Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Celebrating Science & Art (October 16, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-10-16T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-16T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (October 17, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-10-17T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-17T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Defining the hierarchy through which the epigenetic identify of T cells is established (October 17, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53491 53491-13390336@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 9:30am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

2018 Cell & Developmental Biology Series Seminar Series

Hosted by:
Doug Engel, Deneen Wellik

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Sep 2018 15:40:08 -0400 2018-10-17T09:30:00-04:00 2018-10-17T10:30:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Golnaz Vahedi, Ph.D.
Celebrating Science & Art (October 18, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 18, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-10-18T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-18T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
EEB Thursday Seminar: Trait-based approaches to plankton ecology & evolution (October 18, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49651 49651-11487536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 18, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Abstract
Trait-based approaches are increasingly seen as a way to reduce the complexity of ecological communities and to incorporate functional diversity in ecosystem models. In this talk I will present Elena Litchman's and my lab's work applying trait-based ideas to marine and freshwater plankton communities. First, I will describe empirical patterns in the resource utilization and thermal traits we found using meta-analyses of published eco-physiological traits. Second, I will discuss trait-based approaches to modeling ecological and eco-evolutionary dynamics and how they can enhance our understanding of community structure in heterogeneous environments. Finally, I will describe recent theory on how local selection and immigration from the regional species pool interact to determine distribution of commonness and rarity in ecological communities and an experimental test.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Oct 2018 09:38:16 -0400 2018-10-18T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-18T13:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion graph of space, time and trait
Celebrating Science & Art (October 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-10-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Balancing Forces at Adhesions: How Cells Sense Stiffness (October 19, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56101 56101-13832571@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Ann Miller

Patrick Oakes, Assistant Professor
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Department of Biology
University of Rochester

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 04 Oct 2018 10:14:18 -0400 2018-10-19T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar microscope image of actin
Celebrating Science & Art (October 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-10-20T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-20T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (October 21, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 21, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-10-21T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-21T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (October 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399212@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-10-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (October 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-10-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Bioethics Discussion: Zombies (October 23, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49424 49424-11453766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on the rights of the living, the dead, and those in between.

Readings to consider:
"Consciousness: the most critical moral (constitutional) standard for human personhood"
"CDC preparedness 101: zombie pandemic"
"Zombies v. materialists"
"In vitro meat"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/019-zombies/.

Have your brain eaten by the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:55:12 -0400 2018-10-23T19:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Zombies
Celebrating Science & Art (October 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399214@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-10-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Split decisions: the molecular control of cytokinesis (October 24, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54821 54821-13645288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 9:30am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

2018 Cell & Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Hosted by:
Mel Ohi, Lois Weisman

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Sep 2018 15:42:03 -0400 2018-10-24T09:30:00-04:00 2018-10-24T10:30:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Kathleen Gould
EEB student evalution seminar: Intelligent insects: the evolution of social cognition in simple neural environments (October 24, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57016 57016-14066098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Meagan presents her prelim talk.

Image: Michael Sheehan.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 23 Oct 2018 10:53:01 -0400 2018-10-24T13:00:00-04:00 2018-10-24T14:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar wasp
Celebrating Science & Art (October 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399215@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-10-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
2018 Massey TBI Regional Conference (October 25, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55950 55950-13811923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 8:30am
Location: Junge Champions Center
Organized By: Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care (MCIRCC)

Supported by the Massey Foundation, the Massey TBI Regional Conference aims to improve the outcomes of those who suffer severe traumatic brain injuries by supporting technology development, and translational and clinical research that impacts the “golden hours” of care. Through lectures, a poster session, and scientific presentations from funded Massey TBI Grand Challenge teams, we will explore the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of this critical injury.
Learn more and register today at https://mcircc.umich.edu/events-training/regional-conference.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 25 Sep 2018 08:42:26 -0400 2018-10-25T08:30:00-04:00 2018-10-25T16:30:00-04:00 Junge Champions Center Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care (MCIRCC) Conference / Symposium Massey TBI Regional Conference Header Image
EEB Thursday Seminar: The biogeography of body size: using population genomics to delineate individuals in the native and invasive ranges of the death cap fungus (October 25, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49652 49652-11487537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

The dispersal and biogeography of fungi are poorly understood, in part because individuals grow hidden within substrates and are difficult to see or count. The fungus Amanita phalloides is deadly poisonous and a rich literature records its history in Europe and America; the death cap is invasive in California. After briefly describing its history in North America, I will talk about the population genomics data we are using to delineate individuals (or genets). By collecting and genotyping mapped populations of fungi from California, Europe, and the Northeast U.S., we are discovering that most mushrooms in a habitat are unique genetic individuals. Data suggest that genets of A. phalloides are typically less than 1 m in diameter. The pattern holds across California, Europe, and the Northeast, and is the same for sites where populations are assumed to be young, and sites where A. phalloides has been collected for over 30 years. In fact, data collected at different time points from the same sites evince the same structures, even when populations are collected 10 years apart. There appears to be no correlation between body size and geographic origin or age of a population, moreover, dispersal appears highly local: most spores appear to fall just next to their source.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/tjYITvG7P-4

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Dec 2018 09:20:11 -0500 2018-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-25T17:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion McIlvaine and Macadam 1902
Celebrating Science & Art (October 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399216@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-10-26T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Telomeres and the DNA Damage Response (October 26, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56104 56104-13832573@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: JK Nandakumar

Titia de Lange,
Leon Hess Professor
American Cancer Society Professor
Head, Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics
Director, Anderson Center for Cancer Research
Rockefeller University

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 04 Oct 2018 10:14:39 -0400 2018-10-26T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar microscope image telomeres
Malaria Ecology and Epidemiology: Challenges to Interrupting Transmission (October 26, 2018 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54035 54035-13515305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 12:30pm
Location: Public Health II
Organized By: MAC-EPID

Speakers include:
Kim Lindblade (World Health Organization)
Justin Cohen (Clinton Health Access Initiative)
Sharon Greene (New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene)

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 21 Aug 2018 18:19:36 -0400 2018-10-26T12:30:00-04:00 2018-10-26T17:30:00-04:00 Public Health II MAC-EPID Conference / Symposium Flyer
8th Annual Thomas D. Gelehrter, M.D. Lecture in Medical Genetics (October 26, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56354 56354-13887618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Department of Human Genetics

This annual lectureship honors Dr. Thomas D. Gelehrter, a leader within the human genetics community and internationally recognized as an expert in human genetics. Former Chair of DHG, he is currently an active Professor Emeritus in the department.

Harry (Hal) C. Dietz, MD is the Victor A. McKusick Professor of Genetics in the Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Molecular Biology and Genetics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the William S. Smilow Center for Marfan Syndrome Research. He is also an HHMI investigator and former President of the American Society of Human Genetics.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Oct 2018 14:37:49 -0400 2018-10-26T14:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Department of Human Genetics Lecture / Discussion Harry (Hal) C. Dietz, M.D.
Celebrating Science & Art (October 27, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 27, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-10-27T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (October 28, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 28, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-10-28T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-28T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (October 29, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 29, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-10-29T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-29T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (October 30, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-10-30T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (October 31, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-10-31T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (November 1, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-01T08:00:00-04:00 2018-11-01T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
LSI Seminar Series: David Sherwood, Ph.D., Duke University (November 1, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53219 53219-13295782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Abstract:
Basement membranes are an ancient form of extracellular matrix that assemble as thin, dense sheets that underlie most tissues. Basement membranes regulate numerous cellular and tissue functions, and basement membrane dysregulation is a hallmark of many cancers and a driver of tumor progression. Despite their importance, we know little about how basement membranes are uniquely constructed, how they grow, how they turnover, and how they regulate so many cell and tissue properties.

C. elegans is a powerful model to understand basement membrane function, as it has single genes encoding most basement membrane matrix components and receptors. We have used CRISPR/Cas-9 genome editing to create a basement membrane toolkit, where we have knocked genes encoding fluorescent proteins into all major basement membrane matrix components (18 genes) and receptors (13 genes). I will present a brief overview of how we are using the basement membrane toolkit to elucidate how basement membranes are constructed, how they grow, and the dynamic nature of basement membranes, including diverse turnover rates of basement membrane components (seconds to hours). Finally, I will discuss how the toolkit is revealing specialized, non-sheet functions for basement membrane proteins, such as linking neighboring tissues together and constructing stem cell niches.

About the Speaker:
David Sherwood, Ph.D., grew up in Champaign, Illinois, and spent summers backpacking in the Wind River Range of Wyoming. He graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University (with a year in Durham, England) in 1990. He received his Ph.D. in the lab of David McClay, Ph.D., from Duke University Department of Biology in 1997, where his thesis work identified and determined the function of the sea urchin Notch receptor. Dave carried out his postdoctoral work in the lab of Paul Sternberg, Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology, where he was trained in C. elegans genetics and cell biology. He joined the faculty at Duke University in 2005, where he is now a Professor of Biology, Co-Director of the Regeneration Next Initiative for Regenerative Biology, Director of the Development and Stem Cell Biology Program, and Co-Director of the Embryology Course in at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. His research focuses on elucidating cell-extracellular matrix interactions that occur during cell invasion, stem cell niche formation, and tissue formation, growth and regeneration.

Boxed lunch will be provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 27 Jul 2018 11:55:25 -0400 2018-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2018-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion David Sherwood, Ph.D.
Cancelled!...EEB Thursday Seminar: The evolution of mammalian pregnancy: the path from pathology to physiology (November 1, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49653 49653-11487538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

We hope to see you next week!

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Oct 2018 11:34:05 -0400 2018-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 2018-11-01T17:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion Biological Sciences Building
Public Health & Pre-Med Info Session! (November 1, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56676 56676-13960686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 5:30pm
Location: School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Join Intercultural Program Advisor, Melinda Fenn & Cristina Zamarron for an info session on Public Health & Pre-Med study abroad opportunities! 

AFRICA & THE MIDDLE EAST 
•Public Health in Cape Town, South Africa 
•Traditional Medicine & Healthcare Systems in Madagascar 

THE AMERICAS 
•Public health in Santiago, Dominican Republic 

ASIA-PACIFIC 
•Public health in Ho Chi Minh City 
•Community Public Health Thailand 
•Global Public Health India 
•STEM Summer Research Program in Brisbane, Australia

EUROPE 
•Contemporary London 
•Food Security and Nutrition in Switzerland 
•STEM Summer Research Program in Dublin, Ireland
•STEM Summer Research Program in Glasgow, Scotland
•STEM Summer Research Program in London, United Kingdom
•Study Abroad in Scandinavia, Copenhagen 
•Study Abroad in Scandinavia, Stockholm

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Meeting Sun, 28 Oct 2018 13:15:58 -0400 2018-11-01T17:30:00-04:00 2018-11-01T18:30:00-04:00 School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower Center for Global and Intercultural Study Meeting PHOTO
Celebrating Science & Art (November 2, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-02T08:00:00-04:00 2018-11-02T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Expanding the Synthetic Biology Toolbox for Tropane and Granatane Alkaloids (November 2, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56106 56106-13832577@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Eran Pichersky

John D'Auria
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Texas Tech University

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 04 Oct 2018 10:14:55 -0400 2018-11-02T12:00:00-04:00 2018-11-02T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar plant and chemical diagram
Celebrating Science & Art (November 3, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399224@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 3, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-03T08:00:00-04:00 2018-11-03T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (November 4, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399225@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 4, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-04T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-04T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (November 5, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 5, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-05T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-05T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (November 6, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399227@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-06T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-06T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Bioethics Discussion: Cloning (November 6, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49425 49425-11453767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion coping with copying, seeing double, and creating anew.

Readings to consider:
"Genetic encores"
"Human cloning and our sense of self"
"The ethics of reviving long extinct species"
"Uniqueness, individuality, and human cloning"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/020-cloning/.

Take a gander at the blog should you have the time: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:56:43 -0400 2018-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 2018-11-06T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Cloning
Celebrating Science & Art (November 7, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399228@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-07T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-07T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (November 8, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399229@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 8, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-08T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-08T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
EEB Thursday Seminar: The evolution of extreme phenotypic convergence across fish lineages in the hyper-diverse lower Congo River (November 8, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49654 49654-11487539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 8, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Recent estimates of species richness in the Congo basin vary but converge on a number close to 1270. However, that diversity is not evenly partitioned and the lower Congo River (LCR) is highlighted as a hotspot of species richness and endemism within the basin. In marked contrast to the river upstream of Pool Malebo, the LCR channel is entirely bedrock, and littoral habitats are mostly rocky and rock strewn. In situ measurements have recorded dramatic changes in channel topology and in addition to fluctuating bed bathymetry, regions of extreme depth have also been recorded. A combination of high annual discharge, steep elevational incline, and fluctuating channel width and depth result in high-energy flow regimes throughout the system. These hydrological features appear to play a key role in isolating fish populations by restricting both cross-channel and upstream-downstream movement, and likely present powerful drivers for micro-allopatric isolation often over remarkably small geographical scales.

