Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Seminar (June 6, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63849 63849-15939550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 6, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Protein synthesis is an indispensable process which accounts for a large proportion of the energetic resources of any living cells. Therefore, translational regulation must be tightly controlled. Such regulation is critical for protein biogenesis, folding, trafficking and degradation under stable and changing conditions. I will focus on the importance of hidden evolutionary signatures within the coding region of proteins that govern translational efficiency and dominate proteostasis in health and disease. I will discuss the notion of tRNA adaptation index (tAI) as an indirect measure for translation elongation efficiency. Specifically, I will show that proteins which must be localized to specific sites and organelles in cells evolved to support their optimal translation elongation rate. A link between an evolutionary signature within mRNAs and efficient management of protein production will be illustrated for the case of synaptic proteins and their family members. Neuronal communication is governed by the coordinated action of the synapse. In all organisms having a nerve system, the synapses are signified by the abundance of ion channels, cytoskeletal elements, ligand binding receptors, and secreted proteins. As such, the proteins composition is a showcase for an extreme demand of translational control. In the last part of the talk, I will extend the concept of translation regulation by illustrating the robustness of the translational machinery in view of post-translational regulation of miRNA in cells. I will present COMICS as a simulator that predict the global cell response to miRNA alterations, and illustrate the immunity of the translation apparatus to miRNA fluctuations. In summary, I will show that evolutionarily conserved design principles while often hidden are a strong determinant in the cell homeostasis in health and disease.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 May 2019 13:40:25 -0400 2019-06-06T15:30:00-04:00 2019-06-06T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Summer Omics Learning Seminar Series - Co-Sponsored by the M-LEEaD Omics, Bioinformatics Core, and the Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics (July 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63539 63539-15782027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Genomics

"The Michigan Genomics Initiative: An In-House Integrated Data Frame to Conduct Precision Health Queries"

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 May 2019 11:59:55 -0400 2019-07-23T11:00:00-04:00 2019-07-23T12:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Honors Summer Fellows Poster Fair (July 29, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64365 64365-16332366@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 29, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: LSA Honors Program

Join us for a poster fair to learn more about our students' research and to celebrate all of their progress this summer. Light snacks provided.

For more on individual research projects, use the Web & Social Links below.

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Presentation Wed, 17 Jul 2019 14:06:09 -0400 2019-07-29T15:00:00-04:00 2019-07-29T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons LSA Honors Program Presentation Honors Summer Fellows 2019 Cohort
Interprofessional Facilitation Workshop for Faculty (September 5, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64687 64687-16428920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 5, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for Interprofessional Education

The workshop with help with skill-building that can be utilized in leading interprofessional courses and offerings (including IPE in Action in October). All faculty from all three U-M campuses are welcome.There is no cost for the workshop, but space is limited, so register now at myumi.ch/L3vvm !
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. Describe key factors to consider when facilitating interprofessional teams
2. Identify facilitation techniques as applied to interprofessional education/practice
3. Practice interprofessional facilitation skills to foster collaboration among students and/or colleagues.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 29 Jul 2019 14:19:34 -0400 2019-09-05T15:00:00-04:00 2019-09-05T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Center for Interprofessional Education Workshop / Seminar Facilitation Workshop
Smart Stormwater Systems Workshop (September 10, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66367 66367-16734097@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 8:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

TBD

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Sep 2019 08:26:54 -0400 2019-09-10T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-10T16:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Storm water
DCMB Seminar - Neurons in pathology through the lens of multi-omics and data analytics (September 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65485 65485-16605630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

Advances in stem cell engineering, omics technologies and data sciences offer a unique scope for deciphering the myriad ways molecular circuits dysfunction in pathologies of the brain. Recently, we have developed and explored iPSC-derived neurons from familial Alzheimer’s disease patients using a systems-level, multi-omics approach, identifying disease-related endotypes, which are commonly dysregulated in patient-derived neurons and patient brain tissue alike. By integrating RNA-Seq, ATAC-Seq, and ChIP-Seq approaches, we determined that the defining disease-causing mechanism of AD is de-differentiation of neurons, driven primarily through the REST-mediated repression of neuronal lineage specification gene programs and the activation of cell cycle reentry and non-specific germ layer precursor gene programs concomitant with modifications in chromatin accessibility. Strikingly, our reanalysis of previously-generated AD-patient brain tissue showed similar enrichment of neuronal repression and de-differentiation mechanisms. Surprisingly, our earlier work on glioblastoma also showed de-differentiation and initiation of some of the shared diseased endotypes as common features. We postulate that de-differentiation and reprogramming are hallmark mechanisms of numerous pathologies, arguably genetically evolved to serve as protection mechanisms.

Acknowledgements: This work was done in collaboration with the Laboratory of Dr. Wagner and his colleagues.

References:
Caldwell AB, Liu Q, Schroth GP, Tanzi RE, Galasko DR, Yuan SH, Wagner SL, Subramaniam S. Dedifferentiation orchestrated through remodeling of the chromatin landscape defines PSEN1 mutation-induced Alzheimer's Disease. 2019 (under revision in Nature) Available from: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/531202v1.
Friedmann-Morvinski D, Bhargava V, Gupta S, Verma IM, Subramaniam S. Identification of therapeutic targets for glioblastoma by network analysis. Oncogene. 2016;35(5):608-20. PMCID: 4641815.
Bhargava V, Ko P, Willems E, Mercola M, Subramaniam S. Quantitative transcriptomics using designed primer-based amplification. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1740. PMCID: 3638165.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Aug 2019 13:49:51 -0400 2019-09-11T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-11T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: "Patagonian Prehistory: Human Ecology and Cultural Evolution in the Land of Giants" (September 13, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64386 64386-16340376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 13, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

"This opening lecture introduces Patagonia—both as we know it today and as prehistoric people might have experienced it—and the curious, controversial aspects of its prehistory featured in the series (and the book on which the lecture series is based). The talk will then center on the book’s conclusion, presenting evidence that the rugged Patagonian outback was not as inhospitable to prehistoric people as is generally believed."

This lecture series presents a book manuscript titled Patagonian Prehistory, Human Ecology and Cultural Evolution in the Land of Giants. Following an introduction to the region and some of its archaeological puzzles, Dr. Raven Garvey will describe novel hypotheses related to colonization, abandonment, and meeting basic needs in a region widely considered marginal for human habitation. In particular, this series will examine unconventional evidence for gauging colonization speed, alternative explanations for a purported abandonment of the region between 8000 and 4000 years ago, and reasons Patagonians might have remained foragers despite farming-favorable conditions.

Lectures will be held at 3:00 p.m. on
September 13, 2019
October 11, 2019
November 15, 2019
& December 6, 2019
in the Forum Hall, Palmer Commons

Raven Garvey, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Assistant Curator in the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology at the university of Michigan, studies the influences of ecological, demographic, and social factors on prehistoric hunter-gatherers’ behaviors and broader cultural change through time.

The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures are a series of lectures on a work in progress, designed both as free public lectures and as a special course for advanced students to work closely with a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology on a topic in which the instructor has an intensive current interest. As the description written by Professor Roy “Skip” Rappaport in 1976 states, “…it offers the opportunity for other students and faculty to hear a colleague in an extended discussion of their own work.”

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 19 Aug 2019 11:09:58 -0400 2019-09-13T15:00:00-04:00 2019-09-13T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Fall 2019 Roy A. Rappaport Lectures
Fangzheng IT - 方正信产宣讲会 (September 17, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67176 67176-16805261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 10:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Chinese Students and Scholars Association [Archive]

方正IT,旗下两家上市公司,13家高科技企业,13000名员工;5大岗位类别,200余岗位需求,期待年轻的你,期待方正的你!

招募岗位:
1、技术类(软件开发、机器学习、视觉算法等)
2、设计类(字体设计师、UI设计师等)
3、产品类(产品经理、运营经理)
4、市场类(大客户经理、市场营销、客服专员)
5、职能类(财务管培生、品牌公关、投资分析师等)

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 13 Sep 2019 16:44:00 -0400 2019-09-17T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-17T12:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Chinese Students and Scholars Association [Archive] Careers / Jobs 方正信产
Walk-In Flu Shot Clinics (September 18, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65494 65494-16605659@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 10:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: MHealthy

Walk-in flu shot clinics are for non-Michigan Medicine faculty and staff and U-M students. Employees' spouses and other qualified adults are also welcome to attend. Must be at least 18 years old.

Present your health insurance card to avoid paying out-of-pocket. Those not covered under an accepted insurance plan can still receive a flu shot at a rate of $30 per person. Pay by credit card, check, or bill to a U-M student account.

Mass flu shot clinics are available through a collaboration between MHealthy, Michigan Visiting Nurses, and University Health Service.

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Well-being Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:57:09 -0500 2019-09-18T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T14:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons MHealthy Well-being University Health Service
First Year Graduate Student Dinner (September 18, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65534 65534-16611709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program

Join Women in Science and Engineering for a free catered dinner to celebrate the beginning of your science graduate degree at the University of Michigan. All programs and degree tracks are welcome, from Kinesiology to Environmental Science.

We will have networking opportunities to meet your peers and hear from a panel of experienced graduate students on topics like:

– How did you choose your research or thesis focus?
– What do you wish you would have done your first year, or what are you glad you did your first year?
– What are obstacles you have encountered and how did you overcome them?

Come learn about the WISE program, enjoy a delicious meal, and get meaningful advice for your first year!

RSVP required: https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/first-year-graduate-dinner/

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Sep 2019 08:37:52 -0400 2019-09-18T17:30:00-04:00 2019-09-18T19:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program Reception / Open House UM WISE
AIM Spotlight (September 24, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67287 67287-16831263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

Join us on Tuesday, September 24 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Great Lakes Central Room (4th Floor) of Palmer Commons our first AIM Spotlight as we welcome in Simon Nelson, FutureLearn CEO, and Matt Walton, FutureLearn Chief Product Officer, who will share insights into how the design of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platform impacts the learning experience. Lunch is provided.

AIM Spotlight is an all new speaker series hosted by the Center for Academic Innovation. This series will feature speakers external to the University of Michigan, focused on topics center around innovation in higher education and is tailored to a broad audience. Topics may include but are not limited to online learning, residential learning, research, technology, extended reality (XR), and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 16:15:06 -0400 2019-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T13:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion AIM Spotlight
Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium (September 25, 2019 8:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64209 64209-16212197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 8:45am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

The 2019 Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium will bring pioneers in the field of protein engineering to the University of Michigan to discuss the scientific advances driving the field forward.

Schedule:

8:45 a.m. | Welcome
Roger D. Cone, Ph.D.
Vice Provost and Director, U-M Biosciences Initiative; Mary Sue Coleman Director, Life Sciences Institute; Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Medical School; Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Mark S. Schlissel, M.D., Ph.D.
President of the University of Michigan

8:55 a.m. | Introduction of the Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman Life Sciences Lecturer
Alan R. Saltiel, Ph.D.
Director, Institute for Diabetes and Metabolic Health, and Professor, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine; Director, Life Sciences Institute 2002-2015

9:00 a.m. | Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman Life Sciences Lecture — Attacking the cell surface proteome in cancer
James A. Wells, Ph.D.
Harry W. and Diana V. Hind Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco

9:50 a.m. | Morning break

10:10 a.m. | Optogenetic and chemogenetic technologies for mapping molecular and cellular interactions
Alice Y. Ting, Ph.D.
Professor of Genetics, Biology, and Chemistry, Stanford University

11:00 a.m. | How do proteins evolve
Dan Tawfik, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science

11:50 a.m. | Poster session and lunch

1:20 p.m. | Biosystems design via directed evolution
Huimin Zhao, Ph.D.
Steven L. Miller Chair, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biophysics, an Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2:10 p.m. | Navigating the landscapes of protein interaction specificity
Amy E. Keating, Ph.D.Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

3:00 p.m. | Afternoon break

3:20 p.m. |Design, evolution and applications of protein cages
Donald Hilvert, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich

4:10 p.m. | Closing remarks

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 29 Aug 2019 10:13:02 -0400 2019-09-25T08:45:00-04:00 2019-09-25T16:15:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Conference / Symposium 2019 Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium
2019-2020 LHS Collaboratory Seminar Series Kick-Off (September 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67327 67327-16837724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

The Collaboratory’s theme this year is: LHS Implementation and Acceleration. The September 26 event will kick-start efforts to advance the suggestions and recommendations surfaced during last April’s Implementation and Acceleration Symposium. Click here to access the LHS Collaboratory Symposium discussion summary.

