BMI Weekly Newsletter  

December 18, 2023  

News: 

• “Congratulations to IM Ph.D. Candidate Isabella Cubillejo for presenting her work in Okinawa, Japan for the 57^th United States-Japan Cooperative Medical Science Program-Joint Panel Conference on Cholera and Other Bacterial Enteric Infections.”  

•  Congratulations to the two following BMI Students for completing their thesis defense: 

♦ BMB Masters Student Duncan Smith,for his Master of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, thesis defense title: “Investigating the Metal Ion Transport and Structure-Function Relationships of Zinc Transporters Using Escherichia Coli”. 
Advisor: Dr. Bharati Mitra 

♦ IM Masters Student Fady Bidawit, for his Master of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular  Biology, thesis defense - no public defense, title: “Current Cholera Research with a Focus on the ToxT Transcription Factor” 
Advisor: Jeffrey Withey 

Events:   

• No events scheduled for this week. 

Upcoming Events: 

• Next IFG Seminar: Tuesday, January 9, 2024 starts our Winter 2024 Seminar Schedule 

• Winter 2024 BMI Seminar starts: Tuesday, January 16, 2024, 3:00pm ← NOTE TIME CHANGE! 

Speaker: Dr. Maureen O’Malley, associate professor in the School of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney, Australia    https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/philosophy/philosophy-science/philosophy-microbiology  

Title: “The Concept of Balance in Microbiome Research” 
Host: Dr. Matthew Jackson mpjacks@med.wayne.edu  

Zoom link: https://wayne-edu.zoom.us/j/94300010198?pwd=VDJKOFgzUE1wRWcyY1hmN1lqMlFnUT09  

Meeting ID: 943 0001 0198  
Passcode: 156698 

For all in-person seminars, students need to attend in-person, and for zoom seminars, students need to attend via zoom, in order for attendance to be counted. 

• January 22, 2024: The 27^th annual Chuan-Pu Lee Endowed Graduate Student Research Presentation Day. Details to follow. 

• Coffee Hour, a meet and greet event, with SOM Dean and colleagues, is on the last Wednesday of the month in 2024. 

• February 28, 2024: Wayne State Graduate School Research Symposium. Details to follow. 

Campus News: 

• Campus Health Center: CHC  

• WSU Parking and Transportation Services schedule for the holiday closure days:  WSU P & T Service Schedule  

• Office of President: Campus Resources Link for Student, Faculty and Staff Campus Resource Link 

* The BMI Newsletter will return Monday, January 8, 2024.  

From all of us in the BMI Office, “Happy Holidays!”