Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. 4th Annual BME "Spring" Back into Fitness 5K (May 11, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62828 62828-15477380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 11, 2019 10:00am
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

The BME Graduate Student Council invites students, members of the College of Engineering and the community to participate in the 4th annual "BME-GSC Spring into Fitness 5K" race on Saturday, May 11th at 10AM. This 5K course will wind through beautiful North Campus and ends with post race refreshments. Registration for the race is $15.00 plus a nominal processing fee which includes event participation, post-race refreshments, and an athletic race T-shirt. Please register by Thursday, April 25th at 6 p.m.

The proceeds for this year’s running of the BME-GSC Spring into Fitness 5K will go towards Leslie Science & Nature Center whose mission is to "Create moments of discovery that inspire curiosity, exploration and respect for STEM and the natural world." Runners and walkers of all skill levels are encouraged to join, so come on out for a healthy start to the Spring and Summer in Ann Arbor and to support a great cause!

Participants are asked to arrive to the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering Building (overlooking Fuller Rd.) 20 minutes prior to the race start time (10:00 am) in order to complete a participation waiver. A copy of the waiver can be printed and signed prior to race day. Waivers will also be available on site the day of the race.

More information regarding Leslie Science & Nature Center can be found here: https://www.lesliesnc.org/

Please feel free to contact Morgan Bolger (mwbolger@umich.edu), or Daniella Patton (pattondm@umich.edu) with any questions.

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Exercise / Fitness Tue, 23 Apr 2019 09:53:44 -0400 2019-05-11T10:00:00-04:00 2019-05-11T11:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Exercise / Fitness A marathon spectator films runners as they near the north east corner of Central Park in Harlem just before entering the last leg of the New York City Marathon on November 5th, 2017.
Ph.D. Defense: Jared Houghtaling (May 13, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63458 63458-15710552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 13, 2019 10:00am
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Molecular diagnosis has proven to be a powerful tool for early detection of neurodegenerative disease, but research in this field is still relatively nascent. In Alzheimer’s Disease specifically, levels of microtubule associated protein tau and amyloid-beta1-42 in cerebrospinal fluid are becoming reliable pathological indicators. The current gold standard for detecting these biomarkers is an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and while this method has a limit of detection on the order of pg mL-1, it lacks the ability to provide information about aggregation extent and structure on a per-protein basis. From a disease standpoint, neurological pathologies are often extremely complex in their biological manifestation, and precise mechanisms for many of these diseases are still being discovered and revised. A thorough understanding of in situ structure and properties of neurological disease-related proteins would likely help clarify some of these complicated mechanisms. Resistive-pulse methods may be useful in this effort, as they can determine specific biomarker concentrations and can also unveil multiple physical qualities of single proteins or protein aggregates in an aqueous sample. The latter capability is critical and could allow for both earlier diagnoses and a stronger mechanistic understanding of neurological disease progression.

The work presented in this dissertation, therefore, represents broad efforts toward developing a nanopore-based system able to characterize amyloids and protein complexes related to neurodegenerative disease. These efforts range from upstream fabrication and characterization of nanopores in synthetic substrates to downstream techniques for optimizing the accuracy and efficiency of analyses on resistive pulses. Single proteins rotating and translating while tethered to the surface of a nanopore provide rich information during transit through the pore that makes it possible to determine their ellipsoidal shape, volume, dipole moment, charge, and rotational diffusion coefficient in a time frame of just a few hundred microseconds. This five-dimensional protein fingerprint, however, requires chemical modification of each protein and is thus not ideal for studying protein dynamics or transient protein complexes, both of which are relevant when characterizing amyloids. Transitioning to low-noise nanopore substrates and high-bandwidth recordings enables label-free identification and quantification of unperturbed, natively-folded proteins and protein complexes in solution – no chemical tags, tethers, or fluorescent labels are needed. Such a transition is nontrivial; proteins passing uninhibited through the strong electric field inside of a nanopore rotate and translocate rapidly, posing a challenge to time-resolve their various orientations adequately while circumventing adhesion to nanopore walls. Furthermore, during their translocation through the nanopore, untethered, native proteins diffuse laterally, generating asymmetric disturbances of the electric field and larger-than-expected resistive pulse magnitudes. Known as off-axis effects, these latter phenomena add a noise-like element to the electrical recordings. We evaluate, both computationally and experimentally, the influence of such label-free complications on resulting parameter estimates, and place these results in the context of developing future iterations of nanopore-based protein sensors.