At this upcoming kick-off event, workgroups will reconvene across five LHS topic areas - Data/Data Access, Funding, Collaboration, Sustainability and Overcoming Resistance to Change - to prioritize activities related to addressing shared challenges and implementing approaches to addressing barriers.

Come on September 26th to share, discuss and plan. Regardless of whether you attended the April Symposium, please join us and help build on the energy of last season’s efforts and chart a path for this next season of the LHS Collaboratory.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:57:48 -0400 2019-09-26T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T13:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion
Intersections in Engaged Research (September 27, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63484 63484-15751187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

Researchers and co-investigators from all three U-M campuses are invited to join us for Intersections in Engaged Research. This interactive event will bring together researchers and multiple internal sponsor organizations to share and learn how we can leverage university resources to maximize our public and community impact.

It will feature a wide range of engaged research projects, including action-based research, community-based participatory research, community-engaged research, among others, taking place with funding and support through internal U-M award programs.

Attendees will learn more about resources, funding mechanisms, training opportunities and networks that currently exist on campus. Participants will have the opportunity to learn from each other and inform how internal funders support engaged research on campus.

The event will highlight successful research projects, facilitate conversations on key strategies and lessons learned in the field, and include opportunities for networking.

This event is intended for:

Faculty and co-investigators from multiple disciplines across the university who are interested in exploring internal funding opportunities and support for engaged research
Faculty grant recipients and co-investigators of internal engaged research funding
Institutional partners who are interested in supporting engaged research and exploring opportunities for collective impact

Questions? Email intersections@umich.edu

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 06 May 2019 14:04:49 -0400 2019-09-27T12:30:00-04:00 2019-09-27T16:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Graham Sustainability Institute Conference / Symposium Intersections Logo
"RNA Therapeutics: The Future of Human Medicine" (September 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65135 65135-16539446@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Please join us immediately after Anastasia's talk for a welcome reception in Palmer Commons Atrium (4th floor).


ABSTRACT: With the first drugs approved, oligonucleotides are rising to become a new, major class of therapeutic modalities on par with small molecules and biologics.
RNAi enables simple and specific modulation of gene expression when the chemical architecture supporting efficient delivery in vivo is defined. Currently, in liver, a single subcutaneous administration supports a year of clinical efficacy, changing our vision of how medicine will be practiced in the future.
The unprecedented duration of effect relies on oligonucleotide endocytosis and entrapment within endosomal/lysosomal compartments. These naturally formed, intracellular deposits provide a continuous release of compounds for RISC loading and productive silencing, supporting multi-month efficacy. Of course, this approach is dependent on extensive and complex chemical stabilization that ensures the survival of the oligonucleotides in highly aggressive biological environments.
In the context of fully stabilized compounds, we have used diverse chemical engineering to define the rules driving oligonucleotide distribution, efficacy, and toxicity. At this point, efficient modulation of gene expression in multiple extrahepatic tissues is possible (muscle, heart, fat, placenta, etc). One of our engineering efforts resulted in the identification of a di-branched chemical scaffold that enables potent and durable gene silencing in the brain and spinal cord. Using huntingtin – the causative gene in Huntington disease – as a model, we demonstrate that CNS-active RNAi induces potent protein silencing (~ 90%) in all brain regions tested in both rodents and non-human primates. Silencing persists for at least six months, with the degree of gene modulation correlating to the level of the guide strand tissue accumulation.
Demonstration of extrahepatic activity, in particular the development of a CNS-active RNAi scaffold, is opening other tissues and the brain for RNAi-based modulation of gene expression and establishing a path toward the development of new cures for genetically-defined neurodegenerative disorders.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Sep 2019 13:47:57 -0400 2019-09-30T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion speaker photo
Central Bank of the Future Conference (October 2, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63527 63527-15782016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center on Finance, Law, and Policy

Traditionally, central banks have served three policy functions – monetary policy, payments systems oversight, and financial institution supervision. This conference will convene international experts and practitioners to examine how these core functions contribute to financial inclusion, poverty allevation, and a more inclusive economy – and what could be improved.

The conference contributes to a research initiative undertaken by the University of Michigan’s Center on Finance, Law & Policy, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to consider how the role of a central bank could evolve in the future and enable central banks to make greater contributions toward financial inclusion. Ultimately, the research intends to identify technologies, processes, or tools that could benefit a central bank in supporting public policy objectives related to inclusion, and consider whether other sectors, including philanthropy, might have a role to play in supporting the development of those tools.

Registration to the event is free. Speakers and attendees will include individuals from standards-setting bodies, central banks and other financial regulators, and policymakers, as well as futurists and technologists, and other financial ecosystem stakeholders.

For more information visit http://financelawpolicy.umich.edu/central-bank-of-the-future-conference

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:11:29 -0400 2019-10-02T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T17:15:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Center on Finance, Law, and Policy Conference / Symposium Logo
Special Joint Lecture (MICHR and DCMB) (October 2, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67257 67257-16829032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Dr. Haendel’s vision is to weave together healthcare systems, basic science research, and patient generated data through development of data integration technologies and innovative data capture strategies. The Monarch Initiative is an international consortium dedicated to integrating human and organismal genotype-phenotype data and the development of deep phenotyping techniques. This talk will focus on the use of ontologies to support knowledge and data integration across disciplinary boundaries. Strategies for how to reconcile different terminologies and examples of harmonized semantic structures for anatomy, phenotype, and disease will be discussed. Finally, we will discuss the use of these ontological resources to populate graph structures and their use to aid mechanism discovery and rare disease diagnosis.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 11:53:44 -0400 2019-10-02T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Central Bank of the Future Conference (October 3, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63527 63527-16155523@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 8:30am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center on Finance, Law, and Policy

Traditionally, central banks have served three policy functions – monetary policy, payments systems oversight, and financial institution supervision. This conference will convene international experts and practitioners to examine how these core functions contribute to financial inclusion, poverty allevation, and a more inclusive economy – and what could be improved.

The conference contributes to a research initiative undertaken by the University of Michigan’s Center on Finance, Law & Policy, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to consider how the role of a central bank could evolve in the future and enable central banks to make greater contributions toward financial inclusion. Ultimately, the research intends to identify technologies, processes, or tools that could benefit a central bank in supporting public policy objectives related to inclusion, and consider whether other sectors, including philanthropy, might have a role to play in supporting the development of those tools.

Registration to the event is free. Speakers and attendees will include individuals from standards-setting bodies, central banks and other financial regulators, and policymakers, as well as futurists and technologists, and other financial ecosystem stakeholders.

For more information visit http://financelawpolicy.umich.edu/central-bank-of-the-future-conference

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:11:29 -0400 2019-10-03T08:30:00-04:00 2019-10-03T17:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Center on Finance, Law, and Policy Conference / Symposium Logo
RNA Innovation Seminar, Keith Slotkin, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, University of Missouri Columbia (October 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65136 65136-16539447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Keith Slotkin, Member and PI, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center,  Associate Professor, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia

Abstract: The field of epigenetic silencing is replete with labs studying how transcriptional silencing is epigenetically maintained, or in some cases re-targeted, across cell divisions and generations. On the other hand, the initiation of that silencing in the first place, especially for DNA that is “new” to the genome, is not well understood. Although the propagation of epigenetic silencing is based on the chromatin level, our data in the powerful model plant Arabidopsis demonstrates that de novo initiation of transposable element and transgene silencing is based on RNA, and utilizes a host of small RNA classes that function specifically in the initiation of silencing to guide the first round of DNA methylation. I plan to present my ongoing work on the molecular mechanisms of silencing initiation, focusing on the key RNA-dependent processes necessary to initiate epigenetic silencing.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Sep 2019 10:57:47 -0400 2019-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion flyer
Second Betty Ch'maj Distinguished American Studies Lecture: "Beyond the Decolonial Turn: The Imaginary as Will to Feel" (October 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66334 66334-16727913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of American Culture

As a deconstructive tool, does the decolonial necessarily expose colonial powers, structures, laws, and institutions? What are the flaws of a decolonial theory that regards a materialist perspective while occluding the spirit of the mind and body? It is as if the method and the theory exist in parallel universes, never to touch or entice each other but instead battle in a false binary. And yet, we cannot have theory without method; we cannot have a materialist, grounded “real” critique without the affective body, without the people who feel, who touch, who experience and imagine other ways of being. The imagination, after all, is the door to creativity, to other ways of being and knowing. Overall, the real without the imaginary lacks vision and affirms a two- dimensional, uninspired ontology and epistemology. I’m posing the “will to feel” as a mode that reasserts the imaginary within the decolonial. Ultimately, can the “will to feel” transform us and the toxic world we inhabit in the 21st century?

There will be a light reception following the lecture.

Dr. Emma Pérez earned a PhD in history from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2017, she joined the University of Arizona as a Research Social Scientist at the Southwest Center and a Professor in the Department of Gender/Women’s Studies. Pérez has published fiction, essays and the history monograph, The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History (1999). Her novels include, Gulf Dreams (1996); Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory (2009), which earned the Isherwood Writing Grant (2009) and 2nd place in Historical Fiction from International Latino Books (2010). Her most recent novel, Electra’s Complex (2016) is a mystery set in an east coast college. She continues to research and write about LGBT Chicanx/Latinx through a queer of color lens.

ATTN: There will also be a private brunch with Emma Pérez for Graduate Students. RSVP required: https://forms.gle/5fNfoMHzPhEFzUH98

About the Betty Ch’maj Lecture: With generous support from the Ch’maj family, the Annual Betty Ch’maj Distinguished American Studies Lecture Series was established to honor the legacy of Betty Ch’maj. Ch'maj, who was awarded the very first Ph.D. in American Culture in 1961 at Michigan, continued her career researching American literature and music, founding the Radical Caucus of ASA, and working to challenge systematic gender discrimination in American Studies programs.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:27:26 -0400 2019-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-07T18:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Photo
AIM for DEI (October 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67288 67288-16831264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

Join us on Tuesday, October 8 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Great Lakes South room at Palmer Commons for our first AIM for DEI where we will recognize the teams that received funding for their DEI-centered academic innovation projects in the Spring 2019 call for proposals. Each team will provide a brief overview of their project, and as a large group, we will discuss what other questions at the intersections of technology; teaching and learning; and diversity, equity and inclusivity our community should explore. Lunch will be provided.

AIM for DEI is an all new event series hosted by the Center for Academic Innovation and will explore issues at the intersections of teaching and learning; technology; and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 19 Sep 2019 13:23:37 -0400 2019-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-08T13:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion AIM for DEI
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Wednesday Seminar (October 9, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68092 68092-17009821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Talk Title: "Controlling dynamic ensembles: From cells to societies"

Abstract: Natural and engineered systems that consist of populations of isolated or interacting dynamical components exhibit levels of complexity that are beyond human comprehension. These complex systems often require an appropriate excitation, an optimal hierarchical organization, or a periodic dynamical structure, such as synchrony, to function as desired or operate optimally. In many application domains, e.g., neurostimulation in brain medicine and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging in quantum control, control and observation can only be implemented at the population level, through broadcasting a single input signal to all the systems in the population and through collecting aggregated system-level measurements of the population, respectively. These limitations give rise to challenging problems and new control paradigms involving underactuated manipulation of dynamic ensembles. This talk will address theoretical and computational challenges for targeted coordination of both isolated and networked ensemble systems arising in diverse areas at different scales. Both model-based and data-driven approaches for learning, decoding, control, and computation of dynamic structures and patterns in ensemble systems will be presented. Practical control designs, including synchronization waveforms for pattern formation in complex networks and optimal pulses in quantum control, will be illustrated along with their experimental realizations. Lastly, future directions and opportunities in Systems and Controls will be discussed.

