BMI Weekly News 

February 10, 2020

News

• Congratulations to the Theis lab (Jonathan, Andrew, Madison) and Gomez-Lopez lab, which in collaboration with the Perinatology Research Branch, had a paper titled “No consistent evidence for microbiota in murine placental and fetal tissues” accepted for publication in mSphere. The preprint can be found here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2019.12.10.872275v1.
• Dr. Yuan He will be one of the ten Junior Scientist Speakers at the Mucosal Immunology Symposium, Local Chapter 2020 - Michigan at the University of Michigan on March 6, 2020, 9am-6pm, Palmer Commons, Forum & Great Lakes room. The Keynote Speaker is Nicholas W. Lukacs, PhD, University of Michigan.  Free on-line registration:https://mucosal-immunology-2020-umich.eventbrite.com.Trainees are encouraged to submit an abstract and to attend.  Abstract submission available until Feb 11^th atmucosal-immunol@umich.edu

 

Departmental Events 

• BMI Seminar: Speaker, Ahmed Ibrahim, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology & Visual Anatomical Sciences, School of Medicine, Wayne State University. Title:“Bioactive Lipids and Ischemic Retinal Diseases”. Tuesday, February 11, 2020, 11:30am, 2268 Scott Hall, School of Medicine.  Hosted by: Dr. Philip Pellettppellett@med.wayne.edu
• Journal Club/RDP:  Two Public Student Presentations,February 12, 2020, 11:30am-12:20pm, 3125 Scott Hall School of Medicine.
  • Masters student, Raniya Abdel Haq, presents“Investigating the Interaction between the Hydrophilic N-terminal Domain and the Transmembrane Domain of ZntA in E.coli”. Mentor: Dr. Bharati Mitra
  • Masters student, Ali-Rida Beydoun, presents “Drug Design Studies of Zika Virus Protease Inhibitors”. Mentor: Dr. Ladislau Kovari
• Next BMI Seminar: Speaker, Shannon Manning, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University. Title: “Compositional and functional changes in the intestinal microbiome following infection with enteric pathogens”. Tuesday, February 18, 2020, 11:30am, 2268 Scott Hall, School of Medicine.  Hosted by: Dr. Kevin Theis ktheis@med.wayne.edu
• Next Journal Club/RDP:  Masters Student, Taylor Vensko, presentation title: “Utilization of a 3D-cell culture model to study Human Cytomegalovirus virion maturation and egress.” Wednesday, February 19, 2020, 11:30am-12:20pm, 3125 Scott Hall, School of Medicine. Mentor: Dr. Philip Pellett