Happening @ Michigan

EEB Museums Friday Seminar - How do quantitative genetics enhance our understanding of morphological evolution

Daniela Rossoni - Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Negaunee Integrative Research Center (Mammals), Field Museum of Natural History

Evolutionary quantitative genetics provides a strong theoretical framework for connecting evolutionary processes, the underlying genetic...

Physical Chemistry Third Year Seminars

Federica Ricci(Coherent Energy and Charge Transfer Processes Probed in Solution and in the Solid State with Time-Re) , Tieyi Lu(Probing the Interfacial Peptides/Proteins by using Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy) , Rong Duan(Exploring vibrational pol

Federica Ricci(Coherent Energy and Charge Transfer Processes Probed in Solution and in the Solid State with Time-Re) , Tieyi Lu(Probing the...

Fighting to Build a Wall: How Cell Competition Shapes Morphogenesis in Mammalian Skin

Stephanie J. Ellis, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, Rockefeller University

We are pleased to welcome Stephanie J. Ellis, Ph.D., to the Kahn Auditorium in BSRB on Monday, February 17, 2020....

EEB dissertation defense: When does gene flow stop? A mechanistic approach to the formation of phylogeographic breaks in nature

Iris Holmes, EEB graduate student

Iris defends her doctoral dissertation Image credit: Alison Davis Rabosky and Christian Cox

The cell biology of lipid homeostasis: From lipid droplets to lipotoxicity

James Olzmann, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Speaker: James Olzmann, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Atmospheric chemistry of volatile organic compounds in the limit as nitric oxide concentrations decline to pre-industrial levels.

Paul Wennberg (California Institute of Technology)

As a result of controls on NOx emissions from cars, trucks, and electricity production, NOx levels (sum on NO and NO2) have decreased...

Complex Systems Seminar | A Minimal Mathematical Model for Free Market Competition Through Advertising

Joseph Johnson Northwestern University, Department of Engineering; Engineering Sciences & Applied Math

Firms in the U.S. spend over 200 billion dollars a year advertising their products to consumers, around 1 percent of the country's...

EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the gaudy grasshopper family Pyrgomorphidae (Insecta: Orthoptera)

Ricardo Mariño-Pérez, U-M EEB Postdoctoral Fellow

Please join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar.

The Role of Citrullination in Rheumatoid Arthritis- Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar

Roank Tilvawala, U MASS

Dr. Ronak Tilvawala, Postdoctoral Associate at U-Mass Medical School, will be presenting a seminar in the Department of Biological Chemistry...

Seminar: Dissecting mechanisms that govern cellular plasticity

Bruno Di Stefano, Ph.D.

Speaker: Bruno Di Stefano, Ph.D. Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Stem Cell Institute

Genetics Training Program / CMB Short Course (630)

Welcome to the Exciting World of Tandem and Interspersed DNA Repeats by Jayakrishnan Nandakumar, Ph.D.

Welcome to the Exciting World of Tandem and Interspersed DNA Repeat Elements...

“Modulating kidney development: from cells to signals and transcriptional regulation”

Lori O'Brien, Ph.D.

The NIH T32 Training Program in Organogenesis is pleased to present a Special Series: "Emerging Topics in Tissue Regeneration and...

No Defense: The U.S. Government's War on Water

Documentary Premier and Filmmaker Q&A!

In conjunction with the Feb 20 symposium, "From PBB to PFAS: Research and Action to Address Michigan’s Large-Scale Chemical...

From PBB to PFAS: Research and Action to Address Michigan’s Large Scale Chemical Contaminations

Symposium to Facilitate Community-Researcher Collaborations featuring Linda Birnbaum (former NIEHS Director)

The PBB to PFAS Symposium will provide a unique venue for fostering collaboration between researchers and community members with:...

BME Ph.D. Defense: Lauren L. Zimmerman

Investigating Neuromodulation as a Treatment for Female Sexual Dysfunction

Department of Biomedical Engineering Final Oral Examination...

Microfluidics Seminar: Dr. Xufeng Xue

Stem cell-based modeling of human neurulation

Neurulation is a key embryonic developmental process that gives rise to neural tube (NT), the precursor structure that eventually develops...

Seminar: Targeting tumor-immune interplays

Peiwen Chen, Ph.D.

Speaker Peiwen Chen, Ph.D. University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center

BME 500: Ruixuan Gao

“In Situ Nanoscale Imaging of Molecular Constituents and Functions in Cells and Intact Tissues”

Investigation of the molecular basis of a complex biological system, such as the brain, can lead to fundamental understanding of its...

EEB Thursday Seminar: Approaches to diversifying who does Ecology & Evolution: from undergraduate to faculty

Corey Welch, Director, STEM Scholars Program, Iowa State University

There is a growing body of literature demonstrating the barriers and solutions to improve the successful selection, retention, and...

Fibrillization and Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation of the Tau Peptide

Joan-Emma Shea (University of California - Santa Barbara)

Joan-Emma Shea (University of California - Santa Barbara)...

"United States of Single Cells"

Taubman Technology Talk

"The United States of Single Cells"...

Medical School Student Panel Discussion

Science Success Series

Here is your chance to hear about what life is like for several medical school students and residents. Learn about each of their paths to...

U-M Structure Seminar: Hannah Foley

Graduate Student, Keane Lab

U-M Structure Seminar: Simone Brixius-Anderko, Ph.D.

Research Fellow, Emily Scott Lab University of Michigan

CALCIUM: Panel: Teaching at Faith-Based Schools

Tom Kunzelman(Spring Arbor) , Kendra Evans(UD-Mercy) , Stephen Leonard(Indiana Wesleyan) , Jolia Leonard(Indiana Wesleyan)

Tom Kunzelman(Spring Arbor) , Kendra Evans(UD-Mercy) , Stephen Leonard(Indiana Wesleyan) , Jolia Leonard(Indiana Wesleyan)...