3:45 p.m. - Light Refreshments Served
4:00 p.m. - Lecture

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:26:01 -0400 2019-10-09T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
LSI Seminar Series: Hanchuan Peng, Ph.D., Allen Institute for Brain Science (October 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67683 67683-16917832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Abstract:
Despite substantial advancement in the automatic tracing of brain cells' 3D morphology in recent years, it is challenging to apply existing algorithms to very large image datasets containing billions or more voxels, especially for applications such as morphometry of single neurons at the whole-brain scale. We have developed a new platform combining several newly developed technologies including Vaa3D, TeraFly, UltraTracer, and TeraVR (Nature, 2019), to attempt this challenge. Particularly, we have used TeraFly to invoke Vaa3D to quickly visualize the whole mouse brain image volume and manage the thousands of billions of voxels in each of the brain volume. We then used UltraTracer to wrap several efficient base tracers to trace such massive data volumes. Finally, we combined virtual reality and machine learning into a tool called TeraVR for efficient proofreading and editing of such reconstructed neuron morphology. We are further improving the integration of these tools for more scalable and accurate single neuron morphometry.

Speaker:
Hanchuan Peng is the director of the SEU-ALLEN Joint Center and director of advanced computing at the Allen Institute for Brain Science. His lab develops revolutionary technologies to generate, manage, visualize, analyze and understand massive-scale structure and function data related to brains. Peng also led the Big Image Mining team at Janelia, HHMI. Peng is a highly cited inventor of a number of new algorithms and software/hardware systems, including Vaa3D - a widely adopted high-performance platform for very large multi-dimensional images, BrainAligner, SmartScope, mRMR, etc. He built and co-worked the first digital maps for several widely used model systems at single cell/neurite resolution, and led the “BigNeuron” initiative. Peng was inducted into AIMBE in 2019, is a co-recipient of USA National Academy of Sciences’ Cozzarelli Prize (2013), and a recipient of the DIADEM award (2010). His work has been featured in Nature, Science, NPR, and NBC, among others.

Lunch will be provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:13:18 -0400 2019-10-10T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T13:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion LSI Seminar Series
ADVANCE STRIDE Faculty Recruitment Workshop (October 10, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67619 67619-16907163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: The ADVANCE Program

The Committee on Strategies and Tactics for Recruiting to Improve Diversity and Excellence (STRIDE) offers Faculty Recruitment Workshops for faculty members with an important role in faculty recruitment efforts.

These workshops are designed to provide both background information and concrete advice about practices that make searches more successful in producing diverse candidate pools and hiring the candidates you want to attract. Workshops are scheduled for the fall term. These workshops are open to all faculty.

REGISTRATION FULL. This date has reached capacity. To be added to the wait list or to check into availability for other workshop dates, please contact Jamie Saville (jsaville@umich.edu).

For more information on ADVANCE's STRIDE committee: https://advance.umich.edu/stride/

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 25 Sep 2019 14:12:24 -0400 2019-10-10T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T16:50:00-04:00 Palmer Commons The ADVANCE Program Workshop / Seminar The Big M above the words ADVANCE Program and University of Michigan
The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: "Patagonian Prehistory: Human Ecology and Cultural Evolution in the Land of Giants" (October 11, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64390 64390-16340377@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

"Initial colonization of the Americas is one of the most hotly-debated topics in archaeology. Patagonia is the farthest place to which colonizers traveled from the east Siberian point of entry and, so, should be central to hypotheses regarding migration speed, a particularly controversial aspect of the colonization process. In this talk, Garvey describes historical reasons for Patagonia’s curious absence from mainstream discussions, and presents unconventional evidence that supports a relatively slow migration through the Americas."

This lecture series presents a book manuscript titled Patagonian Prehistory, Human Ecology and Cultural Evolution in the Land of Giants. Following an introduction to the region and some of its archaeological puzzles, Dr. Raven Garvey will describe novel hypotheses related to colonization, abandonment, and meeting basic needs in a region widely considered marginal for human habitation. In particular, this series will examine unconventional evidence for gauging colonization speed, alternative explanations for a purported abandonment of the region between 8000 and 4000 years ago, and reasons Patagonians might have remained foragers despite farming-favorable conditions.

Lectures will be held at 3:00 p.m. on
September 13, 2019
October 11, 2019
November 15, 2019
& December 6, 2019
in the Forum Hall, Palmer Commons


The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures are a series of lectures on a work in progress, designed both as free public lectures and as a special course for advanced students to work closely with a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology on a topic in which the instructor has an intensive current interest. As the description written by Professor Roy “Skip” Rappaport in 1976 states, “…it offers the opportunity for other students and faculty to hear a colleague in an extended discussion of their own work.”

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 19 Aug 2019 11:10:56 -0400 2019-10-11T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Fall 2019 Roy A. Rappaport Lectures
LSI Diversity Summit Lecture: Aseem Z. Ansari, Ph.D. (October 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68027 68027-16986090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

The Ansari group has pioneered the development of synthetic transcription factors (SynTFs) to control desired gene regulatory networks and guide cell fate choices. In a sense, SynTFs could be viewed as chemical counterparts of the much larger CRISPR-Cas based gene regulators.

Integrating structure-guided design and chemical genomics, the Ansari group created an exciting class of molecules that can rewire epigenetic states at targeted genomic loci. SynTFs designed to reverse repressive epigenetic marks have restored expression of genes whose deficiency causes incurable neuronal diseases such as Friedreich’s ataxia, a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that has no effective therapy. More broadly, SynTFs can be precision-tailored to understand and remedy a wide array of human diseases.

About the Speaker:
Aseem Z. Ansari is the R. J. Ulrich Chair of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the founder of the Khorana and Bose Programs.

Aseem began his scientific career as a summer intern in the laboratory of Obaid Siddiqi at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Bombay. That experience led him to graduate studies in Chemical Biology at Northwestern University. Aseem completed his training postdoctoral training as a Helen Hay Whitney Fellow at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was also a resident tutor at the Winthrop House and member of the Board of Tutors in Biochemical Sciences at Harvard. The Ansari Lab works on devising synthetic gene switches that control the fate of human embryonic stem cells and correct gene regulatory networks in neurodegenerative diseases.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Oct 2019 13:50:39 -0400 2019-10-14T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-14T13:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion Aseem Z. Ansari, Ph.D.
RNA Innovation Seminar, Ailong Ke, Cornell University (October 14, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65137 65137-16539448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 14, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Ailong Ke PhD, Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University

Abstract: CRISPR-Cas serves as an RNA-based adaptive immunity system in prokaryotes. The diverse CRISPR systems can be categorized into two major classes and multiple types therein. Type I CRISPR-Cas (or CRISPR-Cas3) belongs to Class 1 and is the most prevalent CRISPR system found in nature. It features a sequential target-searching and degradation process. First, the target-searching complex Cascade (CRISPR associated complex for antiviral defense) uses its guide RNA to find the complementary dsDNA target, and opens a special structure called R-loop at the target site. Its helicase-nuclease fusion enzyme Cas3 is then specifically recruited to the Cascade/R-loop site to processively degrade long-stretches of double-stranded DNA nearby. I will give a comprehensive explanation of CRISPR-Cas3 based interference mechanism, based on the high-resolution biochemistry and structural biology work from my lab. I will further explain CRISPR-Cas3 based genome editing applications, and give perspectives on its therapeutic potential.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Sep 2019 10:55:45 -0400 2019-10-14T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-14T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion flyer
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Seminar (October 16, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68138 68138-17011980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Talk Title: "3D genome structure as a tool to understand the impact of somatic and germline sequence variants"

Abstract: The 3-dimensional organization of DNA inside of the nucleus impacts a variety of cellular processes, including gene regulation. Furthermore, it is apparent that somatic structural variants that affect how chromatin is organized in 3D can have a major impact on gene regulation and human disease. However, such structural variants in the context of cancer genomes are abundant, and predicting the consequence of any individual somatic mutation on 3D genome structure and gene expression is challenging. In addition, we are severely limited with regard to tools that can be used to study 3D folding of the genome in vivo in actual human tumor or tissue samples. Our lab has developed several approaches to address these challenges. We have taken a pan-cancer approach to identify loci in the genome that are affected by structural variants that alter 3D genome structure, and we have identified numerous loci with recurrent 3D genome altering mutations. We have also used genome engineering to create novel structural variants to better understand what types of mutations are actually capable of altering 3D genome structure and gene regulation. Finally, we have also developed novel tools to study 3D genome structure in vivo in complex tissue samples. We believe that these approaches will be critical for improving our understanding of how non-coding sequence variants can affect 3D genome structure and gene regulation, with the ultimate goal of understanding how these events affect human physiology.

3:45 pm - Light Refreshments Served
4:00 pm - Lecture

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 16:39:45 -0400 2019-10-16T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-16T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
AIM Community (October 17, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67292 67292-16831269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 10:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

Instructors teaching in University of Michigan online degrees are invited to a conversation about what kinds of resources are available or could be helpful to support their course design and teaching. Join us on Thursday, October 17 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in Boardroom 5 at Palmer Commons. Please register for this event if you will be attending.

AIM Communities are communities of practice hosted by the Center for Academic Innovation centered around topics including but not limited to Online & Hybrid Programs, Gameful Learning, and Simulations.

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Meeting Mon, 16 Sep 2019 16:41:51 -0400 2019-10-17T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T11:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Center for Academic Innovation Meeting AIM Community
Germanic Languages and Literatures Graduate Student Conference (October 17, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66812 66812-16779003@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Thursday, October 17th @ 5:30 - 7:00 pm (Forum Hall): “Present Tense: Time, Madness, and Democracy”: Keynote Lecture by Professor W. J. T. Mitchell.

As part of the Embodying Vision/Envisioning Embodiment Graduate Student Conference hosted by the German Department, Professor W. J. T. Mitchell of the University of Chicago will give the keynote lecture.

Professor Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of English, Art History, and Visual Arts in addition to serving as Editor of Critical Inquiry. His research explores the relations of visual and verbal representations in culture and iconology, and he has authored several foundational books on the history and theories of media, visual art, and literature, from the eighteenth century to the present.

On Thursday, October 17th at 5:30 pm, Professor Mitchell will give his keynote lecture in Forum Hall. "Present Tense: Time, Madness, and Democracy" is an experimental engagement in philosophical reflections on time informed by current events. A first draft appeared just before the 2018 elections on the Critical Inquiry blog, In the Moment. His lecture will provide an update of that draft, while maintaining its methodological commitment to an iconology of time rather than an ontology of time, asking not “What is time?” but rather "How do we picture time?" This lecture is inspired by Nietzsche’s observation that madness in individuals is rare and exceptional, but in “groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.” In arguing that we are living in an “epoch,” a moment of historic uncertainty, risk, and transformation, Professor Mitchell will ask the following questions: What is the “affective temporality” that characterizes this epoch? How do we feel about the times in which we live, and how does that feeling congeal into images and iconic moments?
Reception to follow.

Friday, October 18th @ 8 am - 5 pm (Forum Hall): Embodying Vision/Envisioning Embodiment Graduate Student Conference

Saturday, October 19th @ 8 am - 5 pm (Rackham East Hall): Embodying Vision/Envisioning Embodiment Graduate Student Conference

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 09 Oct 2019 13:39:39 -0400 2019-10-17T17:30:00-04:00 2019-10-17T19:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Germanic Languages & Literatures Conference / Symposium Sebastian Oldhouse, Father Time
Germanic Languages and Literatures Graduate Student Conference (October 18, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66813 66813-16779004@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 8:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18TH (Forum Hall):
8:00 - 9:00 am: Breakfast
9:00 - 11:00 am: Panel 1: Activating the Spectator
Looking in Painting: Spectators at the Trecento Crucifixion (Alexander Coyle, History of Art, Yale University)
The Spaces in Between: Cohabitation of the Propagandist and Propagandee (Kelly Wheeler, English, University of Michigan)
Latent Horrors: Bodies, Vision, and Vomit in Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Lobster (Martha Henzy, English, University of Michigan)

11:00 - 11:30 am: Coffee and Tea Break
11:30 am - 1:30 pm: Panel 2: Viewing Pain, Experiencing Pain
Picturing Racial Pain: Corporeality and Personhood in Abolitionist Photographs and Lynching Postcards (Markus Diepold, American and German, University of Graz)
Recognition and Witnessing: Enacting “Pain-Work” in John Berger and Jean Mohr’s A Fortunate Man (1967) (Bassam Sidiki, English, University of Michigan)
The Trouble with Needles: Boundaries, Privacy, and Persistent Presence (Steven Kurtz, Romance, University of Michigan)

1:30 - 3:00 pm: Lunch Break

3:00 - 5:00 pm: Panel 3: Constructing Seeing and Subjectivity
“Oswalt Kolle sei Dank!” Visualizing Sexual Knowledge in West German Popular Media during the 1960s (Natalie Cincotta, History, The University of Texas at Austin)
To Be Summoned: Constructions and Destructions of the Subject in Herta Müller’s Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet (Erin Johnson-Weiss, German, University of Michigan)
Performing Fandom: Visualizing Embodied Emotions in German Soccer Fan Culture (Pavel Brunssen, German, University of Michigan)

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 09 Oct 2019 13:40:50 -0400 2019-10-18T08:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Germanic Languages & Literatures Conference / Symposium Sebastian Oldhouse, Father Time
Spectrum Center- Allyhood Development Training (October 18, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66767 66767-16776782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 9:30am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

This session is open to the entire U-M community.

