BMI Weekly News- February 17, 2020

BMI Weekly News

February 17, 2020

News

  • Congratulations to Dr. Yuan He, who was awarded a 2020 AAI Early Career Faculty Travel Grantwhich will enable him to attend the IMMUNOLOGY 2020 meeting in Hawaii.
  • Save this date!  Thursday, March 5, 1:00-2:30pm The 24th Aline U. and James M. ORTEN Memorial Lecture will be held on in the Green Auditorium, Scott Hall. Speaker: Laura Kiessling, Ph.D., Novartis Professor of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Title: “Using Chemical Biology to Elucidate the Biological Roles of Carbohydrates”Hosted by: BMI Students; Student Rep, Cameron Roberts croberts@med.wayne.edu
  • KCI Cancer Screening Friday, April 17, 2020, 1-4pm.  See attached flyer for details.

 

Departmental Events 

  • 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
  • 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
  • Next BMI Seminar: Speaker: Jared Schrader, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Departmen of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University. Title: "TBA". Tuesday, February 25, 2020, 11:30am, 2268 Scott Hall, School of Medicine.  Hosted by: Madison Peterson and BMI students gl0550@wayne.edu 
  • Next Journal Club/RDP:  PhD Student, Isabella Cubillejo, presentation title: “TBA” Wednesday, February 26, 2020, 11:30am-12:20pm, 3125 Scott Hall, School of Medicine.

 

Other Events

  • Today’s Special Seminar Presentation:  Speaker, Phillip A. Sharp, Ph.D., Nobel Laureate in Physiology and Medicine, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Monday, February 17th 12:15pm at the Welcome Center Auditorium. Dynamic Condensates Formed by Phase Transition in Regulation of Transcription.  Host: Sumit Bandyopadhyay (BSGSA). See attachment for details.
  • 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. Dr. Lukacs received his PhD from Wayne State University in 1992, advisor Dov L. Boros, Ph.D.

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