BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UM//UM*Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260331T092006 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T110000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Stefan Wager\, Associate Professor\, Department of Operations\, Information\, and Technology\, Department of Statistics (by courtesy)\, Stanford University DESCRIPTION:We develop methods for estimating how infinitesimal policy changes affect long-term outcomes in dynamic systems. We show that dynamic marginal policy effects (MPEs) can be identified via tractable reduced-form expressions\, and can be estimated under a general sequential unconfoundedness assumption. We also propose a doubly robust estimator for dynamic MPEs. Our approach does not require observing full dynamic state information (as is typically assumed for off-policy evaluation in Markov decision processes)\, and does not incur an exponential curse of horizon (as is typical in non-Markovian off-policy evaluation). We demonstrate practicality and robustness of our approach in a number of simulations\, including one motivated by a dynamic pricing application where people use past prices to form a reference level for current prices. Joint work with I-han Lai. UID:146702-21899507@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146702 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:West Hall - 340 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260220T100658 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MCDB Seminar> Understanding Barrier and Sensory Functions of the Skin DESCRIPTION:The skin is both an essential barrier and a highly innervated sensory organ. In this seminar\, I will present two distinct areas of interest in the lab. 1. work showing that cell adhesions have novel functions beyond tissue integrity in compartmentalizing mRNA and regulating local translation\, and\; 2. how epidermal cells mechanically shape sensory neuron innervation in the skin.\n\nHost: Junior West UID:144930-21896162@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144930 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260309T160249 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Challenging the Gender Equality Paradox: Evidence from 50 States\, 17 Years\, and 21 Million Individuals DESCRIPTION:How does societal gender equality influence gender gaps at the individual level? Contradictory theoretical perspectives exist on this seemingly intuitive question. While social role theory and the theory of circumscription and compromise suggest that greater parity in society leads to smaller psychological differences between genders\, gender-essentialist perspectives suggest the opposite. Over the last decade\, a stream of cross-cultural studies supported the latter with paradoxical findings that greater societal gender equality is associated with larger\, not smaller\, gender differences in preferences\, attitudes\, and behavioral patterns at the individual level. In this talk\, I discuss key limitations in previous studies and challenge the so-called “gender equality paradox” by presenting findings from multilevel modeling with data on the career interests of 21 million U.S. individuals across 50 states over a 17-year time span. I demonstrate divergence in the cross-level effects at the within- and between-state levels\, with different gender equality indicators\, and across various interest dimensions. This work helps reconcile conflicting theories and empirical findings and offer new and more nuanced insights into policies and interventions aiming at closing gender gaps. UID:141758-21889317@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141758 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R2240 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260331T114354 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HET Seminar | Continuing past the inner horizon using WKB DESCRIPTION:Features of the black hole interior can be extracted from the analytic structure of boundary correlation functions. Working in the geodesic approximation\, we find analytic continuations that probe the interior of rotating and charged black holes. These generate contributions from timelike geodesics that thread the interior and emerge in a future universe. We implement these continuations on the momentum space two-point function and exemplify this in several black hole backgrounds. We also identify position space analytic continuations achieving the same task that incorporate different continued momentum space correlators. These correspond to non-perturbative corrections to the WKB approximation. We demonstrate this explicitly in the rotating BTZ black hole by showing that the interior geodesics contribute to the continued position space correlator and motivate a picture for how these contributions arise in higher dimensions. For AdS Schwarzschild\, we identify the analytically continued solution that captures the bouncing geodesic. We discuss the possibility of using these continuations to probe the instability of inner horizons from the boundary. UID:145576-21897544@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145576 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Seminar LOCATION:West Hall - 340 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260107T120418 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260413T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260413T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 13\, 2026\n11:00am - 12:00pm\n1020 Kahn Auditorium\, BSRB\n\nJacy Wagnon\, PhD\nAssistant Professor\nDepartment of Neuroscience\nThe Ohio State University College of Medicine\n“Seminar Title TBD”\n\nHosted By: Miriam Meisler\, PhD\, Department of Human Genetics\n___\nDevelopmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEE) are a genetically heterogeneous group of neurological disorders characterized by early-onset seizures along with cognitive\, motor\, and behavioral impairments. The Wagnon laboratory is interested in understanding genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying DEE and identifying new treatment strategies for these severe disorders. Our current studies focus on DEE caused by variants in the neuronal voltage-gated sodium channel gene SCN8A. We are developing mouse models of SCN8A encephalopathy to study pathogenesis of seizures and related comorbidities. A second focus of the lab is to investigate the role of regulation of gene expression in seizure pathology. Changes in mRNA and microRNA levels represent a general transcriptional response to seizures that may implicate new therapeutic targets. UID:143371-21892958@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143371 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - 1020 Kahn Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260305T101649 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260413T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260413T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Caswell Diabetes Institute Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:\"Sweet to Sick: Brainstem Taste Circuits in Health and Illness\"\n\nPresented by:\nHojoon Lee\, PhD\nAssistant Professor\,\nDepartment of Neurobiology\nNorthwestern University UID:146219-21898667@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146219 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 10 - South Atrium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260412T212055 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260413T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260413T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Bounds of F-signature function via alpha invariant DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, we will explore the upper bounds and the lower bounds of the F-signature function. In particular\, we will show that the F-signature function is compatible with the volume function. This is a joint work with Suchitra Pande (University of Utah) UID:147658-21901476@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147658 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:East Hall - 3088 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260203T093715 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T125000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Lock-in and productive innovations: implications for firm-to-firm innovation pass-through DESCRIPTION:Firms innovate to improve efficiency and reduce their costs of production (productive innovations) and to increase customer dependency by reducing the substitutability of their products (lock-in innovations). In this paper\, I quantitatively study the macroeconomic implications of lock-in innovations for aggregate productivity and market power. I develop a theoretical framework that allows firms to invest in lock-in innovations by reducing product substitutability\, while also nesting standard macroeconomic models of productive innovations. A key prediction of the model is that productive innovations by suppliers increase customer firms’ sales by lowering input costs\, while lock-in innovations decrease customer firms' sales by allowing suppliers to charge higher prices for products that are harder to substitute. I use this theoretical insight to identify the nature of innovation in the data and calibrate the model to the U.S. economy. Informed by the observed changes in the response of customer firms' sales to their suppliers' innovations\, I find that the incidence of lock-in innovations among high-markup firms has increased significantly in the post-2000 period. Moreover\, had the incidence of lock-in innovations remained at pre-2000 levels\, observed aggregate productivity would have been 3% higher\, median markups would have stayed at pre-2000 levels\, and markup dispersion would have been 9% lower. UID:143302-21892657@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143302 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:North Quad - 4325 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260402T143854 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T125000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Effects of gestational phthalate exposure on age-specific DNA methylation DESCRIPTION:The Integrated Health Sciences Core's webinar series is an interdisciplinary forum for interested researchers to come together to learn and discuss wide-ranging issues in the field of environmental health. We hope you can join us for the final webinar of this academic year\, in the environmental research series. Organized by the Integrated Health Sciences Core (IHSC) of the University of Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center (M-LEEaD).