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DTSTAMP:20210511T124519
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210614T080000
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SUMMARY:Other:Become a UROP Research Mentor
DESCRIPTION:Submit a Research Project for the 2021-2022 Academic Year: https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html\n\nUROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers from across all U-M's 19 Schools and Colleges who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration\, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention\, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school.
UID:83879-21619436@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/83879
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Education,Faculty,Free,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Students,Interdisciplinary,Mentorship,Research,research data,Staff,Urop
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20210430T095709
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210614T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210614T230000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Changing Gears Application Open
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the Changing Gears Program and apply at: myumi.ch/uropcg\n\nChanging Gears (CG) is a UROP program designed primarily for community college transfer students who will be attending the University of Michigan\, but also serves students transferring from 4 year institutions. Students in the CG Program become a part of an ongoing faculty-driven research\, scholarly or creative project in their field of interest. Students learn valuable academic skills\, applying these skills to their research project\, academics\, and future career opportunities\, while receiving academic credit or compensation for their efforts in research work.\n\nIf you are a U-M Transfer Student and not graduating until winter 2022 and/or after\, you are eligible to apply to the 2021-2022 UROP Changing Gears Program.
UID:83922-21616941@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/83922
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,first-generation,Free,Interdisciplinary,Networking,Office Hours,Research,Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20220502T122639
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210614T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210614T230000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:UROP First-Year Application Open
DESCRIPTION:Our \"Traditional UROP Program\" has been our flagship program running over 30 years. This Academic Year program\, in which students participate for both Fall and Winter Terms\, is designed for University of Michigan first and second year undergraduate students enrolled on the Ann Arbor campus who are seeking a first time research experience. Student research assistants work alongside a faculty member\, research scientist or professional practitioner on an ongoing or new research project.\n\nLearn more and apply at: myumi.ch/uropyearone\n\nApplications being accepted on a rolling basis.
UID:83923-21617060@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/83923
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Applications,first-generation,Free,Interdisciplinary,Networking,Research,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop
LOCATION:Undergraduate Science Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20210804T182828
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210614T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210614T230000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:UROP Research Scholars Application now open
DESCRIPTION:The UROP Research Scholars Program is designed for students who want to expand on their first year UROP experience and participate in UROP for a second year at an advanced level. In this program\, students build upon the knowledge gained in a first undergraduate research experience to further explore the connections between research\, a liberal arts education\, and communicating skills to advance their future professional goals. Students are expected to explore various written and oral possibilities for communicating their research process\, identifying the limits set by the discipline and the opportunities that lie beyond.\n\nApply at: https://myumi.ch/uroprs
UID:82067-21014959@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/82067
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Applications,Free,Interdisciplinary,Research,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20210714T155619
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210614T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210614T230000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:UROP Rising Sophomore Applications Open
DESCRIPTION:The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program is now accepting applications for students who will be rising sophomores during the 2021-2022 academic year. \n\nLearn more and apply today at http://myumi.ch/uropsophomore\n\nRising Sophomore Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.
UID:80546-21203426@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/80546
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Applications,first-generation,Free,Research,Sophomore,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20210602T110141
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210614T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210614T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy Meeting
DESCRIPTION:For more than 30 years\, the International Conference on Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy (TRVS) has played a central role in highlighting state-of-the-art progress in understanding\, manipulating\, and driving vibrations in molecular and material dynamics.\n\nTRVS 2021 (June 13-18) will bring researchers from around the world together to discuss the following topics:\n\n• Dynamics of liquids\, solids\, interfaces\, and nanostructured materials\n\n• Role of vibrational dynamics in electronically excited molecules and materials\n\n• Chemical\, vibrational\, and hydrogen bonding dynamics\n\n• Time-resolved vibrational spectroscopy in molecular biophysics and photobiology\n\n• Proton and electron transfer studies for energy conversion and storage\n\n• Advances in multi-dimensional vibrational spectroscopy: Infrared\, Raman\, and THz\n\n• New laser sources and spectrometers\n\n• Single molecule vibrational spectroscopy\n\n• Theoretical and computational spectroscopy\n\nPlease see https://www.trvs2021.org/ for more information and to register.\n\nHosts: U-M Physicist Jennifer Ogilvie and research team along with U-M Chemist Kevin Kubyarch.
UID:84177-21620695@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84177
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Natural Sciences,Physics,Workshop
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20210610T181512
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210614T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210614T120000
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Juneteenth Symposium: Celebrating Black Joy\, Hope\, and Healing—Opening
DESCRIPTION:10:00 a.m. Welcome\nGregory Thomas\, Program Manager\, Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives\n10:10 a.m. Black National Anthem\nLarry James Walker II\, Worship and Creative Arts Pastor\n10:15 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks\nSusan M. Collins\, Provost\, University of Michigan\n10:30 a.m. Libations\nElizabeth James\, Program Associate\, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies\n10:40 a.m. History of Juneteenth\nWilliam Hampton\, President\, NAACP\, Ann Arbor Branch\n11:55 a.m. What’s Happening Next\nGregory Thomas\, Program Manager\, Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives\nThis event is co-sponsored by Rackham’s Strategic Action Leadership Team\, NAACP Ann Arbor Branch\, Association of Black Social Work Students\, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies\, Center for Social Solutions\, In Collaboration with: Office of Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion and the CEW+ Women of Color Task Force.\nFor full symposium information and links to the live stream of events visit https://rackham.umich.edu/juneteenth-symposium/.\nWe want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event\, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time\, preferably one week\, to arrange for your requested accommodations or an effective alternative.