The Spectrum Center's LGBTQ Allyhood Development Training Program, started in 2005, seeks to support an individual or organization’s process of development as it relates to LGBTQ inclusivity and advocacy. Allyhood Development Training (ADT) uses a social justice framework to illustrate the lived experiences of LGBTQ identified people to workshop participants.

Through active engagement in the training, participants will:
Grow in their personal awareness, knowledge, skills, and actions as it relates to their engagement in doing ally work.

Audience:
This session is open to the entire U-M community.

Presenter: Elizabeth Gonzalez, Education & Training Program Manager, Spectrum Center



Through active engagement in the training, participants will grow in their personal awareness, knowledge, skills, and actions as it relates to their engagement in doing ally work. The purpose of having the Allyhood Development Training is to promote a campus community in which everyone is treated with respect and dignity.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Sep 2019 16:10:54 -0400 2019-10-18T09:30:00-04:00 2019-10-18T16:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Lecture / Discussion
Walk-In Flu Shot Clinics (October 21, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65494 65494-16605671@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 10:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: MHealthy

Walk-in flu shot clinics are for non-Michigan Medicine faculty and staff and U-M students. Employees' spouses and other qualified adults are also welcome to attend. Must be at least 18 years old.

Present your health insurance card to avoid paying out-of-pocket. Those not covered under an accepted insurance plan can still receive a flu shot at a rate of $30 per person. Pay by credit card, check, or bill to a U-M student account.

Mass flu shot clinics are available through a collaboration between MHealthy, Michigan Visiting Nurses, and University Health Service.

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Well-being Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:57:09 -0500 2019-10-21T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T14:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons MHealthy Well-being University Health Service
DEI & Faith in Secular Spaces (October 22, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68012 68012-16983967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

This first-of-its kind panel discussion brings together diverse and diverging student perspectives on the meaning of faith and practice - from liberal to conservative to orthodox - on a largely secular campus. Refreshments will be served.

RSVP: myumi.ch/yKx7j

Sponsors: Center for Campus Involvement/Student Life, Islamophobia Working Group, Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Oct 2019 13:11:27 -0400 2019-10-22T17:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T18:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Lecture / Discussion DEI & Faith event flyer
Accessibility for Large Courses (CRLT) (October 23, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66587 66587-16761658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Council for Disability Concerns

Large courses present particular challenges for designing accessible learning environments that effectively anticipate a range of student bodies, minds, and learning needs. In this workshop, faculty will consider several principles of universal design and think together about how to apply them in courses with large numbers of students. Key topics include classroom technology policies, student privacy, and recognizing and resisting ableist assumptions when working with students to implement individual accommodations.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 01 Oct 2019 13:09:25 -0400 2019-10-23T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T15:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Council for Disability Concerns Workshop / Seminar University of Michigan campus- aerial view
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Seminar (November 6, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68926 68926-17197024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Although central architectures drive robust oscillations, biological clock networks containing the same core vary drastically in their potential to oscillate. What peripheral structures contribute to the variation of oscillation behaviors remains elusive. We computationally generated an atlas of oscillators and found that, while certain core topologies are essential for robust oscillations, local structures substantially modulate the degree of robustness. Strikingly, two key local structures, incoherent inputs and coherent inputs, can modify a core topology to promote and attenuate its robustness, additively. These findings underscore the importance of local modifications besides robust cores, which explain why auxiliary structures not required for oscillation are evolutionarily conserved. We further apply this computational framework to search for structures underlying tunability, another crucial property shared by many biological timing systems to adapt their frequencies to environmental changes.

Experimentally, we developed an artificial cell system to reconstitute mitotic oscillatory processes in water-in-oil microemulsions. With a multi-inlet pressure-driven microfluidic setup, these artificial cells are flexibly adjustable in sizes, periods, various molecular and drug concentrations, energy, and subcellular compartments. Using long-term time-lapse fluorescence microscopy, this system enables high-throughput, single-cell analysis of clock dynamics, functions, and stochasticity, key to elucidating the topology-function relation of biological clocks.

We also investigate how multiple clocks coordinate via biochemical and mechanical signals in the essential developmental processes of early zebrafish embryos (e.g., mitotic wave propagation, synchronous embryo cleavages, and somitogenesis). To pin down the physical mechanisms that give rise to these complex collective phenomena, we integrate mathematical modeling, live embryo and explant imaging, nanofabrication, micro-contact printing, and systems and synthetic biology approaches.

BlueJeans livestream: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/rbuvycdc
Qiong Yang: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/dcmb/qiong-yang-phd

3:45 pm to 4:00 pm - Light refreshments
4:00 pm - Lecture

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:56:42 -0400 2019-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Rich Earth Summit: Policy, Regulation, and Moving to Implementation of New Technologies (November 7, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66491 66491-16742670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 8:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

A growing national team of experts is building momentum in the emerging field of study and practice of urine separation to rethink the the water-nutrient cycle. The summit's purpose is to look at how regulation can be changed to advance this work, showcase the latest developments, begin new collaborative projects and to share the enthusiasm and vast creative energies of entrepreneurs, engineers, researchers and practitioners.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 30 Sep 2019 14:02:15 -0400 2019-11-07T08:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T21:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Civil and Environmental Engineering Conference / Symposium Crops at sunrise
ELSI-LHS Symposium (November 7, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68214 68214-17028932@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 8:30am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

REGISTER NOW! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-elsi-lhs-symposium-workshop-tickets-62220293573

Join us for our 4th annual symposium and workshop on the ethical, legal and social implications of learning health systems (ELSI-LHS).

The theme of the 2019 ELSI-LHS Symposium is Precision Medicine & Learning Health Systems, and will explore ethics, equity, active learning health initiatives, and future directions for innovation and research.

The event will be held on Wednesday, November 6 from 12:30-3:00pm and Thursday, November 7 from 8:30am-3:00pm.

#elsilhs

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:55:08 -0400 2019-11-07T08:30:00-05:00 2019-11-07T15:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Department of Learning Health Sciences Conference / Symposium Register Now!
Rich Earth Summit: Policy, Regulation, and Moving to Implementation of New Technologies (November 8, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66491 66491-16742671@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 8:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

A growing national team of experts is building momentum in the emerging field of study and practice of urine separation to rethink the the water-nutrient cycle. The summit's purpose is to look at how regulation can be changed to advance this work, showcase the latest developments, begin new collaborative projects and to share the enthusiasm and vast creative energies of entrepreneurs, engineers, researchers and practitioners.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 30 Sep 2019 14:02:15 -0400 2019-11-08T08:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T15:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Civil and Environmental Engineering Conference / Symposium Crops at sunrise
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Seminar (November 13, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68641 68641-17128443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Talk Title: Reproducibility with high-dimensional data

Abstract: With the expanding generation of large-scale biological datasets, there has been an ever-greater concern in understanding the reproducibility of discoveries and findings in a statistically reliable manner. We review several concepts in reproducibility and describe how one can adopt a multiple testing perspective on the problem. This leads to an intuitive procedure for assessing reproducibility. We demonstrate application of the methodology using RNA-sequencing data as well as metabolomics datasets. We will also outline some further problems in the field.

This is joint work with Daisy Philtron, Yafei Lyu and Qunhua Li (Penn State) and Tusharkanti Ghosh, Weiming Zhang and Katerina Kechris (University of Colorado).

DCMB Faculty Host: Alla Karnovsky, PhD

3:45 p.m. - Light Refreshments
4:00 p.m. - Lecture

BlueJeans Live Streaming: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/rbuvycdc

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Oct 2019 11:05:22 -0400 2019-11-13T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-13T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
AIM Community (November 14, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67297 67297-16831274@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 9:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

Faculty members and school/college administrators designing and leading online degree programs are invited to an informal conversation about the opportunities and challenges in creating online degrees.

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Meeting Mon, 16 Sep 2019 16:58:40 -0400 2019-11-14T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T10:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Center for Academic Innovation Meeting AIM Community
El silencio de otros / The Silence of Others (November 14, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66298 66298-16725819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Please join us for a screening of The Silence of Others (2018). Following the screening, Almudena Carracedo, Jon Cox, Sebastiaan Faber, and Scott Boehm will participate in a panel discussion.

ABOUT THE FILM

El silencio de otros/The Silence of Others

Filmed over six years, The Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under General Franco as they organize a groundbreaking international lawsuit and fight a “pact of forgetting” around the crimes they suffered.

The Silence of Others has won 30 international awards, including the 2019 Goya for Best Feature Documentary (Spain’s Academy Award), Berlinale Panorama Audience Award, Berlinale Peace Film Prize, Sheffield Doc/Fest Grand Jury Award, Hamptons Film Festival Social Justice Award, and Best Foreign Documentary at Michael Moore’s Traverse City Film Festival. It was shortlisted for the 2019 Oscars.

The Silence of Others has been seen by more than 1.2 million people in Spain, where national broadcaster TVE called it “the film that everyone is talking about”. It has screened at festivals or cinemas in more than 45 countries. It premieres in US theaters in May 2019 and will be shown on PBS’ POV series.

The Silence of Others is the second documentary feature from Emmy winning filmmakers Almudena Carracedo & Robert Bahar (Made in L.A.) and is executive produced by Pedro Almodóvar.



ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

Almudena Carracedo is an Emmy and Goya-winning producer, director and cinematographer.

Almudena and Robert spent seven years working on The Silence of Others, which premiered at the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), where it won both the Panorama Audience Award and the Peace Film Prize. The Silence of Others has won 30 international prizes, including the Goya (Spain’s Academy Award) for Best Feature Documentary, in addition to being shortlisted for the Oscars. It has been seen in 50+ countries and has been called a “phenomenon” in Spain, where more than 1.2 million people have seen it.

Born in Madrid, Spain, Almudena developed her professional career in the US, where she directed and produced her debut film, the Emmy- winning feature documentary Made in L.A., a collaboration with Robert Bahar. Made in L.A. was hailed by the New York Times as an “Excellent documentary... about basic human dignity.” Made in L.A. won an Emmy, the Henry Hampton Award, the Sidney Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism, and was broadcast on PBS’ POV series. In addition, Made in L.A. was the subject of an innovative three-year impact campaign that brought the film to audiences around the world in 1000+ screenings, catalyzing discussions around low wage immigrant workers’ rights, from church basements to Capitol Hill.

Almudena is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Creative Capital Fellow, a Sundance Time Warner Documentary Fellow, a United States Artists Fellow, NALIP’S Estela Award winner (National Association of Latino Independent Producers), and the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Illinois Wesleyan University. Since 2014 Almudena teaches Documentary Production at NYU Madrid, and she has guest lectured at numerous universities, including Brown, Stanford, UCLA, USC, UCSC, UCSD, and Yale.


Robert Bahar is an Emmy and Goya-winning producer, director, sound recordist and impact strategist.

Robert and Almudena spent seven years working on The Silence of Others, which premiered at the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), where it won both the Panorama Audience Award and the Peace Film Prize. The Silence of Others, has won 30 international prizes, including the Goya (Spain’s Academy Award) for Best Feature Documentary, in addition to being shortlisted for the Oscars. It has been seen in 50+ countries and has been called a “phenomenon” in Spain, where more than 1.2 million people have seen it.

Originally from Philadelphia, Robert produced the Emmy-winning feature documentary Made in L.A., a collaboration with Almudena Carracedo. Made in L.A. was hailed by the New York Times as an “Excellent documentary... about basic human dignity.” Made in L.A. won an Emmy, the Henry Hampton Award and the Sidney Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism, and was broadcast on PBS’ POV series. Robert spearheaded the innovative three-year impact campaign that brought the film to audiences around the world in 1000+ screenings, and used it to catalyze discussions around low wage immigrant workers’ rights, from church basements to Capitol Hill.