\n\nRegistration required http://myumi.ch/4m7JE UID:147365-21900903@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147365 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260406T101914 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T142000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Screening Frontiers DESCRIPTION:A principal screens an agent with an arbitrary set of allocations X. The agent’s preferences over allocations are comonotonic. A subset of allocations X ‹ Ď X is a surplus-elasticity frontier if (i) any other allocation has a demand curve that is pointwise lower and less elastic than some allocation in X ‹ and (ii) the allocations in X ‹ can be ordered in terms of their demand curves such that a higher demand curve is more inelastic. We show that any surplus-elasticity frontier is an optimal menu. Moreover\, if the incremental demand curves along the frontier are also ordered by their elasticities\, then the frontier is optimal even among stochastic mechanisms. The result is agnostic to type distributions and redistributive welfare weights—the same frontier remains optimal for a broad class of objectives. As applications\, we show how these results immediately yield new insights into optimal bundling\, optimal taxation\, sequential screening\, selling information\, and regulating a data-rich monopolist. UID:143383-21892971@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143383 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:North Quad - 4300 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260429T101439 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CPOD Winter/Spring 2026 Seminar Series: \"How life finds a way: resilience in mammalian embryogenesis\" DESCRIPTION:Sarah Bowling\, Ph.D.\nAssistant Professor\nDevelopmental Biology\nStanford University UID:145983-21898224@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145983 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - ABC Seminar Rooms CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260330T123922 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260415T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260415T155000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Same Crime\, Different Time: Disparities in Judicial Outcomes for DWI Offenders DESCRIPTION:We examine disparities in judicial outcomes among people charged with Driving While Intoxicated (DWI)\, a setting in which legal guilt is objectively determined by breath alcohol content (BrAC). Focusing on first-time offenders with no aggravating circumstances and BrAC above the legal threshold\, we find that race\, gender\, and financial resources strongly predict the likelihood of incarceration and case dismissal. Defendants with greater socioeconomic advantage are more likely to access rehabilitative alternatives and avoid criminal records. We discuss how these outcome differences may reflect not only disparities in options offered by the court\, but also in defendants’ choices among them. UID:143697-21893659@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143697 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:North Quad - 4325 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251120T121105 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Great Lakes Seminar Series: Jenan Kharbush DESCRIPTION:About the presentation: “Nitrogen availability” refers to the amounts of biologically usable nitrogen forms relative to demand by the biological community. In cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (CyanoHABs) dominated by the non-diazotrophic cyanobacteria Microcystis aeruginosa\, nitrogen availability is critical for the production of the nitrogen-rich toxin microcystin\, and may also play a role in shaping M. aeruginosa strain composition and relative abundance of toxic and non-toxic strains. During the annual CyanoHAB in Western Lake Erie\, both the dominant form of nitrogen (organic vs. inorganic) and M. aeruginosa strain composition shift as the bloom progresses\, as does the heterotrophic bacterial community composition in M. aeruginosa colonies. Recent metagenomics and culture-based work suggests that some of these heterotrophs may be involved in nitrogen acquisition and cycling processes with Microcystis. In this talk I will discuss some of our recent efforts to understand the influence of nitrogen form on Microcystis bloom ecology\, via both strain-specific adaptations and interactions with other community members such as heterotrophic bacteria. This includes examining how nitrogen form influences exometabolite production in cultured M. aeruginosa strains\, as well as using nano-secondary ion mass spectrometry (nanoSIMS) to measure how cell-specific nitrogen uptake in field communities changes with bloom phase. \n\nAbout the speaker: Jenan is an Assistant Professor in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department at the University of Michigan. She earned her PhD in Chemical Oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography\, where she developed an appreciation for the complexity of microbial life and the outsized influence microbes have on their environment. At U-M\, her research group studies how aquatic microorganisms\, particularly phytoplankton\, acquire and use nitrogen\, including during CyanoHABs. They combine laboratory culture experiments with field-based environmental observations to link cellular-level nitrogen cycling processes to large-scale geochemical patterns in both modern and ancient environments. UID:141223-21888418@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260413T084227 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T142000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Digital Financial Services and Women’s Empowerment: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania\, joint with Rachel Heath DESCRIPTION:Can increasing women's use of digital financial services raise their empowerment? We test this hypothesis using a randomized control trial with 152 female microfinance groups in Tanzania\, where treated groups were randomly switched from cash to mobile money loan repayment. This exogenous increase in women's use of mobile money leads women to expand their use for other types of transactions\, including business payments and saving. Women's control over their finances increases and they are more empowered within the household. Over time\, women's businesses become more profitable. These findings highlight the benefits of shifting payments to digital for women. UID:147663-21901480@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147663 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:North Quad - 4325 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260408T091609 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Land Conservation and the Clean Energy Transition:Evidence from U.S. Wind and Solar Development DESCRIPTION:We study the interactions between land conservation policy and renewable energy development using over a decade of U.S. wind and solar grid interconnection applications linked to fine-grained geospatial data. A model of competitive site selection shows that the welfare implications of land use protections depend on the correlation between conservation value and private development potential. When this correlation is weak\, targeted restrictions can steer projects away from ecologically sensitive areas without meaningfully raising technology deployment costs. Estimating a sequential model of site entry and project advancement\, we find that wetlands protections and conservation easements significantly deter development. Correlations between measures of engineering profitability and measures of conservation value are near zero\, implying that the landscape is amenable to well-targeted conservation policy. However\, our estimates of the ‘soft costs’ imposed by the existing patchwork of restrictions appear substantial. Ongoing counterfactual analysis aims to quantify these compliance burdens and assess how alternative land use regimes could reshape the spatial allocation of renewable energy development. UID:143457-21893203@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143457 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:North Quad - 4300 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260408T101448 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Biomedical Engineering (BME 500) Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Tissue-Inspired Synthetic Biomaterials and Applications in Cancer\nAbstract:\nMost environments available to study how human cells behave are two-dimensional (2D). In real tissue\, cells live surrounded by a three-dimensional (3D) extracellular matrix (ECM)\, which provides structure\, drives cell function\, and is dynamically remodeled by the cells within. A major limitation of the few examples of 3D cell culture environments that do exist (typically made from assemblages of proteins) is that their constituents are undefined\, and they have unacceptable batch-to-batch variability. On the other end of the spectrum\, the major drawbacks to using engineered\, synthetic environments is their over-simplicity and lack of resemblance to real tissue. My lab’s unique approach to biomaterial design is that we create cheap and easy-to-use\, yet complex representations of the ECM of specific tissues. My lab’s tissue-customized environments are hydrogels from synthetic polymers that replicate a tissue’s 3D geometry\, the stiffness of that tissue\, and all the integrin-binding and protease-degradable components of the ECM of the tissue of interest. We made biomaterial designs for brain\, bone marrow\, omentum\, and lung\, and we have applied our approach to several complex problems in biology (e.g.\, astrocyte reactivity\, mesenchymal stem cell differentiation\, ovarian cancer\, etc.). \n\nIn this seminar\, I’ll discuss how we use our engineering principles to create these environments and show how we’ve begun to use them to study grand challenges in cancer biology. One of the overwhelming challenges in treating metastatic cancer is that tumors in the brain\, lung\, skeleton\, and liver are typically drug resistant\, and we do not have a good understanding of why these tumors evade therapy. The biomaterials we have built over the years are well suited for drug screening applications and to study how the extracellular microenvironment regulates the metastatic spread of cancer. \nBio:\nShelly Peyton is Professor and Department Chair of Biomedical Engineering at Tufts University. