October 2023 Events

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

MNI Postdoc Community Meeting

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Save the date - more information and an RSVP link to come.

Friday, October 27, 2023

Using Cognitive Neuroscience Techniques to Study Neurocognitive Aging in Former Athletes

2:00 PM

4464 East Hall

Featuring Eleanna Varangis, Ph.D., assistant professor of Movement Science in the Michigan Concussion Center and the School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan.

Thursday, October 26, 2023

Sensitivity and Tenacity of Sensory Hair Cells

11:45 AM

Med Sci 2 - 3697 West Lecture Hall

This speaker is featured as part of the Kresge Hearing Research Institute's (KHRI) Hearing, Balance and Chemical Senses Seminar Series.

Thursday, October 26, 2023 to Saturday, October 28, 2023

SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Conference (NDiSTEM)

(All day)

Oregon Convention Center 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd Portland, OR 97232

The country's largest multidisciplinary and multicultural STEM diversity event, the SACNAS conference is a gathering that serves to equip, empower, and energize participants for their academic and professional paths in STEM.

Diversity

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Unifying the Cognitive Sciences

1:00 PM

Forum Hall 4th floor Palmer Commons and via Zoom

Featuring Karl Friston, Professor of Imaging Neuroscience/Wellcome Principal Research Fellow, Imaging Neuroscience.

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Using Computational Neuroimaging to Characterize Neural Priority Maps Supporting Visual Cognition

4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

Lurie Biomedical Engineering Building (LBME), Room 1170

Functional MRI Speaker Series

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Rett Syndrome from the Clinic to Genomes, Epigenomes, and Neural Circuits

2:00 PM to 4:30 PM

BSRB Kahn Auditorium

The 12th Annual Thomas D. Gelehrter, M.D. Lectureship in Medical Genetics presents Dr. Huda Yahya Zoghbi (Baylor College of Medicine).

Monday, October 23, 2023

Gene Therapy for Brain Tumors: from brain/immune co-evolution to a novel therapy in humans

11:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Human Genetics Seminar Series Fall 2023

This event is presented as part of the U-M Human Genetics Seminar Series Fall 2023.

Monday, October 23, 2023

Pronouns 101 presented by the U-M Spectrum Center

9:00 AM to 11:00 AM

MBNI Waggoner Conference Room

This course teaches the basics of pronouns, their usage, and the connection between pronouns and transgender communities.

Friday, October 20, 2023

Big Ten Neuroscience Seminar Series: University of Illinois

1:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Presented via Zoom

"Unlocking the Roles of Astrocytes in Circuits and Behavior" - Xinzhu Yu, Ph.D.

"A marker Chromosome in psychosis identifies glycine decarboxylase (GLDC) as a novel regulator of neuronal and synaptic function in the hippocampus" - Maltesh Kambali, Ph.D.

Friday, October 20, 2023

2023 Michigan Medicine Fall DEI Symposium

8:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Michigan League Grand Ballroom

All Michigan Medicine team members are invited to the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Fall 2023 Symposium titled “Beyond Awareness: Structural Change for Equity.”