Developmental Center for AIDS Research grand rounds will be held on Tuesday, May 17 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, third-floor auditorium. Rama Rao Amara, associate professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Emory University School of Medicine and a researcher in the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, will present “Prevention of Heterologous Mucosal SIV Infection by Vaccination.”

As a research associate in the laboratory of Harriet Robinson at Emory University, Amara played a major role in the preclinical development of the AIDS vaccine, now in phase I clinical trials. A faculty member in the Emory Vaccine Center, Amara is working to develop a version of this vaccine that could be used to control AIDS worldwide. His research efforts are focused on understanding the phenotypes of protective CD8 T cells and the mechanisms of their generation and maintenance. He is also developing strategies that can substitute the requirement of CD4 T cell help for generating functional CD8 T cells. For more information, please contact Marie McEntee at [email protected].

Pediatric Grand Rounds will be held on Tuesday, May 17 from 8 to 9 a.m. at the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Norman James Halliday, professor of anesthesiology and director of pediatric anesthesia at the Miller School of Medicine, will present “Malignant Hyperthermia: Presentation, Pathophysiology, and Peri-Operative Management.” For more information, please contact Javier Salazar at 305-585-6042 or email [email protected].

The Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy will host a seminar by Tongyu Cao, research assistant professor in the Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery at the Miller School of Medicine, on Tuesday, May 17 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor conference room 4139. Cao will present “The Hair Follicles: Small, Hidden, but Not Insignificant.” For more information, call Nilcer Aviles at 305-243-6691 or email [email protected].

The Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics and John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics will host a seminar by Evadnie Rampersaud, research assistant professor at the Hussman Institute. Rampersaud will present “Fitting Into Your Genes: Genomic Approaches to Personalized Exercise Prescriptions” on Tuesday, May 17 at 4 p.m. at the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. For more information, contact Lourdes Acosta at 305-243-2559 or email [email protected].

The SPEAK test, required for all international teaching assistants to demonstrate ability in spoken English, will be administered on Tuesday, May 17 at 5 p.m. in Allen Hall, Room 102. For more information and to register for the test, please contact Maki Burgess from the Intensive Language Institute at [email protected] or call 305-284-4727. Students must be registered by 5 p.m. on Monday, May 16 in order to take the test. A photo ID is required on the day of the test.