MCDB: Epigenetic inheritance mediated by RNA and chromatin

Sam Gu, Rutgers University

Host: Györgyi Csankovszki

Biologist-for-a-Day Outreach Event

Graduate and undergraduate science students are holding an outreach event at BSB

Hands-on activities will demonstrate scientific concepts to families visiting campus. If you are a student and would like to be a part of...

Seminar: CRISPR tools for studying and engineering the three-dimensional genome

Haifeng Wang, PH.D.

Speaker Haifeng Wang, PH.D. Stanford University, Department of Bioengineering

Defining microRNAs: How Cells Select Transcripts to Enter the microRNA pathway- Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar

Wenwen Fang, Whitehead/MIT

Dr. Wenwen Fang, Postdoctoral Fellow at Whitehead/MIT will be presenting the Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar on Tuesday February...

Defining microRNAs: How Cells Select Transcripts to Enter the microRNA pathway- Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar

Wenwen Fang, Whitehead/MIT

Dr. Wenwen Fang, Postdoctoral Fellow at Whitehead Institute/MIT will present a seminar on Tuesday February 25th, 2020 at 12 noon in North...

EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: The impact of within-host priority effects on disease dynamics in coinfected populations

Patrick Clay, U-M EEB Postdoctoral Fellow

Please join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar.

LHS Collaboratory

"Value Proposition of Learning Health Systems" - Erik Gordon, PhD

"Value Proposition of Learning Health Systems"...

“Embryonically Informed Tendon Regeneration Strategies”

Catherine K. Kuo, Ph.D.

The NIH T32 Training Program in Organogenesis is pleased to present a Special Series: "Emerging Topics in Tissue Regeneration and...

Using Systems Thinking Concepts in General Chemistry to Combat Compartmentalized Knowledge Acquisition

Thomas Holme (Iowa State)

A common observation about student learning in introductory university chemistry courses is that they have a tendency to compartmentalize...

Bioethics Discussion: Overpopulation

A discussion on one to(o) many....

Rethinking biomimicry in synthetic non-heme iron complexes

David Lacy (University of Buffalo)

Synthetic iron-based catalysts that functionally model iron dependent oxygenases are rare. Considering the large number of synthetic iron...

Complex Systems Seminar | Principles of Pattern Formation for Confined Elastic Shells

Ian Tobasco, University of Illinois Chicago, Department of Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science

Dried fruits wrinkle for the same reason that leaves and flowers do — mechanical instabilities arising due to a naturally occurring...

BME 500: Kelly Stevens

“Decoding and Recoding Human Tissue Assembly”

The notion of building artificial human organs has moved from a far-fetched concept to the forefront of regenerative medicine research....

EEB Thursday Seminar: Probing the structure of fitness landscapes with experimental evolution

Sergey Kryazhimskiy, Assistant Professor, Ecology, Behavior and Evolution, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego

The ability to evolve and adapt is a fundamental property of living systems. In many populations, the process of adaptive evolution can be...

Physical Chemistry Third Year Seminars

Elvin Salerno(Applications of lanthanide luminescence in thermometry and molecular magnetism) , Hanjie Jiang(Towards a cost-effective wave function theory for charge transfer energies and electronic couplings)

Elvin Salerno(Applications of lanthanide luminescence in thermometry and molecular magnetism) , Hanjie Jiang(Towards a cost-effective wave...

MCDB: Synthetic Bacteria Deliver the Goods

Kumaran Ramamurthi, National Cancer Institute, NIH

Host: Lyle Simmons

Cryo-EM Studies of Molecular Motors and Their Associated Filamentous Assemblies- Department of Biological Chemistry Semianr

Charles Sindelar, Yale School of Medicine

Dr. Charles Sindelar, Associate Professor of Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics at Yale School of Medicine will be presenting the...

NO EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar today

Have a great Spring Break!

Tuesday Lunch Seminars return on March 10, 2020.

“Engineered kidney models derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells”

Samira Musah, Ph.D.

The NIH T32 Training Program in Organogenesis is pleased to present a Special Series: "Emerging Topics in Tissue Regeneration and...

Comprehensive Understanding of Material Characteristics of Perfluoroalkyl Compounds Studied by Vibrational Spectroscopy

Takeshi Hasegawa (Kyoto University)

Organofluorine compounds represented by perfluoroalkyl (Rf) compounds involving polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) attract keen interest for...

How to make a stem cell: Gene regulatory principles learned from vascular fate transitions

Dionna M. Kasper, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Fellow, Yale University School of Medicine

We are pleased to welcome Dionna M. Kasper, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Fellow, Yale University School of Medicine to the Kahn Auditorium in BSRB...

BME 500: Ruobo Zhou

“Visualizing Biomolecular Interactions at Single-Molecule and Single-Cell Levels”

Biomolecular interactions are at the root of all biological processes and define the molecular mechanisms of how these processes are...

RNP Granules in Health and Disease

Roy Parker (HHMI/Univ of Colorado Boulder)

Eukaryotic cells contain multiple assemblies of RNA and protein referred to as RNP granules, or RNP condensates. In the cytosol, ubiquitous...

Epidemiology and dynamics of the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic

Robert M. Ziff, Department of Chemical Engineering, Complex Systems affiliated faculty, University of Michigan

The novel coronavirus COVID-19 epidemic is currently leveling off in China but on the upswing in the rest of the world. Understanding and...

Questioning Assumptions in Lewis Acid Catalysis

James Devery (Loyola University Chicago)

The interactions between Lewis acids and carbonyls have played a significant role in the construction of important molecules. While a great...