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University in 2002 and went on to obtain her MS and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of California\, Irvine in 2007. She was then an NIH Kirschstein post-doctoral fellow in the Biological Engineering department at MIT before starting her academic appointment in Chemical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2011. At UMass she was named the Barry and Afsaneh Siadat Professional Development Professor\, Armstrong Professor\, Conti Fellow\, and Provost Professor before moving to Tufts University to become chair of Biomedical Engineering in 2024. At Tufts\, the Peyton lab is an interdisciplinary group of engineers and biologists that create bioinspired and dynamic models of human tissue with both synthetic biomaterials and decellularized tissues. They use these tissue models to 1) understand the physical relationship between metastatic cancer cells and the tissues to which they spread\, 2) uncover the role of the extracellular matrix and its dynamics in drug resistant cancers\, and 3) quantify how forces from traumatic brain injury damage cells within the brain. Shelly’s honors include a Pew Biomedical Scholarship\, an NIH New Innovator Award\, an NSF CAREER award\, Biomedical Engineering Society fellow\, and an American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering fellow. Outside of her research and her Chair’s role\, Shelly is passionate about graduate student training and diversifying the academy. She was awarded an Outstanding Teaching Award and a Diversity Award from the College of Engineering at UMass\, has led an REU Site\, co-directed a Biotechnology (BTP) NIH T32 training program\, and was lead PI of a PREP program at UMass. Since 2013\, the Peyton has continuously run an NSF- and privately funded program called Engineering the Cell\, which pays high school students with no prior research experience to work in the Peyton lab for 5 weeks every summer. Outside of her work\, Shelly is an avid cyclist\, enjoys board games\, lego\, travel\, and coaches ultimate frisbee. UID:147525-21901179@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147525 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) - 1130 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260331T141558 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series - From Market Signals to Maintenance Decisions: Electricity Price Forecasting and Market-Aware Maintenance for Energy Assets DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nOperational decision-making in modern power systems is increasingly shaped by uncertain market signals\, such as electricity prices and curtailment levels. In this talk\, I will present our research group’s recent efforts to develop data- driven methods for forecasting these signals\, and further leveraging them to inform asset-level decision-making. First\, I will present a multivariate statistical approach for electricity price forecasting designed to capture system\, market\, and temporal dependencies that are prevalent in electricity price signals. The proposed approach is evaluated on two years of electricity prices from the California Independent System Operator\, showing significant improvements in both point and probabilistic forecast metrics relative to well-established statistical and emerging deep learning methods. Independent validation against industry-adopted forecasting systems further demonstrates the approach’s competitive performance and practical relevance. I then turn to how variability in market signals (naturally viewed as a challenge for asset management) can\, counter-intuitively\, be turned into an opportunity for improved decision-making. In particular\, I will present a grid- informed maintenance optimization framework for wind energy assets that incorporates grid- level information\, such as electricity prices and curtailment\, to support condition-based maintenance decisions. Together\, these results highlight how market signals can be accurately predicted\, and further leveraged to inform asset management\, bridging forecasting and optimization in modern power systems.\n\nBiography:\nAziz Ezzat is an Assistant Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Rutgers University\, where he leads the Renewables & Industrial Analytics (RIA) Research Group. He received his PhD degree in Texas A&M University\, and his BSc. Degree from Alexandria\, Egypt\, both in Industrial & Systems Engineering. Aziz’s research develops data science\, AI\, and machine learning methods for energy\, environmental\, and industrial systems\, with support from the National Science Foundation\, U.S. Department of Energy\, the state of New Jersey\, and industry partners. His work has appeared in leading journals such as Technometrics\, Annals of Applied Statistics\, IISE Transactions\, and IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. Aziz is a recipient of the A. Walter Tyson Early Career Award\, the IIF-SAS ® Research Methodology Award\, and the Excellence in Teaching Awards from the Operations Research and Data Analytics Divisions of the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE). He served as the 2023-2024 President of the Energy Systems Division of IISE\, where he introduced numerous initiatives to advance the broader impacts of data and decision sciences\, including the inaugural PG&E Energy Analytics Challenge—an industry-sponsored\, national-scale energy forecasting competition. He is a professional member of INFORMS\, IISE\, IEEE\, and IIF. More about his research and teaching can be found at: https://sites.rutgers.edu/azizezzat/. UID:145470-21897385@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145470 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1303 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260129T124236 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Thursday Seminar Series - Forest responses to disturbances associated with climate change DESCRIPTION:Seminar Summary - Disturbances such as drought and wind are increasing in frequency and severity as the climate changes\, impacting forests across the globe. In my seminar\, I will discuss the implications of climate change for forest disturbances\, with particular emphasis on drought and hurricanes in tropical forests. Lianas\, or woody vines\, are increasing in abundance and size across the Neotropics\, likely driven by greater seasonality resulting from shifts in rainfall patterns. Tropical trees exhibit substantial interspecific and intraspecific variation in drought resistance\, which may favor some species over others during drought events and ultimately change forest composition. The compound effects of hurricanes and drought\, along with changes in these disturbance regimes\, are altering forest composition and could lead to an overall decline in forest carbon storage. I will present her research on these topics\, drawing on case studies from Costa Rica\, Panama\, and Puerto Rico\, and highlighting drought impacts at the functional group level (lianas versus trees)\, variation in drought resistance among tropical trees\, and the compound effects of hurricanes followed by drought on tropical forests using a large-scale throughfall exclusion experiment. UID:137390-21880196@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137390 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260130T162411 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T170000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:2026 CCAT Global Symposium on Mobility Innovation presented by Mcity and UMTRI DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to bring the ninth annual CCAT Global Symposium on Mobility Innovation\, presented by Mcity and University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI)\, to the Morris Lawrence Building at Washtenaw Community College on Friday\, April 17th! This two-track conference will feature a debate\, panel discussion\, and research presentations on the latest issues facing the transportation industry. Learn from experts in academia\, government\, and industry by securing your space now! UID:144869-21896070@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144869 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T100021 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T112000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Going for Broker? Intermediation in Health Insurance Markets DESCRIPTION:This paper studies how insurance brokers affect product choices\, premiums\, and welfare in the employer-sponsored insurance market. We compile a novel database of contracting relationships among employers\, brokers\, and insurers in New York State. Exploiting variations in commission schedules\, we document two market distortions: First\, brokers exhibit traditional agency frictions\, steering employers towards more financially lucrative products. Second\, commission levels affect ex-ante insurer-broker networks and\, in turn\, insurers' competitive pressure\, leading to anti-competitive distortions. We develop and estimate a structural model of employer insurance demand\, insurer pricing\, and formation of broker-insurer contracting networks. We use the model to study a commission-cap counterfactual. A one-percentage-point cap reduces broker-induced steering and raises employer surplus by 3\%\, but the resulting reduction in insurer competition lowers surplus by over 6\%\, yielding a net decline of about 3\%. We also explore the impacts of fiduciary duties and network regulations for insurance brokers. UID:147379-21900941@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147379 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:North Quad - 4300 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T100524 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T110000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Yuting Wei\, Associate Professor\, Department of Statistics & Data Science\, University of Pennsylvania DESCRIPTION:The score-based diffusion models have become a cornerstone of modern generative AI. While recent works aim to develop sharp convergence guarantees\, the iteration complexity of existing analyses typically scales with the ambient data dimension $d$ of the target distribution\, leading to overly conservative theory that fails to explain its practical efficiency. This motivates us to understand how diffusion models can achieve sampling speed-ups through automatic exploitation of intrinsic low dimensionality of data for both continuous and discrete distributions. \n\nThis talk explores two key scenarios: (1) For a broad class of continous distributions with intrinsic dimension $k$\, we show that the iteration complexity of the denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM) scales nearly linearly with $k$\, which is optimal under the KL divergence metric\; (2) For masking discrete diffusions\, under a continuous-time Markov chain (CTMC) formulation\, we introduce a modified $\tau$-leaping sampler whose convergence rate is governed by an intrinsic information-theoretic quantity\, termed the \emph{effective total correlation}\, which is upper bounded by $d \log S$ (with $S$ the vocabulary size) but can be sublinear or even constant for structured discrete distributions. UID:146703-21899508@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146703 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:West Hall - 340 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260325T104051 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MCDB Seminar> Tales of algae: from fundamental discovery to application DESCRIPTION:Although Chlamydomonas is the most well-known “model” organism\, other green algae present interesting physiologies for investigation or offer experimental advantages for research. In addition to the Chlamydomonas genome\, the group has assembled genomes for Dunaliella spp.