Happening @ Michigan

Defining microRNAs: How Cells Select Transcripts to Enter the microRNA pathway- Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar

Wenwen Fang, Whitehead/MIT

Dr. Wenwen Fang, Postdoctoral Fellow at Whitehead Institute/MIT will present a seminar on Tuesday February 25th, 2020 at 12 noon in North...

EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: The impact of within-host priority effects on disease dynamics in coinfected populations

Patrick Clay, U-M EEB Postdoctoral Fellow

Please join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar.

LHS Collaboratory

"Value Proposition of Learning Health Systems" - Erik Gordon, PhD

"Value Proposition of Learning Health Systems"...

“Embryonically Informed Tendon Regeneration Strategies”

Catherine K. Kuo, Ph.D.

The NIH T32 Training Program in Organogenesis is pleased to present a Special Series: "Emerging Topics in Tissue Regeneration and...

Using Systems Thinking Concepts in General Chemistry to Combat Compartmentalized Knowledge Acquisition

Thomas Holme (Iowa State)

A common observation about student learning in introductory university chemistry courses is that they have a tendency to compartmentalize...

Bioethics Discussion: Overpopulation

A discussion on one to(o) many....

Rethinking biomimicry in synthetic non-heme iron complexes

David Lacy (University of Buffalo)

Synthetic iron-based catalysts that functionally model iron dependent oxygenases are rare. Considering the large number of synthetic iron...

Complex Systems Seminar | Principles of Pattern Formation for Confined Elastic Shells

Ian Tobasco, University of Illinois Chicago, Department of Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science

Dried fruits wrinkle for the same reason that leaves and flowers do — mechanical instabilities arising due to a naturally occurring...

BME 500: Kelly Stevens

“Decoding and Recoding Human Tissue Assembly”

The notion of building artificial human organs has moved from a far-fetched concept to the forefront of regenerative medicine research....

EEB Thursday Seminar: Probing the structure of fitness landscapes with experimental evolution

Sergey Kryazhimskiy, Assistant Professor, Ecology, Behavior and Evolution, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego

The ability to evolve and adapt is a fundamental property of living systems. In many populations, the process of adaptive evolution can be...

Physical Chemistry Third Year Seminars

Elvin Salerno(Applications of lanthanide luminescence in thermometry and molecular magnetism) , Hanjie Jiang(Towards a cost-effective wave function theory for charge transfer energies and electronic couplings)

Elvin Salerno(Applications of lanthanide luminescence in thermometry and molecular magnetism) , Hanjie Jiang(Towards a cost-effective wave...

MCDB: Synthetic Bacteria Deliver the Goods

Kumaran Ramamurthi, National Cancer Institute, NIH

Host: Lyle Simmons

Cryo-EM Studies of Molecular Motors and Their Associated Filamentous Assemblies- Department of Biological Chemistry Semianr

Charles Sindelar, Yale School of Medicine

Dr. Charles Sindelar, Associate Professor of Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics at Yale School of Medicine will be presenting the...

NO EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar today

Have a great Spring Break!

Tuesday Lunch Seminars return on March 10, 2020.

“Engineered kidney models derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells”

Samira Musah, Ph.D.

The NIH T32 Training Program in Organogenesis is pleased to present a Special Series: "Emerging Topics in Tissue Regeneration and...

Comprehensive Understanding of Material Characteristics of Perfluoroalkyl Compounds Studied by Vibrational Spectroscopy

Takeshi Hasegawa (Kyoto University)

Organofluorine compounds represented by perfluoroalkyl (Rf) compounds involving polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) attract keen interest for...

How to make a stem cell: Gene regulatory principles learned from vascular fate transitions

Dionna M. Kasper, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Fellow, Yale University School of Medicine

We are pleased to welcome Dionna M. Kasper, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Fellow, Yale University School of Medicine to the Kahn Auditorium in BSRB...

BME 500: Ruobo Zhou

“Visualizing Biomolecular Interactions at Single-Molecule and Single-Cell Levels”

Biomolecular interactions are at the root of all biological processes and define the molecular mechanisms of how these processes are...

RNP Granules in Health and Disease

Roy Parker (HHMI/Univ of Colorado Boulder)

Eukaryotic cells contain multiple assemblies of RNA and protein referred to as RNP granules, or RNP condensates. In the cytosol, ubiquitous...

Epidemiology and dynamics of the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic

Robert M. Ziff, Department of Chemical Engineering, Complex Systems affiliated faculty, University of Michigan

The novel coronavirus COVID-19 epidemic is currently leveling off in China but on the upswing in the rest of the world. Understanding and...

Questioning Assumptions in Lewis Acid Catalysis

James Devery (Loyola University Chicago)

The interactions between Lewis acids and carbonyls have played a significant role in the construction of important molecules. While a great...

EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: The origin of baleen in whales: inferring soft tissue from bony structures

Carlos Mauricio Peredo, Research Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan

Please join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar.

