Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. EEB Museums Friday Seminar - How do quantitative genetics enhance our understanding of morphological evolution (February 14, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72448 72448-18007182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Evolutionary quantitative genetics provides a strong theoretical framework for connecting evolutionary processes, the underlying genetic architecture of traits, described in terms of variances and covariances, and the pace and direction of multivariate evolution. In this talk I will discuss the importance of considering a multidimensional phenotype and the within-species (co)variation to understand trait dynamics in populations, in terms of evolvability (i.e., the ability of a biological system to respond to selection) and evolutionary constraints. I will explore the evolution of the cranial covariance structure and the average morphology in the most noteworthy example of adaptive radiation in mammals, the New World leaf-nosed bats, by combining phylogenetic comparative methods and quantitative genetic approaches.

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Presentation Tue, 04 Feb 2020 10:48:15 -0500 2020-02-14T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Presentation Details of event
Physical Chemistry Third Year Seminars (February 14, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69302 69302-17301823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry




Federica Ricci(Coherent Energy and Charge Transfer Processes Probed in Solution and in the Solid State with Time-Re) , Tieyi Lu(Probing the Interfacial Peptides/Proteins by using Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy) , Rong Duan(Exploring vibrational polaritonic systems using multidimensional spectroscopy)

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Other Fri, 14 Feb 2020 18:15:54 -0500 2020-02-14T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T17:30:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
Fighting to Build a Wall: How Cell Competition Shapes Morphogenesis in Mammalian Skin (February 17, 2020 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71738 71738-17877253@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 9:30am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

We are pleased to welcome Stephanie J. Ellis, Ph.D., to the Kahn Auditorium in BSRB on Monday, February 17, 2020.

Hosted by: CDB Recruitment Committee

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Feb 2020 09:48:48 -0500 2020-02-17T09:30:00-05:00 2020-02-17T10:30:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Fighting to Build a Wall: How Cell Competition Shapes Morphogenesis in Mammalian Skin - Stephanie J. Ellis, Ph.D.
EEB dissertation defense: When does gene flow stop? A mechanistic approach to the formation of phylogeographic breaks in nature (February 17, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72023 72023-17914210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Iris defends her doctoral dissertation

Image credit: Alison Davis Rabosky and Christian Cox

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Presentation Thu, 06 Feb 2020 16:14:16 -0500 2020-02-17T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-17T14:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Presentation Four sonora snakes curled up near each other, orange with black stripes, white with black stripes, a solid orange and a solid brown
The cell biology of lipid homeostasis: From lipid droplets to lipotoxicity (February 17, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72190 72190-17955063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Speaker:

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Feb 2020 13:45:44 -0500 2020-02-17T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-17T15:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Workshop / Seminar LSI Cancer Genetics Seminar, Feb. 17
Atmospheric chemistry of volatile organic compounds in the limit as nitric oxide concentrations decline to pre-industrial levels. (February 17, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64491 64491-16374909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry


As a result of controls on NOx emissions from cars, trucks, and electricity production, NOx levels (sum on NO and NO2) have decreased rapidly across North America over the past decades. The reductions in NO alter the photochemical pathways in the oxidation of numerous chemicals emitted from the biosphere and from anthropogenic activities. The gas phase chemistry in the low NO regime has received significantly less attention from atmospheric chemists. Here, I describe new analytical methods to probe the low NOx chemistry in the field and in the laboratory. New chemical pathways are identified illustrating that great care must be taken in extrapolating of existing photochemical models to the low NOx atmosphere.















Paul Wennberg (California Institute of Technology)

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Other Mon, 17 Feb 2020 18:15:52 -0500 2020-02-17T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-17T17:30:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
Complex Systems Seminar | A Minimal Mathematical Model for Free Market Competition Through Advertising (February 18, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72638 72638-18035585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Firms in the U.S. spend over 200 billion dollars a year advertising their products to consumers, around 1 percent of the country's gross domestic product. It is of great interest to understand how that aggregate expenditure affects prices, market efficiency, and overall welfare.

Here, we present a mathematical model for the dynamics of competition through advertising and find a surprising prediction: when advertising is relatively cheap compared to the maximum benefit of advertising, rational firms split into two groups, one with significantly less advertising (a "generic'' group) and one with significantly more advertising (a "name-brand'' group).

We use consumer data to compare predictions from the model with real world pricing and advertising data and find qualitative agreement. We also show that having products be differentiated by advertising is not always best for total profit or total welfare in an industry.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 17 Feb 2020 13:28:43 -0500 2020-02-18T11:30:00-05:00 2020-02-18T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Joseph Johnson
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the gaudy grasshopper family Pyrgomorphidae (Insecta: Orthoptera) (February 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69217 69217-17269221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Please join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 10 Feb 2020 13:48:00 -0500 2020-02-18T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T13:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar grasshopper with striped body (bluish green and gold stripes over black with red appendanges and orange and black flecked wings) sitting outside with grass in background
The Role of Citrullination in Rheumatoid Arthritis- Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar (February 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72694 72694-18059649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Medical Science Unit II
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Ronak Tilvawala, Postdoctoral Associate at U-Mass Medical School, will be presenting a seminar in the Department of Biological Chemistry on Tuesday February 18th, 2020 at 12noon in North Lecture Hall, MS II

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 10 Feb 2020 10:14:08 -0500 2020-02-18T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T13:00:00-05:00 Medical Science Unit II Biological Chemistry Workshop / Seminar
Seminar: Dissecting mechanisms that govern cellular plasticity (February 18, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72743 72743-18070547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Speaker:

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Feb 2020 13:48:43 -0500 2020-02-18T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T15:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Workshop / Seminar Life Sciences Institute logo