\, Chromochloris zofingiensis and Auxenochlorella protothecoides. I will present work on the mechanism of translation of nucleus-encoded bicistronic mRNAs\, structural analysis of photosystem I from Fe-deficient Dunaliella spp. and synthetic biology in Auxenochlorella to generate a complex bioproduct. These stories exemplify the contributions to basic and applied research of studies using simple unicellular organisms.\n\nHost: Libo Shan UID:144932-21896164@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144932 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260119T102915 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Two Steps Forward\, One Step Back: How Progress Steadiness Affects Motivation DESCRIPTION:Rarely is the path to goal accomplishment perfectly smooth. Making progress on everyday goals is often unsteady\, in that each unit of effort or time spent generates unequal results. In this research\, we examine how progress steadiness affects motivation. Although unsteady goal progress is common in both work and personal pursuits\, we suggest that goal pursuers find it discouraging. We hypothesize that even when goal progress is equal in amount and speed\, unsteady (vs. steady) progress decreases people’s sense of accomplishment and motivation to continue\, and increases quitting. Across a variety of goal domains\, findings from vignette experiments\, recall studies\, and real-time achievement tasks support these hypotheses. We also explore the mediating psychological variables and identify how manipulations targeting expectations about progress steadiness and encouraging a more abstract view of progress can reduce the negative effects of unsteady progress. UID:141752-21889313@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141752 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R2240 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260409T092232 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T155000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Incentive Compatibility and Belief Restrictions (with A. Penta) DESCRIPTION:We study a framework for robust mechanism design with multiple agents that accommodates various degrees of robustness with respect to agents' beliefs\, and encompasses both the belief-free and Bayesian robustness criteria. For general \emph{belief restrictions}\, we characterize the set of incentive compatible direct transfer mechanisms in general environments with interdependent values. Based on a \emph{first-order approach}\, we obtain a design principle to attain incentive compatibility via `belief-based' terms. In environments that satisfy a property of \emph{generalized independence}\, our results imply a \emph{robust} version of \emph{revenue equivalence}. Extending the notion of correlated information\, we introduce a notion of \emph{comovement} between types and beliefs\, defined based on a moment condition. Under comovement\, we characterize the full set of `belief-based' terms. Based on this\, we show that from Bayesian settings the following result extends to this fairly mild restriction on beliefs: any allocation rule can be implemented\, even in environments without single-crossing or monotonicity. However\, full rent extraction need not follow. Information rents typically remain\, and they decrease monotonically as the robustness requirement is weakened. UID:143384-21892974@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143384 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:North Quad - 4300 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260410T110911 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HET Seminar | Abelian Instantons in Quantum Field Theory and Gravity DESCRIPTION:I will discuss field configurations of Abelian gauge fields that carry non-zero second Chern number\, generated by closed monopole worldlines in four-dimensional Euclidean space. These \"Abelian instantons\" render the electromagnetic vacuum angle physical. In the presence of gravity\, magnetic monopoles that are Reissner-Nordstrom black holes naturally realize these field configurations. Including these instantons in the gravitational path integral makes the electromagnetic theta-term a physical parameter of the Standard Model coupled to gravity\, UID:145156-21896742@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145156 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Seminar LOCATION:West Hall - 340 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260107T120429 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260420T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260420T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 20\, 2026\n11:00am - 12:00pm\n1020 Kahn Auditorium\, BSRB\n\nAaron Ragsdale\, PhD\nAssistant Professor\nIntegrative Biology\nUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison\n“Seminar Title TBD”\n\nHosted By: Jeffrey Kidd\, PhD\, Department of Human Genetics\n___\nOur research aims to understand how evolutionary forces are expected to shape genetic diversity within populations\, and then uses this understanding to learn about demographic and selective histories and processes from genome sequencing data. One focus of our research is on developing population genetic theory that lets us predict patterns of diversity and genetic structure under varying models of demography and selection. Another focus is on turning that theory into computational tools to compare model predictions to observations from natural populations. Finally\, we have a strong interest in inferring (mostly) human evolutionary history from genetic data\, including both ancient history and population structure as well as more recent migrations\, movements\, and dynamics. UID:143372-21892957@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143372 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - 1020 Kahn Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260409T105118 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260420T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260420T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Single Cell Spatial Analysis Monthly Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:TITLE: Simultaneous CRISPR screening and spatial transcriptomics reveals intracellular and intercellular transcriptional circuits.\n\nFEATURING: \nSamouil L. Farhi\, Ph.D. Director of the Spatial Technology Platform at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard\n\nFor more details Visit: https://singlecellspatialanalysis.umich.edu/monthlyseminarseries/\nZoom Info: \nMeeting ID: 998 7259 4985\nPasscode: 786053\n\nABSTRACT: \nPerturb-FISH combines spatial transcriptomics with optical detection of in situ amplified guide RNAs. Perturb-FISH recovers intracellular effects that are consistent with Perturb-seq results in cultured monocytes\, and finds density-dependent regulation of the innate immune response. Pairing Perturb-FISH with a functional readout in a screen of autism spectrum disorder risk genes\, shows common calcium activity phenotypes in induced pluripotent stem cell derived astrocytes and their associated molecular pathways. Finally\, Perturb-FISH can identify neighborhood dependent perturbation effects in a complex tissue by showing immune-tumor interactions in a xenograft model engrafted with human PBMCs. Perturb-FISH is thus a general method for studying the genetic and molecular associations of spatial and functional biology at single-cell resolution. UID:147561-21901279@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147561 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 10 - Research Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260415T220110 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260420T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260420T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Large-Degree Asymptotics of Rational Painleve-V Functions DESCRIPTION:The Painleve-V equation has two families of rational solutions\, one built from generalized Umemura polynomials and one built from generalized Laguerre polynomials. These solutions have drawn interest because they arise in a variety applications and because their zeros and poles exhibit remarkable geometric structures. We formulate Riemann-Hilbert problems for both families and obtain large-degree asymptotic results using nonlinear steepest-descent analysis. Results for the generalized Umemura solutions are joint with Matthew Satter of the University of Michigan and the results for the generalized Laguerre solutions are joint with Trevor Johnson of the University of Cincinnati. UID:146065-21898330@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146065 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Seminar LOCATION:East Hall - EH 1866 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260413T143431 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260420T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260420T172000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:WHY DOESN’T THE UNITED STATES HAVE NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE? THE POLITICAL ROLE OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION DESCRIPTION:This study examines how the American Medical Association (AMA) helped shape the development of the U.S. health insurance system in the critical period after World War II. Working with the political public relations firm Campaigns\, Inc.