The Office for Health Equity and Inclusion invites you to attend the virtual DEI Symposium:
The zoom information will be automatically emailed to those who register.
Symposium Agenda
3:00 - 3:10 pm - Welcome - Sonya Jacobs, Chief Organizational Learning
The Graduate Program in Immunology
Short Course Seminar
(Unconventional Immune Cells)
welcomes
LAST IMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH SEMINAR OF THE ACADEMIC YEAR
Virtual Seminar
April 26th from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
(During CMB 850)
Discussion to follow
LEAD, Leading Equity And Diversity, is a series of conversations where attendees have the opportunity to hear from a diverse group of guests who lead and/or support DEI and social justice initiatives. Collaboration is the crux of progress, and higher education is no exception to this axiom. This month, the LEAD series will discuss what
Please contact Zarinah Aquil (zaquil) for the Zoom link and passcode.
Daniel Tyrrell, PhD (Goldstein Lab) will present "Understanding the role of CD8+ T cells in Atherosclerosis during Aging" and
Clinical outcome upon infection with SARS-CoV-2 ranges from silent infection to lethal COVID-19. Qian Zhang and her team identified autosomal-recessive or autosomal-dominant deficiencies of genes in the type I IFN circuit in 23 patients (3.5%) 17 to 77 years of age. She will show that inborn errors of TLR3- and IRF7- dependent type I IFN
To be added to the immunology email group to be made aware of upcoming seminars, please contact: Zarinah Aquil (zaquil @umich.edu)
This presentation will be on challenging the Call Out culture of social justice movements and academic spaces in order to build a united human rights movement.
The lecture will cover five topics:
To be added to the immunology email group to be made aware of upcoming seminars, please contact: Zarinah Aquil (zaquil @umich.edu)
Dr. Johnna Frierson is the Assistant Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Diversity and Inclusion at Duke University School of Medicine. Her talk is titled "From the Micro to the Macro: My Path to the PhD and Beyond" and will cover her career path in academic administration.