Among the many species endemic to the LCR are a group of distantly related fishes exhibiting a striking series of multi-trait morphological convergence (including microphthalmia or eye loss, depigmentation, laterosensory enhancement etc.). These “cryptophthalmic” forms have arisen independently in at least six phylogenetically disparate families (Cichlidae, Mastacembelidae, Mochokidae, Claroteidae, Clariidae, Mormyridae), likely in response to similar selective pressures within the extreme environments of the LCR. Here I will present results of an ongoing investigation to characterize and quantify of this case of extreme eco-morphological convergence.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/YpURqGQKsFM

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Dec 2018 09:21:33 -0500 2018-11-08T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion Melanie Stiassny
Celebrating Science & Art (November 9, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 9, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-09T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-09T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Neurons Put Out the Trash: A Novel Facet of Proteostasis and Mitochondrial Quality Control (November 9, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57170 57170-14121972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 9, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Catherine Collins

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 29 Oct 2018 16:06:48 -0400 2018-11-09T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-09T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar microscope image stained tissue
Celebrating Science & Art (November 10, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399231@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 10, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-10T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-10T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Be a Hero at the Big House (November 11, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55772 55772-13777541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 11, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Stadium
Organized By: Wolverines for Life

Be a Hero at the Big House is the largest single-day campus blood drive in the University of Michigan's history. The is a part of the Blood Battle against Ohio State University, while simultaneously encouraging individuals to join the organ donor registry and bone marrow registry.

This event is hosted at Michigan Stadium in the Jack Roth Stadium Club. Stop by to take a photo with one of our special guests from high above the Michigan Stadium. We will have snacks, t-shirts, games for the kids, giveaways, and more!

Wolverines for Life is a partnership between the University of Michigan community, Michigan Medicine, the American Red Cross, Be The Match, Gift of Life Michigan, Eversight, and Team Michigan of the Donate Life Transplant Games of America. Our mission is to advocate for blood, bone marrow, organ, and tissue donation on the University of Michigan campus and beyond.

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Other Fri, 21 Sep 2018 15:56:57 -0400 2018-11-11T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-11T17:00:00-05:00 Michigan Stadium Wolverines for Life Other Be a Hero Flyer 2018
Celebrating Science & Art (November 11, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399232@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 11, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-11T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-11T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (November 12, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399233@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 12, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-12T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-12T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
All About Honeybees (November 12, 2018 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53825 53825-13463714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 12, 2018 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Explore the life of the honeybee in and out of the hive. Victoria Dluzen McIntyre is an amateur apiarist whose love of honeybees comes to her naturally – her family name “dluzen” means “keeper of bees” in Polish.

Known as “The Bee Lady,” Victoria has travelled around southeastern Michigan giving talks (The Bee Lady Talks) to schools, garden clubs, and civic groups. Come and learn about the mysteries of the hive and how 50,000 bees work together for one common good.

This study group for those 50 and over will meet on Monday, 6-8 p.m., November 12. Instructor: Victoria McIntyre

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Class / Instruction Thu, 16 Aug 2018 10:32:55 -0400 2018-11-12T21:00:00-05:00 2018-11-12T22:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Celebrating Science & Art (November 13, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399234@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-13T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-13T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
U-M Biological Station Information Session (November 13, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56728 56728-13969946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

Undergrads: come learn about spring/summer courses and research opportunities at the U-M Biological Station! Featuring a student panel and scholarship/financial aid information.

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Rally / Mass Meeting Thu, 08 Nov 2018 11:38:36 -0500 2018-11-13T18:00:00-05:00 2018-11-13T19:00:00-05:00 Dana Building University of Michigan Biological Station Rally / Mass Meeting Sunrise on Douglas Lake
Celebrating Science & Art (November 14, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-14T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-14T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
RNA Innovation Seminar (November 14, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55320 55320-14261244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Mark Painter
PhD candidate from the Kathleen Collins research group
and
Ashley Kalinski, PhD
Postdoctoral research fellow from the Giger Lab

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 14 Nov 2018 08:23:43 -0500 2018-11-14T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-14T09:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion logo
Genomic mechanism and transcription factor networks controlling T-cell lineage commitment (November 14, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54829 54829-13645293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 9:30am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

2018 Cell & Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Hosted by:
Doug Engel

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Sep 2018 15:42:57 -0400 2018-11-14T09:30:00-05:00 2018-11-14T10:30:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Ellen Rothenberg
Distinguished University Professor Lecture, Presented by Dr. Gordon L. Amidon (November 14, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57490 57490-14202428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: U-M College of Pharmacy

Does the much-maligned carbon dioxide, a driving force behind global warming, deserve its bad rap?

In his upcoming Distinguished University Professor lecture, Gordon L. Amidon, PhD’71, will explore carbon dioxide from many angles, “the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.”

The talk will take place at 4 p.m. on November 14 in the Rackham Amphitheatre. The lecture and reception that follows are free and open to the public.

Prof. Gordon L. Amidon is the William I. Higuchi Distinguished University Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences. His research aims to understand the gastrointestinal factors that control drug absorption from an oral drug product.

“I will present a modest attempt to resurrect the image of carbon dioxide,” explains Amidon. “While global warming and the role that atmospheric gases play in the ‘green house’ effect has received considerable attention in the scientific and public press, I will point to the more positive role of carbon dioxide in evolution and in biology.”

Distinguished University Professorships recognize exceptional scholarly and/or creative achievements, national and international reputation, superior teaching and mentoring, and an impressive record of service. Each Professor delivers a lecture of their choosing during this event.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Nov 2018 15:22:34 -0500 2018-11-14T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-14T18:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) U-M College of Pharmacy Lecture / Discussion Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Celebrating Science & Art (November 15, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-15T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-15T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
A Bioethical Lunch on Genomics (November 15, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54448 54448-13585499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 12:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A lunchtime discussion on four letters with profound implications.

For more information about the group in general, please check out our website: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Nov 2018 12:08:48 -0500 2018-11-15T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-15T13:30:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Genomics
EEB Thursday Seminar: The dimensions of fear: from brains to ecosystems to human mental health and human impacts (November 15, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49655 49655-11487540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Predators kill prey thereby affecting populations and ecosystems. Predators also scare prey, and the fear of being killed is a powerful evolutionary force that has always shaped all life on earth. But whether fear can be powerful enough to operate over ecological time in wildlife is intensely debated because demonstrating that fear effects exist for wildlife requires manipulations which are challenging to do for free-living animals. We have been conducting a variety of manipulations on a wide range of wildlife, from birds to lions, in many different places in the world that are demonstrating that fear affects wildlife from the brain, to behaviour and physiology, to populations, with cascading effects down the food chain. Our research further reveals that fear of predators can inform us about human mental health and can be used as a tool to diagnose the extent of human impacts on the environment as well.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 15 Nov 2018 07:59:36 -0500 2018-11-15T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion Giraffe running
Sustainable Food Systems in Thailand Info Session (November 15, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57105 57105-14095160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Join CGIS International Programs Advisor, Cristina Zamarron and representatives from the International Sustainable Development Studies Institute Thailand as they will discuss one of CGIS's newest programs Sustainable Food Systems and Ecology in Chaing Mai, Thailand!!

This 3-week, 3-credit Maize Away program examines the issues in sustainable food production in Thailand. Perhaps one of the most challenging topics in sustainability studies, sustainable food systems are critical to creating a sustainable future.

This course will look at commercial chemical-intensive agriculture, study both lowland and upland agriculture as practiced in Thailand, and spend extended time in the fields and gardens of farmers and villagers. This course will examine comparisons between large scale agroindustry with smallholder agriculture, with special emphasis on organic farming and agroecology.
Students will spend extended time in the field learning about both the biology of sustainable agriculture as well as the social and political issues surrounding sustainable agriculture and current commercial food systems.

Students will travel to Don Jieng, in Northern Thailand to visit local farm groups, then to Ban Dang Nai to look at look at the impacts of agricultural extension efforts on village livelihood, culture, environment, and more!

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Meeting Fri, 26 Oct 2018 14:14:32 -0400 2018-11-15T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Meeting PHOTO
BD Technology Leadership Development Program Info Session (November 15, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57625 57625-14246147@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Graduate Society of Women Engineers

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, is seeking high-potential talent in the life sciences, engineering and computer science disciplines for the Technology Leadership Development Program (TLDP). The TLDP consists of three progressively more challenging rotations that span multiple businesses and geographic locations within the
company designed to strengthen the candidate’s technical expertise and leadership skills. Qualified candidates must possess a PhD or research-based thesis MS.
All Engineering and Life Science majors are encouraged to apply.
Dinner will be provided!

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 12 Nov 2018 12:04:43 -0500 2018-11-15T18:00:00-05:00 2018-11-15T19:00:00-05:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Graduate Society of Women Engineers Careers / Jobs Herbert H. Dow Building
Celebrating Science & Art (November 16, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399237@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 16, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-16T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-16T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Cortical Circuits for Sensory Processing and Behavior (November 16, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57172 57172-14121975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 16, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Sam Kwon

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 29 Oct 2018 16:12:25 -0400 2018-11-16T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-16T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar microscope image stained tissue
Celebrating Science & Art (November 17, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 17, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-17T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-17T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (November 18, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399239@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 18, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-18T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-18T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (November 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-19T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-19T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
RNA Innovation Seminar (November 19, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55320 55320-13716056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 19, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Mark Painter
PhD candidate from the Kathleen Collins research group
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Ashley Kalinski, PhD
Postdoctoral research fellow from the Giger Lab

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 14 Nov 2018 08:23:43 -0500 2018-11-19T15:00:00-05:00 2018-11-19T16:00:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion logo
Celebrating Science & Art (November 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-20T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-20T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Seminar+Webinar "Community-based Environmental Monitoring for Public Health Action: the Imperial County (CA) Community Air Monitoring Network" (November 20, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57585 57585-14220052@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 12:00pm
Location: School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower
Organized By: Center for Midlife Science

Humberto Lugo (Community Science & Air Monitoring Coordinator, Comité Civico Del Valle) and Alexa Wilkie MHS, MS (Program Manager, CA Environmental Health Tracking Program/Tracking California) will present a seminar on Community-based Environmental Monitoring for Public Health Action: the Imperial County (CA) Community Air Monitoring Network. The seminar will be live streamed (Blue Jeans Video Meeting) at https://goo.gl/TjwUXC
Sponsors are the Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD) Community Outreach Core and Integrated Health Sciences Core.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 09 Nov 2018 12:07:37 -0500 2018-11-20T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower Center for Midlife Science Workshop / Seminar Flyer for Nov 20 Seminar+Webinar
Bioethics Discussion: Animal Experimentation (November 20, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49427 49427-11453768@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion testing the limitations of our testing limitations.

Readings to consider:
"Does animal experimentation inform human healthcare?"
"Ethical principles and guidelines for experiments on animals"
"The flaws and human harms of animal experimentation"
"Animal testing is still the best way to find new treatments for patients"
"Alternatives to animal testing"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/021-animal-experimentation/

Consider monkeying around the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:58:41 -0400 2018-11-20T19:00:00-05:00 2018-11-20T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Animal experimentation
Celebrating Science & Art (November 21, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 21, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-21T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-21T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (November 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399243@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-22T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-22T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (November 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-23T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-23T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (November 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-24T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-24T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (November 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-25T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-25T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (November 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-26T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-26T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
RNA Innovation Seminar (November 26, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55321 55321-13716057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 26, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Molly Kuo
MD, PhD candidate from the Antonellis Lab

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Abby Lamb
PhD candidate from the Wittkopp Lab

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Nov 2018 08:30:29 -0500 2018-11-26T15:00:00-05:00 2018-11-26T16:00:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion logo
Celebrating Science & Art (November 27, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-27T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-27T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (November 28, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-28T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-28T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
How cells break the bones that power their movements (November 28, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54843 54843-13645312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 9:30am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

2018 Cell & Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Hosted by:
CDB students

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Sep 2018 16:21:32 -0400 2018-11-28T09:30:00-05:00 2018-11-28T10:30:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Enrique De La Cruz
Celebrating Science & Art (November 29, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 29, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-29T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
EEB Thursday Seminar: The evolution of polymorphic hybrid male sterility in house mice (November 29, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49656 49656-11487541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 29, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Reproductive barriers are often thought of as fixed between species, yet recently diverged species often have polymorphic reproductive incompatibilities. This lecture will focus on the genetic basis of variable hybrid male sterility in house mice. I will focus on two mechanisms— transmission ratio distortion of hybrid incompatibilities and the regulatory disruption of the X chromosome during spermatogenesis. I will also discuss the implications of this variation on gene flow in the house mouse hybrid zone, and the maintenance of species boundaries.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/SifCbvHVnpI

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Dec 2018 09:22:33 -0500 2018-11-29T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion house mouse
Celebrating Science & Art (November 30, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 30, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-11-30T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-30T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Biologically Fabricated Materials from Engineered Microbes (November 30, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57174 57174-14121977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 30, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Matt Chapman
Abstract: The intersection between synthetic biology and materials science is an underexplored area with great potential to positively affect our daily lives, with applications ranging from manufacturing to medicine. My group is interested in harnessing the biosynthetic potential of microbes, not only as factories for the production of raw materials, but as fabrication plants that can orchestrate the assembly of complex functional materials. We call this approach “biologically fabricated materials”, a process whose goal is to genetically program microbes to assemble materials from protein-based building blocks without the need for time consuming and expensive purification protocols or specialized equipment. Accordingly, we have developed Biofilm Integrated Nanofiber Display (BIND), which relies on the biologically directed assembly of biofilm matrix proteins of the curli system in E. coli. We demonstrate that bacterial cells can be programmed to synthesize a range of functional materials with straightforward genetic engineering techniques. The resulting materials are highly customizable and easy to fabricate, and we are investigating their use for practical uses ranging from bioremediation to engineered therapeutic probiotics.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 29 Oct 2018 16:25:55 -0400 2018-11-30T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-30T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar globe with biofilms
Going, Going, Gone (November 30, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57779 57779-14306134@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 30, 2018 4:30pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

John Megahan is the senior scientific illustrator at the Museum of Zoology at the University of Michigan since 1996. He holds a Master in Biology and eventually discovered the profession of biological illustration. He committed to freelance biological illustration for several years before joining the Museum of Zoology. While John enjoys the challenge of doing illustrations for others, he finds that as he matures, expressing his own artistic vision is becoming important to him. He is now looking forward to creating art that reflects his own interpretations of nature, life and the environment.

