• California Coalition for Science and Technology Summit -- May 28-29, Sacramento, Calif. Many of California's top leaders in academia, industry and government aim to improve support for science and technology in the state and to develop new and effective partnerships. UC organizers will release results of a new poll of attitudes and opinions of Californians toward research. Contact: Karen Watson, UC Davis News Service, (916) 752-9842, kmwatson@ucdavis.edu, http://universityextension.ucdavis.edu. • Conference on the Ecology, Conservation and Management of Vernal Pool Ecosystems -- June 19-21, Sacramento, Calif. About 400 people are expected to tackle the preservation and planning issues of the unique and threatened vernal pool habitat. UC Davis researchers will give the keynote address as well as papers on soil-forming processes, grazing and diversity, invertebrate biodiversity, and specialist pollinators of showy flowers. Contact: Bill Hull, Western Section, The Wildlife Society, (510) 465-4962. • Neurobehavioral Teratology Society -- June 23-26, Keystone, Colo. Researchers will discuss the latest findings about effects of drugs and environmental chemicals on brain development in fetuses and infants and latent impacts upon aging brain function. Other sessions update the effects of cocaine and Prozac. Media contact: Mari Golub, adjunct professor in the UC Davis medical school, (916) 752-5119, msgolub@ucdavis.edu. • Symbiosis 96! -- Sept. 5-8, Bar Harbor, Maine. UC Davis faculty and students will be among the investigators who meet to discuss papers applying modern techniques to research of diverse symbiotic associations. Media contacts: co-organizers Paul Baumann, UC Davis microbiology, (916) 752-0272, pabaumann@ucdavis.edu, or Scott O'Neill, Yale epidemiology and public health, (203) 785-3285, Scott-Oneill@quickmail.yale.edu; http://wolbachia.med.yale.edu/.