Robert previously produced and directed the documentary Laid to Waste, produced the short documentary Meet Joe Gay, and line produced several independent films. He is a Creative Capital Fellow, a Sundance Documentary Fellow, and currently teaches Documentary Production at NYU Madrid. He has guest lectured at Brown, Columbia, Stanford, USC, UCLA, and Yale among others, and has presented workshops and masterclasses at numerous film organizations including IDA, IFP and Film Independent. Robert is the co-founder of Doculink, and holds an MFA from the Peter Stark Producing Program at USC’s School of Cinema-Television.

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Film Screening Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:39:54 -0400 2019-11-14T18:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T21:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Rackham Graduate School Film Screening The Silence of Others
LSI Seminar Series: Ronald Raines, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (November 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68971 68971-17205311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Abstract:

The lipid bilayer that encases human cells has evolved to keep the outside out, and the inside in. This barrier is not, however, impenetrable. Some small molecules, including drugs, can burrow through and manifest therapeutic activities. Others can be “cloaked” to endow membrane permeability, and then uncloaked inside cells. We have learned how to beneficially cloak proteins, which are typically 100-fold larger than small-molecule drugs. Specifically, the conversion of protein carboxyl groups into esters enables the protein to traverse the lipid bilayer. The nascent esters are substrates for endogenous enzymes that regenerate native proteins within cells. The ability to deliver native proteins directly into cells opens a new frontier for medicine.

Speaker:
Ronald Raines, Ph.D.
Firmenich Professor of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:59:44 -0400 2019-11-15T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T13:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion LSI Seminar Series
The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: "Patagonian Prehistory: Human Ecology and Cultural Evolution in the Land of Giants" (November 15, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64391 64391-16340378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

"Climate scientists have shown that the middle Holocene (8000 – 4000 years ago) was characterized by increased temperatures and prolonged droughts in several world regions, including Patagonia. As in other affected areas, there are gaps in Patagonia’s archaeological record coincident with middle Holocene droughts. This is often interpreted in terms of population decline, particularly since much of Patagonia is arid even in non-drought years. In this lecture, Garvey presents data that indicate middle Holocene droughts may not have had a negative effect—and perhaps even had a positive one—on foraging efficiency in Patagonia, and that population decline is not the most likely explanation for the region’s sparse middle Holocene record."

This lecture series presents a book manuscript titled Patagonian Prehistory, Human Ecology and Cultural Evolution in the Land of Giants. Following an introduction to the region and some of its archaeological puzzles, Dr. Raven Garvey will describe novel hypotheses related to colonization, abandonment, and meeting basic needs in a region widely considered marginal for human habitation. In particular, this series will examine unconventional evidence for gauging colonization speed, alternative explanations for a purported abandonment of the region between 8000 and 4000 years ago, and reasons Patagonians might have remained foragers despite farming-favorable conditions.

Lectures will be held at 3:00 p.m. on
September 13, 2019
October 11, 2019
November 15, 2019
& December 6, 2019
in the Forum Hall, Palmer Commons


The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures are a series of lectures on a work in progress, designed both as free public lectures and as a special course for advanced students to work closely with a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology on a topic in which the instructor has an intensive current interest. As the description written by Professor Roy “Skip” Rappaport in 1976 states, “…it offers the opportunity for other students and faculty to hear a colleague in an extended discussion of their own work.”

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 19 Aug 2019 11:11:27 -0400 2019-11-15T15:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Fall 2019 Roy A. Rappaport Lectures
DCMB Weekly Seminar (November 20, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68972 68972-17205312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: GWAS of neuropsychiatric diseases have identified many loci, however, causal variants often remain unknown. We performed ATAC-seq in human iPSC-derived neurons, and identified thousands of variants affecting chromatin accessibility. Such variants are highly enriched with risk variants of a range of brain disorders. We computationally fine-mapped causal variants and experimentally tested their activities using CRISPRi followed by single cell RNA-seq. Our work provides a framework for prioritizing noncoding disease variants.

The second part of my talk will be focused on genetics of N6-methyladenosine (m6A), a common form of mRNA modification. m6A plays an important role in regulating various aspects of mRNA metabolism in eukaryotes. However, little is known about how DNA sequence variations may affect the m6A modification and the role of m6A in common diseases. We mapped genetic variants associated with m6A levels in 60 Yoruba lymphoblast cell lines. By leveraging these variants, our analysis provides novel insights of mechanisms regulating m6A installation, and downstream effects of m6A on other molecular traits such as translation rate. Integrated analysis with GWAS data reveals m6A variation as an important mechanism linking genetic variations to complex diseases.

BlueJeans livestreaming link: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/rbuvycdc

3:45 p.m. - Light Refreshments
4:00 p.m. - Lecture

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:51:34 -0400 2019-11-20T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-20T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
LSA Bonderman Fellowship Info Session (November 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68404 68404-17077944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

The Bonderman Fellowship offers 4 graduating University of Michigan LSA (Literature, Science and the Arts) seniors $20,000 to travel the world. They must travel to at least 6 countries in 2 regions over the course of 8 months and are expected to immerse themselves in independent and enriching explorations.

Come to a Bonderman information session to learn more about the fellowship and how to apply! Pizza will be provided!

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Presentation Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:30:00 -0400 2019-11-21T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T13:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Fellow pictured abroad
This Podcast Will Kill You: Science communication through conversation (November 22, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69171 69171-17259022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Erin Allmann Updyke and Erin Welsh, hosts and creators of "This Podcast Will Kill You," will discuss their experiences with creating a popular science podcast and then delve into a locally relevant disease in a mini-episode format.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Nov 2019 11:45:33 -0500 2019-11-22T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T15:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion This Podcast Will Kill You
GISC Event. A Conversation On Muslim Identity with Aymann Ismail (November 22, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64716 64716-16434926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Aymann Ismail is an award-winning podcast host, video editor, photographer, and writer at Slate whose work focuses on identity and religion. He wrote and produced "Who's Afraid of Aymann Ismail?," a video series that moves beyond stereotypes of both American Muslims and their self-professed adversaries, finding hope and fault in both. He currently hosts "Man Up," a weekly interview podcast about men, relationships, family, race, and sex.

Join us in Forum Hall at 4:30 PM on November 22nd for a conversation on Muslim identity, masculinity, and healing.

This event is free and open to all individuals.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at islamicstudies@umich.edu, we'd be happy to help. As you may know, some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange, so the sooner you can reach out to us the better.

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Presentation Fri, 09 Aug 2019 19:07:28 -0400 2019-11-22T16:30:00-05:00 2019-11-22T18:30:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Global Islamic Studies Center Presentation updated_nov22_event
The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: "Patagonian Prehistory: Human Ecology and Cultural Evolution in the Land of Giants" (December 6, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64392 64392-16340379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

"Patagonia is one of relatively few world regions beyond the Arctic/Subarctic where farming never took root. This is intriguing because northern Patagonians lived alongside and interacted with farmers for at least 2000 years. Nevertheless, we seldom ask why Patagonians didn’t farm, perhaps because of the region’s reputation as a windswept wasteland, or because Patagonia’s population appears to have been too small to have warranted the effort. In this lecture, Garvey demonstrate that, in fact, dryland farming was possible in parts of Patagonia, and that growing populations could have benefitted from farming in late prehistory. She argues that risks associated with farming might simply have been too great despite potential benefits."

This lecture series presents a book manuscript titled Patagonian Prehistory, Human Ecology and Cultural Evolution in the Land of Giants. Following an introduction to the region and some of its archaeological puzzles, Dr. Raven Garvey will describe novel hypotheses related to colonization, abandonment, and meeting basic needs in a region widely considered marginal for human habitation. In particular, this series will examine unconventional evidence for gauging colonization speed, alternative explanations for a purported abandonment of the region between 8000 and 4000 years ago, and reasons Patagonians might have remained foragers despite farming-favorable conditions.

Lectures will be held at 3:00 p.m. on
September 13, 2019
October 11, 2019
November 15, 2019
& December 6, 2019
in the Forum Hall, Palmer Commons


The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures are a series of lectures on a work in progress, designed both as free public lectures and as a special course for advanced students to work closely with a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology on a topic in which the instructor has an intensive current interest. As the description written by Professor Roy “Skip” Rappaport in 1976 states, “…it offers the opportunity for other students and faculty to hear a colleague in an extended discussion of their own work.”

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 19 Aug 2019 11:11:55 -0400 2019-12-06T15:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Fall 2019 Roy A. Rappaport Lectures
New Life Formal (December 7, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69787 69787-17423619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 7, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

New Life Formal is happening! This will be a great time to get fancy, meet students from other parts of campus, and celebrate the work the Lord has done this semester. The formal will be held on Saturday, December 7 at 8:00 in Palmer Commons, and tickets will be $10. The proceeds will go towards helping out the tutoring program at Scarlett Middle School. Anyone is welcome!

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 26 Nov 2019 10:10:32 -0500 2019-12-07T20:00:00-05:00 2019-12-07T23:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Social / Informal Gathering New Life Formal
LSI Seminar Series: Jon Clardy, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School (December 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69745 69745-17415369@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Abstract:
Numerous studies with varying degrees of statistical power have found correlations between the composition of the bacterial population in the human gut microbiome and disease states. But the molecules and mechanism(s) connecting a dysbiotic microbiome to a specific disease are generally unknown. In an attempt to address this gap, we undertook a series of screens to link bacterial metabolites with diseases like type 1 diabetes (T1D) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). We focused on primary drivers of inflammation like TNFα (tumor necrosis factor alpha) produced by human dendritic cells. This seminar will describe our screening logic, the selection of candidate bacterial strains, the discovery of the small molecule regulators of cytokine production, their structures and biosynthesis, and inflammatory mechanism.

About the speaker:
Jon Clardy obtained his B.S. degree from Yale University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University, both in chemistry. He has served on the Chemistry Department faculties of Iowa State University and Cornell University, and he is currently the Hsien Wu & Daisy Yen Wu Professor of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School. His research has focused on naturally occurring biologically active small molecules, their macromolecular targets, and their roles in biology and medicine. His current interests involve the molecular underpinnings of complex symbiotic systems involving both prokaryotes and eukaryotes, bacterial influences on animal and plant development, bacterial communications, and the influence of the human gut microbiome on human health and disease. He currently lectures in graduate courses and teaches a Freshman Seminar entitled Psychoactive Molecules from Babylon to Breaking Bad to Harvard undergraduates.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Nov 2019 08:34:01 -0500 2019-12-12T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-12T13:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion LSI Seminar Series
Two stories: Insights into regulation of chromatin architecture by cryo-EM and cryo-ET (December 16, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69860 69860-17474745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 16, 2019 10:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Two stories: Insights into regulation of chromatin architecture by cryo-EM and cryo-ET

Vignesh Kasinath, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, Berkeley

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 02 Dec 2019 15:22:24 -0500 2019-12-16T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-16T11:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion
RNA Innovation Seminar, Silvie Rouskin, Whitehead/MIT (December 16, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65144 65144-16541444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 16, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Silvie Rouskin, Ph.D., Andria and Paul Heafy Whitehead Fellow, Whitehead/MIT

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Dec 2019 11:08:39 -0500 2019-12-16T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-16T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion flyer
"What is Sleep? Toward a Cellular and Molecular Comprehension of Sleep Neural Dynamics and Functions" (December 17, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70133 70133-17538849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 17, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Joint seminar with Life Sciences Institute

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 10 Dec 2019 10:55:25 -0500 2019-12-17T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-17T13:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar cartoon drawing of a sleeping cat
Cryo-EM/ET, a Tool to Dissect Structural Mechanisms of Neurodegenerative Diseases (January 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69862 69862-17474746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 11:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Cryo-EM/ET, a Tool to Dissect Structural Mechanisms of Neurodegenerative Diseases

Qiang Guo, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 02 Dec 2019 15:24:40 -0500 2020-01-08T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-08T12:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion
Cryo-ET Seminar: Architecture of the human nuclear pore complex (January 13, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69863 69863-17474748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 13, 2020 10:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Cryo-ET Seminar: Architecture of the human nuclear pore complex

Shyamal Mosalganti, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
European Molecular Biology Laboratory

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 02 Dec 2019 15:26:30 -0500 2020-01-13T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-13T11:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion
LSA Bonderman Fellowship Info Session (January 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68404 68404-17077946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

The Bonderman Fellowship offers 4 graduating University of Michigan LSA (Literature, Science and the Arts) seniors $20,000 to travel the world. They must travel to at least 6 countries in 2 regions over the course of 8 months and are expected to immerse themselves in independent and enriching explorations.