This exhibit gives a peek at the kinds of topics he hopes to pursue. He painted species that are threatened, endangered or have disappeared from Michigan and also of the flying squirrel, species that is being carefully watched by biologists as its distribution is changing and they are not sure why. He invites the viewer to see the show and find out about some interesting theories.

Going, Going, Gone runs from November through January.

Visit the website: www.seas.umich.edu/gallery For more information contact: Sara Adlerstein adlerste@umich.edu

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Exhibition Thu, 29 Nov 2018 10:55:01 -0500 2018-11-30T16:30:00-05:00 2018-11-30T17:30:00-05:00 Dana Natural Resources Building School for Environment and Sustainability Exhibition Artic Grayling
Celebrating Science & Art (December 1, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399252@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 1, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-12-01T08:00:00-05:00 2018-12-01T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (December 2, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399253@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 2, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-12-02T08:00:00-05:00 2018-12-02T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (December 3, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399254@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 3, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-12-03T08:00:00-05:00 2018-12-03T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
RNA Innovation Seminar (December 3, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55327 55327-13716062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 3, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Huaqun Zhang, PhD
Postdoctoral research fellow from the Keane Lab
"Biophysical study of the RNA thermosensor prfA-UTR" 

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Meredith Purchal, PhD candidate co-mentored in Markos Koutmos Lab and the Kristin Koutmou Lab
"Deciphering the Structure and Function of mRNA-Modifying Pseudouridine Synthases"

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Nov 2018 14:10:18 -0500 2018-12-03T15:00:00-05:00 2018-12-03T16:00:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion logo
Medical School Inside Story (December 3, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53954 53954-13504383@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 3, 2018 5:00pm
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Science Learning Center

Do you have questions about medical school admissions? Get your answers straight from the inside! U-M Medical School Admissions Director Carol Teener will demystify medical school applications, expectations, and reviews in her presentation. Please submit your questions via the form linked on the registration page, and Director Teener will answer as many as possible in the allotted hour.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Aug 2018 13:15:16 -0400 2018-12-03T17:00:00-05:00 2018-12-03T18:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar
Celebrating Science & Art (December 4, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399255@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-12-04T08:00:00-05:00 2018-12-04T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Bioethics Discussion: Suicide (December 4, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49428 49428-11453770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on our (chosen?) ends.

Readings to consider:
"The myth of Sisyphus"
"The ethics of suicide"
"Suicide: rationality and responsibility for life"
"Suicide responsibility of hospital and psychiatrist"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/022-suicide/.

Please consider the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/. (And your own health and well-being if you're in that place in your life right now.)


[If you and/or someone you know is currently feeling suicidal, please feel free to reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-8255.]

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 15 Sep 2018 03:27:01 -0400 2018-12-04T19:00:00-05:00 2018-12-04T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Suicide
Celebrating Science & Art (December 5, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 5, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-12-05T08:00:00-05:00 2018-12-05T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Celebrating Science & Art (December 6, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399257@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 6, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-12-06T08:00:00-05:00 2018-12-06T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
LSI Seminar Series: Elizabeth Villa, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego (December 6, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56891 56891-14021554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 6, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Speaker:

Elizabeth Villa, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Division of Biological Sciences at the University of California San Diego. She completed her Ph.D. in biophysics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a Fulbright Fellow and then was a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich. In 2016, she was granted an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, which allows her to pursue high-risk, high-reward research developing tags for cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) and developing new technological and computational techniques to advance structural cell biology. In 2017, she was named a Pew Scholar.


Abstract:

To perform their function, biological systems need to operate across multiple scales. Current techniques in structural and cellular biology lack either the resolution or the context to observe the structure of individual biomolecules in their natural environment and are often hindered by artifacts. Our goal is to build tools that can reveal molecular structures in their native cellular environment. Using the power of cryo-electron tomography (CET) to image biomolecules at molecular resolution in situ, we are building tools to make compatible with, and directly comparable to, biophysical and cell biology experiments, capturing the structural behavior of macromolecules in action under controlled conditions. I will show how we used these techniques to reveal the structure of LRRK2, the greatest known genetic contributor to Parkinson’s disease, and to reveal the molecular architecture of bacterial cells.

Lunch will be provided to attendees.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Nov 2018 11:25:56 -0500 2018-12-06T12:00:00-05:00 2018-12-06T13:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion Elizabeth Villa, Ph.D.
A Nobel Symposium. Learn about the 2018 Nobel Prizes (December 6, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57643 57643-14246156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 6, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Five U-M scholars discuss the work, impact, and personality of the Laureates of this year's five Nobel Prizes. (There will be snacks and coffee throughout the afternoon)

1PM PHYSICS - Ted Norris - Electrical Engineering & Computer Science will discuss the Physics prize shared by UM Emeritus Gérard Mourou and his then protegee Donna Strickland; and Arthur Ashkin. They are all recognized for their work on 'Tools made of light'.

1:45PM CHEMISTRY - James Bardwell - Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, will discuss the Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners which include Frances H Arnold - for her work on the 'directed evolution of enzymes'; and George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter for 'the phage display of peptide and antibodies'.

2:30PM MEDICINE - Weiping Zou - Pathology, Immunology, Biology & Surgery, will discuss the prize being awarded to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo 'for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation'.

3:15PM ECONOMICS - Ellen Hughes-Cromwick - UM Energy Institute, will discuss the work of Prize recipients William D. Nordhaus and Paul M. Romer - for 'integrating climate change' (the former) and for 'integrating technological innovations' (the latter) 'into long-run macroeconomic analysis'.

4PM PEACE - Ragnhild Nordaas, Political Science - will talk about the work of Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, who both focus on 'courageously combating war crimes and seeking justice for victims'.

Each presentation will be 45 minutes (30 minutes presentation, with approx. 15 minutes questions and discussion).

Illustrations of Nobel Peace Prize Winners reprinted with permission of the illustration artist Niklas Elmehed. Copyright Nobel Media.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 06 Dec 2018 08:36:37 -0500 2018-12-06T13:00:00-05:00 2018-12-06T16:45:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Conference / Symposium Nobel Peace Prize winners Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad Ill. Niklas Elmehed - reprinted with permission
EEB Thursday Seminar: The evolutionary ecology of malaria transmission, a parasite’s perspective (December 6, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49657 49657-11487542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 6, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

All sexually reproducing organisms face a trade-off in allocating resources between growth and reproduction, and understanding the resolution to this life history trade-offs is a main aim in evolutionary ecology. Malaria parasites face the same trade-off, but their allocation of resources will have implications for disease severity and infectiousness. I will discuss how processes acting at different biological scales should shape the evolution of resource allocation in malaria parasites, what this means for clinical and epidemiological outcomes, and the extent to which subtle shifts in parasite life history traits may help them evade the effects of drugs.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/XGtoWmb5QPU

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Dec 2018 09:23:36 -0500 2018-12-06T16:00:00-05:00 2018-12-06T17:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion Parasite Malaria Transmission
Celebrating Science & Art (December 7, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53532 53532-13399258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 7, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:04 -0400 2018-12-07T08:00:00-05:00 2018-12-07T20:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Rose Garden by U-M BioArtography. High resolution version available upon request.
Using biorobotics to investigate cue integration and neural mechanisms of navigation in ants (December 7, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57175 57175-14121978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 7, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Co-Hosts: Josie Clowney and Talia Moore
Lunch reception at 1pm

Professor Webb researches and models the sensorimotor capabilities of insects. This ranges from simple reflexive behaviours such as the phonotaxis of crickets, to more complex capabilities such as multimodal integration, navigation and learning. Her lab carries out behavioral experiments on insects, but principally works on computational models of the underlying neural mechanisms, which are often embedded on robot hardware.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 06 Dec 2018 11:06:56 -0500 2018-12-07T12:00:00-05:00 2018-12-07T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar portrait of barbara webb with robotic device and cartoon ants
Community-Academic Collaboration on Drinking Water Contamination by Fluorinated Compounds: in the Cape Fear (NC) River Basin (December 11, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57880 57880-14366050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Midlife Science

Seminar and Webinar - Dr. Hoppin and Mr. Burdette will share their experiences and provide background information on the collaboration processes, the experience with blood testing and other biomonitoring as part of community engagement, and describe the GenX Exposure Study. Discussion topics include the importance of credibility in exposure research and lessons learned in the collaborative process.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Nov 2018 13:04:29 -0500 2018-12-11T12:00:00-05:00 2018-12-11T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Midlife Science Workshop / Seminar Flyer CEC+IHSC 12-11-2018
Single-cell Decomposition of Vertebrate Cell Fate Hierarchies and Control Logic (December 11, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58354 58354-14483758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Faculty Candidate
Host: Anuj Kumar

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 10 Dec 2018 11:50:18 -0500 2018-12-11T12:00:00-05:00 2018-12-11T13:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar mcdb logo and microscope
Dissertation defense: Integrated analysis of the gut microbiota and their fermentation products in mice treated with the longevity enhancing drug acarbose (December 12, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57497 57497-14202434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 9:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Byron defends his Ph.D. dissertation

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Presentation Wed, 12 Dec 2018 14:14:09 -0500 2018-12-12T09:00:00-05:00 2018-12-12T10:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Presentation graphs of survival
RNA Innovation Seminar (December 17, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55324 55324-13716059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 17, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

1.) Monika Franco
PhD candidate from the Kristin Koutmou Lab
"Modification of mRNA can alter translation elongation, fidelity, and termination" 

2.) Gulzhan Raiymbek, PhD
Postdoc researcher from the Ragunathan Lab
"A non-enzymatic function associated with a putative histone demethylase regulates heterochromatin spreading and inheritance"

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Nov 2018 11:11:53 -0500 2018-12-17T15:00:00-05:00 2018-12-17T16:00:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion logo
Molecular Mechanisms of Dynein Regulation by Lis1 (December 18, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58362 58362-14485819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 18, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Faculty Candidate
Host: Anuj Kumar

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:28:01 -0500 2018-12-18T12:00:00-05:00 2018-12-18T13:00:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar mcdb logo and microscope
How Wnt signaling modulates cell shape and organization to facilitate the formation of tubules (December 20, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58495 58495-14510817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 20, 2018 10:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Ann Miller

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 13 Dec 2018 13:56:38 -0500 2018-12-20T10:00:00-05:00 2018-12-20T11:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar mcdb logo and microscope
Monarch Butterfly Migration (January 9, 2019 6:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58253 58253-14450643@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 9, 2019 6:45pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

André Green, a U-M Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, talks about how classical behavioral and physiological analyses are being combined with modern molecular, genetics and genomics tools to reveal hidden details of monarch migration biology. Presented by Wild Ones Ann Arbor.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Dec 2018 10:00:13 -0500 2019-01-09T18:45:00-05:00 2019-01-09T20:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Lecture / Discussion
Charting "Unknown" Metabolism with Organelle Precision (January 10, 2019 11:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58364 58364-14485821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 10, 2019 11:45am
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

MCDB Faculty Candidate
Host: JK Nandakumar

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:31:14 -0500 2019-01-10T11:45:00-05:00 2019-01-10T12:45:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar mcdb logo and microscope
LSI Seminar Series: Justin Taraska, Ph.D., National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (January 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57663 57663-14252624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Abstract:

The plasma membrane separates the cell’s interior from the outside world. The exchange of information and material across this barrier is regulated by a multitude of channels, transporters, receptors, and trafficking organelles. Mapping the structure and dynamics of the plasma membrane is key to understanding how cells function. Electron microscopy can produce high resolution images of the structure of the plasma membrane. It has been challenging, however, to identify proteins within these samples. Super-resolution localization microscopy can image specific fluorescently-labeled molecules with better than 20 nm precision. We recently developed a correlative super-resolution light and platinum replica EM method (CLEM) that couples these complementary methods to produce images where identified proteins are mapped within the dense structural context of the cell at the nanoscale. This correlative method is uniquely suited to map the nanometer-scale molecular organization of the plasma membrane and associated organelles. Using this CLEM method, we studied 19 key proteins involved in clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Our data provide a comprehensive molecular architecture of endocytic vesicles. We discover that key endocytic proteins distribute into three distinct spatial zones: inside, outside, and at the edge of the clathrin coat in human cells. The presence and amount of many factors within these zones change during organelle maturation. We propose that the formation and curvature of single clathrin-coated vesicles is driven by the recruitment, re-organization, and loss of proteins within these three partitioned nanoscale zones during endocytosis.