In light of the spectacular recent success of nanopore-based nucleic acid sequencing, it is likely that the next frontier for nanopore-based analysis is the characterization of single proteins and, in particular, the characterization of protein aggregates such as amyloids. The experiments and results presented here enable future particle-by-particle analysis of amyloids with nanopores to rapidly reconstruct their heterogeneity in size and shape, both of which are correlated with the neurotoxicity of amyloid samples and are being investigated as biomarkers for neurodegenerative disease.

Co-Chairs: Michael Mayer and David Sept

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Presentation Wed, 01 May 2019 12:44:40 -0400 2019-05-13T10:00:00-04:00 2019-05-13T11:00:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Presentation Biomedical Engineering
BME Aloha Friday Luau (August 30, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65532 65532-16611705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 30, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

To send off another successful Aloha Friday summer we will be having our 2nd annual BME Aloha Friday Luau on Friday, Aug. 30th, from noon-2PM in the LBME courtyard. All are welcome and encouraged to join! Lunch will be provided along with fun games and awards.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 21 Aug 2019 09:35:55 -0400 2019-08-30T12:00:00-04:00 2019-08-30T14:00:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Social / Informal Gathering BME Aloha Friday Luau
BME Coffee Hour (September 9, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66337 66337-16727915@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 9, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

All faculty, students, postdocs, and staff are encouraged to join in the upper atrium of LBME for snacks and coffee. This is a time to take a break and gather casually amongst your peers.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:06:20 -0400 2019-09-09T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-09T15:00:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Social / Informal Gathering BME Coffee Hour
Let's Fix Healthcare: Needs (September 12, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61282 61282-15070094@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 11:00am
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Universal Healthcare Group

Join us for a lunchtime discussion on how health should be cared for in our nation.

For more information: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/universal-healthcare-group/

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 24 Apr 2019 13:18:08 -0400 2019-09-12T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-12T13:00:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Universal Healthcare Group Lecture / Discussion Universal Healthcare Group
BME Coffee Hour (September 16, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66337 66337-16727916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 16, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

All faculty, students, postdocs, and staff are encouraged to join in the upper atrium of LBME for snacks and coffee. This is a time to take a break and gather casually amongst your peers.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:06:20 -0400 2019-09-16T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-16T15:00:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Social / Informal Gathering BME Coffee Hour
Bioethics Discussion: Self (September 17, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52717 52717-12974149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on us by us.

Readings to consider:
1. Borges and I
2. Full-body illusions and minimal phenomenal selfhood
3. Identity, Self-Awareness, and Self-Deception: Ethical Implications for Leaders and Organizations
4. Individuals are Inadequate: Recognizing the Family-Centeredness of Chinese Bioethics and Chinese Health System

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/031-self/.

Please find yourself over at the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:50:29 -0400 2019-09-17T19:00:00-04:00 2019-09-17T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Self
Let's Fix Healthcare: Wants (September 19, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61283 61283-15070095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 11:00am
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Universal Healthcare Group

Join us for a lunchtime discussion on how health should be cared for in our nation.

For more information: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/universal-healthcare-group/

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 24 Apr 2019 13:18:33 -0400 2019-09-19T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T13:00:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Universal Healthcare Group Lecture / Discussion Universal Healthcare Group
BME Coffee Hour (September 23, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66337 66337-16727917@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

All faculty, students, postdocs, and staff are encouraged to join in the upper atrium of LBME for snacks and coffee. This is a time to take a break and gather casually amongst your peers.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:06:20 -0400 2019-09-23T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T15:00:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Social / Informal Gathering BME Coffee Hour
Let's Fix Healthcare: Rights (September 26, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61284 61284-15070096@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 11:00am
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Universal Healthcare Group

Join us for a lunchtime discussion on how health should be cared for in our nation.

For more information: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/universal-healthcare-group/

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 24 Apr 2019 13:18:42 -0400 2019-09-26T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T13:00:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Universal Healthcare Group Lecture / Discussion Universal Healthcare Group
BME Coffee Hour (September 30, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66337 66337-16727918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 30, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

All faculty, students, postdocs, and staff are encouraged to join in the upper atrium of LBME for snacks and coffee. This is a time to take a break and gather casually amongst your peers.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:06:20 -0400 2019-09-30T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-30T15:00:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Social / Informal Gathering BME Coffee Hour
Bioethics Discussion: Body/Modification (October 1, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52718 52718-12974150@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on change.