\, the AMA launched a nationwide campaign to weaken support for National Health Insurance by framing it as “socialized medicine\,” while simultaneously enrolling people in private health insurance plans to shift demand away from a public alternative. Drawing on newly assembled archival data\, we find that greater exposure to the campaign explains about 20% of the rise in private health insurance enrollment and a comparable decline in public support for a national program. The campaign also appears to have influenced policymaking through coordinated messaging\, resolutions passed by civic organizations\, congressional rhetoric\, and political donations. These findings suggest that the rise of private health insurance in the United States was not solely due to macroeconomic forces or collective bargaining\; rather it was also enabled by a strategic\, interest group-financed effort to shape citizen views and influence policy. UID:145436-21897345@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145436 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:North Quad - 4325 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260112T100344 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T115000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Joint Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics and ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics: Tuesday\, April 21 DESCRIPTION:-- UID:143698-21893660@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143698 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430 AC CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260413T092642 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T125000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Why Are Some Recoveries Weak and Others Strong? DESCRIPTION:Why were the recoveries from the 1990-1\, 2001\, and 2007-9 recessions weak relative to other postwar recessions? Leveraging heterogeneous exposure to the national business cycle across U.S. States\, we estimate the trajectory of more exposed U.S. States relative to less exposed U.S. States. For the 1990-1\, 2001\, and 2007-9 recessions we estimate that more exposed States experienced a stronger boom-bust cycle and for the other postwar recessions we estimate a deeper V-shaped recession in more exposed States. Our estimates support theories that these recessions are caused by different shocks. In a quantitative model matched to our cross-sectional estimates\, boom-bust cycles persistently depress the natural rate of interest R∗ in the recovery\, whereas R∗ is elevated following V-shaped recessions UID:143303-21892658@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143303 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:North Quad - 4325 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260407T090413 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T142000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Digital Ecosystems and Data Regulation DESCRIPTION:This paper develops a framework in which a multiproduct ecosystem competes with multiple single-product firms in both price and innovation. The ecosystem can use data from one product to improve the quality of its other products. We use the framework to study three regulatory policies aimed at leveling the playing field. Restricting the ecosystem’s cross-product data usage\, or forcing it to share data with single-product firms\, benefits those firms and induces them to innovate more. However\, these policies also dampen the ecosystem’s incentive to collect data and innovate\, potentially raising prices. Consumers are better off only when single-product firms are sufficiently good at innovating. Facilitating data exchange between single-product firms via a data cooperative can backfire and harm them\, because it induces the ecosystem to price more aggressively. For both the data-sharing and data-cooperative policies\, there exist data-compensation schemes such that consumers are better off compared to no regulation. UID:143387-21892976@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143387 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:North Quad - 4300 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260109T093947 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T155000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Economic History: Sebastian Sotelo DESCRIPTION:-- UID:143571-21893404@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143571 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:North Quad - 4325 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260415T103842 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260422T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260422T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Prelim Seminar Series - Selection on Cognition in the Wild DESCRIPTION:Seminar Summary: Cognition refers to the processes by which animals acquire\, store\, and use information from the environment. These processes drive many adaptive behaviors\, but we know little about how cognitive traits evolve in wild populations. I will use Polistes wasps as a model to investigate the links between cognition\, behavior\, and fitness over multiple generations in the field. My dissertation will provide important information about the costs and benefits of individual variation in cognition. UID:147754-21901935@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147754 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 5150 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260413T082805 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260422T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260422T155000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Development as Skills and Altruism DESCRIPTION:This paper emphasizes the central role of skill and altruism in development\, defined as an increase in social welfare. In the basic model\, skills expand the set of feasible payoffs\, while altruism guides the decision maker’s choice. Greater skills need not increase social welfare\, because such expansions combine a positive frontier effect with an ambiguous substitution effect\, potentially toward actions that are privately attractive but socially harmful. This ambiguous effect of skills on development is referred to as the “lottery of the technology” and disappears when altruism is high enough to ensure that new opportunities created by skills are used only when they raise social welfare. Extensions of the model show that 1) endogenous technological change makes altruism even more influential in the long run 2) the effect of stronger institutions is subject to a “lottery of alignment of interests” between policymakers’ private gains and social welfare\, unless policymakers’ altruism is high enough to ensure the good use of institutional power\, making institutions a lever of altruism rather than a substitute and 3) allowing altruism to be group-specific shows that only universal altruism guarantees the effective use of skill improvements. This framework speaks to many contemporary and historical events and leads to the conclusion that ensuring long-term development requires both the selection of altruistic leaders and a population shift in the distribution of altruism. UID:144125-21894695@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144125 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:North Quad - 4300 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260424T124538 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260427T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260427T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Caswell Diabetes Institute Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:The CDI Seminar Series seeks to address the broad interests in diabetes-\, obesity-\, metabolism-\, nutrition-\, and complications-related research and care across U-M and the world.\n\nJoin us for \"Decoding Developments to Build Human Organoids\".\n\nJason Spence\, PhD\nH. Marvin Pollard Collegiate Professor\nProfessor of Gastroenterology\,\nBiomedical Engineering\n\nLunch provided. UID:147772-21901958@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147772 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 10 - South Atrium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260415T092058 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260428T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260428T125000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The Commoditization of Labor (joint with Emi Nakamura and Jón Steinsson) DESCRIPTION:Technical change often simplifies jobs. This increases productivity\, but it also makes work- ers more substitutable—or more “commoditized”. Commoditization of labor drives down worker bargaining power: anyone can do the job\, implying workers are disposable\, which improves the outside option of firms and can lower worker wages. We develop a model that captures both the productivity enhancing and wage depressing effects of commoditizing tech- nical change. Commoditizing technical change involves firms standardizing tasks which im- plies that output is less sensitive to worker quality. Firms benefit because they can more easily fill vacancies for their durable jobs. We show that our model can help explain the divergence between productivity and wages in the service sector\, increasing markdowns despite falling local concentration\, and the decline of the large-firm wage premium. UID:143304-21892669@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143304 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:North Quad - 4325 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260429T101252 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260428T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260428T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CPOD Winter/Spring 2026 Seminar Series: \"From stillness to motion: Spatiotemporal dynamics of lung stem cells in injury and repair” DESCRIPTION:Maurizio Chioccioli\, Ph.D.\nAssistant Professor\nGenetics & Comparative Medicine\nYale University UID:145984-21898225@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145984 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - ABC Seminar Rooms CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260420T120228 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260430T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260430T143000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Learning\, Salience\, and Voting: Evidence from Criminal Politicians in India (with Siddharth George and Sarika Gupta) DESCRIPTION:We study how voters process information through two experiments around Indian elections. In a large-scale experiment\, we show that providing voters information about candidates’ criminal charges increases votes for clean candidates and reduces votes for criminal politicians\, with larger penalties for candidates facing more and serious charges. A follow-up experiment replicates these results and identifies two mechanisms. First\, information facilitates learning: voters form more accurate beliefs and evaluate criminal candidates less favorably. Second\, using direct measures of voter attention\, we show that information makes criminality more salient\, and increases its weight in voting decisions. Salience effects are larger when information is surprising or highlights contrast\, but do not vary with decision relevance\, consistent with bottom-up attention. Causal forest estimates provide further evidence that learning and salience are both important drivers of changes in voting behavior. We develop a simple model that integrates salience theory into a standard probabilistic voting framework to explain our results. UID:147858-21902053@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147858 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:North Quad - 4325 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260107T120451 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260504T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260504T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Monday\, May 4\, 2026\n11:00am - 12:00pm\n1020 Kahn Auditorium\, BSRB\n\nAlex Pollen\, PhD\nAssistant Professor\nNeurobiology\nDevelopmental & Stem Cell Biology\nUniversity of California\, San Francisco\n“Seminar Title TBD”\n\nHosted By: Xander Nuttle\, PhD\, Department of Human Genetics\n___\nWe study how genetic changes that accumulated over the last 6 million years of human evolution influence specialized features of brain development using single cell genomics\, cerebral organoid models of ape brain development\, and genome engineering.