Lunch will be provided to attendees.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Nov 2018 11:33:13 -0500 2019-01-10T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-10T13:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion Justin Taraska, Ph.D.
Bioethics Discussion: Race (January 15, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49429 49429-11453772@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on (in)equality that is more than skin deep.

Readings to consider:
"Racial disparity in emergency department triage"
"Dealing with the realities of race and ethnicity"
"Race/ethnicity and success in academic medicine"
"Race and trust in the healthcare system"
"Why bioethics has a race problem"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/023-race/.

Feel free to visit the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 15 Sep 2018 03:28:05 -0400 2019-01-15T19:00:00-05:00 2019-01-15T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Race
Seminar: Genomic and functional approaches to studying cancer aneuploidy (January 16, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59297 59297-14728277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Studying aneuploidy in cancer models is necessary in order to functionally dissect the role(s) of aneuploidy in tumorigenesis, and to identify cellular vulnerabilities of aneuploid cancer cells. In order to properly use cancer models in aneuploidy research, we must understand how faithful their aneuploidy landscapes are to those of their tumors-of-origin, and dissect their heterogeneity and stability throughout model propagation. In my postdoctoral work I studied three major cancer models to gain insights into cancer aneuploidy, and – at the same time – I studied aneuploidy landscapes to gain insights into the genomic evolution of cancer models.
In a first study, I generated a comprehensive catalogue of aneuploidy in breast cancer mouse models. Mining this novel resource, I found that chromosomal aberrations accumulated late during breast tumorigenesis, and observed marked differences in aneuploidy patterns across mouse mammary tumours initiated with distinct drivers. I then used the mouse data to narrow down the region-of-interest in one of the most recurrent chromosomal changes in human breast cancer (chr1p loss), and identified a gene (Sfn) that contributes to the recurrence of this aneuploidy (Ben-David et al. Nature Communications 2016).
In a second study, I analyzed tumors from patient-derived xenografts (PDXs) and revealed distinct trajectories of aneuploidy evolution in patients and in mice. Importantly, some recurrent aneuploidies that tended to disappear in PDX models were associated with drug response to anticancer therapies (Ben-David et al. Nature Genetics 2017).
In a third study, I analyzed cancer cell lines and characterized how their genomic evolution altered their transcriptional programs and drug response. This work exposed associations between recurrent chromosomal changes and drug response, and yielded a novel genetically-matched system to study cancer aneuploidy.
I will discuss common themes emerging from these studies, highlighting their relevance to our understanding of cancer aneuploidy and their implications for working with cancer model systems.

Speaker bio:
Uri did his Ph.D. with Nissim Benvenisty at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. His research in the Benvenisty lab focused on the chromosomal instability and the tumorigenicity of human pluripotent stem cells. In the summer of 2014 Uri joined the laboratory of Dr. Todd Golub, the Director of the Cancer Program at the Broad Institute. In his postdoctoral work, Uri combined experimental and computational approaches to studying cancer aneuploidy. His work also sheds light on the faithfulness, heterogeneity and stability of commonly used cancer models.

Sponsored by the Life Sciences Institute, Internal Medicine, and Pathology.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Jan 2019 15:42:08 -0500 2019-01-16T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-16T15:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Workshop / Seminar Dr. Uri Ben-David
Michigan in Washington Information Session (January 16, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59244 59244-14719626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from any major to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology). The semester in Washington is action packed. Students work four days a week, attend an elective one evening a week and a research course on Friday mornings. They spend their weekends exploring the city and taking in cultural events. Most leave Washington longing to return.

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, Greenpeace, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
FUNDING is available for this living and learning program.

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Meeting Mon, 07 Jan 2019 14:39:39 -0500 2019-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 2019-01-16T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
mitoCPR – A Stress Response that Maintains Mitochondria Homeostasis (January 17, 2019 11:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58365 58365-14485822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 17, 2019 11:45am
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

MCDB Faculty Candidate
Host: Y Wang

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:30:08 -0500 2019-01-17T11:45:00-05:00 2019-01-17T12:45:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar mcdb logo and microscope
EEB Thursday Seminar: Tropical mountains: biodiversity hotspots and hotbeds for studying evolutionary diversification (January 17, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49658 49658-11487543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 17, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Abstract
Northern South America is a hotspot of biological diversity and endemism in various groups, including birds. Thus, understanding the factors promoting high diversity in this region is central to biogeography and macroecology. Although some studies focused on understanding environmental factors associated with global patterns of diversity have revealed strong effects of contemporary climate and energy availability on such patterns, some have had limited success in predicting species richness in montane areas, where many range-restricted species are concentrated. Because present-day diversity reflects not only contemporary and local conditions but also historical and regional processes, the high diversity of birds in the Neotropics birds may be partly explained by high opportunities for evolutionary diversification. Therefore, an adequate understanding of tropical biodiversity requires a link between ecology and evolutionary biology to consider mechanisms promoting species coexistence as well the influence of processes of speciation, extinction, and dispersal. In this talk I will explore evolutionary hypotheses posed account for replacement of related species along elevational gradients, one of the patterns accounting for high beta diversity in tropical mountains. I will also present examples of my studies on biogeography, and speciation of Neotropical vertebrates to illustrate historical processes that may have led to their high diversity, including the role of changes in migratory behavior in speciation in birds, and the influence of asynchronous breeding seasons resulting from spatial variation in climate driving population divergence in birds and amphibians.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/vJuBV34tcYM

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Apr 2019 12:12:00 -0400 2019-01-17T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-17T17:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion Scenic view of mountains and clouds
Understanding Social Communication Systems with Homology Theory (January 22, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59209 59209-14717513@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Current theoretical explorations of social communication systems rely on dyadic network-based representations of knowledge sharing. Real-world systems, however, frequently involve larger groups inter-communicating simultaneously. While some of these larger group interactions can be well approximated dyadically, others are left without a natural mathematical description for study. This talk will present some initial work tailoring concepts of simplicial sets from homology theory to address some of these questions and will demonstrate some simulation-based results with direct implication for communication systems. We will conclude with some discussion of how these perspectives might let us design efficient social groups to best accomplish different types of communication.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 16 Jan 2019 14:21:09 -0500 2019-01-22T11:30:00-05:00 2019-01-22T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar FeffermanSeminarFlyer
Structural Insights into the 7SK Core RNP, a Major Regulator of Eukaryotic Transcription (January 22, 2019 11:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58366 58366-14485823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 11:45am
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

MCDB Faculty Candidate
Host: JK Nandakumar

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 17 Dec 2018 14:54:22 -0500 2019-01-22T11:45:00-05:00 2019-01-22T12:45:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar cartoon microscope on background of micro images
Linking a dose-response model to observed infection to describe spatial-temporal patterns in a Q fever outbreak (January 22, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59717 59717-14780104@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: Center for Midlife Science

Abstract: We explore a Netherlands outbreak of Q fever in 2009 by combining a human dose–response model with geostatistics to predict local probability of infection, associated probability of illness, and local effective exposures to Coxiella burnetii. We begin with the spatial distribution of 220 notified cases in the at–risk population. Next, we use the dose-response relationship (established via historical experiments) to convert the observed risk map into an estimated smooth spatial field of local dose. Based on the observed symptomatic cases, the dose–response model predicts a median of 611 asymptomatic infections (95% range 410 to 1,084), i.e., 2.78 (95% range 1.86 to 4.93) asymptomatic infections for each reported case. The estimated peak levels of exposure extend to the north–east from the point source with an increasing proportion of asymptomatic infections further from the source. Our work combines established methodology from model-based geostatistics and dose-response modeling providing a novel approach to study outbreaks. Such predictions (and associated uncertainties) are important for targeting interventions during an outbreak, estimating future disease burden, and planning public health response.

Joint work with R. John Brooke, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis TN; Peter FM Teunis, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, RIVM, Bilthoven, the Netherlands; Mirjam EE Kretzschmar, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands. Sponsored by: Integrated Health Sciences Core of the Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 14 Jan 2019 15:50:18 -0500 2019-01-22T13:00:00-05:00 2019-01-22T14:00:00-05:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) Center for Midlife Science Lecture / Discussion 2019 Environmental Statistics Day
Beyond Carbon Neutral Seed Funding Final Outcomes Meeting (January 23, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60012 60012-14812550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 10:00am
Location: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

As the Energy Institute's Beyond Carbon Neutral Project merges into the Global CO2 Initiative, this mini-symposium will summarize the project's research outcomes and next steps. Please join us to hear exciting research outcomes from 14 interdisciplinary faculty teams.

Condensed agenda:
1. Introductions & Welcome by Anna Stefanopoulou & Bart Bartlett 10:00 AM
2. The Global CO2 Initiative at the University of Michigan Volker Sick 10:15 AM
3. Team Presentations of Seed Funding Results
Technical approaches 10:35-11:10 AM
Biological approaches 11:17-11:38 AM
Social science considerations 11:46 AM-12:00PM

About The Global CO2 Initiative:
The Global CO2 Initiative at the University of Michigan aims to reduce atmospheric CO2 levels by 4 gigatons per year by 2030. We fund and conduct research to transform CO2 into commercially successful products using technology assessment, technology development and commercialization. The Initiative will identify and assist with economics understanding and policy levers needed to speed progress of carbon-based product deployment, while gauging public perception of and interest in these products.
As global CO2 emissions continue to accelerate, a diverse set of solutions is critical to reduce, reverse and remove carbon dioxide emissions to prevent further atmospheric warming. Paired with the deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency products, decarbonization technologies and methods can help achieve global climate goals in this century.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 18 Jan 2019 10:53:56 -0500 2019-01-23T10:00:00-05:00 2019-01-23T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project University of Michigan Energy Institute Conference / Symposium Steven Ragsdale BCN
Michigan in Washington Information Session (January 23, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59244 59244-14719627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from any major to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology). The semester in Washington is action packed. Students work four days a week, attend an elective one evening a week and a research course on Friday mornings. They spend their weekends exploring the city and taking in cultural events. Most leave Washington longing to return.

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, Greenpeace, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
FUNDING is available for this living and learning program.

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Meeting Mon, 07 Jan 2019 14:39:39 -0500 2019-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 2019-01-23T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
Organizational Principles of 3D Genome Architecture (January 24, 2019 11:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58367 58367-14485824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 24, 2019 11:45am
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

MCDB Faculty Candidate
Host: Laura Buttitta

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:28:56 -0500 2019-01-24T11:45:00-05:00 2019-01-24T12:45:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar microscope image stained tissue
EEB Thursday Seminar Series: Towards understanding the evolution of plant diversity in a biodiversity hotspot: insights from integrative systematics (January 24, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49659 49659-11487544@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 24, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Understanding the origin and evolution of biodiversity is one of the main aims of systematics. Because the mountains of South America are hotspots of plant diversity, they provide an ideal opportunity to study the role that geographic and ecological factors play in the origin and evolution of plant species. In this seminar, I will present an "integrative systematics" analysis of Escallonia, an eco-phenotypically diverse group of shrubs widely distributed in montane South America. Integrating phylogenetic, biogeographic, and bioclimatic analyses with a multidimensional approach to species delimitation, I show that the majority of species in Escallonia have diversified across environmental gradients in close geographic proximity. This is consistent with the hypothesis that parapatric speciation has been the main diversification mechanism in these plants, and suggests that ecological factors may be key forces in generating and maintaining plant species diversity in the mountains of South America.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/Wo4kxiE51W4

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Apr 2019 12:13:21 -0400 2019-01-24T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion Map of South America with phylogeny
Seminar: Single-cell analysis reveals regulatory network disruption in acute myeloid leukemia (January 28, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60149 60149-14840464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 28, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Single-cell technologies can provide unprecedented insights into tissue heterogeneity of normal blood and acute myeloid leukemia (AML). We monitored stress signaling in single cells to understand how hematopoietic and leukemia stem cells balance survival and apoptosis. Furthermore, we combined single-cell RNA-sequencing and genotyping to define AML cell types and their malignant properties. Uncovering principles of normal blood development and leukemia will ultimately lead to therapies that can eliminate heterogeneous AML cells.

Speaker bio:
Peter van Galen investigates fundamental mechanisms that maintain normal hematopoiesis and acute myeloid leukemia (AML). He uses innovative and single-cell technologies to study the stem cells that sustain these complex tissues, a theme that was carried forward from his Ph.D. work with Dr. John Dick (Toronto) to his postdoc with Dr. Bradley Bernstein (Boston). The first area of research focuses on hematopoietic and leukemia stem cell (HSC and LSC) maintenance during stress. He implicated the Unfolded Protein Response and Integrated Stress Response as critical pathways that control HSC and LSC fate by balancing apoptosis and survival. The second area of research focuses on transcriptional control of normal and malignant tissue hierarchies by transcription factors and epigenetic regulation. He also combined single-cell transcriptional and genetic profiling with machine learning to define malignant AML cell types, revealing disruption of regulatory networks and drivers of malignant progression. Ultimately, van Galen aims to use innovative technologies and bioinformatics to uncover the organizing principles of normal and malignant blood systems, with the goal of discovering therapies that can eliminate heterogeneous AML cells.