Readings to consider:
1. Body Modification: An Introduction
2. Confounding Extremities: Surgery at the Medico-ethical Limits of Self-Modification
3. Should we prevent non-therapeutic mutilation and extreme body modification?
4. Nonmainstream Body Modification- Genital Piercing, Branding, Burning, and Cutting

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/032-body-modification/.

You might find yourself changed by reading the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:51:56 -0400 2019-10-01T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-01T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Body/modification
BME Coffee Hour (October 7, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66337 66337-16727919@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

All faculty, students, postdocs, and staff are encouraged to join in the upper atrium of LBME for snacks and coffee. This is a time to take a break and gather casually amongst your peers.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:06:20 -0400 2019-10-07T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-07T15:00:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Social / Informal Gathering BME Coffee Hour
BME Coffee Hour (October 14, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66337 66337-16727920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 14, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

All faculty, students, postdocs, and staff are encouraged to join in the upper atrium of LBME for snacks and coffee. This is a time to take a break and gather casually amongst your peers.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:06:20 -0400 2019-10-14T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-14T15:00:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Social / Informal Gathering BME Coffee Hour
Bioethics Discussion: Body/Art (October 15, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52719 52719-12974151@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on aesthetics.

Readings to consider:
1. Anchoring the (Postmodern) Self?: Body modification, fashion, and identity
2. Bodyworlds: The Art of Plastinated Cadavers
3. Bodyworlds and the ethics of using human remains: a preliminary discussion
4. What Should We Do about Eduard Pernkopf’s Atlas?

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/033-body-art/.

For something approaching the bodily and the artistic, please consider the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:52:12 -0400 2019-10-15T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-15T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Body/art
BME Coffee Hour (October 21, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66337 66337-16727921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

All faculty, students, postdocs, and staff are encouraged to join in the upper atrium of LBME for snacks and coffee. This is a time to take a break and gather casually amongst your peers.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:06:20 -0400 2019-10-21T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T15:00:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Social / Informal Gathering BME Coffee Hour
BME Coffee Hour (October 28, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66337 66337-16727922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

All faculty, students, postdocs, and staff are encouraged to join in the upper atrium of LBME for snacks and coffee. This is a time to take a break and gather casually amongst your peers.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:06:20 -0400 2019-10-28T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T15:00:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Social / Informal Gathering BME Coffee Hour
Bioethics Discussion: Fear (October 29, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52720 52720-12974152@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion of our deepest darkest depths.

Readings to consider:
1. Fear
2. A Method for Evaluating the Ethics of Fear Appeals
3. Does fear of retaliation deter requests for ethics consultation?
4. The Two Faces of Fear: A History of Hard-Hitting Public Health Campaigns Against Tobacco and AIDS
5. Professor Nobody’s Little Lectures on Supernatural Horror

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/034-fear/.

Please also don't be afraid to check out the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:52:38 -0400 2019-10-29T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Fear
BME Coffee Hour (November 4, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66337 66337-16727923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

All faculty, students, postdocs, and staff are encouraged to join in the upper atrium of LBME for snacks and coffee. This is a time to take a break and gather casually amongst your peers.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:06:20 -0400 2019-11-04T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-04T15:00:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Social / Informal Gathering BME Coffee Hour
BME Coffee Hour (November 11, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66337 66337-16727924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 11, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

All faculty, students, postdocs, and staff are encouraged to join in the upper atrium of LBME for snacks and coffee. This is a time to take a break and gather casually amongst your peers.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:06:20 -0400 2019-11-11T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-11T15:00:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Social / Informal Gathering BME Coffee Hour
Bioethics Discussion: Body/Politics (November 12, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52721 52721-12974153@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on government.

Readings to consider:
1. Bioethics as Politics
2. ‘Fat Ethics’: The Obesity Discourse and Body Politics
3. HB 481
4. A Man, Burning: Communicative Suffering and the Ethics of Images

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/035-body-politics/.

Be it resolved that the policy of this group is to read the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:52:51 -0400 2019-11-12T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Body/politics
BME Coffee Hour (November 18, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66337 66337-16727925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

All faculty, students, postdocs, and staff are encouraged to join in the upper atrium of LBME for snacks and coffee. This is a time to take a break and gather casually amongst your peers.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:06:20 -0400 2019-11-18T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T15:00:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Social / Informal Gathering BME Coffee Hour
BME Coffee Hour (November 25, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66337 66337-16727926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 25, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

All faculty, students, postdocs, and staff are encouraged to join in the upper atrium of LBME for snacks and coffee. This is a time to take a break and gather casually amongst your peers.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:06:20 -0400 2019-11-25T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-25T15:00:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Social / Informal Gathering BME Coffee Hour
Bioethics Discussion: Cities (November 26, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52722 52722-12974154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on our new environment.