\n\nOver the last six million years\, human cognition has changed in remarkable ways to support symbolic language\, long-term planning\, cooperation on vast scales\, and the rapid cultural accumulation of technology. During this time\, patterns of brain development and life history changed to triple the number of neurons produced prenatally\, extend synaptic plasticity through a prolonged phase of development\, and restructure connectivity between brain regions. At the same time tens of millions of mutations accumulated as fixed changes in the human genome through the processes of selection and drift. A portion of this new genomic information guides the development of uniquely human traits and contributes to disease vulnerabilities shared by all humans. However\, connecting human-specific mutations to recently evolved traits remains a major challenge because we lack experimental systems for comparative and functional studies of great ape cortical development. To identify genomic differences underlying unique features or vulnerabilities of the human brain\, we are incorporating advances in single cell genomics and genome engineering with great ape cerebral organoid models of brain development. We are enthusiastic for new graduate students to join the team\, and the lab is well suited for those with an interest in evolution\, neuropsychiatric disorders\, neuronal cell diversity\, stem cell models\, or bioinformatics. UID:143397-21893075@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143397 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - 1020 Kahn Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260427T141109 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260506T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260506T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Great Lakes Seminar Series: Adam Reimer DESCRIPTION:About the presentation: Achieving conservation aims in the Great Lakes region\, including protecting water quality\, enhancing wildlife habitat\, and building community resilience\, often relies on voluntary actions by farmers\, ranchers\, and rural landowners. Numerous agencies\, organizations\, and policies support farmer adoption of soil health practices\, improved nutrient management\, and managed tile drainage. Despite decades of effort\, adoption of key practices has lagged what is needed to reach larger conservation goals. National Wildlife Federation has worked with producers and conservation professionals for over a decade to improve outreach and conservation communications to reach new audiences and expand adoption of key practices. NWF programs apply insights from social and behavioral science to increase organizational capacity and identify novel strategies for increasing conservation adoption. This presentation will share key insights from NWF programs and outline research and extension needs to scale up adoption in the Great Lakes region.\n\nAbout the speaker: Adam Reimer is the outreach and evaluation scientist at the National Wildlife Federation. He has training in interdisciplinary social and agricultural science with a PhD from Purdue University. Adam has an extensive research background exploring farmer and landowner conservation decision making and the role of policy and social networks in conservation outcomes. At NWF\, he helps support local and farmer-led conservation outreach throughout the Midwest by leveraging social and behavioral sciences to develop effective engagement strategies. UID:142040-21889936@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142040 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260218T160909 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260507T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260507T190000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Caswell Diabetes Institute Community Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Understanding Addictive Eating\nLearn about the complex relationship between food addiction\, obesity\, and the underlying neurobiological mechanisms. We will explore the impact of dietary factors\, dopamine signaling\, and behavioral patterns on food addiction and obesity. This interactive session will dive into how highly processed foods are designed to trigger cravings\, the psychological effects of targeted advertising\, why certain groups may be more vulnerable to these influences\, and the brain mechanisms that underlie the response to addictive foods.\n\nAshley Gearhardt\, Ph.D. \nClinical Science Area Chair and Professor of Psychology \nUniversity of Michigan UID:145685-21897696@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145685 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260107T120504 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260511T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260511T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Monday\, May 11\, 2026\n11:00am - 12:00pm\n1020 Kahn Auditorium\, BSRB\n\nTony Capra\, PhD\nProfessor\nBakar Computational Health Sciences Institute\nDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics\nUniversity of California\, San Francisco\n“Seminar Title TBD”\n\nHosted By: Xinjun Zhang\, PhD\, Department of Human Genetics\n___\nWe use the tools of computer science and statistics to address problems in genetics\, evolution\, and biomedicine. For a summary of our major research foci\, see Research.\n\nOur group is located in the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California\, San Francisco. Prior to coming to UCSF\, Tony spent 7 wonderful years at Vanderbilt University.\n\nHumans differ from one another and our closest living relatives\, the chimpanzees\, in a wide range of traits\, including our susceptibility to many diseases. We model the evolutionary processes that have produced these novel traits and develop algorithms that compare genomes to predict the functional relevance of specific genetic differences between individuals and species. UID:143393-21893074@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143393 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - 1020 Kahn Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260508T101355 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260511T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260511T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Caswell Diabetes Institute Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Join the Caswell Diabetes Institute for our next seminar\, \"Unexpected metabolic actions of glucagon receptor agonism in incretin-based therapies\".\n\nKirk Habegger\, PhD\nAssociate Professor\, \nMedicine - Endocrinology\, Diabetes\, & Metabolism \nUniversity of Alabama\, Birmingham\n\nTo attend via livestream\, please email michigandiabetes@umich.edu for the webinar link. UID:148174-21903182@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148174 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 10 - South Atrium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260507T085012 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260511T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260511T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Institute for Energy Solutions & Electric Vehicle Center: Understanding and Development of Sulfide-Based Solid-State Batteries DESCRIPTION:Abstract: There is a growing interest in low-cost and scalable manufacturing and recycling methods for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). In this talk\, I will discuss on our recent progress in innovating materials and processing technologies for more sustainable LIBs. I will first discuss our recent work on the next generation direct recycling methods\, aiming to produce new electrode materials capable of matching the performance of native materials. By leveraging advanced characterizations\, we study the microstructure and compositional evolution of battery materials during cycling\, which are compared with the recycled materials. We demonstrate successful recycling of various battery materials to high performance active materials. Scaling up challenges will also be discussed.\n\nBio: Dr. Zheng Chen is a Professor in the Aiiso Yufeng Li Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering\, and Program of Materials Science and Engineering at UC San Diego. His research group has been mainly focusing on 1) design and synthesis of nanostructured and polymeric materials for energy storage and conversion\, and 2) development of scalable materials manufacturing recycling methods. Dr. Chen has received the 2024 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship\, 2023 ECS Battery Division Early Career Award\, NASA’s 2018 Early Career Faculty Award\, the LG Chem Global Battery Innovation Contest (BIC) Award in 2018\, and the 2018 ACF PRF New Investigator Award. He has been selected as a Scialog Fellow in Advanced Energy Storage by Research Corporation and as a participant of 2022 Germany-US and 2019 China- America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (CAFOE)\, National Academy of Engineering. UID:148092-21902939@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148092 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project - 2000 PML CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260508T091859 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260512T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260512T103000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:SCSAP Special Research Seminar DESCRIPTION:SCSAP Special Research Seminar\nDate: Tuesday\, May 12th\, 2026\nTime: 9:30-10:30 AM EST\nLocation: Virtual ONLY\n\nTITLE: Working toward cancer care in 2030 : AI+X for Precision Medicine 2.0\, Population Health\, Aging and Global Health Impact\n\nFEATURING: Joe Poh Sheng YEONG\, MBBS\, PhD\, FRCPath\, IMCB (A*STAR) and Singapore General Hospital\n\nCancer clinical trials face major recruitment challenges\, with delays in patient matching contributing to high failure rates and billions in annual losses. Immune profiling technologies such as immunohistochemistry (IHC) and multiplex IHC are essential for biomarker discovery and precision oncology\, but their widespread use is limited by cost\, tissue scarcity\, and labor-intensive workflows.\n\nIn this talk\, I will discuss how AI-driven spatial biology approaches\, including our H&E 2.0 platform\, can accelerate patient triage and biomarker screening for clinical trial recruitment. As combination immunotherapies and antibody-drug conjugates expand\, scalable and cost-effective biomarker testing is becoming increasingly important for drug development and clinical decision-making.