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On the Back-Page Space

How about an NIH Kids’ Page?

NIH Kids’ Mentoring: Health

Science Starts at an Early Age

NIH Kids’ Learning

...or maybe ...

Kids’ Health How-Tos

Kids’ Question Corner

Kids’ Health Comics Strip

or

NIH Gee-Whiz: How’d They

Do That? (lay-level science)

Hope this helps!

—Jon Rutherford, CIT

—Anybody out there interested in doing this? Contact us.—Ed.

Catalyst Items
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Interest Group Directory: The July-August issue of The NIH Catalyst will, as is traditional, include a complete directory of NIH Special Interest Groups—complete, that is, if all interest-group contact persons verify their group’s listing for correct meeting time and place and contact person(s). Within the next few weeks, the Catalyst will e-mail the contact people for all of last year’s 89 listed groups asking for verification that the previous listing is still valid or for a corrected update. The deadline for responding is June 25. If you are a contact person for a new interest group, please let the Catalyst know the group exists.

Online Catalyst and Listserv: The Catalyst is available online, and there is now a listserv for those of you who would like to know the moment each issue has been launched in cyberspace. To subscribe, send an e-mail message to this address. The body of your message should say:

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Edward Salmon University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

A mammalian tissue culture cell (PtK1) treated with an inhibitor of a mitotic kinesin, resulting in formation of a monopolar rather than a bipolar mitotic spindle. (The cell was fixed in prometaphase and stained green for microtubules and red for DNA).

Biological imaging of dynamic molecular events in living cells promises to provide new insights into fundamental cellular processes. Recent advances in the tools used for intracellular imaging have opened the door to new information on the spatial and temporal relationships between molecules within the cell. The complex behavior of individual molecules and molecular assemblies, and their movement within the cell, can now be captured by increasingly sophisticated optical microscopic techniques. This symposium will feature examples of leading technologies that extend the limits of biological imaging to give high resolution detail on dynamic cellular events in vivo.

The program includes five speakers: Wolfhard Almers of the Vollum Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland; Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz of NICHD; Ted Salmon of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Roger Tsien of the University of California, San Diego; and Simon Weiss of the University of California, Los Angeles.

There is no fee, but advance registration is required. You may register online.

Sign language interpretation will be provided. For information or other accommodations, e-mail Terese Trent or call 301-594-0828.

For more info, contact Carol Jabir in the Special Projects Branch of the Office of Communications and Public Liaison, 496-1776.

Salutaris Noons-in-June

This year the NIH Salutaris Employee Group will celebrate Gay Pride Month by sponsoring two lunchtime programs focusing on health disparities within the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender (GLBT) community:      

June 20, 2003: C. Earl Fox, former administrator of HRSA, will discuss GLBT health disparity initiatives and the federal government, 11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m., Building 40, Conference Room 1201. 

June 23, 2003: Katherine O'Hanlan, a gynecologic oncologist from California, will address how civil rights affect GLBT health disparities, 11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m., Building 40, Conference Room 1201.

Sign language interpretation will be provided. For reasonable accommodation, please contact Shannon Bell at 301-594-3767.