Come to a Bonderman information session to learn more about the fellowship and how to apply! Pizza will be provided!

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Presentation Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:30:00 -0400 2020-01-13T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-13T13:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Fellow pictured abroad
Genetic Privacy and Investigative Genetic Genealogy: Jan. 2020 Precision Health Seminar (January 14, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65112 65112-16517527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Precision Health

Summary:
In 2018, law enforcement identified a suspect in the Golden State Killer case by matching the genomic profile of DNA left at crime scenes to those held in genetic genealogy databases and by using inferred ancestral relationships and genealogical mapping to generate promising investigative leads. Since then, hundreds of cold cases have been solved using similar investigative strategies. Critics argue that investigative genetic genealogy violates the privacy of direct-to-consumer genetic testing customers and their genetic relatives, and some scholars worry that this will have a negative impact on data sharing in research and clinical care. During this session, we will explore the ethical, legal, and social implications of law enforcement access to DNA data collected and shared for non-forensic purposes and how best to balance competing interests in promoting public trust and protecting public safety.

About the seminar series:
The U-M Precision Health Seminar Series invites expert speakers to share meaningful, relevant, and late-breaking research on varied aspects of precision health. The interdisciplinary educational series, which takes place monthly during the academic year, features topics ranging from genetics to big data to health implementation (and much more) and is open to students, faculty, practitioners, staff, trainees, and the general public. Our goal is to increase understanding of precision health data, tools, and applications, to engage the academic community to enhance precision health research, and to support the implementation of precision health to health systems.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:01:31 -0500 2020-01-14T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-14T13:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Precision Health Workshop / Seminar Amy McGuire
Cryo-electron tomography visualizes the ciliary complexes in action (January 15, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69864 69864-17474749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 11:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Cryo-electron tomography visualizes the ciliary complexes in action

Jianfeng Lin, Ph.D.
Field Applications Scientist
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 02 Dec 2019 15:28:18 -0500 2020-01-15T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T12:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion
CCMB Seminar: "Synchrony and its Breakdown" (January 15, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71232 71232-17791934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

A Seminar by Complex Systems Affiliated Faculty Member Indika Rajapakse,
Associate Professor of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

CCMB Seminar Series – sponsored by DCMB

Abstract: Synchronization occurs all around us. It underlies how fireflies flash as one, how human heart cells beat in unison, and how superconductors conduct electricity with no resistance. Synchronization is present in the precision of the cell cycle, and we can explore how breakdown of precision leads to disease. The many unique and fundamental functions of different cell types are achieved over and over independently, through a form of synchronization involving choreography of many proteins and genes. I will share a general historic and descriptive introduction to synchrony, including the classic work of Alan Turing. I will present some new work done jointly with Cleve Moler (MathWorks) and Steve Smale (UC Berkeley), where biology has inspired us to build new mathematical techniques to explore synchrony and its breakdown.

https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/rbuvycdc

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 10 Jan 2020 11:51:06 -0500 2020-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
DCMB Weekly Seminar (January 15, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70964 70964-17760238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Synchronization occurs all around us. It underlies how fireflies flash as one, how human heart cells beat in unison, and how superconductors conduct electricity with no resistance. Synchronization is present in the precision of the cell cycle, and we can explore how breakdown of precision leads to disease. The many unique and fundamental functions of different cell types are achieved over and over independently, through a form of synchronization involving choreography of many proteins and genes. I will share a general historic and descriptive introduction to synchrony, including the classic work of Alan Turing. I will present some new work done jointly with Cleve Moler (MathWorks) and Steve Smale (UC Berkeley), where biology has inspired us to build new mathematical techniques to explore synchrony and its breakdown.

BlueJeans Livestream: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/rbuvycdc

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 15:39:08 -0500 2020-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Gear Your Career (January 15, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69563 69563-17362159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Get all the goods you need for your job search! Have a professional head shot taken, sign up to get business cards printed, and/or consult briefly with a U-M career and professional development expert on your LinkedIn profile. Light refreshments will be served. This event is a collaboration between the University Career Center and Rackham Graduate School.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Space is limited. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/yK7nM.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Jan 2020 14:40:59 -0500 2020-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T18:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar
LSI Seminar Series: Wen-Xing Ding, Ph.D., University of Kansas Medical Center (January 23, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70179 70179-17540934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Abstract:
Liver cells can adapt and protect themselves in response to stress by activating cellular protective mechanisms such as autophagy, which is a lysosomal degradation pathway that degrades cellular organelles and/or proteins as well as lipids inside the autolysosomes. To meet the needs of autophagic degradation, it is critical to maintain sufficient numbers of lysosomes to fuse with autophagosomes that form autolysosomes. Lysosomal biogenesis is regulated by the transcription factor EB (TFEB), which is a master transcription regulator of lysosomal biogenesis and autophagy.

Studies from our lab revealed that TFEB is impaired in alcoholic hepatitis and pancreatitis as well as in acetaminophen-induced liver injury. Overexpression of TFEB protects against alcohol and drug-induced tissue damage whereas deletion of TFEB exacerbates tissue damage. Studies from our lab also demonstrated that Nrf2, a transcription factor regulating antioxidant response, promotes liver injury and liver tumorigenesis in autophagy defective livers. More recently, our work suggests that both hyper- and hypo-activation of MTOR are detrimental to the liver resulting in the development of liver tumors. Together, our studies indicate that autophagy and lysosome play critical roles in maintaining liver homeostasis. Approaches to boost autophagy and TFEB pathways, which are often impaired in chronic liver diseases, may be promising for treating and preventing liver disease including alcoholic and non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases, drug-induced liver injury and liver tumorigenesis.

About the Speaker:
Wen-Xing Ding is a professor in the Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics at The University of Kansas Medical Center. He received his Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore in 2002 and completed his postdoctoral training at the University of Pittsburgh. Ding has devoted his research career to elucidating mechanisms for regulation of cell death and the adaptive response to cellular injury in the liver. Since 2009, his laboratory has been working on the role of autophagy in alcohol- and drug-induced liver injury. They are particularly interested in how autophagy selectively removes cellular damaged/excess organelles, such as mitochondria and lipid droplets in hepatocytes. Ding has published more than 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and his work is currently supported by NIAAA and NIDDK.

In addition to research, Ding has demonstrated outstanding leadership for service. He has been a program committee member of ASIP (American Society of Investigative Pathology) and the AASLD (American Association for the Studies of Liver Disease) 2015 annual meeting. He organized several meetings and symposia for EB meeting, AASLD and GRC. He serves as an associate editor for the journal Autophagy and an editorial board member for several journals, including Hepatology, Cell and the American Journal of Pathology. He also serves as an ad hoc reviewer for NIH grants and a standing member of XNDA.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Dec 2019 08:27:09 -0500 2020-01-23T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T13:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion LSI Seminar Series
Global, Organism-Scale Views of Cell State Heterogeneity & Dynamics Via Novel Single Cell Profiling Techniques (January 27, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71734 71734-17877249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 11:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

CDB Faculty Candidate Seminar: Global, Organism-Scale Views of Cell State Heterogeneity & Dynamics Via Novel Single Cell Profiling Techniques

Hosted by: CDB Recruitment Committee & the Department of Human Genetics

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Jan 2020 09:27:44 -0500 2020-01-27T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T12:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Global, Organism-Scale Views of Cell State Heterogeneity & Dynamics Via Novel Single Cell Profiling Techniques - Junyue Cao, Ph.D
First Generation Community Dinner (January 28, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71580 71580-17842690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: First Generation Student Gateway

Every year, the First Generation Program has two dinners as a way for first-generation students to meet and converse with each other. Come join us for our Community Dinner on January 28, 2020 from 5:30-7:30 as a celebration of first-generation students trailblazing! Meet other first-generation students across campus, enjoy a free dinner, and share successes, resources, experiences, and ideas with one another.

There is no dress code for the event — come as you are!

If you can’t make it for any reason — the event will be live-streamed! Check it out here: http://myumi.ch/jx2yw

We will also ask you to take a leadership competency self-assessment during the program. The self-assessment is an online form and will have four core competencies: communication, organizational change, reflection, and emotional intelligence. If you do not have access to a device that will allow you to take the self-assessment online, please let us know in the RSVP link below.

RSVP here: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/group/1344

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:07:39 -0500 2020-01-28T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-28T19:30:00-05:00 Palmer Commons First Generation Student Gateway Social / Informal Gathering First Gen Winter Dinner Flyer
DCMB Seminar Series (January 29, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71998 71998-17911963@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Talk Title: Experimental and computational strategies to aid compound identification and quantitation in metabolomics

Abstract: Over the past two decades, metabolomics as a technique has moved from the primary domain of analytical chemists to more widespread acceptance by biologists, clinicians and bioinformaticians alike. Metabolomics offers systems-level insights into the critical roles small molecules play in routine cellular processes and myriad disease states. However, certain unique analytical challenges remain prominent in metabolomics as compared to the other ‘omics sciences. These include the difficulty of identifying unknown features in untargeted metabolomics data, and challenges maintaining reliable quantitation within lengthy studies that may span multiple laboratories. Unlike genomics and transcriptomics data in which nearly every quantifiable feature is confidently identified as a matter of course, in typical untargeted metabolomics studies over 80% of features are frequently not mapped to a specific chemical compound. Further, although many metabolomics studies have begun to stretch over a timeframe of years, data quantitation and normalization strategies have not always kept up with the requirements for such large studies. Fortunately, both experimental and computational strategies are emerging to tackle these long-standing challenges. We will report on several techniques in development in our laboratory, ranging from chromatographic fractionation and high-sensitivity data acquisition, to computational strategies to aid in tandem mass spectrometric spectral interpretation. These developments serve to facilitate analysis for both experts and novice users, which should ultimately help improve the biological insight and impact gained from metabolomics data.

BlueJeans livestreaming link: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/rbuvycdc

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 24 Jan 2020 11:07:13 -0500 2020-01-29T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Applications of brain-model technology to study neurodevelopmental disorders (February 6, 2020 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71730 71730-17877246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 9:30am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

We are pleased to welcome Cleber Trujillo, Ph.D., to Palmer Commons - Great Lakes South on Thursday, February 6th, 2020.

Hosted by: CDB Recruitment Committee

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Feb 2020 09:39:56 -0500 2020-02-06T09:30:00-05:00 2020-02-06T10:30:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Applications of brain-model technology to study neurodevelopmental disorders - Cleber Trujillo, Ph.D
Surfing the Secretory Pathway (February 6, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72331 72331-17974682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Scientist working on Golgi membrane trafficking
This is an event from the Protein Folding Diseases Initiative

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 31 Jan 2020 14:01:11 -0500 2020-02-06T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T16:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar
The Annual Werner Grilk Lecture in German Studies (February 7, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71245 71245-17794032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

PETER E. GORDON is the Amabel B. James Professor of History, Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University. He is primarily a critical theorist and an historian of modern European philosophy and social thought, specializing in Frankfurt School critical theory, phenomenology, existentialism, and Western Marxism. He has published major works on Heidegger, the Frankfurt School, Jürgen Habermas, and Theodor W. Adorno. His book Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy (2003) received four international awards, including the Salo Baron Prize for the best book in Jewish history, the Goldstein-Goren Prize for the best book in Jewish philosophy, and the Forkosch Prize from the Journal of the History of Ideas. His second book, Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos (2010) received the Jacques Barzun Prize from the American Philosophical Society, one of the most distinguished awards in European and American cultural history. His third and more recent monograph, Adorno and Existence, was published by Harvard University Press in 2016, and was reviewed in periodicals such as Critical Inquiry (by Robert Pippin) and The New York Review of Books. His next book, Migrants in the Profane: Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization, based on lectures he gave at Yale University in the Franz Rosenzweig Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought, is forthcoming from Yale University Press (Fall, 2020). He is also co-author of Authoritarianism: Three Inquiries in Critical Theory with Wendy Brown and Max Pensky (2018). In June, 2019, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Theodor W. Adorno's death in 1969, he delivered the Adorno Vorlesungen at the Institute for Social Research at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, on the theme, "Adorno and the Sources of Normativity." The lectures, widely reviewed in the German press, including the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeiting, are currently available online from the Institut für Sozialforschung, and will be published by Suhrkamp Verlag.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 Jan 2020 14:32:52 -0500 2020-02-07T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T16:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Gordon Poster
Public Health Outcomes and Effects of the Built Environment: Feb. 2020 Precision Health Seminar (February 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65113 65113-16517528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Precision Health

Public Health Outcomes and Effects of the Built Environment: A Look at PHOEBE Laboratory Research

The mission of the Public Health Outcomes and Effects of the Built Environment (PHOEBE) Laboratory is to gain an improved understanding of how our built environments--or rather the man-made places and spaces of our neighborhoods and communities, such as buildings, parks, and transportation systems--can impact the health and well-being of individuals of all ages. This presentation will describe some of the research that has been conducted within the PHOEBE Laboratory, including the BEAP (Built Environment and Active Play), PEAT (Physical Environment and Active Transportation), and PLIGHT (Purple Line Impact on Neighborhood, Health and Transit) Studies. Highlights and findings from the BEAP and PEAT Studies on youth physical activity, sedentary behavior, and active transportation will be discussed. In addition, an introductory overview of the PLIGHT Study, a natural experiment examining the health impacts of the forthcoming Purple Line light rail line in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area, will be presented.

