BMI Weekly News

BMI Weekly News

February 11, 2019

News

â- This week biochemistry faculty candidate, Dr. Grant Schauer (http://grantome.com/grant/NIH/K99-GM126143-01A1), will be visiting February 13-15, 2019. The candidate seminar will be held on Thursday at 1-2:00pm in Room 2268 Scott Hall, School of Medicine (see attachment for full details). If you are interested in meeting with this faculty candidate, contact Dr. Bharati Mitra bmitra@med.wayne.edu.

Departmental Events

â- BMI Seminar: Speaker, Dr. Yang Zhang, Professor, Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Professor, Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Title: Protein Structure Prediction. Tuesday, February 12, 2019, 11:30-12:25 p.m., 2268 Scott Hall, School of Medicine. Host: BMI Students, Kendall Muzzarelli kmuzzare@med.wayne.edu

â- Journal Club/RDP: Two Public Student Presentations, February 13, 2019, 12:30-1:20pm, 3125 Scott Hall School of Medicine.

• Masters student, Nicholas Kaley, presents "Studies of the Zika virus NS2B-NS3 protease as a target for therapeutic intervention". Mentor: Dr. Ladislau Kovari

And

• Masters student, Emerson Perry, presents "Protein Lysine Methyltransferase SMYD2 Novel Allosteric Binding and Alternative Inhibition Strategies". Mentor: Dr. Ladislau Kovari

â- BMI Faculty Candidate Seminar: Speaker, Dr. Grant Schauer, NIH (NIGMS) Pathway to Independence Postdoctoral Fellow, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rockefeller University. Title: Functional Dynamics in the Eukaryotic Replisome. Thursday,February 14, 2019, 1-2:00pm, 2268 Scott Hall. Host: Dr. Bharati Mitra bmitra@med.wayne.edu