Sponsored by the Life Sciences Institute, Internal Medicine, and Pathology.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Jan 2019 15:22:24 -0500 2019-01-28T13:00:00-05:00 2019-01-28T14:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Workshop / Seminar Dr. Peter van Galen
Mental Health Awareness Workshop (January 28, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60143 60143-14840457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 28, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: STEM in Color

STEM in Color is pleased to invite you and your colleagues to our mental health awareness workshop: “How to Save a Life: Strategies for Addressing Mental Health Challenges in STEM and a Call for Cultural Change”. For this occasion, we have specifically partnered with the University of Michigan’s Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) to develop a workshop that will not only raise awareness surrounding the mental health challenges faced by our community, but one that will equip participants with research based strategies for promoting mental well-being through prevention, intervention, and coping mechanisms.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Jan 2019 13:09:38 -0500 2019-01-28T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-28T15:30:00-05:00 Palmer Commons STEM in Color Workshop / Seminar Mental Health Workshop
NO EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar this week (January 29, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60357 60357-14866451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

There's no seminar today. See you next week!

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 24 Jan 2019 13:23:54 -0500 2019-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-29T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Biological Sciences Building
Bioethics Discussion: Gender (January 29, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49430 49430-11453774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on who we are, who society sees, and who we want to be.

Readings to consider:
"Doing gender"
"For whom the burden tolls"
"Performative acts and gender constitution"
"The restroom revolution: unisex toilets and campus politics"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/024-gender/.

Take a look at the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 15 Sep 2018 03:29:55 -0400 2019-01-29T19:00:00-05:00 2019-01-29T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Gender
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Seminar (January 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60411 60411-14875271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Robert A. Coleman, PhD (Asst. Prof., Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology in the Gruss-Lipper Biophotonics Center at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine) will present the following abstract: Years of biochemical experiments have led to the identification of the eukaryotic transcription machinery and a static view of gene regulation. However, mechanisms controlling the dynamics of transcriptional regulation inside a crowded nucleus remains poorly understood. Recent advances in single molecule imaging have begun to shine light on these mechanisms, providing an unprecedented dynamic view of transcriptional regulation in live cells. We and others have found that transcription factors form dynamic hubs of activity in select nuclear compartments. I will discuss how formation of these hubs and recognition of genomic targets is regulated by interactions between transcription factors and the histone tails of chromatin. Transcription factors cycle on and off of their chromatin targets within these hubs on the order of seconds that likely reflect dynamic rates of chromatin remodeling, RNA Polymerase II convoy formation and transcriptional output of a gene. These findings are put into context describing how expression of the p21 cell cycle arrest gene is dynamically regulated by the tumor suppressor p53 protein and chromatin remodelers.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 25 Jan 2019 16:10:59 -0500 2019-01-30T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Postponed Due to Weather - A Bioethical Lunch on Publishing and Peer Review (January 31, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54451 54451-13585502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 31, 2019 12:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

[CANCELED DUE TO THE UNIVERSITY SHUTDOWN. Our apologies.]

A lunchtime discussion on the ethics of publishing in science and the peer-review system, with special guest Nick Kotov.

Please note the location of the event is now at NCRC B10 G065. Sorry about any confusion.

Please RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/pTU6Py3FAZn1iSLm1

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 31 Jan 2019 10:42:45 -0500 2019-01-31T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-31T13:30:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Race and gender
CANCELED: EEB Seminar Series: Robots, telemetry, & the sex lives of wild birds: using technology to study courtship and conservation (February 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49660 49660-11487545@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Dr. Patricelli's travel plans were canceled due to the polar vortex. Organizers hope to reschedule in the fall.

Males in many species must convince females to mate by producing elaborate courtship displays tuned to female preferences, like the song of a cricket or the train of a peacock. But courtship in many species is more like a negotiation than an advertisement, thus in addition to elaborate signals, success in courtship may require tactical skills. These skills may include the ability to choose a flattering display site, respond appropriately to female courtship signals, and adjust display investment in response to the marketplace of other males and females. My lab has been investigating courtship negotiations in greater sage-grouse, which mate in an open marketplace of competing males and choosing females (the lek). I will discuss experiments using robotic females to investigate courtship interactions between the sexes. I will also discuss ongoing research investigating how off-lek foraging behaviors affect on-lek displays, and how this basic science has informed my lab's research into human impacts on lekking activities.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:13:41 -0500 2019-02-01T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-01T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion bird in snow
Seminar: Regulation of gene expression by altered composition of chromatin remodeling complexes (February 4, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60405 60405-14875267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 4, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Abstract:
Chromatin remodeling plays a critical role in regulating all processes that require access to DNA. There are four families of chromatin remodelers, defined by the ATPase subunit of the complex. Although each family is often treated as a singular entity, in reality, the composition of remodeling complexes can vary greatly based on the inclusion of different subunits. SWI/SNF is the chromatin remodeler that best exemplifies the idea of compositional heterogeneity. More than half of its 12-15 subunits can be filled by mutually exclusive proteins. Despite the many studies on the function of SWI/SNF, considerably fewer have focused on regulation of assembly and composition of the complex. The goal of my lab is to understand how the composition of a chromatin remodeling complex is regulated, and how altered chromatin remodeling disrupts normal chromatin state and contributes to disease. My work integrates quantitative genomics, biochemistry, and molecular biology to develop a mechanistic understanding of how changes to the composition of a chromatin remodeling complex affects its function.

Speaker:
Jesse Raab received his Ph.D. from The University of California Santa Cruz working with Dr. Rohinton Kamakaka to uncover the role of human tRNA genes as chromatin insulator elements. In 2012, he joined the lab of Terry Magnuson to study how changes to the composition of chromatin remodeling complexes affect their function. He is now a research assistant professor in the Department of Genetics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he has continued his research to understand how disruption of chromatin remodeling complex composition contributes to disease.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 25 Jan 2019 14:38:30 -0500 2019-02-04T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-04T16:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion Jesse Raab, Ph.D.
Gut microbiota and Host: The Fight for Iron (February 6, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60544 60544-14908153@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 9:00am
Location: Medical Science Unit II
Organized By: Microbiome Group

Dietary acquisition and intestinal absorption in the mammals is the only way by which its systemic iron requirement is fulfilled. We harbor a diverse group of microbial population in our intestines that also rely on host diet for their iron. It is unclear if and how the gut microbiota compete with the host iron absorption pathways. Germ free (GF) and control mice fed with iron-sufficient (350 ppm), moderately iron-containing (35 ppm) and iron-deficient (<5ppm) diets for 2 weeks demonstrated a significant resistance to iron deficiency anemia in the GF compared to the controls. This provides the first evidence of a reciprocal competition between host and commensals for limiting dietary iron. Interestingly, commensals possess an active mechanism that is inhibitory to the host iron transport system. Using a high throughput microbial screen, we demonstrate that gut microbiota produce metabolites that suppresses iron absorptive mechanisms. Specifically, we identified 1,3-diaminopropane (DAP) and reuterin as inhibitors of the master transcription factor for intestinal iron absorption, HIF-2a. This suggested that probiotic based therapies could be utilized in iron overload disorders. Both DAP and reuterin effectively ameliorated systemic iron overload in a mouse model, suggesting these microbiota derived novel HIF-2a inhibitors could be strong candidates for the treatment of various forms of iron overload disorders in human.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 Jan 2019 10:40:59 -0500 2019-02-06T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-06T10:00:00-05:00 Medical Science Unit II Microbiome Group Workshop / Seminar
State of the Union 2019 Debrief (February 6, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60189 60189-14917072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy

Join us for lunch and discussion focused on the 2019 State of the Union, and reflections on this year in science policy. RSVP so we can order enough food: https://goo.gl/forms/wwJeexu2J4nsoRls1

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Meeting Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:50:30 -0500 2019-02-06T13:00:00-05:00 2019-02-06T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy Meeting SOTU 2019 flyer
Thesis Defense: Mechanisms of DNA Repair and DNA Damage Dependent Cell Cycle Control in Bacillus subtilis (February 6, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60840 60840-14972972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Simmons Lab

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Feb 2019 13:44:28 -0500 2019-02-06T13:00:00-05:00 2019-02-06T14:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar BSB Building
Michigan in Washington Information Session (February 6, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59244 59244-14719629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 45-50 undergraduates from any major to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science and technology). The semester in Washington is action packed. Students work four days a week, attend an elective one evening a week and a research course on Friday mornings. They spend their weekends exploring the city and taking in cultural events. Most leave Washington longing to return.

Students are free to pursue internships of their own choosing. They are coached in internship searching strategies as part of a prep class that is taken the semester before going to D.C. Students have interned at the White House, the Smithsonian, CNN, Greenpeace, CBS, Public Defender’s Service, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, NAACP, The Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, National Defense University, Partnership for Public Service, Center for American Progress, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and many others.
FUNDING is available for this living and learning program.

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Meeting Mon, 07 Jan 2019 14:39:39 -0500 2019-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 2019-02-06T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Michigan in Washington Program Meeting Haven Hall
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (February 6, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-02-06T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-06T19:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
EEB Thursday Seminar: Species, speciation, and the origins of biological diversity (February 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49661 49661-11487546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Abstract
Speciation – the process by which new species originate – is a fundamental process in evolutionary biology. Under the biological species concept, a species is a set of populations that are united by gene flow and which maintain independence from other such populations through the property of reproductive isolation. For this reason, the study of speciation has largely been equated with the study of genetic barriers to gene exchange between populations. Here, I describe an expanded framework for conceptualizing speciation that emphasizes key roles for processes other than reproductive isolation in the origins of biological diversity. These additional factors include those that affect the origin and persistence of demographically-isolated populations. I develop a general test for quantifying the contribution of these and other processes to the speciation, and I apply the framework to several vertebrate clades. I describe limits to our understanding of evolution that follow from a near-exclusive focus on reproductive isolation in speciation biology.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/kD1qEyO9p5Q

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 30 Apr 2019 12:14:49 -0400 2019-02-07T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar green snake curled up
Rhythmic Transcriptomes: Circadian or Sleep-Wake Driven? (February 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60204 60204-14849074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Sara Aton

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Feb 2019 12:13:29 -0500 2019-02-08T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-08T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar cartoon layers of sleep controls
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (February 10, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 10, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-02-10T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-10T19:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
Bioethics Discussion: Circumcision (February 12, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49431 49431-11453775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on health, tradition, and mutilation.

Readings to consider:
"Male circumcision"
"Female genital alteration: a compromise solution"
"Female genital mutilation and male circumcision: toward an autonomy-based ethical framework"
"Rationalising circumcision"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/025-circumcision/.

Feel free to visit the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 15 Sep 2018 03:30:45 -0400 2019-02-12T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-12T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Circumcision
Proteostasis in dendrites: Regulating endosomal flux for lysosomal degradation (February 13, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59113 59113-14684210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 9:30am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

2019 Cell & Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Hosted by:
Roman Giger and Bing Ye

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Jan 2019 10:13:40 -0500 2019-02-13T09:30:00-05:00 2019-02-13T10:30:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Bettina Winckler
DCMB Seminar on Wed 13 Feb || Michael Feig, PhD (Prof. of MSU) (February 13, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60987 60987-15000014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Biological macromolecules function in dense, crowded cellular environments. Early studies of crowding effects have emphasized volume exclusion effects, but it is becoming clear that frequent non-specific interactions between proteins, nucleic acids, and metabolites may be the more important factor in modulating the structure and dynamics of biomolecules. Computer simulation studies at different scales of a series of models ranging from concentrated homogeneous protein solutions to models of bacterial cytoplasms are presented to explore the effects of non-specific quinary protein-protein interactions on protein stability and dynamics. One focus is on the formation of transient clusters that determine diffusive properties and lead to liquid-liquid phase transitions. The computational results are related to existing experimental data and the challenges and opportunities to expand the current studies to whole-cell modeling in molecular detail are discussed.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Feb 2019 14:11:52 -0500 2019-02-13T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (February 13, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970710@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-02-13T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-13T19:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
EEB Thursday Seminar Series: Mutualisms on the tree of life: a set of Valentine's love stories (February 14, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49662 49662-11487547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Mutualisms (species interactions that mutually benefit interacting species) are tremendously prevalent and diverse. However, the evolutionary causes and consequences of mutualisms remain relatively under-explored compared to that of competitive or exploitative interactions. This Valentine’s day, join me for a talk exploring the macroevolution and ecology of some of my favorite mutualistic interactions!

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/xTwquMjT3iw

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Apr 2019 12:16:05 -0400 2019-02-14T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion Valentine's interaction
EEB Special Seminar: Causes and consequences of trait variation across biological scales (February 15, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60968 60968-14997742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 11:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

From minute differences in the structure of proteins to wholesale changes in ecosystems, variation in ’replicate’ biological units underpins the complexity of the natural world and defines our understanding of biodiversity. Interestingly, separate but related processes shape these trait differences across biological scales (e.g. microevolution in populations versus assembly of communities). These processes occur simultaneously in all natural systems, but are only rarely considered together, stunting a holistic understanding of multi-scale biological systems. Here, I use dragonfly larvae to investigate (1) how traits are linked to one another across biological scales, (2) the relative importance of trait change at different biological scales, and (3) the ecosystem consequences of multi-scale trait change.

