BMI Weekly News - April 14, 2025
April 14, 2025
News:
- The new board of our department’s 2025-26 Graduate Student Organization:
President – Ravipaul Singh
Vice President – Pelumi Oladipo
Seminar Chairs – Zachary Pomicter (IM) and Thamarahansi Mugunamalwaththa (BMB)
Graduate Student Representatives – Apoorva Rao (IM PhD), Audrey Couturier (IM MS), Joseph Engel
(BMB PhD) and Gurleen Sandhu (BMB MS)
Student Activities Coordinators – Shalini Suman and Nkosingivile Sibandze
Social Media – Thamarahansi Mugunamalwaththa and Shalina Suman
(See attachment for their Social Media post)
- A big Thank you goes out to our 2024-25 BMI Graduate Student Organization!
This Week’s Event:
- CANCELLED - BMI Seminar for Tuesday, April 15, 2025, with speaker, Jiaxin Niu, M.D.
Upcoming Events:
- Next week’s BMI Seminar: Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 11:30 a.m., 2268 Scott Hall
Speaker: Chris Waters, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Microbiology and Genetics, Michigan State University
Title: “The Yin and Yang of Bacteria and Their Phage”
Host: Kevin Theis ktheis@med.wayne.edu
Student/Speaker lunch following seminar in room 7370 Scott Hall
- Thesis Defense Presentation: Master of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Thursday, April 24, 2025, 11:30 a.m., 3125 Scott Hall
Presented by: BMB MS Student, Lauren Pavelich
Title: “Regulation of Respiratory Supercomplexes Through Inhibitory Cytochrome c Oxidase Y304 Phosphorylation Causes Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Diabetic Heart”
Advisor: Dr. Maik Hüttemann
- Thesis Defense Presentation: Master of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Friday, April 25, 2025, 11:30 a.m., 2268 Scott Hall
Presented by: BMB MS Student, Alan Carbajo
Title: “Sequence Based Virus Prediction: A Curated Dataset and Generalizable Framework for Training Artificial Intelligence to Identify Viruses of Humans”
Advisor: Dr. Philip Pellett
- Next BMI Seminar: Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 11:30 a.m., 2268 Scott Hall
Speaker: Matthew Mulvey, Ph.D., Professor, Center for Cell and Genome Science, School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah.
Title: “Delineation of Disease-Driving Factors in Patients with Invasive E. coli Infections.”
Hosted by: Pelumi Oladipo hl8030@wayne.edu and BMI Students
- Thesis Defense Presentation: Master of Science in Immunology and Microbiology, Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 11:30 a.m., 3125 Scott Hall
Presented by: BMB MS Student, Natalie Mcginnis
Title: “Metabolic and Ecological Complexities of Sneathia: A Fastidious Emerging Pathogen in the Female Reproductive Tract”
Advisor: Dr. Kevin Theis
Campus News:
- Campus Health Center: Campus Health Center - Wayne State University
- Office of President: Campus Resources link for Students, Faculty and Staff, Campus Resource Link