The Department of Pediatrics and the Jay Weiss Center for Social Medicine and Health Equity will present grand rounds on Wednesday, December 8 from 12 to 1 p.m. at the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Iris F. Litt, national director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Physician Faculty Scholars Program, will present “Misunderstood and Underserved: Health Care Disparities in Adolescence.” For more information, please contact Javier Salazar at 305-585-6042 or [email protected], or call Cari Martinez at 305-243-8893 or e-mail [email protected].

The Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery will present grand rounds on Wednesday, December 8 from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, Ioannides Library, Room 2090. Giuseppe Micali, professor and chair of the Department of Dermatology at the University of Catania School of Medicine, Sicily, will present “Non-Invasive Therapeutic Monitoring in Dermatology.” For more information, please call 305-243-4472.

This year’s SEEDS (Scientists and Engineers Expanding Diversity and Success) Distinguished Lecturer for the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science is Professor Mercedes Pascual, of the Center for the Study of Complex Systems and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan. Pascual is a theoretical ecologist interested in the population dynamics of infectious diseases, their response to changing environments, and their interplay with pathogen diversity. She will lecture on “Infectious Disease Dynamics and Climate Forcing: A Role of the Oceans” on Tuesday, December 7 at 11 a.m. in the SLAB Seminar Room at the Rosenstiel School. Her career-issues seminar will be held on Wednesday, December 8 at 4 p.m. in the Rosenstiel School’s Library Map and Chart Room. Both events are open to all. To attend mentoring sessions after each seminar, graduate students, postdocs, scientists, and faculty should RSVP at www.as.miami.edu/seeds. For more information, contact Associate Professor Su Sponaugle at [email protected].

The Department of Medicine will host grand rounds on Wednesday, December 8 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, third-floor auditorium. Robert C. Hendel, professor of medicine and radiology and director of cardiac imaging in the Cardiovascular Division, will present “Quality, Value, and Appropriateness of Cardiac Imaging.”

The fifth Transgenic Seminar Series, “So, You’ve Got Your Chimeric Mouse! What Is Next?” is scheduled for Wednesday, December 8 at 1 p.m. at the MTSL Auditorium (between Ronald McDonald House and Hope Lodge; seating is limited) on the Miller School of Medicine campus. The presentation will focus on the basics of conditional targeted mutagenesis in mouse cre-lox, flp-frt systems. Members of the Sylvester Transgenic Animal Core Facility and guest speakers will present. For more information, please contact Peter Sobieszczuk at 305-243-2272 or [email protected]. For general information about the transgenic facility, visit http://www.sylvester.org/TACF.