Image credit: Tobias David Mankis

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:46:53 -0500 2019-02-15T11:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T12:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Eurosta galls on tall goldenrod. Image credit: Tobias David Mankis
Startup Career Fair (February 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60363 60363-14866463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: MPowered Entrepreneurship

Interested in getting a job or internship at a startup? Come to Startup Career Fair to meet some of today's most exciting startups! All majors and years are welcome and encouraged to attend. There will be a variety of internship and full-time opportunities available.

Sign up here! https://tinyurl.com/yddgpnu9

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:13:47 -0500 2019-02-15T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T16:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center MPowered Entrepreneurship Careers / Jobs Flyer
Science as Art Exhibition- Panel discussion & Awards Reception (February 15, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38185 38185-15056573@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan, ArtsEngine and the Science Learning Center invite you to the Science as Art Contest Exhibition and Awards Reception- Hatcher Graduate Library, Rm 100.

2pm Office Hours for participating artists
3pm Panel Discussion & Reception
4pm Awards Announcements


University of Michigan undergraduate students will have artwork on view expressing a scientific principle, concept, idea, process, or structure. The artwork ranges in media, including visual, literary, musical, video and performance-based art. A juried panel using criteria based on both scientific and artistic considerations will choose winning submissions. This is our fourth year of the exhibition, and we received a record number of submissions, so we hope you'll join us to view the work and give out the awards!

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Exhibition Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:57:18 -0500 2019-02-15T14:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T16:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Arts at Michigan Exhibition Science as Art logo
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (February 17, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 17, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-02-17T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-17T19:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
19th Distinguished University Professorship Lecture Series - Animal Pharm: The Ecology and Evolution of Medication Behaviors in Animals (February 19, 2019 4:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60224 60224-14849126@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 4:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: University and Development Events

Lecture abstract
Plants vary substantially in their quality as food for herbivores. The availability of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates differ markedly from one plant species to the next. Moreover, plants contain a dazzling array of “secondary metabolites” that are often toxic to consumers. However, in low doses, plant toxins can also serve as medicines, protecting herbivores from agents of disease. Like humans, many other animals exploit the natural pharmaceuticals in plants to mitigate the effects of parasite infection. This lecture will explore the ecology and evolution of medication behaviors in animals. As herbivores forage for food, they must manage the competing demands of gaining adequate nutrition, avoiding their predators, and choosing appropriate medicines from the Great Green Pharmacy. Medication behaviors can be therapeutic, in which medicines are consumed only after infection, or prophylactic, in which medicines are consumed prior to infection. Medication behaviors can also serve to protect the individual actor (self-medication) or their relatives (kin or social medication). Examples will show how different ecological conditions favor the evolution of different medication behaviors. Concentrations of toxins in plants also vary substantially based on environmental conditions, including soil quality, air quality, and biotic interactions. Therefore, the forces of global environmental change threaten the pharmaceutical use of plants by animals. Conservation of the Great Green Pharmacy is vitally important to the biological diversity of life on Earth.

About the professor
Mark Hunter is the Earl E. Werner Distinguished University Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan. He received his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Oxford in England. After serving as a NATO International Fellow and an NSERC International Fellow, he joined the faculty of the University of Georgia, where he served as Professor in the Institute of Ecology and as founding Director of the Center for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Processes. He joined the University of Michigan in January 2006. His research interests include plant-animal interactions, ecosystem ecology, biodiversity, and population dynamics. Professor Hunter has published over 150 research articles and written or edited six books. He is the recipient of both a CAREER Award and an OPUS award from the National Science Foundation, and in 2014 was elected a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Feb 2019 13:42:52 -0500 2019-02-19T04:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T06:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) University and Development Events Lecture / Discussion Mark Hunter
Arachnids: No Need for Phobias (February 19, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58243 58243-14444083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Cara Shillington, professor of biology at Eastern Michigan University, discusses her research, which includes observations of spider behavior in cold and heat, what they eat, how they move and how they reproduce. Program includes an opportunity to directly observe some specimens. Presented by Sierra Club Huron Valley.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:17:25 -0500 2019-02-19T19:30:00-05:00 2019-02-19T21:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Lecture / Discussion
Design of optogenetic tools for monitoring and manipulating neuronal activity (February 20, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59118 59118-14684214@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 9:30am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

2019 Cell & Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Hosted by:
Melanie Ohi

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Jan 2019 10:14:05 -0500 2019-02-20T09:30:00-05:00 2019-02-20T10:30:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Wenjing Wang
DCMB Weekly Seminar (February 20, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61211 61211-15052055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Nephrotic syndrome (NS), a kidney disease caused by failure of the glomerular filtration barrier, leads to substantial morbidity and mortality due to infection, clotting, and progression to chronic kidney disease. Our ability to effectively care for our patients with NS is hampered by a limited understanding of its underlying molecular mechanisms. Major progress has been made through the discovery of more than 50 single-gene causes of NS. But altogether these explain less than 15% of cases in the U.S. To gain a more complete picture of the genetic architecture of NS, we need to go beyond Mendelian gene discovery. In this seminar, I will present work done by our group to achieve this goal, with a particular focus on unique opportunities that result from integrating genome-scale omics datasets with deep phenotypic data in the longitudinal NEPTUNE NS cohort.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Feb 2019 11:57:44 -0500 2019-02-20T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (February 20, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970711@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-02-20T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-20T19:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
EEB Thursday Seminar Series: Leaving the fitness landscape (February 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49664 49664-11487548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

The fitness landscape analogy has been transformative for evolutionary genetics, providing a conceptual bridge between genotype-phenotype maps and the mechanisms of molecular evolution. In this seminar, I explain my plans to abandon the concept, arguing that modern technology and the nature of cutting edge problems in evolutionary genetics are beyond the scope of its capabilities. In the process, I summarize the range of projects related to the fitness landscape that I’ve recently explored on the brink of my departure, including clonal interference, the context-dependence of higher-order epistasis, and the drugability of antibiotics. In closing, I introduce several new conceptual tropes that are better equipped to address modern questions in evolutionary biology.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/3dq3kXLA4K0

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Apr 2019 12:16:58 -0400 2019-02-21T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion graph of poem to last
What's Sugar Got To Do With It? A Functional Understanding of Directional Growth (February 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61119 61119-15036270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Cora MacAlister

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Feb 2019 14:13:01 -0500 2019-02-22T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-22T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar microscope image hypocytl
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (February 24, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 24, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-02-24T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-24T19:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
Dissonance Event Series: Genetics & Medical Apps: Ethics, Privacy, Law and Policy (February 25, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60952 60952-14990967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 25, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Information Assurance

Each new genetic test or medical app generates or collects more and more detailed health data, but may also raise serious issues for medicine, public health. Under what circumstances should a test be used, and how should it be implemented? Should people be allowed to choose or refuse a test, or should it be mandatory, as newborn screening is in some states? How should the data from these tests be used, and should individuals control access to the results of their tests? If test results are released to third parties, such as employers or insurers, what protections should be in place to protect individuals from unfair treatment based on test results, data collected, or genotype?

This Dissonance series event will take a multi-disciplinary look at these issues from a variety of theoretical and applied perspectives.

Panelists will include:
- Lori Andrews, Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Science, Law and, Technology at Chicago Kent Law School

- Jodyn Platt, Assistant Professor, U-M Medical School

- Kayte Spector-Bagdady, Assistant Professor, U-M Medical School, Chief of the Research Ethics Service in the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM)

- Denise Anthony, Professor, U-M School of Public Health

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Feb 2019 16:08:57 -0500 2019-02-25T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-25T19:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Information Assurance Lecture / Discussion Genetics & Medical Apps Panel Discussion
Informing economic complexity with ecological complexity: Studying sustainable fisheries with complex food webs (February 26, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61123 61123-15036279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

The FAO has warned that fishing rates have reached ecologically unsustainable levels. The risk posed by high fishing rates will increase as economic demand and per-capita fish consumption continue to rise. Considering both these ecological and economic realities is essential to developing long-term sustainable fishing strategies. By incorporating the dynamics of fishing effort into complex, realistic network models of fishery ecosystems, our research can more concretely ask: 1) How does food web structure drive the effect of fisheries on food webs and 2) How do different economic models affect the sustainability of fisheries?

While we find that the initial direct effects on the biomass of the extracted species correlates with the level of fishing effort, the longer term effects on overall food-web structure and community biomass depend upon the identity and connectivity of the species harvested. Intuitively, the structural properties of the food-web itself feed back into the effects of different extraction rates. The additional complexity of variable fishing effort through different economic strategies makes clear the need to consider how to measure sustainability in transient oscillating systems when many traditional economic models concentrate on dynamic equilibrium.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:55:32 -0500 2019-02-26T11:30:00-05:00 2019-02-26T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Paul Glaum
Forum on Climate Change & Health -- What the Science Says & What We Can Do (February 26, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59580 59580-14754546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for Midlife Science

The program includes: a keynote discussion (3:30-5:00 pm) in Forum Hall followed by a reception concluding the event (5:00-6:00 pm). The keynote panel will be live-streamed and recorded for later viewing.
Register (free) here: https://goo.gl/forms/3uK2Qj8SztrhzK4o2
Keynote Panel Live Stream: https://youtu.be/s9zCthg0G8M
This event is organized by the UM Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD), NIEHS grant P30ES017885 and is co-sponsored by the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), and UM SPH Department of Environmental Health Sciences.
More information is available here:http://mleead.umich.edu/Event_Climate_Change_and_Health_2019.php

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Feb 2019 12:29:18 -0500 2019-02-26T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-26T18:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Center for Midlife Science Workshop / Seminar Climate Change & Health
EEB Thursday Seminar Series: Life in a giant water bath: consequences for ecological dynamics in the ocean (February 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49665 49665-11487549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

The same ecological and evolutionary processes operate across land and sea, and yet ocean life survives in a dramatically different fluid environment. The ocean is, in effect, a 1.3 sextillion liter water bath with muted thermal variation through time and space, limited oxygen, and intense convective and conductive processes. In this talk, I will trace some of the consequences for evolution, physiology, population dynamics, community assembly, and conservation at sea, including striking contrasts and similarities to patterns on land. I will present evidence that marine animals live closer to their upper thermal limits than do species on land, and that marine species have responded faster to temperature change across time-scales from seasons to decades. Finally, I will discuss some of the unique conservation challenges these dynamics create for ocean life and their potential solutions.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/_lyAp51rmSg

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Apr 2019 12:17:47 -0400 2019-02-28T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-28T17:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion black sea bass
Calcium and Actin Antagonism During Polarized Growth (March 1, 2019 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60206 60206-14849100@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 1, 2019 12:15pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Erik Nielsen

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 22 Jan 2019 14:16:00 -0500 2019-03-01T12:15:00-05:00 2019-03-01T13:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar microscope photo
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (March 3, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 3, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-03-03T17:30:00-05:00 2019-03-03T19:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
Seminar: Reading epigenetic landscapes — Implications for cell fate control and cancer (March 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61156 61156-15043033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Abstract:
Our genome is decorated with diverse chemical modifications on proteins that package the DNA. These modifications constitute an essential layer of information (referred to as the epigenome) above the DNA sequence to regulate genome architecture and function. How the epigenome is decoded to impact a cell’s fate and behavior and how this process goes awry in human diseases remain poorly understood. Liling Wan, Ph.D., will discuss about her efforts in addressing these important questions and how we can translate the insights gained to therapeutic opportunities.

Speaker:
Liling Wan, Ph.D., graduated from Tsinghua University in China with a B.S. in biological sciences and biotechnology. She then went on to obtain Ph.D. degree from Princeton University, where she studied cancer biology, with a focus on cancer metastasis. Wan is now a postdoctoral fellow with David Allis, Ph.D., at Rockefeller University. During her postdoc, she studied how epigenetic information stored on chromatin is translated by chromatin reader proteins, and how this process impacts cell fate and cancer. Wan is recognized by numerous awards for her work, including a Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellowship and a NIH K99 Pathway to Independent career award.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 23 Feb 2019 07:40:07 -0500 2019-03-04T16:00:00-05:00 2019-03-04T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion doctors doing surgery inside emergency room
No EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar today (March 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60094 60094-14829792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminars

Have a good break. See you next week!

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 20 Jan 2019 10:37:53 -0500 2019-03-05T12:00:00-05:00 2019-03-05T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminars Lecture / Discussion Biological Sciences Building
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (March 6, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 6, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-03-06T17:30:00-05:00 2019-03-06T19:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
LSI Seminar Series: Karin Reinisch, Ph.D., Yale University School of Medicine (March 7, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61031 61031-15024916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 7, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Abstract:
Karin Reinisch, Ph.D., will discuss lessons learned about membrane lipid homeostasis via characterization of lipid transport proteins resident at membrane contact sites, including SMP- and chorein-N-domain containing proteins.