Readings to consider:
1. Health and Urban Living
2. Urban Bioethics: Adapting Bioethics to the Urban Context
3. The Experience of Living in Cities
4. From the Urban to the Civic: The Moral Possibilities of the City

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/036-cities/.

When roaming the city, please consider roaming the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:53:17 -0400 2019-11-26T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Cities
BME Coffee Hour (December 2, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66337 66337-16727927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

All faculty, students, postdocs, and staff are encouraged to join in the upper atrium of LBME for snacks and coffee. This is a time to take a break and gather casually amongst your peers.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:06:20 -0400 2019-12-02T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-02T15:00:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Social / Informal Gathering BME Coffee Hour
BME Coffee Hour (December 9, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66337 66337-16727928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

All faculty, students, postdocs, and staff are encouraged to join in the upper atrium of LBME for snacks and coffee. This is a time to take a break and gather casually amongst your peers.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:06:20 -0400 2019-12-09T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-09T15:00:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Social / Informal Gathering BME Coffee Hour
Bioethics Discussion: Antinatalism (December 10, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52723 52723-12974156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on the end to our means.

Readings to consider:
1. The Last Messiah
2. Why It Is Better Never to Come into Existence
3. Every Conceivable Harm: A Further Defence of Anti-Natalism
4. The Ethics of Procreation and Adoption

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/037-antinatalism/.

Tell your descendants to consider the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:54:42 -0400 2019-12-10T19:00:00-05:00 2019-12-10T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Antinatalism
BME Coffee Hour (December 16, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66337 66337-16727929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 16, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

All faculty, students, postdocs, and staff are encouraged to join in the upper atrium of LBME for snacks and coffee. This is a time to take a break and gather casually amongst your peers.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:06:20 -0400 2019-12-16T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-16T15:00:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Social / Informal Gathering BME Coffee Hour
Bioethics Discussion: Others (January 14, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52724 52724-12974157@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on us and them, but mostly them.

Readings to consider:
1. Neuroethics and the Problem of Other Minds: Implications of Neuroscience for the Moral Status of Brain-Damaged Patients and Nonhuman Animals
2. Undocumented Patients: Undocumented Immigrants and Access to Health Care
3. Bioethics and International Human Rights
4. Against culturally sensitive bioethics

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/038-others/.

I hear every one else is reading the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 09:54:03 -0500 2020-01-14T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-14T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Others
Bioethics Discussion: Michigan (January 28, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52725 52725-12974158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on our state.

Readings to consider:
1. 2019 State of the State
2. Michigan Health Policy for the Incoming 2019 Gubernatorial Administration
3. ACA Exchange Competitiveness in Michigan
4. Flint Water Crisis: What Happened and Why?

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/039-michigan/.

For the ever-present state of things, consider the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/




...Flint still doesn't have clean drinking water.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 09:55:44 -0500 2020-01-28T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Michigan
Bioethics Discussion: Love (February 11, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52726 52726-12974160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on the chemistry of our biology.

Readings to consider:
1. The Neurobiology of Love
2. The Medicalization of Love
3. Self-Transcendence, the True Self, and Self-Love
4. Love yourself: The relationship of the self with itself in popular self-help texts

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/040-love/.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 09:56:11 -0500 2020-02-11T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Love
Bioethics Discussion: Overpopulation (February 25, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52727 52727-12974161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on one to(o) many.

Readings to consider:
1. Having Children: Reproductive Ethics in the Face of Overpopulation
2. The Ethics of Controlling Population Growth in the Developing World
3. Overpopulation and the Threat of Ecological Disaster: The Need for Global Bioethics
4. Threats and burdens: Challenging scarcity-driven narratives of “overpopulation”

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/041-overpopulation/.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 09:56:30 -0500 2020-02-25T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Overpopulation
Bioethics Discussion: Public Health (March 10, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52728 52728-12974162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on the health of our society.

Readings to consider:
1. The right to public health
2. Ethics and Public Health: Forging a Strong Relationship
3. Old Myths, New Myths: Challenging Myths in Public Health
4. A Bridge Back to the Future: Public Health Ethics, Bioethics, and Environmental Ethics

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/042-public-health/.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 09:57:57 -0500 2020-03-10T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Public health