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DTSTAMP:20250806T143931
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251218T090000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Best Used By
DESCRIPTION:Narsiso Martinez’s art practice\, drawing upon his own experience as a farmworker\, honors the people performing the essential labor required to fill produce sections and restaurant kitchens around the country through portraiture on discarded materials\, such as cardboard boxes and paper grocery bags. Best Used By highlights timely issues regarding worker invisibility and anonymity. As part of his project\, Martinez will be researching archives related to regional agricultural history and engaging with local food service workers.
UID:137200-21879939@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137200
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,History,Humanities,Immigration,Multicultural,Social Justice,Visual Arts
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20251212T085640
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251218T090000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Evolution of Campus\, 1838-1963: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's History
DESCRIPTION:Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. This exhibit highlights the U-M Ann Arbor campus\, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis\, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen\, the exhibit presents maps\, plans\, architectural drawings\, proposals\, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.  \n\nThis exhibit was originally part of a larger exhibit displayed from July 2017 to January 2018 to commemorate U-M's bicentennial.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138431
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Library,Maps
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor
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DTSTAMP:20251202T115927
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251218T100000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Dissertation Defense Seminar: Jordan Byrne
DESCRIPTION:Spatial organization of protein-based organelles is increasingly recognized as a fundamental requirement for bacterial physiology. Carboxysomes\, encapsulins\, and biomolecular condensates compartmentalize metabolic reactions throughout diverse bacteria\, yet their positioning within cells remains poorly understood. Mislocalization of these structures leads to heterogeneous inheritance\, reduced metabolic output\, and impaired growth\, and poses a major challenge for efforts to engineer synthetic organelles in model hosts such as Escherichia coli. The Maintenance of Carboxysome Distribution (Mcd) system\, composed of the ParA-like ATPase McdA and the adaptor McdB\, directs equidistant positioning of carboxysomes along the nucleoid. Although ParA and MinD family ATPases are well studied\, little is known about the molecular features that govern adaptor specificity and function. Furthermore\, many adaptors\, including McdB\, form biomolecular condensates\, suggesting that phase separation may contribute to organelle control\, but the underlying sequence determinants remain unclear. This dissertation addresses these knowledge gaps by dissecting the regions and residues of McdB that mediate phase separation\, interaction with McdA\, and leverage control of organelle positioning\, and by applying these insights to develop programmable spatial organization tools for synthetic biology.\n\nThe McdB adaptor protein undergoes phase separation. I show here that McdB condensates mature from liquid- to gel-like condensates. Given that glutamine residues are known to contribute to maturation in other condensate-forming proteins\, I mutated a glutamine-rich region of McdB from Synechococcus elongatus to determine its role in McdB structure\, oligomerization and phase separation activity. \n\nSecond\, I generated sequence variants in Halothiobacillus neapolitanus McdB and showed that specific N-terminal basic residues\, particularly K7\, are necessary for full McdA engagement and proper carboxysome distribution in vivo\, revealing that cargo positioning and cargo partitioning are mechanistically separable functions of the Mcd system. \n\nThird\, I translated these mechanistic insights into a synthetic\, minimal positioning toolkit by engineering modular “Minimal Autonomous Positioning” (Map) tags derived from McdB. When fused to biomolecular condensates or encapsulins in Escherichia coli\, Map tags conferred McdA-dependent nucleoid-associated spacing patterns\, transforming immobile aggregates into dynamic and evenly distributed intracellular structures. \n\nTogether\, this work identifies domain- and residue-level determinants that govern McdB-mediated organelle positioning and condensate behavior\, clarifies adaptor-ATPase specificity principles in ParA/MinD-type systems\, and establishes a transferable genetic strategy for engineering intracellular spatial organization in bacteria. These findings advance both fundamental understanding of bacterial cell organization and the development of spatially programmable tools for microbial synthetic biology.
UID:142315-21890482@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142315
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Biology,Bsbsigns,Dissertation,Dissertation Defense
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 5150
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DTSTAMP:20251212T090011
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251218T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251218T160000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:GalleryDAAS Presents: Archives of Resistance: Visuals and Voices from Carceral State Project Research
DESCRIPTION:Opening December 8\, 2025 and running through January 2026\nGalleryDAAS| Haven Hall| G648| Monday - Friday 10-4pm\n\nThis exhibit showcases stories of resistance\, resilience\, and hope\, in the face of mass incarceration\, police violence\, immigrant detention\, and systematic racial criminalization. Archives of Resistance presents art\, prisoner correspondence\, research publications\, and archival documentation produced by the component projects of the Carceral State Project. These include: The Reckoning Project\, Immigrant Justice Lab\, Black & Pink at SPH\, ICE in the Heartland\, Critical Carceral Visualities\, Policing & Social Justice HistoryLab\, and Confronting Conditions of Confinement and Resistance. Artwork made by people in prison through Prison Creative Arts Project workshops is also on display. \n\nThe U-M Carceral State Project\, housed within the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies\, brings impacted communities and advocacy organizations together with researchers from the University of Michigan. The CSP was first organized in 2018 and has since grown to involve over a dozen community and campus partners\, many graduate students\, and more than 400 undergraduate researchers. \n\nThrough public scholarship\, creative expression\, multimedia storytelling\, and archival documentation\, we highlight the lived experiences and persistent resistance of those impacted by criminalization\, policing\, incarceration\, immigrant detention\, and other forms of carceral control in the state of Michigan and beyond. The work presented in this exhibit represents only a sliver of the extensive research\, art\, advocacy\, public engagement\, and other products generated by the Carceral State Project over the years.
UID:142351-21890663@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142351
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,african and afroamerican studies,Art,Exhibition,History,Law,Local Issues,Political Science,Race,Racism
LOCATION:Haven Hall - GalleryDAAS, G648
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DTSTAMP:20250923T154357
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251218T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251218T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Make A Maizey Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Want to learn how to leverage U-M’s AI tools to streamline your workflows\, solve unique problems\, and more? Then ‘Make a Maizey’ with the ITS Emerging Technology team! This dynamic workshop will teach you how to create a GPT trained on your custom dataset (Google Drive\, Dropbox\, or website URLs) to extract valuable insights\, discover patterns\, and gain deeper knowledge based on your dataset.\n\nU-M staff\, faculty\, instructors\, and all other interested parties are welcome to attend–bring a laptop to work from and any questions you may have about Maizey!\n\nPlease register for this event on Sessions: https://myumi.ch/jJVp5\n\n**For questions\, please reach out to makeamaizey@umich.edu**
UID:135907-21885681@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135907
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Academic Technology At Michigan,Ai Literacy,Artificial Intelligence,digital technology,Faculty,Free,Genai,Generative Ai,In Person,information and technology,information technology,Its,Make A Maizey Workshop,U-m Gpt,workshop
LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - 3336
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