UID:84225-21620784@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84225
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Diversity,Graduate Students
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20210611T101742
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210614T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210614T140000
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Introduction and Welcome to Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA)
DESCRIPTION:Using the lens of race and ethnicity\, MESA engages the campus community and transforms the student experience to build inclusive spaces and equitable opportunities for all. Our work manifests in many cultural and educational events/programs\, and development and leadership opportunities. Come and get to know MESA and learn how you can get involved\, make some friends and build relationships beyond our circles so that we can learn and work collaboratively to positively impact our environment and community not only on campus\, but wherever that may be. We are looking forward to meeting and welcoming you to the University of Michigan. Go Blue!
UID:84265-21620831@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84265
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20210506T120651
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210614T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210614T150000
SUMMARY:Meeting:CoderSpaces (Mondays)
DESCRIPTION:Are you grappling with a piece of code\, trying to compute on a cluster\, or just getting started with a new method such as machine learning? Then we might have just the right space for you.\n\nAll members of the U-M community are invited to join our weekly virtual CoderSpaces\, Mondays – Thursdays\, during the Summer 2021 term to get research support and connect with others.\n\nThe virtual sessions are designed to assist faculty\, staff\, and students with research methodology\, statistics\, data science applications\, and computational programming for research.\n\nOur hosts have a wide set of methodological and technological expertise. They come to you from a variety of departments and disciplines and are looking forward to serving the U-M community in their research endeavors.\n\nCoderSpaces provide a casual\, productive\, and inclusive environment. Everyone is welcome regardless of skill level.\n\nMondays 1:30-3 p.m.\n\nJoin via Zoom* (https://umich.zoom.us/j/97155787515)\n*Users will have to sign in with their UMICH (Level-1) credentials.\n\nwith Andrew Hlynka (CSCAR)\, Charles Antonelli (LSA Tech)\, Jonathan Golob (Michigan Medicine)\n\nExpertise: 3D graphical applications\, C\, C++\, C#\, CMake/GNU Make\, Fortran\, Git\, high performance computing\, Java\, JavaScript\, Julia\, Matlab\, mobile app development\, MPI\, OpenMP\, parallelization\, performance analysis\, PBS\, Python\, R\, reproducible workflows (nextflow)\, shell\, Slurm\, SQL\, statistical modeling
UID:83925-21619091@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/83925
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Arc,Data Science,Information And Technology,Office Hours
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20211209T160155
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210614T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210614T150000
SUMMARY:Other:LSA Technology Services Research Support Office Hours
DESCRIPTION:The Research Team within LSA Technology Services is excited to announce virtual office hours for research computing support. These are regularly scheduled times when we will have subject matter experts in geographic information systems\, high performance computing\, digital scholarship\, and computer programming available for drop-in support. Faculty\, staff\, and students with research-related questions pertaining to any of these areas can stop by to ask questions\, get help working through a problem\, or inquire about a new project—no appointment necessary!\n\nNot sure what we can do to help? Read on for more details about the services provided by each of these teams.\n\n*Digital Scholarship*\nOur digital scholarship team specializes in humanities\, social sciences\, and interdisciplinary digital project methods and can provide assistance with:\n* Conceptualizing\, planning\, and finding resources for a digital project\n* How to version\, archive\, and preserve a project\n* Sustainability\, preservation\, accessibility\, privacy\, consent\, or grant requirements\nNew to digital projects? We can also talk about how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project\, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage\, and how to provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.\n\n*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)*\n\nOur GIS specialists can help with your geographic data needs\, including the following:\n* Making maps for use in a class\, grant proposal\, or publication\n* Geospatial analysis: identifying spatial patterns and trends in your data\n* Georeferencing: assigning geographic coordinates to a historic paper map or a hand-drawn sketch for digital use as a basemap or combined display with other data\n* Geocoding: convert a spreadsheet with addresses into latitude-longitude so you can plot your data on a map\n* StoryMaps: harness the power of maps to tell your story\n* Integrating smartphones or tablets and GIS in your field courses or researchSetting up workshops for a class or group interested in learning to use GIS in the context of your discipline\n* Assistance with ESRI's ArcGIS platform\, including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online\, or other geospatial software\n* Developing your own custom GIS web application or mobile application\n\n*High Performance Computing (HPC)*\n\nOur HPC team can help with:\n* Accessing U-M’s new Great Lakes HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster\n* Moving your computational work from your laptop or workstation to the cluster\, freeing up your machines for other tasks\n* Compiling\, installing\, or configuring a wide range of computational software\n* Setting up automated workflows to save time\n* Debugging your programs to see why they are crashing\n* Evaluating the benefits of parallel computing\, more memory or system resources for your code\nWe regularly support Python\, R\, MATLAB\, C/C++\, Java\, Julia\, Go\, and many other applications.\n\n*Research Support Programming*\n\nOur computer programming team can help with any of the following:\n\n* Debugging\, repair\, and improvements or upgrades to your existing code\n* References to training and coding resources to assist in your project\n* Design and development of custom software to support your research\n* Incorporation of lab-specific hardware into custom software applications.\n* Writing funding for any of the above into your grant proposals\nWe're experienced in MATLAB\, Python\, R\, LabVIEW\, JavaScript\, MedPC\, iOS development\, and more.\n\nWho can join the office hours?\nLSA Faculty\, staff\, and students with research-related questions on geographic information systems\, high performance computing\, digital scholarship\, and computer programming\n\nWhen and where is it?\nOur virtual office hours use Zoom:\nMondays\, 2:00–3:00 P.M.\nTuesdays\, 10:00–11:00 A.M.\nThursdays\, 3:00–4:00 P.M.
