The event New and Emerging Causes of Birth Defects will take place on October 27-28, 2006 at UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy at UC San Diego in San Diego, CA. This timely conference will address the environmental causes of birth defects. Key topics include: anticonvulsant medications, maternal diabetes, and isotretinoin and Vitamin A. Presenters hail from eight of the world’s premier medical institutions representing both the U.S. and Australia. For more information, contact UCSD at (800)711-5030.

The morning group BIOCOM Orange County CFO Breakfast will take place on October 26, 2006 from 8:00 a.m. -10:00 a.m. at the Hyatt Regency Irvine, 17900 Jamboree Road in Irvine, CA. This event is open to only industry CFOs: the discussion involves issues facing CFOs in the life sciences.

A BIOCOM Purchasing Event will be held on October 26, 2006 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. at BIOCOM’s offices at 4510 Executive Drive, Plaza Seven, San Diego, CA 92121. For more information, please contact Kelly Aranaz at Karanaz@biocom.org or 858.455.0300 ext.100.

The purchasing group event BIOCOM 401K – Lunch and Learn will take place on October 26, 2006 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at BIOCOM in San Diego. For more information, contact Kelly Aranaz at Karanaz@biocom.org or
858.455.0300 ext.100.

The event Simon Ramo Distinguished Lecture: The Changing Pharmaceutical Industry will take place on October 26, 2006 at 4 p.m. at the Keck Graduate Institute, Building #517, 535 Watson Drive, in Claremont, CA. The guest speaker of this event is Dr. P. Roy Vagelos, who is the retired chairman and chief executive officer of Merck & Co., Inc. For more information, contact the Keck Graduate Institute at 909-607-7892 or events@kgi.edu. http://www.kgi.edu/x4156.xml.

The event the Learning Consortium: Project Management That Works will take place on October 25, 2006 from 7:45 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. at The Rady Center for Executive Education at UC San Diego in San Diego, CA. This session covers the key concepts for executing projects in today’s complex information and knowledge-intensive settings. Topics include: How to mitigate technical and market uncertainty and how to manage the social aspects of project execution. For more information, contact Karen Cordero at kcordero@ucsd.edu.

The event Extraterritoriality: Divided Claims, Divided Lands will take place on October 25, 2006 at 275 Middlefield Road, in Menlo Park, CA. The discussion relates to the extraterritorial application of U.S. patent law, multiple party/divided claim issues and extraterritoriality and associated planning issues.

The event Hands-on Bioinformatics Computer Workshop will take place on October 25, 2006 at OpenHelix, LLC in San Francisco, CA. This is a hands-on computer workshop sponsored by the UCSC Bioinformatics Group. The introductory tutorial will cover the topics needed to effectively use the powerful, free, publicly-accessible UCSC Genome Browser tool, including: basic functionality of Genome Browser searching and BLAT use, Table Browser use, creating and using Custom Tracks, and an introduction to the Gene Sorter. For more information, contact nsirohi@openhelix.com.

The event Connecting People to Company Success will take place on October 25, 2006 from 7:30 – 9:30 a.m. at the Radisson Hotel La Jolla, 3299 Holiday Court, in La Jolla, CA. For more information, contact Joanna Cuevas at (858) 882-8033 or jccuevas@ucsd.edu.

The Licensing Executives Society Silicon Valley Chapter will be holding a luncheon event on IP Transactional Intermediaries: Who are they and what do they do? will be held on October 25, 2006 from 11:30-1:30 at Benson Parlor at Santa Clara University. The speakers include Ron Epstein, CEO of IPotential, and David Smith, Founder of TYNAX.