July 2020 Events

Friday, July 31, 2020

Drs. Elizabeth Mann and Madhvi Menon (Univ of Manchester): Longitudinal immune profiling reveals distinct features of COVID-19 pathogenesis

10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Elizabeth Mann and Madhvi Menon will discuss findings from their recent longitudinal immune profiling study with admitted COVID-19 patients across four hospitals in Manchester at the height of the pandemic in the UK. They find key immune signatures that track with disease severity and can potentially be used to identify patients upon
Wednesday, July 29, 2020

OHEI Virtual Bystander Intervention Public Session

11:00 AM to 11:45 AM

Bystander Intervention - brings bystander intervention skills to the University of Michigan community for the purpose of building inclusive, respectful, and safe communities. It is based on a nationally recognized four-stage bystander intervention model that helps individuals intervene in situations that negatively impact individuals,

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Friday, July 24, 2020

L.E.A.D.: Bridging the Divide—Uniting Against Racism

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

L.E.A.D., Leading Equity And Diversity, is a series of conversations where attendees have the opportunity to hear from a diverse group of guests who lead DEI initiatives. This LEAD conversation will address the need to have people of all social identities (across race, gender, class, sexual orientation, etc.) involved in the fight against

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Monday, July 20, 2020

Dr. Reth virtually presents "Ramos B cell engineering for the evaluation of the humoral anti-SARS-CoV-2 immunity"

10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Michael Reth and his team are studying how the B cell antigen receptor (BCR) and the B cell surface is organized in resting and activated B cells for the sensing of foreign antigens. They learned that the BCR and many B cell surface markers are highly organized at nanoscale distances. In their studies they are using the CRISPR/Cas9 method to

Friday, July 17, 2020

Panel discussion on Mass Incarceration

4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

We are delighted that you are interested in attending the panel organized by the Biological Chemistry Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee.

Date/Time: July 17, 4:00-5:30 PM

Panelists: Dr. Ashley Lucas (University of Michigan) and her community collaborators- Patrick Bates, Artaysia Mallisham

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Thursday, July 16, 2020

COVID-19 Disparities, Underlying Causes Facilitator: Steve Vinson, UMMG Finance and DEI

12:30 PM to 1:30 PM

OHEI is now offering a re-formatted Community Conversations approach that is virtual. We feel that it is important to carve out space for dialogue, provide support for one another, promote self-care, and share valuable resources. It is important now, more than ever, for us to come together as a community.

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Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Black Fatigue at Work

10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

From Berrett Koehler (BK) Publishers/Description of Masterclass Conversation:

"The centuries-long struggle for equality for Black Americans rages on - and it affects us all. In order for us to achieve the goal of true equality, we must provide resources for Black and non-Black people to heal, learn, and have productive conversations

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Monday, July 13, 2020

#BlackLivesMatter Carillon Concert

7:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Friends, colleagues, alumni,

On Monday at 7 pm, I'll play the Lurie Carillon in solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter (and donate the honorarium to BLM causes), and one of the pieces answers the call to #SayHerName by encoding the name of

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Monday, July 13, 2020

Seeking correlates of protection and correlates of pathology in COVID-19 patients

9:00 AM to 10:00 AM

In this webinar, Professor Adrian Hayday will share with us, an overview of a completed deep immunophenotyping of 100 patients and controls, with approximately 200,000 data points.

Professor Adrian Hayday began studying immunology in 1982 at MIT, where he and his colleagues first described the wholly unanticipated T-cell receptor gamma

Monday, July 6, 2020

Prevention and Therapy of COVID-19 with Monoclonal Antibodies

10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Hans-Martin Jäck summarizes the COVID-19 pandemic and CoV-2-host cell interactions. He introduces the concept of passive immunisation and active vaccination to prevent and protect from COVID-19, and he provides an overview of the current clinical serum and vaccine trials, finishing the webinar with a review on the production of human CoV-2

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

BMA TO HOST ‘CONVERSATIONS ON BEING BLACK IN AMERICA’

5:30 PM to 7:00 PM

The Black Medical Association is inviting all members of the Michigan Medicine community to attend “Conversations on Being Black in America,” with speaker Adam Foss.

Foss is the founder and executive director at Prosecutor Impact (PI), a non-profit organization that develops innovative curriculum and experiential training for prosecutors

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