\nI will also highlight advances in spatial proteogenomics from our recent Nature cover study (April 2025)\, demonstrating how integrated spatial proteomics\, genomics\, and transcriptomics can reveal tumor heterogeneity\, immune interactions\, and noncanonical “dark” proteins involved in cancer progression. By combining AI with longitudinal population-scale data\, we developed predictive models capable of forecasting critical illness years in advance.\n\nFinally\, I will introduce an AI-powered “pseudo-time” framework aimed at supporting more timely\, accessible\, and value-based precision medicine worldwide. UID:148170-21903180@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148170 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260406T155723 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260512T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260512T140000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Effectiveness of Inductive Vehicle Charging to Alleviate EV Range Anxiety DESCRIPTION:This project evaluates the efficacy\, optimal placement\, and economic viability of inductive vehicle charging (IVC) technology. Using literature review\, stakeholder engagement\, and rigorous mathematical modeling\, we developed a comprehensive framework to identify high impact use cases for this emerging technology. The findings suggest that IVC is not a universal solution\, but a targeted tool within a rapidly evolving electrification landscape. It may serve as a bridging technology or a specialized solution for high utilization fleets\, rather than a permanent requirement for all electric mobility.\n---\nAbout the speaker: Sina Bahrami is an Assistant Research Scientist in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. He earned his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Toronto in 2019. His research develops optimization and decision-support tools for emerging mobility systems in smart cities\, with a focus on electric and automated vehicles. He has published 18 articles in leading transportation journals and his work has been featured in outlets such as Forbes and Popular Science. UID:147463-21901073@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147463 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:Transportation Research Institute - Collaborative Meeting Space (Room 139) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260107T120515 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260518T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260518T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Monday\, May 18\, 2026\n11:00am - 12:00pm\n1020 Kahn Auditorium\, BSRB\n\nArneet Saltzman\, PhD\nAssistant Professor\nDepartment of Cell & Systems Biology\nUniversity of Toronto\n“Seminar Title TBD”\n\nHosted By: Stephanie Bielas\, PhD\, Department of Human Genetics\n___\nMost of the cells in an organism share the same genome sequence\, yet they are able to carry out many distinct functions. Along with other layers of gene regulation\, chromatin modification plays a key role in this cellular specialization. Our research focuses on histone modifications such as lysine methylation\, and the proteins that recognize these modifications\, which are often referred to as chromatin ‘readers’. Chromatin readers can recruit and act as part of diverse chromatin modifying protein complexes to mediate the silencing of many genes with important functions in cell proliferation and differentiation. We will use a combination of genetic\, biochemical and genome-wide sequencing approaches to investigate the striking regulatory complexity of chromatin readers. Our research will contribute to a better understanding of how cells acquire and maintain different fates during development\, how chromatin readers contribute to epigenetic inheritance\, and how aberrant regulation of histone methylation contributes to the pathogenesis of several human diseases\, including cancers. UID:143394-21893073@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143394 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - 1020 Kahn Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260429T101353 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260519T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260519T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CPOD Winter/Spring 2026 Seminar Series: \"Engineering next-generation intrabodies for monitoring the dynamics of proteins and their modifications in living cells\" DESCRIPTION:Timothy Stasevich\, Ph.D.\nAssociate Professor\nBiochemistry & Molecular Biology\nColorado State University UID:145985-21898226@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145985 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - ABC Seminar Rooms CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260219T120431 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260521T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260521T190000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Caswell Diabetes Institute Community Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Bad Things in Good Foods\nDid you know that some of the foods we eat every day— fruits\, vegetables\, and even so-called “health foods”— can contain invisible chemicals and toxic substances? Learn how these “bad things in good foods” may influence how our bodies grow\, develop\, and maintain heart and metabolic health. We will examine the surprising connections between what’s on our plate and long-term risks for conditions like diabetes and heart disease.\n\nKaren E. Peterson\, ScD\nStanley M. Garn Collegiate Professor and Chair\, Department of Nutritional Sciences\; \nAssociate Director\, Michigan Nutrition Obesity Research Center\; \nProfessor of Global Public Health and Environmental Health Sciences\, University of Michigan School of Public Health UID:145688-21897698@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145688 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260107T102207 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260522T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260522T150000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:James V. Neel\, MD\, PhD Lecture in Human Genetics & Award DESCRIPTION:Join us as Eric S. Lander\, PhD\, Professor of Biology & Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School and Founding Director Emeritus at the Broad Institute of MIT\, presents their research at The Department of Human Genetics 25th Annual James V. Neel Lecture. We will have presentations from our student awardees\, a poster session\, and a light reception. \n\n12:00-2:00 Award Presentations & Keynote Seminar | 1020 Kahn Auditorium\, BSRB\n2:00-3:00 Reception & Poster Session | ABC Seminar Rooms\, BSRB\n\nReady to share your research? Present your poster at the 25th Annual Neel Lectureship. Submit your poster information no later than Friday\, May 8\, 2026 @midnight.\n\n12:00 – Lectureship Begins\n12:15 – Graduate Student Neel Award Presentation (PhD)\n12:30 – Graduate Student Neel Award Presentation (MS/GC)\n1:00 – Keynote Address\n2:00 – Reception Begins/ Poster Session Begins\n3:00 – Conclude UID:143365-21892954@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143365 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - 1020 Kahn Auditorium, BSRB & ABC Seminar Rooms CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260223T143824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260616T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260616T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Rare Failures\, Public Perception\, and Automated Driving: Why Exceptional Events Shape Trust in Emerging Safety Technologies DESCRIPTION:This lecture explores the “vaccine paradox” of automated driving: why rare\, highly publicized failures of self-driving vehicles provoke intense emotional and political reactions while the far more common harms of human driving remain normalized. Drawing on risk psychology\, public-health history\, and human-factors research\, Prof. McGehee examines how visibility imbalance\, trust\, and perceptions of control shape public acceptance of emerging vehicle automation. Using real-world examples from automated-vehicle deployments alongside lessons from vaccine adoption and safety communication\, the talk argues that societal expectations for perfection in automation may obscure meaningful population-level safety gains. The presentation concludes by discussing how transparency\, responsible system design\, and careful language around driver-assistance technologies can help align public perception with evidence as automated driving evolves toward broader deployment.\n---\nAbout the speaker: Daniel V. McGehee\, is Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Iowa and Director of the Driving Safety Research Institute (DSRI) and the National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS)\, one of the world’s largest and most advanced ground-vehicle simulation facilities. For more than three decades\, his work has focused on human factors\, driver behavior\, and the safe integration of advanced vehicle technologies\, including automated driving and driver-assistance systems. Dr. McGehee’s research spans engineering\, medicine\, public health\, and transportation policy\, with projects funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation\, National Institutes of Health\, and the automotive industry. He has led over $40 million in sponsored research and authored more than 160 scientific publications addressing driver attention\, crash avoidance\, vulnerable road users\, and the design of vehicle interfaces. His work combines naturalistic driving studies\, simulation\, and field research to better understand how humans interact with emerging mobility systems. At the University of Iowa\, he holds joint appointments in emergency medicine and public health\, reflecting his longstanding interest in traffic safety as a population-level health issue. UID:145812-21897843@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145812 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:Transportation Research Institute - Room 139 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260107T120530 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260914T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260914T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Monday\, September 14\, 2026\n11:00am - 12:00pm\nLocation TBD\n\nYang Shi\, PhD\nProfessor of Epigenetics\nLudwig Institute for Cancer Research\nOxford University\, Oxford\, England\n“Seminar Title TBD”\n\nHosted By: Shigeki Iwase\, PhD\, Department of Human Genetics\n___\nBefore joining Ludwig Oxford in 2020\, I was Professor of Cell Biology and C. H. Waddington Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. I received my PhD from New York University and postdoctoral training at Princeton University. I joined Harvard Medical School as an Assistant Professor in 1991 and was appointed a Professor of Pathology in 2004. In 2009 I joined the Newborn Medicine Division of Boston Children’s Hospital.