CDB Seminar Series: Ormond MacDougald

Claire Drysdale presents for Cell & Developmental Biology

Steven Vokes presents for Cell & Developmental Biology

Kassidy Knight, Ligia Schmitd, and Erez Cohen will present for Cell & Developmental Biology

Akhila Rajan presents for Cell & Developmental Biology

The Joglekar Lab presents for Cell & Developmental Biology

Yuwei Tang presents for Cell & Developmental Biology

Michael Caterina presents for Cell & Developmental Biology

The Linghu Lab will present for Cell & Developmental Biology

The Michigan Pioneer Fellows Program is now accepting applications.

Part of the Human Genetics Thesis Defense Seminars

An informal, bring-your-real-problems session bridging clinical data and computational expertise. Whether you're a clinician with messy omics data or a bioinformatician looking for meaningful problems to solve, this one's for you.

Morbidity & Mortality Conference

Wenya Linda Bi, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Brigham Cancer Institute and Harvard University, will give a lecture as the 2026 Saeed Farhat Visiting Professor of Neurosurgery.

Matthew O'Meara, PhD and his lab are hosting what we're calling Summer Deep Reading on Deep Learning. This year it will be a multi-part journal club on Transformer Circuits. We're going to start with Grokking and touch on lazy/rich training regimes, thermodynamics and phase transitions. The aim is to make the math accessible while getting into advanced topics.

Part of the Human Genetics Research Seminar Series

Dr. Grace Jenq, associate chief clinical officer and clinical professor of Geriatric & Palliative Medicine, presents "What was I made for? Becoming a patient priorities care provider at work and at home."

Bailey Garb will present a Bioinformatics PhD Defense titled “Molecular Heterogeneity Within HPV-Positive Head and Neck Cancer: Subtyping and Biomarker Approaches for Outcome Prediction”

The Department of Biological Chemistry hosts a dissertation seminar by PhD candidate Carmen Castillo.

The Michigan Pioneer Fellows Program is now accepting applications.

Across decades of clinical practice in several health systems, leadership challenges, unexpected pivots, and the relentless evolution of modern medicine, Dr. Ronald Grifka, President of University of Michigan Health-West has collected something far more valuable than titles: perspective. In this candid, story driven session, he shares the lessons that only experience—and yes, a few gray hairs—can teach. Throughout these pursuits, he earned a degree from U.H.K. - the “University of Hard Knocks”.

A student-led space to explore the latest GenAI tools, share AI-augmented research workflows, and think critically about how we stay "human" in an increasingly automated world. Open to anyone in the bioinformatics and biomedical community.

PROSPECT Medical Student - Jose Ramirez

Discussion of psychedelics in the chronic pain context, incorporating content related to psychiatric conditions as well as taking a wider view of policy, naturalistic trends and pragmatic approaches to psychedelics in clinical care.

Jennifer Schaub, MD, assistant professor of Nephrology, presents "The Next Frontier in Diabetic Kidney Disease: Human Tissue to Untangle Mechanism and Treatment."