BMI Weekly News
BMI Weekly News
January 14, 2019
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â- Welcome Md Moazzem Hossain who joined the Sebzda lab in December 2018 to manage the lab and study adaptive immune responses to improve disease outcome. He received his MD from Lugansk State Medical University, Ukraine and PhD from Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo Japan. During his PhD he studied the host immune response in parasitic disease. He did postdoctoral training in Lund University to study antibody mediated arthritis in mice. He worked in Case Western Reserve University, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, and Wayne State University for 17 years to study the cytoskeletal function of actin binding protein calponin-2.
â- Congratulations to Dr. Gilda Hillman on the publishing of a review article on Soy Isoflavones and Radiation, a project that I have pioneered and developed over 18 years of research at WSU/KCI. This review was invited by Dr. Douglas Smith, Editor of a thematic issue in Seminars of Radiation Oncology on "Manipulations of Redox Metabolism for Enhancing Radiation Therapy Responses".
Departmental Events
â- BMI Seminar: Speaker, Dr. Mallary Wacker, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Central Michigan University. Title: "Some like it hot, but they sweat when the heat is on: uncontrolled
inflammation in staphylococcal infections". Tuesday, January 15, 11:30am-12:25pm, 305/306 Mazurek Education Commons, Wayne State University. Host: BMI Graduate Students, Matthew Fountain, mfountai@med.wayne.edu
â- Journal Club-RDP: January 16, 2019, 12:30-1:20pm, 3125 Scott Hall School of Medicine, First Year PhD student, Michael Pawlitz, presents "Tissue-resident memory CD8+ T cells promote melanoma-immune equilibrium in skin."
â- Next BMI Seminar: Speaker, Michael Bachman, MD, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Microbiology, Associate Director, Clinical Microbiology, Clinical Pathology, Department of Pathology, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan. Title: "Klebsiella pneumoniae: Colonization, Infection, and the Accessory Genome.", Tuesday, January 22, 2019, 11:30am-12:25pm. Location: TBA. Hosted by: BMI Graduate Students, Paul Breen,pbreen@med.wayne.edu & Matthew Fountain, mfountai@med.wayne.edu
Other Events Happening
â- The Graduate School will hold the 9th annual Graduate and Postdoctoral Research Symposium (https://gradschool.wayne.edu/graduate-postdoctoral-research-symposium), Tuesday March 5, 2019, at the McGregor Memorial Conference Center and the Community Arts Auditorium. This event is open to all current graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. Abstracts should be submitted using the attached form to the graduate school as a PDF byJanuary 30, 2019. Click on (gradschool@wayne.edu) to find this form and guidelines to submit your abstract.
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