BMI Weekly News

February 24, 2020

News

• This LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED → The Orten Lecture on Thursday, March 5, 2020. This lecture will be rescheduled in the fall.
• Next BMI Faculty meeting will be held on Thursday, March 12, 2020, 11:30am, 7364 Scott Hall.
• The SURE program application deadline is March 13, 2020. There’s still time for eligible students to apply. If you have a student in mind, please pass along the attached flyer information to him/her.
•  E-waste recycling is still ongoing. If you have items in Scott Hall or Lande Building to dispose of, contact April awola@med.wayne.edu in the BMI Office.
• SAVE THESE DATES: 
  • Saturday, March 28, 2020: Michigan Branch of the American Society for Microbiology, Spring 2020 Meeting, “BUILDING A BOUNDLESS BIOFILM”, Detroit Mercy Dental, University of Detroit Mercy, School of Dentistry. Organized by Joshua Thomson, an alum of the Jeff Withey lab and the Immunology and Microbiology program. Note: The department will reimburse the advance registration fees. 
  • Tuesday, April 14, 2020: Vera Fay Righthand Lecture in Virology, speaker, Dr. Ann Kwong, Vice President, Discovery Biology, Dewpoint Therapeutics, Boston, Title: “TBA”. Hosted by: Drs. Phil Pellett & Ladislau Kovari
  • Saturday, May 16, 2020: American Heart Association’s 2020 Metro Detroit Heart and Stroke Walk/Run on.  BMI Student, Taylor Vensko, will be leading this year’s fundraiser event. Details to follow.

 Departmental Events 

• BMI Seminar: Speaker, Jared Schrader, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University. Title: “Ribonucleoprotein Bodies Organize Bacterial mRNA Decay”.  Tuesday, February 25, 2020, 11:30am, 2268 Scott Hall, School of Medicine.  Hosted by: Madison Peterson and BMI students gl0550@wayne.edu
• Journal Club/RDP:  First Year PhD Student, Isabella Cubillejo, presentation title: “Isolation of an archaeon at the prokaryote-eukaryote interface” Wednesday, February 26, 2020, 11:30am-12:20pm, 3125 Scott Hall, School of Medicine. 
• Next Seminar- Immunology Focus Group: Speaker, Aimin Jiang, Ph.D., Research Specialist, Henry Ford Hospital. Title: “TBA” Tuesday, March 3, 2020, 12:15-1:15pm, lunch served at 12pm, Wertz Auditorium, 2^nd floor, Hudson Webber Cancer Research Center, 4100 John R., Detroit.  Hosted by: Qing-Sheng Mi, M.D. /Ph.D., Center for Cutaneous Biology and Immunology, Immunology Program, Henry Ford Cancer Institute, Departments of BMI and Oncology, WSU.  Tel.: (313) 876-1017.
• Next Journal Club/RDP:  First Year PhD Student, Jonathan Panzer, presentation title: “Overcoming Bacterial Resilience: How to Eliminate Pesky Persisters” Wednesday, March 4, 2020, 11:30am-12:20pm, 3125 Scott Hall, School of Medicine. 

 Other Events

• 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.  https://mucosal-immunology-2020-umich.eventbrite.com