Speaker:
Karin Reinisch received her B.A. (summa cum laude) and subsequently her Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard University, where she also completed post-doctoral studies. She trained as a structural biologist, first with William N. Lipscomb during her graduate studies, and then with Stephen C. Harrison as a postdoctoral fellow. She opened her own laboratory in Yale’s Department of Cell Biology in 2001, and has been working to dissect the molecular mechanisms underlying membrane trafficking and membrane biology.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Feb 2019 15:14:29 -0500 2019-03-07T12:00:00-05:00 2019-03-07T13:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion LSI Seminar Series
Biosciences Initiative RNA Faculty Candidate Seminar (March 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61952 61952-15241362@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

“Spatiotemporal regulation of mRNA function in health and neurological disease”

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Mar 2019 15:04:44 -0500 2019-03-07T16:00:00-05:00 2019-03-07T17:00:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion flyer
The Aging Brain (March 8, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58969 58969-14628134@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 8, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The course is based on UM Prof. Thad Polk’s Great Courses video series of the same title, which he summarized in last January’s Distinguished Lectures presentation. In 12 lectures, Prof. Polk discusses The Aging Mind; What Changes; Strategies for an Aging Memory; Why Don’t We Live Forever; Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease; Is Aging a Disease; Parkinson’s Disease and Stroke; Aging and Brain Structure; Aging Well; Staying Active; Aging and Brain Function; Diet and Stress; Emotional Aging; and The Science of Immortality.

In this study group for those 50 and above we will view two lectures per session, with time for discussion after each lecture. Prof. Polk will attend one of the later sessions to answer questions.

Instructor Craig Stephan is a retired physicist who has led several OLLI discussion groups. The Study Group will meet on Fridays from 1-3 p.m. and run from March 8 through April 26.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 27 Dec 2018 19:22:23 -0500 2019-03-08T13:00:00-05:00 2019-03-08T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (March 10, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 10, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-03-10T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-10T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
LSI Seminar Series: Benjamin Engel, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (March 11, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58053 58053-14398916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 11, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Ben Engel is an expert in cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET), a critical science component of the Cryo-EM Biosciences Initiative.

Cells accomplish the biochemical reactions of life by concentrating their proteins into a variety of subcellular compartments called organelles. Engel’s group explores the relationship between the form of the organelle and the function of its resident macromolecules. How does organelle architecture direct molecular function, and reciprocally, how do macromolecules sculpt and shape organelles? To investigate these questions, they use focused ion beam (FIB) milling of frozen cells followed by cryo-electron tomography to image macromolecules within their native cellular environment. Through a combination of nanometer-precision localization and high-resolution structural analysis, Engel aims to chart the molecular landscapes of organelles. Thanks to its superb cryo-EM contrast and textbook organelle architecture, the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas is an ideal specimen for this approach. Engel’s group has taken a holistic approach to survey the whole integrated “planimal”, with in situ molecular studies of the nuclear envelope, ER, Golgi, basal body apparatus (centrioles), and chloroplast. In this talk, Engel will provide an overview of some of these studies, touching on proteasome-rich degradation centers, the nuclear pore complex, COPI coats, and the molecular organization of chloroplast’s thylakoid membranes and pyrenoid.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Feb 2019 08:43:35 -0500 2019-03-11T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-11T13:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion Benjamin Engel, Ph.D.
Bioethics Discussion: Mental Health (March 12, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49433 49433-11456547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on our internal (dys)functions.

Readings to consider:
"The myth of mental illness"
"Distinguishing between the validity and utility of psychiatric diagnoses"
"Diagnostic issues and controversies in DSM-5"
"How stigma interferes with mental health care"
"Identification of a common neurobiological substrate for mental illness"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/027-mental-health/.

Please, consider the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:07:55 -0500 2019-03-12T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-12T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Mental health
The Nuclear Option: New mechanisms of tumor evolution and drug resistance (March 13, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60229 60229-14849132@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 9:30am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

2019 Cell & Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Hosted by:
Pierre Coulombe, Ph.D.
Sunny Wong, Ph.D.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Jan 2019 10:14:55 -0500 2019-03-13T09:30:00-04:00 2019-03-13T10:30:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Anthony Eugene Oro
DCMB Weekly Seminar (March 13, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61972 61972-15250104@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Though the potential impact of machine learning in healthcare warrants genuine enthusiasm, the increasing computerization of the field is still often seen as a negative rather than a positive. The limited adoption of machine learning in healthcare to date highlights the fact that there remain important challenges. In this talk, I will highlight two key challenges related to applying machine learning in healthcare: 1) interpretability and 2) small sample size. First, machine learning has often been criticized for producing ‘black boxes.’ In this talk, I will argue that interpretability is neither necessary nor sufficient, demonstrating that even interpretable models can lack common sense. To address this issue, we propose a novel regularization method that enables the incorporation of domain knowledge during model training, leading to increased robustness. Second, machine learning techniques benefit from large amounts of data. However, oftentimes in healthcare we find ourselves in data poor settings (i.e., small sample sizes). I will show how domain knowledge can help guide architecture choices and efficiently make use of available data. There’s a critical need for machine learning in healthcare; however, the safe and meaningful adoption of these techniques requires close collaboration in interdisciplinary teams and a careful understanding of one’s domain.

Jenna Wiens is a Morris Wellman Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning, data mining, and healthcare. She is particularly interested in time-series analysis and transfer/multitask learning. The overarching goal of her research agenda is to develop the computational methods needed to help organize, process, and transform patient data into actionable knowledge. Jenna received her PhD from MIT in 2014. In 2015 she was named Forbes 30 under 30 in Science and Healthcare; she received an NSF CAREER Award in 2016; and recently she was named to the MIT Tech Review's list of Innovators Under 35.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Mar 2019 15:45:04 -0500 2019-03-13T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion Jenna Wiens, PhD
Biosciences Initiative RNA Faculty Candidate Seminar (March 13, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61951 61951-15241354@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

“Uncovering post-transcriptional regulatory mechanisms underlying human diseases Through CRISPR-based screening strategies”

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Mar 2019 14:58:32 -0500 2019-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion flyer
Clearing the Haze: Scientific Discussioins on Marijuana and Cannabinoids (March 13, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61856 61856-15221602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Scientists for Outreach on Addiction Research

The recent legalization of Marijuana in Michigan has led many to wonder: What exactly do we know? Is Marijuana additive? Is it an effective treatment for X? What about CBD? The list goes on.

This panel brings together experts from basic science and psychiatry to discuss the molecular mechanisms of marijuana and the effects/implications of use in human populations.

Attendees should expect a multifaceted discussion followed by an open question forum. Refreshments will be provided. Please spread the word!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Mar 2019 11:42:28 -0500 2019-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Scientists for Outreach on Addiction Research Lecture / Discussion SOAR Flier
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (March 13, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-03-13T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-13T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
EEB Thursday Seminar: Developing a more complete view of the tree of life in the genomics era (March 14, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49666 49666-11487551@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

The tree of life is a foundational concept for the biological sciences. Over the last few decades, herculean efforts by researchers have dramatically increased the available data with which we can better understand the structure and the processes that shape evolutionary relationships. However, despite these advances, new challenges have emerged. Here, I describe several projects that aim to better reconstruct a more complete view of the complexity underlying phylogenies. Specifically, I demonstrate the extensive genome conflict present in virtually all genomic datasets. Furthermore, despite this conflict, we can address several fundamental questions about macroevolution. Primarily, I will focus on the evolution of the plant clade, Caryophyllales, that include cacti, carnivores, ice plants, cushion plants, and other ecologically diverse taxa. I will also describe some of the limits to our ability to reconstruct the phylogenetic past, despite our enormous efforts.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/E9hhNMm8L1A

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Apr 2019 12:19:50 -0400 2019-03-14T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion Tree of Life
The Lysosome in Nutrient Sensing and Cellular Growth Control (March 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60872 60872-14979684@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Haoxing Xu

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Feb 2019 11:47:33 -0500 2019-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar microscope photo
Early Career Scientists Symposium: Stable isotopes in ecology, evolution and conservation (March 16, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59920 59920-14797491@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 16, 2019 8:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

We are pleased to announce this year's Early Career Scientist Symposium, to be held on Saturday, March 16, 2019, in the Biological Sciences Building on the campus of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. This location is the new building that houses the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; the Museum of Paleontology; as well as the Natural History Museum.

This year’s theme is Stable Isotopes in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation. Stable isotopes of common and trace elements have a wide range of applications in modern and ancient ecosystems. They offer important tools for investigating plant and animal physiology, dietary ecology, life history, food-web analysis, nutrient cycling, migration, and paleoecology, with new isotope systems, new approaches, and new kinds of questions emerging in every decade. Our speakers in the 2019 symposium have expertise in terrestrial and marine systems, modern and ancient ecosystems, and animals, plants, and microbes. The symposium will feature topics for a broad range of interests in ecology, evolution, earth history, and conservation.

We are pleased to announce our lineup of speakers, including our keynote speakers: Jim Ehleringer (plant physiology and ecology), University of Utah, and Tamsin O’Connell (diet and climate in humans and animals), Cambridge University. You can read more about all of the speakers under the speaker tab on the ECSS website.

Graduate and undergraduate students and postdocs from all universities and disciplines are invited to present their work during a lunchtime poster session, and can indicate so when they register. University of Michigan students from EEB and Paleo are particularly encouraged to show their own work and seek feedback from the scholars in attendance. Read about poster specifications on the website.

Registration is open for ECSS 2019 on website linked below.
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/ecss/home/register/ (copy and paste into your browser if needed)

ECSS 2019 Committee
Jake Allgeier, EEB
Giorgia Auteri, EEB
Catherine Badgley, EEB and Museum of Paleontology, Chair, ECSS Committee
Dan Fisher, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Museum of Paleontology, and EEB
Katie Loughney, EEB and Museum of Paleontology
Knute Nadelhoffer, EEB and UM Biological Station
Ben Passey, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Bian Wang, Earth and Environmental Sciences and Museum of Paleontology

Illustration: Gradient of deuterium, the heavy isotope of hydrogen, across the U.S. by John Megahan

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 12 Mar 2019 10:47:38 -0400 2019-03-16T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-16T18:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Conference / Symposium Gradient of deuterium, the heavy isotope of hydrogen, across the U.S. Illustration: John Megahan
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (March 17, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 17, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-03-17T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-17T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
All About Honeybees (March 19, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58970 58970-14628135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Explore the life of the honeybee in and out of the hive. Instructor Victoria Dluzen McIntyre is an amateur apiarist whose love of honeybees comes to her naturally – her family name “dluzen” means “keeper of bees” in Polish. Known as “The Bee Lady,” Victoria has travelled around southeastern Michigan giving talks (The Bee Lady Talks) to schools, garden clubs, and civic groups. Come and learn about the mysteries of the hive and how 50,000 bees work together for one common good.

This session for those 50 and above will meet on Tuesday, March 19, from 6-8 p.m.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 27 Dec 2018 19:33:14 -0500 2019-03-19T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
The Wood Frogs of Saginaw Forest (March 19, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58246 58246-14444190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Keith Berven, professor at Oakland University, has been monitoring variations in numbers of wood frogs for the past 32 years in an attempt to understand the factors that lead to year-to-year fluctuation in their numbers. He will discuss the relative importance of density-dependent factors, and parasites on the frogs. Presented by Sierra Club Huron Valley.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:34:25 -0500 2019-03-19T19:30:00-04:00 2019-03-19T21:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Lecture / Discussion
The Gut Microbiome Predicts Graft versus Host Disease after Allogeneic Transplant. Can it be Engineered to Protect? (March 20, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61892 61892-15230376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 9:00am
Location: Medical Science Unit II
Organized By: Microbiome Group

Multiple studies have correlated the structure and composition of the gut microbiome with the risk of graft versus host disease after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant. Follow-up studies have pointed to possible mechanisms driving this correlation. The promise now is to manipulate the gut microbiome after transplant to improve outcomes.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Mar 2019 09:25:36 -0500 2019-03-20T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T10:00:00-04:00 Medical Science Unit II Microbiome Group Lecture / Discussion
Molecular Mechanisms of Membrane Remodeling Revealed by Intravital Subcellular Microscopy (ISMic) (March 20, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60231 60231-14849134@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 9:30am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

2019 Cell & Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Hosted by:
Carole Parent, Ph.D.
Ben Allen, Ph.D.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Jan 2019 10:15:17 -0500 2019-03-20T09:30:00-04:00 2019-03-20T10:30:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Roberto Weigert
Biosciences Initiative RNA Faculty Candidate Seminar (March 20, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62054 62054-15282560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

“Spatiotemporal regulation of mRNA function in health and neurological disease”

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Mar 2019 10:33:02 -0400 2019-03-20T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion flyer
Untangling a Web of Behaviors: Understanding How Orb-Weaving Behavior is Encoded in the Brains of Spiders (March 20, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61840 61840-15215055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Hosts: Josie Clowney (MCDB) & Swathi Yadlapalli (Cell & Developmental Biology)

Many behaviors such as communication, navigation, and mating, require the coordination of many sub-behaviors over multiple timescales. A particularly remarkable animal behavior is shelter construction. This behavior requires external and internal cues to trigger and coordinate behaviors over multiple timescales to effectively construct something that may take hours to build. An excellent example of this is spider orb-weaving. It involves coordinating many sub-behaviors to successfully construct the web. In essence, the structure of the web is a record of the underlying behavioral structure. It is a stereotyped, but not necessarily reflexive, behavior that requires multiple decisions be made based on a variety of external and internal cues. The goal of our research is to objectively define this behavior at a high spatiotemporal resolution, and then investigate the neuronal and genetic factors that influence how this behavior is encoded in the brain.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Mar 2019 15:56:12 -0500 2019-03-20T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T13:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar spider web with drops of water
DCMB Seminar || "Towards a phylogeny of cell types" (March 20, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62260 62260-15337499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Single-cell RNA-seq is a powerful technology for identifying novel and known cell types, however its power is limited to organisms with well-annotated genomes. We present a reference-free method to compare single cells both within and across species. In this method, k-mers from each cell’s RNA-seq profile are randomly subsampled into a compressed representation called a “sketch” using document comparison algorithms of MinHash or HyperLogLog. For within-species comparison, the RNA sketches are sufficient, but as protein sequence is more stable across species, we translate the RNA k-mers into protein k-mers with 6-frame translation, discarding all protein k-mers containing stop codons. We show this method can “lift over” single-cell RNA-seq annotations from mouse to human and compare to using purely 1:1 mapping orthologous genes. Thus, k-mer sketches are an efficient method to find shared and unique cell types both within and across species without need for a reference genome or transcriptome.