UID:77718-20270709@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/77718
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Digital Humanities,Digital Projects,Digital Scholarship,Faculty,Gis,Graduate Students,Humanities,Lsa,Office Hours,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Qualitative Social Sciences,research,Science,Virtual
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20210518T143145
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210614T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20210614T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:RNA Innovation Seminar featuring Rising Scholars: Khan & McMillan
DESCRIPTION:Registration Required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uLz-ONHVQPuRINMYUNvBJQ\n\n“CCR5 as a model to examine reporter assays in evaluating translational phenomena”\nYousuf Khan\nKnight-Hennessy Scholar\nStanford University\n\nKEYWORDS: dual luciferase\, frameshifting\, recoding\, CCR5\nABSTRACT: During the decoding of a subset of mRNAs\, a proportion of ribosomes productively shift to the −1 reading frame at specific slippage-prone sites in a phenomenon known as programmed −1 ribosomal frameshifting (−1 PRF) to generate a frameshifted\, C-terminally unique protein. The first experimentally verified occurrence of functionally utilized non-retroelement derived −1 PRF in humans has been reported in the mRNA encoding the immune-functioning C-C chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5). Here\, we show that frameshifting does not occur during CCR5 decoding. Apart from its importance in understanding expression of a gene relevant to cancer\, an HIV-1 receptor (and the associated claimed rationale for generating the first humans derived from genetically modified embryos)\, the findings imply that caution is appropriate in assessing results from translational reporter assays.\n\n~and~\n\n“Intersection between RNA methylation and TDP43-mediated toxicity in ALS”\nMichael McMillan\nPh.D. candidate\nCellular and Molecular Biology\nUniversity of Michigan\n\nKEYWORDS: TDP43\, m6A\, ALS\, RNA stability\nABSTRACT: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease resulting in the death of upper and lower motor neurons. ALS has no known cure and limited therapeutic options\, and the underlying pathological mechanisms remain unclear. Despite considerable variability in clinical presentation\, over 95% of ALS cases exhibit cytoplasmic inclusions of the RNA binding protein TDP43. Emerging evidence suggests that TDP43 is crucial for RNA stability\, and that dysregulation of RNA homeostasis may contribute to ALS pathogenesis.\nMethylation of RNA at the 6th position nitrogen (N6-methyladenosine methylation\, or m6A) by methyltransferases (writers) or removal of methyl groups by demethylases (erasers) has dramatic effects on RNA stability and translation mediated by a family of RNA biding proteins that recognize methylated RNA (readers). m6A writers and erasers specifically localize to nuclear speckles\, membraneless nuclear organelles rich in RNA binding proteins and splicing factors\, including TDP43. Together with our data showing that TDP43 regulates RNA stability\, these observations suggest that TDP43 may destabilize m6A modified RNA. Here\, we show that methylated RNA co-purified with TDP43 from cultured cells via RNA immunoprecipitation\, and abrogation of methylation sites disrupted TDP43 binding\, suggesting that TDP43 recognizes m6A modified RNA in cellulo. We also noted profound and widespread hypermethylation of coding and non-coding transcripts in ALS spinal cord\, many overlapping with confirmed TDP43 target transcripts. Consistent with a central role for m6A modification in TDP43-mediated toxicity\, we identified several factors operating within the m6A pathway that enhance or suppress the toxicity of TDP43 in rodent primary cortical neurons via a single-cell CRISPR/Cas9 candidate-based screen. Genetic knockout of the established m6A reader YTHDF2 rescued TDP43 toxicity in primary neurons\, and YTHDF2 was also upregulated in ALS postmortem sections. Together\, these data imply a fundamental link between m6A RNA modifications and ALS pathogenesis\, potentially mediated by TDP43-dependent RNA destabilization.
UID:83934-21619166@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/83934
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Biointerfaces,Biology,Biomedical Engineering,Biosciences,Chemistry,Drug Discovery,Graduate,Graduate School,Lecture,Life Science,Medicine,Natural Sciences,Pharmacy,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Pre Med,Public Health,Rackham,Research,Science,Structural Biology
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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