Lunch will be provided for those who register by February 7.

Bio:
Jennifer D. Roberts is an Assistant Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. She is also the Director of the Public Health Outcomes and Effects of the Built Environment (PHOEBE) Laboratory. Her research interests focus on the relationship between the built environment and physical activity in addition to its impact on obesity and other public health outcomes. More specifically, much of her research has explored the dynamic relationship between environmental, social and cultural determinants of physical activity and using empirical evidence of this relationship to infer complex health outcome patterns and disparities among adults and children.

PHOEBE Laboratory research, such as the Built Environment and Active Play (BEAP) and Physical Environment and Active Transportation (PEAT) Studies, have incorporated state of the art techniques including spatial analysis and geographic information system modeling in order to objectively capture the role and relationship of physical activity determinants. While relying heavily on mixed methodology, crosscutting health issues, along with exposure (e.g., transit deserts) and outcome (e.g., obesity) disparities, have also been addressed in her physical activity and public health research program. Dr. Roberts currently leads the Purple Line Light Rail Impact on Neighborhood, Health and Transit (PLIGHT) Study, to investigate changes in light rail use, active transportation, overall physical activity, obesity, and obesity-related cardiovascular risks among Prince George’s County, Maryland, adults. The PLIGHT Study will also explore how contextual effects (e.g., built environment; “sense of community”) moderate these health outcome changes with the intended 2022 introduction of this new 16.2-mile light rail line.

Dr. Roberts was awarded a JPB Environmental Health Fellowship by Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. This three-year fellowship will support her forthcoming research, Gauging Effects of Neighborhood Trends and Sickness (GENTS) Study: Examining the Perception of Transit-Induced Gentrification in Prince George’s County. GENTS will examine the risk of transit-induced gentrification and the associated health effects (e.g., anxiety) as related to the aforementioned Purple Line light rail. While the introduction of light rail in communities often encourages physical activity by way of active transportation, gentrification is often an unintended consequence and socioeconomic by-product of transit-oriented development.

Dr. Roberts received her Bachelor of Arts (AB) degree from Brown University. She holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from Emory University Rollins School of Public Health and earned her Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.



The U-M Precision Health Seminar Series invites expert speakers to share meaningful, relevant, and late-breaking research on varied aspects of precision health. The interdisciplinary educational series, which takes place monthly during the academic year, features topics ranging from genetics to big data to health implementation (and much more) and is open to students, faculty, practitioners, staff, trainees, and the general public. Our goal is to increase understanding of precision health data, tools, and applications, to engage the academic community to enhance precision health research, and to support the implementation of precision health to health systems.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 08 Jan 2020 11:32:03 -0500 2020-02-11T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T13:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Precision Health Workshop / Seminar Jennifer D. Roberts
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics (DCMB) Weekly Seminar (February 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72535 72535-18015945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:
Normal mechanical function of the heart requires that ATP be continuously synthesized at a hydrolysis potential of roughly -60 kJ mol-1. Yet in both the aging and diseased heart the relationships between cardiac work rate and concentrations of ATP, ADP, and inorganic phosphate are altered. Important outstanding questions are: To what extent do changes in metabolite concentrations that occur in aging and heart disease affect metabolic/molecular processes in the myocardium? How are systolic and diastolic functions affected by changes in metabolite concentrations? Does metabolic energy supply represent a limiting factor in determining physiological maximal cardiac power output and exercise capacity? Does the derangement of cardiac energetics that occurs with heart failure cause exercise intolerance?

To answer these questions, we have developed a multi-physics multi-scale model of cardiac energy metabolism and cardiac mechanics that simulates the dependence of myocardial ATP demand on muscle dynamics and the dependence of muscle dynamics on cardiac energetics. Model simulations predict that the maximal rate at which ATP can be synthesized at free energies necessary to drive physiological mechanical function determine maximal heart rate, cardiac output, and cardiac power output in exercise. Furthermore, we find that reductions in cytoplasmic adenine nucleotide, creatine, and phosphate pools that occur with aging impair the myocardial capacity to synthesize ATP at physiological free energy levels, and that the resulting changes to myocardial energetic status play a causal role in contributing to reductions in maximal cardiac power output with aging. Finally, model predictions reveal that reductions in cytoplasmic metabolite pools contribute to energetic dysfunction in heart failure, which in turn contributes to causing systolic dysfunction in heart failure.

BlueJeans Livestream Link: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/rbuvycdc

3:45 p.m. - Light Refreshments served in Forum Hall Atrium
4:00 p.m. - Lecture in Forum Hall

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:41:29 -0500 2020-02-12T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
LSI Seminar Series: Michael Birnbaum, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (February 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70180 70180-17540936@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Abstract:
The immune system relies on T cells to distinguish between normal cells and cells altered by infection or cancer. The T cells must integrate signals from their environment in deciding what cells to kill or to spare. This diversity can make determining exactly what is recognized during an immune response extremely challenging. My lab combines protein engineering, combinatorial biology, structural biology and immunology to better understand and then manipulate immune recognition. We aim to find what is recognized during the course of successful immune responses, what antigens should be targeted in treatments and how to better design cell-based immunotherapies.

About the Speaker:
Michael Birnbaum is an assistant professor of biological engineering at MIT. He received his bachelor's degree in chemical and physical biology from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2014. There, he worked under K. Christopher Garcia and studied the molecular mechanisms of T cell receptor recognition, cross-reactivity and activation. After postdoctoral work in Carla Shatz’s group at Stanford, supported by a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship, Professor Birnbaum joined MIT and the Koch Institute in 2016. During his tenure at the Koch Institute, Birnbaum has received the AACR-TESARO Career Development Award for Immuno-oncology Research, a Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, and a V Scholar Grant from the Jimmy V Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Dec 2019 15:53:15 -0500 2020-02-13T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T13:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion LSI Seminar Series
Revealing Principles of Subcellular RNA Localization (February 13, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70912 70912-17735217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Faculty Candidate
Host: A. Wierzbicki and the Life Sciences Institute

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 28 Jan 2020 11:22:53 -0500 2020-02-13T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T15:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar MCDB initials and yellow microscope on blue background
The cell biology of lipid homeostasis: From lipid droplets to lipotoxicity (February 17, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72190 72190-17955063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Speaker:

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Feb 2020 13:45:44 -0500 2020-02-17T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-17T15:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Workshop / Seminar LSI Cancer Genetics Seminar, Feb. 17
Seminar: Dissecting mechanisms that govern cellular plasticity (February 18, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72743 72743-18070547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Speaker:

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Feb 2020 13:48:43 -0500 2020-02-18T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T15:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Workshop / Seminar Life Sciences Institute logo
Seminar: Targeting tumor-immune interplays (February 20, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72744 72744-18070548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Feb 2020 13:50:46 -0500 2020-02-20T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T15:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Workshop / Seminar Life Sciences Institute logo
Making Prevention the Nation’s Top Health Policy Priority (February 24, 2020 11:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72657 72657-18035605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 11:15am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation

In his new book, Prevention First – Policymaking for a Healthier America, Anand K. Parekh, MD, MPH, argues that disease prevention must be our nation's top health policy priority. Building a personal culture of prevention, he writes, is not enough; elected officials and policymakers must play a greater role in reducing preventable deaths. Drawing on his experiences as a clinician, public servant, and policy advisor, Dr. Parekh provides examples of prevention in action from across the country, giving readers a view into why prevention-first policies are important and how they can be accomplished. Throughout the book, he demonstrates that, in order to optimize health in America, we must leverage health insurance programs to promote disease prevention, expand primary care, attend to the social determinants of health, support making the healthier choice the easy choice for individuals, and increase public health investments. Prevention First not only sounds the alarm about the terrible consequences of preventable disease but serves as a rallying cry that we can and must do better in this country to reduce preventable deaths.

Anand Parekh is the Bipartisan Policy Center’s (BPC) chief medical advisor providing clinical and public health expertise across the organization, particularly in the areas of aging, prevention, and global health. Prior to joining BPC, he completed a decade of service at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. As deputy assistant secretary for health from 2008 to 2015, he developed and implemented national initiatives focused on prevention, wellness, and care management. Parekh is a board-certified internal medicine physician, a fellow of the American College of Physicians, an adjunct assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University, and an adjunct professor of health management and policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He has spoken widely and written extensively on a variety of health topics such as chronic care management, population health, value in health care, and the need for health and human services integration. A native of Michigan, Parekh received a B.A. in political science, an M.D., and an M.P.H. in health management and policy from the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Feb 2020 14:31:39 -0500 2020-02-24T11:15:00-05:00 2020-02-24T12:30:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation Lecture / Discussion Anand Parekh, M.D., M.P.H.
Seminar: CRISPR tools for studying and engineering the three-dimensional genome (February 24, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72745 72745-18070549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Feb 2020 13:52:58 -0500 2020-02-24T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-24T15:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Workshop / Seminar Life Sciences Institute logo
Professor Fred C. Adams, the Ta-You Wu Collegiate Professorship in Physics, Inaugural Lecture (February 25, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70341 70341-17584116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

The fundamental constants of nature must fall within a
range of values in order for the universe to develop structure and
ultimately support life. This talk considers current constraints on
these quantities and assesses the degree of tuning required for the
universe to be viable. In the realm of particle physics, the relevant
parameters are the strengths of the fundamental forces and the
particle masses. Additional astrophysical parameters include the
cosmic energy density, the cosmological constant, the abundances of
ordinary matter and dark matter, and the amplitude of primordial
density fluctuations. These quantities are constrained by the
necessity that the universe lives for a long time, emerges from its
early epochs with an acceptable chemical composition, and successfully
produces galaxies. On smaller scales, stars and planets must be able
to form and function. The stars must have sufficiently long lifetimes
and hot surface temperatures. We also consider potential fine-tuning
related to the triple alpha reaction that produces carbon, the case of
unstable deuterium, and the possibility of stable diprotons. For all
of these issues, the goal is to delineate the range of parameter space
for which universes can remain habitable. In spite of its biophilic
properties, our universe is not optimized for the emergence of life,
in that the proper variations could result in more galaxies, stars,
and potentially habitable planets.

Further Information: This collegiate professorship was named in honor
of Ta-You Wu, a graduate of the Michigan Physics Department and
recipient of an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University. He was
one of the central figures of the 20th century in both the Chinese and
Taiwanese physics communities. Adams received his PhD at U. C.
Berkeley, where his advisor was Professor Frank H. Shu, who in turn
has close ties to Ta-You Wu and his family. Naming this Collegiate
Professorship after Ta-You Wu honors Prof. Wu, the Michigan Physics
Department, and Adams' PhD mentor (Shu).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Feb 2020 11:41:33 -0500 2020-02-25T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T17:30:00-05:00 Palmer Commons The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Events Calendar
"FossilFools" (March 9, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73089 73089-18140502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts

Mark Tucker, Art Director of the Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts program at U-M and founder of FestiFools and FoolMoon, invites you to come make LED Luminary Sculptures in celebration of UM’s Teach-In for the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day on March 9 and March 10 at Palmer Commons (3rd floor, Main Lobby)

Students, staff, faculty and community members are invited to this FREE, fun, hands-on, environmentally supportive art workshop. Make and bring home your very own LED light up sculpture mobile!