Refreshments: 3:30 pm to 4:00 pm in Atrium Hall, 4th Floor of Palmer Commons
Lecture: 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm in Forum Hall, 4th Floor of Palmer Commons

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2019 14:09:46 -0400 2019-03-20T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (March 20, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970715@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-03-20T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-20T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
Dissertation defense: Developments for the next generation of evolutionary paleobiology (March 21, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60942 60942-14990933@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 9:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Caroline presents her dissertation defense.

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Presentation Thu, 07 Feb 2019 15:22:12 -0500 2019-03-21T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T10:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Presentation phylogenies showing human ancestors
DCMB Tools & Technology Seminar Series - “Database Integration and Digital Phenotyping to Improve Perioperative Care: Tools Used by the Multicenter Perioperative Outcomes Group” (March 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62306 62306-15346466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar

Abstract: Modern challenges of an increasingly digital healthcare system include (1) data quality is not a priority for busy clinicians, (2) data can be non-standardized across health systems, (3) observations from Big Data are often not prioritized and may disrupt clinical workflow, and (4) data collected by varying healthcare teams are often not integrated. Such problems can limit the effectiveness of medical care delivery, and are currently being tackled by clinician collaboratives such as the Multicenter Perioperative Outcomes Group (MPOG). Using the MPOG collaborative as an example, this talk describes how software tools are used to assimilate large arrays of diverse health data and present complex medical inferences to clinicians in a reliable, intuitive, and non-disruptive manner.

Associated Link: https://mpog.org/whoweare/
Tool Link: http://phenotypes.mpog.org/
BlueJeans Livestream: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/cgycshca

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Mar 2019 14:34:40 -0400 2019-03-21T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T12:50:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar Lecture / Discussion
EEB Thursday Seminar Series: Coevolution within small and large webs of interacting species (March 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49667 49667-11487552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Coevolution is one of the major processes shaping the web of life. In this talk I will begin with results from recent empirical studies showing how coevolving interactions between a group of insects and plants have diversified into small multispecific networks that become building blocks of larger networks. I will then discuss results from our recent models of how selection acting on these kinds of small coevolving networks may be reshaped within large webs of mutualistic species.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2019 09:18:51 -0400 2019-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion Thompson books
The Short and the Long of Telomeres: Structures, Mechanisms and Disease Implication (March 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60875 60875-14981916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: JK Nandakumar

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Mar 2019 13:34:07 -0500 2019-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar telomere drawing
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (March 24, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-03-24T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-24T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
Professor L. Lacey Knowles, the Robert B. Payne Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Inaugural Lecture (March 26, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58806 58806-14561454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

From the patterns of genomic variation in individuals living today, phylogeographic analyses provide a window into a species’ past. When viewed in a comparative context, examples of concordant genetic structure across assemblages of species, despite their biological difference, have reinforced a conceptual and methodological focus on abiotic factors in shaping species’ histories. This emphasis has also promoted an adherence to generic expectations of phylogeographic concordance irrespective of the composition of communities and a tendency to attribute discord to the idiosyncracies of history. However, from the increased sampling densities and unprecedented amounts of genomic data, what is emerging in comparative phylogeography is a complex of concordant and discordant genetic structure across community members. In my talk, and with reference to computational advances and recent developments at the molecular level, I will highlight how discordant patterns of genetic variation may arise from difference in the traits and ecologies of taxa. That is, discord across species may reflect deterministic processes linked to species-specific traits. In addition to reviewing the methodologies that are propelling this promising area of research, and based on examples of comparative phylogeographic studies, I will show how considering the contribution of taxon-specific traits, rather than adhering to the concordance-discordance dichotomy, can provide more meaningful insights about the evolutionary history of organisms. These studies emphasize that to understand how the divergence process may differ among geographic regions, or why genetic structure may differ among members of communities, both biotic and abiotic factors need to be considered jointly.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:33:48 -0400 2019-03-26T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Photo
Bioethics Discussion: Eugenics (March 26, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49435 49435-11456548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on who ought to be here.

Readings to consider:
"Eugenics: its definition, scope, and aims"
"The second international congress of eugenics"
"CC Little renaming resolution"
"Buck v. Bell Supreme Court opinion"
"Moderate eugenics and human enhancement"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont (belmont@umich.edu) or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/028-eugenics/.

Also, feel free to swing by the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:10:19 -0500 2019-03-26T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Eugenics
Modeling rare and common genetic risk for schizophrenia using stem cells (March 27, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60227 60227-14849130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 9:30am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

2019 Cell & Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Hosted by:
Sue O’Shea, Ph.D.
Roman Giger, Ph.D.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Jan 2019 10:15:40 -0500 2019-03-27T09:30:00-04:00 2019-03-27T10:30:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Kristen Brennand
DCMB Weekly Seminar (March 27, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61637 61637-15161278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Next generation and single cell sequencing have ushered in an era of big data in biology. These data present an unprecedented opportunity to learn new mechanisms and ask unasked questions. Matrix factorization (MF) techniques can reveal low-dimensional structure from high-dimensional data to uncover new biological knowledge. The knowledge of gained from low dimensional features in training data can also be transferred to new datasets to relate disparate model systems and data modalities. We illustrate the power of these techniques for interpretation of high dimensional data through case studies in postmortem tissues from GTEx, acquired therapeutic resistance in cancer, and developmental biology.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Mar 2019 11:22:07 -0400 2019-03-27T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
2019 Ford Distinguished Lecture in Physics | General Relativity: Creator and Killer of Galaxies (March 27, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60963 60963-14997736@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Department Colloquia

The story of galaxy life cycles is becoming clear. Professor and Astronomer Emerita Sandra Faber will take us through the earliest moments of galaxy birth during inflation, the inception of star formation, the gradual emergence of shape and structure, and finally death at the hands of black holes. Explaining the origin of galaxies is emerging as one of the great triumphs of modern physics.

Dr. Sandra Faber is a Professor Emerita at the University of California Santa Cruz and an Astronomer Emerita at the University of California Observatories.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Feb 2019 13:23:42 -0500 2019-03-27T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Department Colloquia Lecture / Discussion Sandra Faber, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics (UCSC)
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (March 27, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-03-27T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-27T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
Placental-Maternal-Fetal Communication Vesicles, and Pregnancy Health (March 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62129 62129-15299880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

The trophoblast at the feto-maternal interface fulfills functions that are critical for embryonic development, including gas exchange, supply of nutrients, removal of waste products, endocrine regulation, and immunological defense. In his lab, Dr. Sadovsky utilizes molecular and cellular approaches to decipher mechanisms underlying placental development, differentiation, and response to injury. Using cultured primary human placental cells, genetically-altered mice, and placental samples from human pregnancies, his lab examines molecular mechanisms underlying trophoblast response to diverse stressors that adversely influence the homeostatic balance between cell injury and adaptation. Dr. Sadovsky’s research assesses how these stressors contribute to placental dysfunction and fetal growth restriction (FGR), which predispose to childhood neurodevelopmental dysfunction and adult metabolic syndrome.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Mar 2019 10:45:29 -0400 2019-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T13:00:00-04:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Workshop / Seminar Sadovsky Seminar
EEB Thursday Seminar: Cranial evolution during the ecological diversification of bats: a two-step process? (March 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49668 49668-11487553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

The mammalian skull performs multiple functions, including feeding and protecting the brain and sensory organs. Dietary demands are considered a major driver of the evolution of skull morphology in mammals, but there have been few quantitative tests of the impact of feeding versus other functions on skull morphological diversification across whole mammalian orders. Bats (Order Chiroptera) are an ideal group to investigate this topic because they represent 20% of all mammals, are highly diverse in terms of cranial morphology, and encompass nearly the full spectrum of mammal diets and sensory ecologies. In this seminar, I will explore whether and how the macroevolution of skull shape is related to feeding strategies in bats, or if other life history traits and behaviors can explain their cranial diversity. I will present results from our current geometric morphometric and phylogenetic comparative analyses, which are based on 3D representations of bat skulls and jaw muscles generated via micro-CT scanning. I will further discuss these results in the context of behavioral plasticity and performance outputs in a clade of bats that has adaptively radiated.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/Xt8LXqoU8-Q

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Apr 2019 12:21:29 -0400 2019-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion Bat cranial evolution
4th Annual RNA Symposium (March 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59721 59721-14780105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Rachel Green, Johns Hopkins
Howard Chang, Stanford
Alice Telesnitsky, Michigan
Kristen Lynch, Pennsylvania
David Bartel, MIT

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Mar 2019 10:36:50 -0400 2019-03-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion photos
Evolving Perspectives on Microbial Systems (March 29, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60504 60504-14901380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 9:30am
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: MAC-EPID

"Microbial dynamics in space and time: the motion picture"
Edward F. DeLong, PhD (Professor of Oceanography and Co-Director SCOPE. Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawaii, Manoa)

"Dynamic Viral Symbioses in Microbial Populations"
Rachel Whitaker, PhD ( Professor of Microbiology, School of Molecular & Cellular Biology, University of Illinois)

"Toward Designer Microbiomes"
Dr. Jo Handelsman (Director, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Please register for this free symposium since lunch will be provided. Thank you!

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 19 Feb 2019 14:18:33 -0500 2019-03-29T09:30:00-04:00 2019-03-29T15:00:00-04:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) MAC-EPID Conference / Symposium Flyer
Epigenetic Inheritance of Parental State (March 29, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61873 61873-15223797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Monica Dus

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Mar 2019 15:36:02 -0500 2019-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar microscope image stained tissue
Restoring Fine Motor Prosthetic Hand Control Via Peripheral Neural Technology (March 29, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62286 62286-15344248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Losing a limb can drastically alter a person’s way of life, and in some cases, brings great financial and emotional burdens. In particular, upper-limb amputations means losing the ability to do many daily activities that are normally simple with intact hands. Prosthesis technology has significantly advanced in the past decade to replicate the mechanical complexity of the human hand. However, current commercial user-to-prosthesis interfaces fail to provide users with full intuitive control over the many functionalities advanced prosthetic hands can offer. Research in developing new interfaces for better motor control has been on the rise, focusing on tapping directly into the peripheral nervous system. The aim of this work is to characterize and validate the properties of a novel peripheral interface called the Regenerative Peripheral Nerve Interface (RPNI) to improve fine motor skills for prosthetic hand control.

The first study characterizes the use of RPNI signals for continuous hand control in non-human primates. In two rhesus macaques, we were able to reconstruct continuous finger movement offline with an average correlation of ρ = 0.87 and root mean squared error (RMSE) of 0.12 between actual and predicted position across both macaques. During real-time control, neural control performance was slightly slower but maintained an average target hit success rate of 96.70% compared to physical hand control. The results presented in this study demonstrate an important step in exploring the RPNI’s potential capabilities to provide patients with more naturalistic control of their prosthetic limbs.

The second study presents the viability of the RPNI in humans who have suffered from upper-limb amputations. In three participants with transradial amputations, ultrasound demonstrated strong contractions of P1 and P2’s median RPNIs during flexion of the phantom thumb, and ulnar RPNI contractions during small finger flexion. In P1, the median RPNI and ulnar RPNIs produced signals with a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 4.62 and 3.80, respectively. In P2, the median RPNI and ulnar RPNI had an average SNR of 107 and 35.9, respectively, while P3’s median RPNI and ulnar RPNIs had an average SNR of 22.3 and 19.4, respectively. This study provides evidence that the transected peripheral nerves have reinnervated the RPNI muscle grafts allowing RPNIs to transduce and amplify efferent motor action potentials during volitional individual finger movements.

The final study characterizes the capabilities of RPNI signals to predict continuous finger position in human subjects. Two participants, P2 and P3, successfully hit targets during a center-out target task with 92.4 ± 2.3% accuracy, controlling RPNI-driven one DOF finger movements. Comparably, non-RPNI driven finger movement had similar accuracy and performance. Without recalibrating parameter coefficients, no decreasing trend in motor performance was seen for all one DOF finger control across 300 days for P2 and 40 days for P3, suggesting that RPNIs can generate robust control signals from day to day. Lastly, using RPNI-driven control, P2 and P3 successfully manipulated a two DOF virtual and physical thumb with 96.4 ± 2.5% accuracy. This study demonstrates that RPNIs are capable of robust continuous control of one DOF finger movements and also capable of providing two DOF thumb movements. RPNIs may be a viable option to advance peripheral nerve interfaces into clinical reality and enhance neuroprosthetic technology for people with limb loss.

Chair: Cynthia Chestek

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Presentation Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:32:44 -0400 2019-03-29T13:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T14:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Biomedical Engineering Presentation Biomedical Engineering