Events
Includes PHG-related events sponsored by other programs at the University
of Michigan.
Fall 2006
8/31/06, Thursday, 2-4pm
PHGIC Orientation
9/5/06, Tuesday, 7-9pm, Arbor Brewing Company (114 East Washington Street,
Ann Arbor)
Welcome Reception for the Interdepartmental Concentrations
TBA Meet thePHGIC Faculty Sessions
Winter 2006
1/13/06 Fri, 8 pm, 1800 Chemistry
"The quest for the genes that make us human" Svante Pääbo.
Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology
LSA
Evolution Theme Semester Distinguished Speaker Series
Reception following in Chemistry atrium
1/28/06 Sat, 10:30 am, 170 Dennison Building
"Nanomedicine - a New Frontier for Physics" Jens-Christian Meiners,
Physics, University of Michigan
LSA
Evolution Theme Semester Saturday Morning Physics series
1/30/06 Mon, 4:00--5:30pm, International Institute Seminar Room, 1644
SSWB
"Eugenics and Historical Memory in the United States" Alexandra
Minna Stern, Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
and Program in American Culture, and Associate Director of the Center
for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan. Her book, Eugenic
Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America, was
recently published by the University of California Press.
Presented by the Science,
Technology, Medicine and Society (STeMS) Speaker Series
2/1/06 Wed, 12 noon-1, 2009 Ruthven Museums Building
"Variation, development, and evolution of the hominoid vertebral
column" David Pilbeam, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
Academic Seminar offered by the Evolution Theme Semester, Museum of Paleontology,
Museum of Anthropology, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
2/1/06 Wed, 7 pm, 1800 Chemistry
"Forty years of thinking about the origins of the human lineage"
David Pilbeam, Harvard University
LSA
Evolution Theme Semester Distinguished Speaker Series
Reception following in Chemistry atrium
2/4/06 Sat, 10:30 am, 170 Dennison
"Evolution of Infectious Diseases: from host-parasite arms races
to superbugs" Johannes Foufopoulos, School of Natural Resources,
University of Michigan
LSA
Evolution Theme Semester Saturday Morning Physics Series
2/11/06 Sat, 10:30 am, 170 Dennison Building
"Genomic revolution of evolutionary biology" George Zhang, Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
LSA
Evolution Theme Semester Saturday Morning Physics series
2/18/06 Sat, 10:30 am, 170 Dennison
"Natural Selection and the Regulation of Defense Responses: How much
suffering is enough?" Randolph Nesse, Psychiatry, Psychology, RCGD,
and ISR; University of Michigan
LSA
Evolution Theme Semester Saturday Morning Physics Series
3/9/06 Thu, 4 pm, location TBA
"Population genomics of extremophilic bacteria and archaea"
W. Ford Doolittle, Dalhousie University
Academic Seminar, Department of Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Zoology
3/18/06 Sat, 10:30 am, 170 Dennison Building
"Scientific Uncertainty and Public Policy: moving on without all
the answers" Henry Pollack. Geological Sciences, University of Michigan
LSA
Evolution Theme Semester Saturday Morning Physics series
3/24/06 Fri, 10:30 am, 4448 East Hall
"Evolution, Altruism and Ethics" Stephen P. Stich, Rutgers University
LSA
Evolution Theme Semester Evolution and Culture Colloquium Series
4/2/06 Sun, 3 pm, Michigan League, Hussey Room
"Darwinian medicine: If natural selection is so great, why are we
so vulnerable to disease?" Randolph Nesse, Psychiatry; Psychology;
Center for Research on Human Dynamics; Institute for Social Research;
University of Michigan
William R. Farrand Annual Public Lecture
Presented by the Exhibit Museum of Natural History
4/7/06 Fri, 10:30 am, 4448 East Hall
"Not By Genes Alone: how culture transformed human evolution"
Peter Richerson, University of California, Davis
LSA
Evolution Theme Semester Evolution and Culture Colloquium Series
4/19/06 Wed, 7 pm, Chemistry 1800
"Gene, organism and environment" Richard Lewontin, Harvard University
LSA
Evolution Theme Semester Distinguished Speaker Series
Reception following in Chemistry atrium
5/25/06 - 5/26/06
50 Years of Human Genetics at Michigan
Presented by the Department of Human Genetics
Fall 2005
9/1/05, Thursday, 2-4pm, SPH Building 1, room 2000
PHGIC Orientation
9/7/05, Wednesday, 7-9pm, Arbor Brewing Company (114 East Washington
Street, Ann Arbor)
Welcome Reception for the Interdepartmental Concentrations
9/27/05, Tuesday, 4:30-6pm, SPH Building 1, room 3000
"The Bonds Between Sisters: A Possible Explanation for the Maternal
Age Effect on the Incidence of Down Syndrome"
Guest Speaker: R. Scott Hawley, PhD, American Cancer Society Research
Professor, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Professor, Department
of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Kansas
9/29/05, Thursday, 8am-6pm, Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center
"Second Annual Biomedical Research Symposium: Genomic Medicine"
(website)
Sponsored by the University of Michigan Medical School
10/2/05, Sunday, 12:30pm, Argo Park Canoe Livery
Canoeing with the Interdepartmental Concentrations
11/11/05, Friday, 6pm, Sharon Kardia's home
Internship Information Sharing Dinner
12/1/05, Thursday, 4pm, location TBA
"Science and Spirituality: Searching for Common Ground"
Panel: Rolf Bouma, PhD, Jeffrey Evans, PhD, Sharon Kardia, PhD, and Susan
King, D.Min
Sponsored by the Program in Consciousness and Creativity Studies
12/2/05, Friday, 6pm, Carl Marrs and Julia Richards home
Dinner with PHGIC (students and faculty)
Winter 2005
2/22/05, Wednesday, 7pm, location TBA
"Introduction to Evolution" part of the LSA
Evolution Theme Semester
Richard Dawkins, Oxford University
4/19/05, Wednesday, 7 pm, location TBA
"Science, evolution, and society; the role of science in society"
part of the LSA
Evolution Theme Semester
Richard Lewontin, Harvard University
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