\n\nI am interested in identifying key epigenetic regulators in cancer\, elucidating their mechanism of action and providing the conceptual basis for translating our basic findings to the clinic via the development of new therapeutic strategies. With the discovery of the first histone methyl eraser\, LSD1\, in 2004\, our group demonstrated that histone methylation is dynamically regulated\, which overturned the long-held dogma that such modifications were static and irreversible. We have also discovered many additional histone demethylases with different specificities\, and novel readers\, including those that specifically recognize unmodified lysine and arginine and suggest that the unmodified states are not simply a ground neutral state of epigenetic information but rather likely code for epigenetic information as modified states. Importantly\, many of these chromatin enzymes and readers have since been implicated in various types of human cancers\, indicating an important role of chromatin regulation in tumorigenesis.\n\nMore recently\, we have also been studying RNA modifications and how they impact gene expression regulation. In many ways this exciting field parallels the early days of chromatin biochemistry and biology\, i.e.\, the nature and the biological and pathological functions of RNA modifications\, as well as the enzymes responsible for writing\, erasing and reading them\, are just beginning to be understood.\n\nAt Ludwig Oxford\, my lab is focusing on two questions. First\, how to convert “cold tumors to “hot” and how to sustain durable responses to cancer immune checkpoint blockade therapy. Second\, how to induce therapeutic differentiation of cancers\, using acute myeloid leukemia and diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma as models where chromatin/epigenetics have been shown to play a crucial role in the maintenance of a poorly differentiated state. UID:143395-21893072@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143395 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260423T124348 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260917T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260917T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nBiography: UID:147937-21902572@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147937 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260107T120540 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260921T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260921T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Monday\, September 21\, 2026\n11:00am - 12:00pm\nLocation TBD\n\nIra Hall\, PhD\nProfessor of Genetics\nDirector of the Yale Center for Genomic Health\nYale School of Medicine\n“Seminar Title TBD”\n\nHosted By: Ryan Mills\, PhD\, Department of Human Genetics\n___\nDr. Hall's research career spans the fields of genetics\, genomics\, bioinformatics and data science. He received a B.A. in Integrative Biology from the University of California at Berkeley (1998)\, and worked as a technician for 2 years in Sarah Hake's plant genetics group at the USDA/ARS Plant Gene Expression Center. He received his Ph.D. in genetics from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (2003)\, where his work in Shiv Grewal's laboratory established the first direct link between RNA interference and chromatin-based epigenetic inheritance. As a postdoc with Michael Wigler (2004) and independent Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Fellow (2004-2007)\, Dr. Hall used microarray technologies and mouse strain genealogies to conduct the first systematic study of DNA copy number variation hotspots. As a faculty member at the University of Virginia (2007-2014)\, Washington University (2014-2020) and Yale (2020-present)\, his work has sought to understand the causes and consequences of genome variation in mammals\, with an increasing focus on computational methods development and human genetics. His group has developed bioinformatics tools for variant detection\, variant interpretation\, sequence alignment\, data processing\, and data integration. He has led genome-wide studies of human genome variation\, heritable gene expression variation\, human genetic disorders\, tumor evolution\, mouse strain variation\, genome stability in reprogrammed stem cells\, and single-neuron somatic mosaicism in the human brain. Dr. Hall's work has been featured in Science Magazine's Breakthrough of the Year (2003 & 2007)\, the NIMH Director's \"Ten Best of 2013\" and The Scientist (2013)\, and he has received several prestigious awards including the AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize (2003)\, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award (2006)\, the NIH Director's New Innovator Award (2009)\, and the March of Dimes Basil O'Connor Research Award (2010). He has also served as an Associate Editor at Genome Research (2009-2014) and Genes\, Genomes and Genetics (2011-2018).\n\nMost recently\, Dr. Hall has played a leadership role in several large collaborative projects funded by NIH/NHGRI including the Centers for Common Disease Genomics\, the AnVIL cloud-based data repository and analysis platform\, and the Human Pangenome Project. His current work is focused on two broad goals: (1) mapping variants and genes that confer risk to human disease\, with ongoing projects focused on coronary artery disease and cardiometabolic traits in unique and underrepresented populations\, and (2) developing methods for the detection and interpretation of human genome variation\, with an emphasis on structural variation and other difficult-to-detect forms\, and on comprehensive trait association in human disease studies. UID:143396-21893071@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143396 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260423T124225 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260924T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260924T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nBiography: UID:147943-21902578@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147943 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260424T111546 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nBiography: UID:147944-21902579@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147944 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260424T111748 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nBiography: UID:147945-21902580@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147945 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260107T120553 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Monday\, October 12\, 2026\n11:00am - 12:00pm\nLocation TBD\n\nMalia Fullerton\, DPhil\nAdjunct Professor\, Epidemiology\nProfessor\, Bioethics and Humanities\nAdjunct Professor\, Genome Sciences\nAdjunct Professor\, Medicine - Medical Genetics\nActing/Interim Center/Institute Director\, School of Public Health\nUniversity of Washington\n“Seminar Title TBD”\n\nHosted By: Wendy R. Uhlmann\, Department of Human Genetics\n___\nStephanie Malia Fullerton\, DPhil\, is Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She is also Adjunct Professor in the UW Departments of Epidemiology\, Genome Sciences\, and Medicine (Medical Genetics)\, as well as an affiliate investigator with the Public Health Sciences division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. She received a PhD in Human Population Genetics from the University of Oxford and later re-trained in Ethical\, Legal\, and Social Implications (ELSI) research with a fellowship from the NIH National Human Genome Research Institute.\n\nDr. Fullerton’s work focuses on the ethical and social implications of genomic research and its equitable and safe translation for clinical and public health benefit. She serves as the ELSI lead for the Clinical Sequencing Evidence-Generating Research (CSER2) Consortium coordinating center\, co-chairs the TOPMed Consortium ELSI Committee\, and chairs the Bioethics Advisory Board of the Kaiser Permanente national Research Bank. She contributes to a range of empirical projects focused on clinical genomics translation and precision medicine approaches to the treatment and prevention of cancer and kidney disease in diverse patient populations. UID:143398-21893070@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143398 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260423T131611 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nBiography: UID:147946-21902581@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147946 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260424T111932 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261022T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261022T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nBiography: UID:147947-21902582@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147947 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260424T112101 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \n\nBiography: UID:147948-21902584@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147948 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260423T132410 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nBiography: UID:147950-21902585@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147950 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260424T112210 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nBiography: UID:147951-21902586@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147951 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260424T112311 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261119T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261119T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nBiography: UID:147953-21902590@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147953 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260423T133549 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261203T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261203T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nBiography: UID:147954-21902598@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147954 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260424T112419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261210T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261210T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IES Energy Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nBiography: UID:147955-21902611@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147955 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR