Happening @ Michigan

Early Career Scientists Symposium | Natural History Collections: Drivers of Innovation

Keynote presentation: Rob Guralnick, Curator, Florida Museum of Natural History: Sizing up new uses of natural history collections for ecogeography and global change biology

A virtual symposium held on five consecutive Fridays beginning March 5, 2021....

Complex Systems Seminar "Where models meet morality: What role should complexity science play in addressing racial and socioeconomic disparities in the COVID-19 crisis?"

Jon Zelner, School of Public Health, University of Michigan

ABSTRACT: Socioeconomic and racial inequalities in infection and mortality have been key features of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United...

Mechanistic Insights into the mRNA Poly(A) Tail Machinery- G. Robert Greenberg Lectureship

Dr. Lori Passmore

Dr. Lori Passmore, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, will present our annual G. Robert Greenberg Lectureship in Biological Chemistry....

"Body Plan Evolution: Hox-dependent morphogenesis in the sea anemone Nematostella Vectensis"

Matthew C. Gibson, PhD

The NIH T32 Training Program in Organogenesis is pleased to present a Special Series: Emerging Concepts in Cell Signaling, Regulation, and...

A Nanoscale Blueprint of the Human Kinetochore and the Functional Limits of its Design

Alex Kukreja, CDB Ph.D Candidate

We are pleased to announce that Alex Kukreja, CDB Ph.D. Candidate will present his dissertation defense during a virtual seminar on March...

CCMB / DCMB Weekly Seminar Series

Mingyao Li, PhD (Univ. of Pennsylvania), "Translation of single-cell and spatial transcriptomics into human health: Methods and applications"

Abstract: Single-cell technologies have transformed biomedical research in the last few years. With single-cell sequencing, we can now...

Changing Times and Child Health Research

Dr. Diana Bianchi, Director of NICHD

U-M Research Development welcomes Dr. Diana W. Bianchi, Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human...

DCM&B Tools and Technology Seminar

Nanxiang (Samuel) Zhao, “F-Seq2: improving the feature density based peak caller with dynamic statistics”

Genomic and epigenomic features are captured at a genome-wide level by using high-throughput sequencing technologies. Peak calling is one of...

EEB Virtual Seminar: Socio-eco-evo dynamics: Exploring how society shapes the biology of cities

Dr. Chris Schell, Assistant Professor in the Sciences and Mathematics Division, University of Washington, Tacoma

Urban ecosystems are intrinsically heterogenous, characterized by dynamic biotic and abiotic interactions that are not witnessed in...

BME 500 Seminar: George Christ

Development and Evaluation of Tissue Engineering/Regenerative Medicine technologies for treatment of volumetric muscle loss injuries

Despite the well-documented capability of skeletal muscle to repair, regenerate, and remodel following injury, there remain a multitude of...

U-M Structure Seminar: "Starch Recognition and Degradation by the Human Gut Symbiont Bacteroides ovatus"

Haley Brown Graduate Student Koropatkin Lab University of Michigan

The ins and outs of bacterial organelles

Arash Komeili, UC Berkeley

Abstract: Open any biology textbook and you are likely to learn that, in contrast to eukaryotes, bacteria do not contain organelles to...

Early Career Scientists Symposium: Natural History Collections: Drivers of Innovation

Jocelyn Colella, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of New Hampshire; Kelly Speer, Biodiversity Genomics and George E. Burch Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Institute of Conservation Biology

A virtual symposium held on five consecutive Fridays beginning March 5, 2021....

Alum Connections: Erica Taylor

Virtual Event

Alum Connection: Erica Taylor, Executive Director of Marketing, COVID-19 at Gilead Sciences, Inc....

Genes in Diseases and Symptoms Careers in Health Speaker Series

Carl Koschman, MD

Our GIDAS Careers in Health speaker series continues with Dr. Carl Koschmann from 12-1pm EST on Saturday, March 13th. If you’re...

RNA Seminar featuring: James Nuñez, HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow, University of California, San Francisco

"Programmable transcriptional memory by CRISPR-based epigenome editing"

REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_f8wC8rrJQzuhYzTEXoW69Q...

TBA

Mariola Tortosa (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Organic Mariola Tortosa (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Beyond the Ferritin Superfamily: New Chemistry and New Scaffolds for Dimetal Oxygenases-Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar

Dr. Amie Boal

Dr. Amie Boal, Penn State University, will present a virtual seminar on Tuesday March 16th, 2021 at 12:00pm

How chromosome structure and recombination ensure segregation into sperm"

Francesca Cole, PhD

The Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design, alongside the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, is proud to present a Seminar...

Science Success Series | Overcoming the Fear of Failure in Personal and Academic Pursuits

Santiago Bukovsky

In this workshop, we'll build on the lessons of growth mindset and put failure into practice, with activities that allow us to focus on...

TSCA @ 5 Years: Opportunities to Act with Foresight

Is the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Protecting Health and Promoting Environmental Justice? 5 Years After Lautenberg Amendments

The University of Michigan M-LEEaD Center is co-sponsoring an event to mark the 5-year anniversary of the bipartisan legislation called the...

Game of Microbes: Natural Products as Weapons for Microbial Regulation in the Oral Cavity

Maribel E. Okiye, Ph.D. Candidate, Sherman Lab, LSA Chemistry

Abstract: Co-existence and intraspecies interactions in human microbiomes have been well studied over the past decade. In the human oral...

CCMB / DCMB Weekly Seminar Series featuring Sriram Chandrasekaran (Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering)

"Discovering drugs and drug combinations using AI"

Abstract: Drug combinations have the potential to greatly expand our pharmacopeia while reducing both cost and drug resistance. Yet the...

EEB Virtual Seminar: The science underground: mycology as a queer discipline

Dr. Patricia Kaishian, Arthur Fungarium and Kriebel Herbarium, Purdue University

Dr. Kaishian presents this virtual seminar with an extended Q & A session from 4:45 pm - 5:30 pm EST...

DCM&B Tools and Technology Seminar

Jie Cao, "Building a Software Pipeline for Developing and Evaluating Time-Series Machine Learning Models Using Electronic Health Record Data"

Tool Link: WIZARD: https://github.com/ML4LHS/wizard...

Microbiology & Immunology Seminar Series Heritage Lecture

John-Demain (JD) Sauer, PHD

"The War Within: Host-Pathogen Interactions in the Cytosol"

What Should Education Innovation at Michigan Medicine Be Known For?

Please join us for our next Virtual Talking Circle on March 18 at 12:00 pm, where we will discuss how to construct a more cohesive direction...

NeuroNetwork for Emerging Therapies Mini Symposium Series: Nutrition & Brain Health with The Henry Ford

Eva L. Feldman, MD, PhD

"You are what you eat" is a common phrase that researchers and scientists are proving remarkably true. Unhealthy diets not only...

EEB Virtual Seminar: (1) From surviving to thriving: mapping classroom ecosystems to foster student learning and community in Intro Biology Lab & (2) Spatial patterns in ecology and what we can learn from them

Marc Ammerlaan, Carly Nowicki, Elizabeth Levesque, and Susan Cheng, U-M CRLT and (2) Max Hesselbarth, U-M EEB Postdoc

Join us on Zoom Image credits: Plants: Andrew Seaman https://unsplash.com/photos/5uI3P4PEFiE Aerial view of forest: Stephan Getzin

BME 500 Seminar: Daniel Rueckert

Learning Clinically Useful Information from Medical Images

Zoom Link: https://cwru.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tmHJ7ArQRyO01NN6SfYYtg...

U-M Structure Seminar: “Structural basis for neutralization of viruses by human antibodies: implications for vaccine design.”

Andrew Flyak, Ph.D.

Andrew Flyak, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Scholar, Bjorkman Lab California Institute of Technology

E. coli meets world: how the environment shapes a bacterial cell

Petra Levin, Washington University, St. Louis

Abstract: Like other single celled organisms, bacteria are uniquely sensitive to changes in their physical and chemical environment. With...

Early Career Scientists Symposium: Natural History Collections: Drivers of Innovation

Alexis Mychajliw, Assistant Professor, Middlebury College; Daniel Park, Assistant Professor, Purdue University; Alex White, Machine Learning Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Institution

A virtual symposium held on five consecutive Fridays beginning March 5, 2021....

"Coming together in challenging times: Multicellular assembly in engineered microenvironments"

Brendon Baker, PhD

The Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design, alongside the Department of Biomedical Engineering, is proud to present a seminar with...

Concussion Prevention: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach

Hosted by Steven Broglio, Director, University of Michigan Concussion Center

Please join the Michigan Exercise & Sport Science Initiative and the University of Michigan Concussion Center on Wednesday, March 24,...

Where Do We Go From Here: Body Politics & Movement Towards Racial Empowerment

Please join us for the last event in our series addressing the theme: "Where Do We Go From Here: Body Politics and Movement Towards...

CCMB / DCMB Weekly Seminar Series Featuring Duncan K. Ralph (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)

Duncan K. Ralph, "Using Hidden Markov models for B cell receptor deep sequencing analysis"

Abstract: Antibodies are an integral part of the adaptive immune response, and are a critical component of both vaccine-induced and...

DCM&B Tools and Technology Seminar

Indika Rajapakse, "Pore-C and Hypergraphs"

URL for remote viewing: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/94886745590?pwd=LzhLU243K2ZhbXNzU1BJRHQ5V25BZz09...

LHS Collaboratory March Session

The Swiss Learning Health System (SLHS): A National Initiative to Support Evidence Uptake in Policy and Practice

Speakers Stefan Boes, PhD and Sarah Mantwill, PhD from the university of Lucerne will discuss the Swiss Learning Health System....

EEB Virtual Seminar: The plant mating system and the evolution of resistance

Regina Baucom, Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan

The mating system, or who mates with whom, and how often, is a critical trait that influences the distribution of genetic variation among...

BME 500 Seminar: Warren L. Grayson

"Advances in Regenerating Musculoskeletal Tissues" (Hosted by Professor Guillermo Ameer)

Tissue engineering provides a viable means of regenerating bone and skeletal muscle tissues following injuries that lead to large volumetric...

UM Structure Seminar: "Structural Studies of the Mitochondrial GTPase, Miro1"

Emily Eberhardt Graduate Student Michael Cianfrocco Lab University of Michigan

Molecular Genetics in the Orchard

Courtney Hollender, Michigan State University

Fruit trees in commercial orchards are increasingly planted in high densities to maximize quality, enable mechanization, conserve resources,...

Early Career Scientists Symposium: Natural History Collections: Drivers of Innovation

Eric LoPresti, Postdoctoral Researcher, Michigan State University; Laurel Yohe, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University

A virtual symposium held on five consecutive Fridays beginning March 5, 2021....