Then join FoolMoon for a magical Luminary Processional which will step off from UMMA on April 3 at 8pm, arriving in Kerrytown for a magical light-filled extravaganza of community-made art, music, and street festivities. (Friday, April 3, 8pm-11pm).

FREE Luminary Sculpting Workshops (Drop-in):
Palmer Commons, 3rd Floor, Lobby Area
Monday, March 9, 2-6pm
Tuesday, March 10, 8-10pm


FREE FoolMoon Event (Dusk to Midnight, Kerrytown, Ann Arbor)
FoolMoon processional to Kerrytown: Bring your Luminary Sculpture to State street in front of the U-M Art Museum, Friday, April 3 at 8pm. (Arriving at Kerrytown, 8:30pm)

For more information, contact Mark Tucker at marktuck@umich.edu

Photo credit: Myra Klarman

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 19 Feb 2020 14:29:34 -0500 2020-03-09T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-09T18:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts Workshop / Seminar Previous FoolMoon processional with people carrying luminaries
"FossilFools" (March 10, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73089 73089-18140503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts

Mark Tucker, Art Director of the Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts program at U-M and founder of FestiFools and FoolMoon, invites you to come make LED Luminary Sculptures in celebration of UM’s Teach-In for the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day on March 9 and March 10 at Palmer Commons (3rd floor, Main Lobby)

Students, staff, faculty and community members are invited to this FREE, fun, hands-on, environmentally supportive art workshop. Make and bring home your very own LED light up sculpture mobile!

Then join FoolMoon for a magical Luminary Processional which will step off from UMMA on April 3 at 8pm, arriving in Kerrytown for a magical light-filled extravaganza of community-made art, music, and street festivities. (Friday, April 3, 8pm-11pm).

FREE Luminary Sculpting Workshops (Drop-in):
Palmer Commons, 3rd Floor, Lobby Area
Monday, March 9, 2-6pm
Tuesday, March 10, 8-10pm


FREE FoolMoon Event (Dusk to Midnight, Kerrytown, Ann Arbor)
FoolMoon processional to Kerrytown: Bring your Luminary Sculpture to State street in front of the U-M Art Museum, Friday, April 3 at 8pm. (Arriving at Kerrytown, 8:30pm)

For more information, contact Mark Tucker at marktuck@umich.edu

Photo credit: Myra Klarman

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 19 Feb 2020 14:29:34 -0500 2020-03-10T20:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T22:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts Workshop / Seminar Previous FoolMoon processional with people carrying luminaries
CANCELLED: The Satan of Job in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (March 12, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72997 72997-18123074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

This event has been cancelled

The figure known in the Hebrew book of Job as "the satan" appears only the prologue and only up to Job 2:7. Yet there is a rich and diverse history of reception of him among Jewish, Christian, and Islamic interpreters. This lectures explores portrayals of this Satan in different religious traditions, including literary classic and the visual and performing arts.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 10:37:21 -0400 2020-03-12T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T20:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Freedman Lecture Poster
CANCELED: CLIFF 2020: (Counter)Narratives of Migration (March 13, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72845 72845-18085916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This event has been canceled. Plans to postpone are TBD.


CLIFF is an annual conference organized by graduate students in Comparative Literature. This year’s conference theme, “(Counter)Narratives of Migration,” stems from the current migration crises around the globe, but is not restricted to the present moment. Our conference seeks to interrogate the narrativization, visibility, and media surrounding the movement of bodies, ideas and material objects across concrete and abstract boundaries. We will explore circulation in all its forms, through its various manifestations in the arts, critical theory, and new media.

We are very pleased to announce that this year's keynote speaker will be Ariella Azoulay, Professor of Comparative Literature and filmmaker and art curator, currently teaching at Brown University. Azoulay’s work explores visual culture, offering an in-depth critique of contemporary forms of violence, imperialism and body politics. Her films, exhibitions and scholarship address gendered and racial violence, the Israel-Palestine conflict, civil engagement and human rights. We will be screening her film "Un-documented--Unlearning Imperial Plunder" at 4:30 on Friday March 13th at Palmer, Great Lakes South.

As part of the conference, we will also host a graduate student creative reading on Saturday, March 14th from 7:30-9pm at Bar 327 Braun Court.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 11 Mar 2020 10:22:59 -0400 2020-03-13T16:30:00-04:00 2020-03-13T19:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium CLIFF Flyer
POSTPONED: An Evidence-Based Approach to Concussion Care: Using Physiology to Advance Clinical Practice (March 16, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73717 73717-18304814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 16, 2020 11:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Biosciences Initiative

Concussion Center Faculty Candidate Research Presentation
Presentation 11 a.m. - noon, Reception noon - 12:30 p.m.

Although concussions are a common injury in sport and recreational activities, they remain one of the most difficult injuries for clinicians to diagnose and manage. Dr. Teel’s primary research interests intersect physiological and clinical outcomes in children and adults with concussion to identify injury, promote recovery, and enhance quality of life. In this talk, she will discuss how her research fills current gaps in the literature.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Mar 2020 14:16:42 -0400 2020-03-16T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-16T12:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Biosciences Initiative Lecture / Discussion Michigan Concussion Center
Mindfulness Mingle focus group and dinner for faculty and students (March 17, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73562 73562-18261069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for Interprofessional Education

Dive into mindfulness with Michigan Center for IPE faculty fellows and Michigan Medicine's Dr. Frank Anderson on March 17 -- and get dinner and thank you gift card while you are at it! Space is limited; advance registration required.

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Presentation Wed, 04 Mar 2020 13:44:44 -0500 2020-03-17T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-17T19:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Center for Interprofessional Education Presentation Be Mindful!
POSTPONED: Of Victims and Villains: The Targeting of Muslim Women | Vivian R. Shaw Lecture (March 19, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70530 70530-17602870@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Women's and Gender Studies Department

The 2020 Shaw Lecture has been postponed until further notice. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Exploring her identity as an immigrant Muslim woman on the front lines of civil rights and liberties in Michigan, Rana Elmir will examine the well-organized Islamophobia industry and the relentless attacks on Muslim women who face unique challenges borne of both a presumption of guilt, as well as the additional presumption of victimhood. Muslim women’s status as both villains and victims not only drives discrimination, harassment and hate crimes, but promotes cynical policy proposals designed to “save” Muslim women that are actually rooted in anti-Muslim bias.

Rana Elmir is the deputy director of the ACLU of Michigan and has devoted her career to storytelling, action and activism. As part of the senior management team, she works in conjunction with the ACLU’s legal, legislative and development departments to increase understanding and appreciation of the Bill of Rights. Rana lectures often on anti-Muslim bias, the importance of storytelling, free speech and the intersection of race, faith, and gender. The Washington Post has published two op-eds written by Rana: “Stop asking me to condemn terrorists just because I’m Muslim” and “How Muslim women bear the brunt of Islamophobia.” Prior to her role as deputy director, Rana held the position of communications director for the ACLU of Michigan. Rana is a graduate of Wayne State University’s Journalism School and the Journalism Institute for Minorities.

The Vivian R. Shaw Lecture is presented biennially by the Women's Studies Department and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Established in 1997 by Ellen S. Agress (UM 1968), to honor the memory of her mother, this lecture addresses "real-world issues" related to women and gender.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:44:59 -0400 2020-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T18:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Women's and Gender Studies Department Lecture / Discussion Rana Elmir, ACLU of Michigan
CANCELED: 30th Belin Lecture: “It Can Happen Here”: Antisemitism, Gender, and the American Past (March 31, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70166 70166-17540922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This event has been canceled.

30th David W. Belin Lecture in American Jewish Affairs
In 1942, an anonymous “Jewess,” looking across the ocean, wrote “It Can Happen Here.” Her cri de coeur, published in a New York women’s magazine, pled with its readers to bring to an end to the “ever-increasing prejudice” she and her family faced. With antisemitism rising today at home and abroad, American University Professor Pamela Nadell, author of the award-winning America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today, discusses American Jewish women in the past facing antisemitism, how it affected their lives, and how they responded
Driving

From the parking lot, use the elevator at the east end of the parking structure (stairwell number 2), closest to Washtenaw Avenue and Palmer Field. Take the elevator to Plaza Level (PL on the key pad). Proceed north onto the walkway to the main entrance of Palmer Commons where the Washtenaw Avenue pedestrian bridge begins. Enter through the double doors to the main level of Palmer Commons (3rd floor). Using the stairs or elevator, continue to any floor.


Walking: From Central Campus (Michigan League)

From the Michigan League, access the walkway between the School of Dentistry and the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History. Proceed east, passing North Hall, the Undergraduate Science Building and the Life Sciences Institute. Continue east onto the walkway overlooking Washtenaw Avenue to the main entrance of Palmer Commons. Enter through the double doors to the main level of Palmer Commons (3rd floor).

If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:05:00 -0400 2020-03-31T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T20:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion George W. Walling, Recollections of a New York Chief of Police (1887); rpt. Montclair, NJ: Patterson Smith, 1972
John Dinkeloo Memorial Lecture: Jeanne Gang (April 2, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72078 72078-17933536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Architect and MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang, Int. FRIBA, is the founding principal and partner of Studio Gang, an internationally renowned architecture and urban design practice headquartered in Chicago with offices in New York, San Francisco, and Paris. Her celebrated, award-winning designs arise from a distinctive approach that expands beyond architecture’s conventional boundaries to foreground relationships between individuals, communities, and their environment. Her diverse portfolio ranges from smaller-scale community and cultural projects to major work throughout the Americas and Europe, such as: the expansion of the American Museum of Natural History in New York; the new United States Embassy in Brasilia, and Aqua Tower in Chicago. A Professor in Practice of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Jeanne has this year been named one of the most influential people in the world by TIME Magazine and won her largest commission to date, the new Global Terminal at O’Hare International Airport.

The John Dinkeloo Memorial Lecture was established to recognize John Dinkeloo's extraordinary contributions to architecture, to honor his distinguished professional work and to pay tribute to this highly respected alumnus of the Architecture Program at the University of Michigan. This annual lecture recognizes and commemorates excellence in architectural design, and celebrates those designers whose work combines design excellence with structural ingenuity.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 26 Jan 2020 22:38:31 -0500 2020-04-02T18:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T19:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Jeanne Gang
XR Midwest Conference 2020 (April 5, 2020 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73654 73654-18278603@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 9:30am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Alternate Reality Initiative

The XR Midwest Conference 2020 is the second annual XR conference at the University of Michigan, hosted by ARI, which aims to highlight the top XR innovators in the Midwest.

With 8 speakers representing companies, startups, and organizations, along with 15+ exhibitors, XR Midwest is the best conference to learn about what some of the top XR leaders are working on in this region.

XR Midwest will take place on April 5th, 2020 at the Palmer Commons building at the University of Michigan.

Agenda:
9:30 - 10:30 Check in opens with breakfast and coffee
10:30 - 12:00 Morning Speakers
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 3:30 Afternoon Speakers
3:30 - 6:00 Exhibition

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 06 Mar 2020 13:06:49 -0500 2020-04-05T09:30:00-04:00 2020-04-05T18:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Alternate Reality Initiative Conference / Symposium The XR Midwest Conference 2020 highlights augmented, virtual, and mixed reality innovators in the Midwest
*CANCELED* 2020 IOE GRADUATE STUDENT BANQUET (April 23, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73811 73811-18322362@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 23, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.


We are pleased to announce the official date of our 2020 IOE Graduate Student Banquet.

From IOE's grad coordinators:
This event wouldn't be optimal without you and your family! Hence please invite your family and friends who would like to celebrate the many accomplishments of our graduate students.

With that being said, please take a minute to save this time and date on your calendars.

OCCASION: Celebrate graduate student achievements (in particular: those who will complete their degrees this year!)
WHO: All graduate students, post-docs, faculty, and staff. The event is also open to family and friends.
COST: $5/person; tickets will be on sale starting in April 1st (child <14 tickets are free).

More event details and logistics to come.

This year we are planning an epic banquet with great music, delicious dinner, and new activities to enjoy and celebrate the accomplishments of our 2020 graduates as well as our faculty and staff.

Looking forward to another GREAT Graduate Student Banquet!

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Reception / Open House Thu, 19 Mar 2020 09:19:30 -0400 2020-04-23T18:00:00-04:00 2020-04-23T21:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Reception / Open House "Canceled" text