Sachin Gupta, postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, will present “Novel Approaches to HIV Live Attenuated Vaccines” on Monday, November 1 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, Room 3109. For more information or to add your name to the department’s distribution list, please contact Brian Ruther at [email protected].

Daniel Price, postdoctoral researcher in the University of Miami’s Department of Biology, will present “Sugar Partitioning in the Pea Aphid: Using Sugar Conversion and Sugar Transport to Deal with an Osmotically Challenging Diet” on Monday, November 1 at 12:20 p.m. in the Cox Science Center, Room 166. Price’s research focuses on how aphids are able to use plant phloem sap as their sole dietary component. He is trying to establish which amino acid transporters are expressed at the symbiotic interface between aphid and Buchnera and how these transporters regulate amino acid supply to Buchnera and transport of essential amino acids to the aphid. For more information about this event, please contact Assistant Professor Alex Wilson at [email protected].

The Launch Pad at Toppel will present “Attracting Investors” on Monday, November 1 from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m. at the Toppel Career Center library. The event is free and open to University of Miami faculty, staff, students, alumni, and members of the community. RSVP to [email protected].

Robert O. Ritchie, member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK, will present “Bioinspired Structural Materials” from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Monday, November 1 in the McArthur Engineering Annex, Room MEA 202. Ritchie is known for his research in the mechanics and micromechanisms of fracture and fatigue in a broad range of structural and biological materials. Ritchie’s presentation will focus on the development of bulk ceramic-polymer nacre/bone-like structural materials of unprecedented strength, possibly representing the highest ceramic toughness reported to date. For more information, call 305-284-2908 or e-mail [email protected].