Forum on "Climate Change and Health: Readiness and Resilience"

Keynote speaker Renee Salas, MD (Harvard Medical School) "Climate Action: Children’s Health Drives Need for Urgent Action"

Please register by going to http://mleead.umich.edu/Event_Climate_Change_and_Health_2020.php...

Development of genetically engineered mouse models of brainstem glioma: therapeutic efficacy of an immune mediated gene therapy strategy

Flor Mendez - Ph.D Student

Dissertation Seminar:...

MCDB Dissertation Defense: "Molecular Mechanisms of Golgi Structure Alterations during Stress”

Stephen Ireland

Mentor: Y. Wang

“Epigenetic pathways as targets in human disease”

Shelley Berger, Ph.D.

Center for Organogenesis along with the Human Genetics Depatment is pleased to present a seminar talk by Dr. Shelley Berger....

Bioethics Discussion: Public Health

A discussion on the health of our society....

DCMB Weekly Seminar

Future of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Healthcare; Fears and Hopes / Kayvan Najarian, PhD

Abstract:...

Designing Functional Sites in Porous Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion

Sara Thoi (Johns Hopkins University)

Despite their high theoretical specific energy of 2,600 Wh kg-1, the commercialization of Li-S devices is hindered by irreversible capacity...

CANCELLED: Our Constitution and Our Children in the Era of Climate Crisis: Juliana v. United States

Julia Olson, Executive Director and Chief Legal Counsel of Our Children's Trust

This lecture has been CANCELLED....

Reasoning in organic chemistry – dealing with the iceberg

Nicole Graulich (The Institute of Chemistry Education Justus-Liebig-Universitat Gieben)

Organic chemistry is a heavily information and structure-laden discipline, and relies on making sense of the implicit deep level. A huge...

BME 500: Rebecca Wachs

“Engineering Neuro- and Immuno- Modulatory Biomaterials to Treat Low Back Pain”

The majority of the population will experience low back pain in their lifetime. Degeneration of the intervertebral disc is highly...

Canceled: EEB Thursday Seminar: The plant mating system and the evolution of resistance

Gina Baucom, Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan

The mating system, or who mates with whom, and how often, is a critical trait that influences the distribution of genetic variation among...

Coarse Graining Electrons and Computational Optimization of Electric Fields for Better Catalysis Design

Teresa Head-Gordon (University of California, Berkeley)

Prediction of electrostatic properties for molecules is of vital importance in numerous research disciplines. In biochemistry, the...

Annual Symposium in Biophysics

TBD

U-M Structure Seminar: Ali Kermani, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stockbridge Lab University of Michigan

CALCIUM: Faculty’s Network of Influence: How Peer Interactions Inform Faculty Teaching Decisions

Marilyne Stains (U Virginia)

Marilyne Stains (U Virginia)...

CANCELED: Mechanisms Linking Cell Mechanics and Metabolism

Kris DeMali, University of Iowa

Host: Ann Miller

POSTPONED until fall 2020: EEB Early Career Scientists Symposium | Natural History Collections: Drivers of Innovation

Due to travel restrictions and concerns for speakers and registrants due to COVID-19, we have decided it's best to postpone ECSS 2020.

Watch for updates later this year....

POSTPONED: An Evidence-Based Approach to Concussion Care: Using Physiology to Advance Clinical Practice

Elizabeth Teel, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University

Concussion Center Faculty Candidate Research Presentation...

Grads and two chairs

EEB Chair Diarmaid Ó Foighil and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies Jianzhi Zhang

This event has changed from in-person to meeting on BlueJeans. Please see your email for how to connect. Meeting ID: 428441916...

Delivering Innovative Medicines: Small Changes Can Have a Large Effect

Wendy Young (Genentech)

Wendy Young (Genentech)...

Chaperoning Evolution

Matthew Shoulders (MIT)

Protein homeostasis (proteostasis) networks, along with fundamental biophysics, govern protein evolution. Acquisition of adaptive amino acid...

TBA

Wendy Young (Genentech)

Wendy Young (Genentech)

CANCELED: Organization of cellular fat store . . .

Mike Henne, UT Southwestern Medical Center

This seminar has been cancelled.

Canceled: EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Specialization through timing: How temporal resource overlap and interacting phenologies drive specialization in pollinators

Paul Glaum, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan

Please join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar.

(CANCELLED) “Ciliary signaling: not just for Hedgehogs anymore!”

Jeremy Reiter, M.D., Ph.D.

Center for Organogenesis along with the Human Genetics Depatment is pleased to present a seminar talk by Dr. Jeremy Reiter....

A Designer's Toolkit for Constructing Complex Nanoparticle Libraries

Raymond Schaak (The Pennsylvania State University)

Multi-component nanoparticles offer unique opportunities to combine different properties in a single construct, enabling both...