BMI Weekly News - February 17, 2025
February 17, 2025
News:
- SAVE THE DATE:
Thesis Defense Presentation Master of Science in Immunology and Microbiology
Student: Callan Bleick
Title: "Optimizing Phage-Antibiotic Combinations (Pacs): Impact of Administration Order Against Daptomycin Non-susceptible (DNS) Mrsa Clinical Isolates"
Date/Time/Place: Thursday, February 27th, 2025, 12:30-1:30pm, Room 3125 Scott Hall
Advisor: Dr. Michael J. Rybak
Co-advisor: Dr. Jeffrey Withey
Alternate viewing Zoom link: https://wayne-edu.zoom.us/j/7874875894?pwd=6pIneV6cLbAPbJ7Ul8ulNAVJxgyhBv.1&omn=95712626913
Meeting ID: 787 487 5894
Passcode: 2025 TBA
This Week’s Events:
- BMI Seminar: Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 11:30a.m., Room 2268 Scott Hall
Speaker: Victor DiRita, Ph.D., Endowed Chair, and Chair, Department of Microbiology, Genetics, & Immunology, Michigan State University
Title: “Immune Metabolism Feeds Campylobacter jejuni the Inflamed Gut”
Hosted by: Pelumi Olapido hl8030@wayne.edu and the BMI Students
- Journal Club: Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 11:30a.m., Room 3125 Scott Hall
Presenter: BMB MS Student, Nkosingivile Sibandze
Title: "Structure of the SMYD2-PARP1 Complex Reveals Both Productive and Allosteric Modes of Peptide Binding".
Mentor: Dr. Zhe Yang
Upcoming Events:
- BMI Seminar: Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 11:30a.m., Room 2268 Scott Hall
Speaker: Julia van Kessel, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington
Title: “Cutting off Communication: A Chemical Approach to Blocking Bacterial Pathogenesis”
Hosted by: Dr. Jeffrey Withey jwithey@med.wayne.edu
- Journal Club: Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 11:30a.m., Room 3125 Scott Hall
Two Presentations:
First Presenter: BMB MS Student, Gurleen Sandhu
Title: TBA
Mentor: Dr. B. Kidder
Second Presenter: IMM MS Student, Savannah Schick
Title: TBA
Mentor: Dr. Jiahui Ding
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