063.

Omar Gutierrez-Arenas, postdoctoral student at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, will present “High Content Analysis of Protein Kinase Function in Neuronal Response to Mechanical Injury” on Wednesday, March 24 from 9 to 10 a.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. For more information, call 305-243-7108 or visit www.themiamiproject.org/lectures.

The Faculty Senate will hold a meeting on Wednesday, March 24 at 3:30 p.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center Auditorium on the Miller School of Medicine campus. All faculty members are welcome to attend. For more information, visit the senate’s Web page at http://www.miami.edu/FacultySenate.

The Network for Clinical Research Professionals hosts their monthly meeting on Wednesday, March 24 from 12 to 1 p.m. at the Clinical Research Building, sixth-floor Executive Center. Presenters include Suzanne Page, director of the Clinical Research Initiation Services and Marc Gellman, professor in the Behavioral Medicine Research Center. The event includes a discussion. For more information, e-mail [email protected] or call 305-243-8070.