BMI Weekly News - January 15, 2024
BMI Weekly Newsletter
January 16, 2024
This Week’s Events:
Winter 2024 Zoom BMI Seminar: Tuesday, January 16, 2024, 3:00 p.m. ←TIME CHANGE!
Speaker: Dr. Maureen O’Malley, Associate Professor in the School of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney, Australia
https://maureenomalley.org/index.html 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: 943 0001 0198
Passcode: 1566988
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.
Journal Club: Wednesday, January 17, 2024, 11:30 a.m., 3125 Scott Hall
Presented by: BMB MS Student, Apoorva Rao
Title: “Characterization of Vibrio cholerae colonization factors in zebrafish.”
Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Withey
Upcoming Events:
- Winter 2024 In-person BMI Seminar: Tuesday, January 23, 2024, 2268 Scott Hall
Speaker: Dr. Chelsey Spriggs, Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, and Cell & Developmental Biology, U-M Medical School, University of Michigan
Title: “TBA”
Host: Dr. Philip Pellett Phil_Pellett@wayne.edu
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.
- Journal Club: Wednesday, January 24, 2024, 11:30 a.m., 3125 Scott Hall
Presented by: BMB PhD Student, Shichao Wu
Title: “AI for structural predictions of multiprotein complexes”
- January 22, 2024: The 27th annual Chuan-Pu Lee Endowed Graduate Student Research Presentation Day. Event details https://gsrpd9.wixsite.com/gsrpd
- ZOOM BMI Seminar: January 30, 2024, 11:30 a.m., 2268 Scott Hall
Speaker: Briana Bibel, Ph.D., Visiting Professor of Biochemistry, St. Mary’s College of California
Title: “Developing and Teaching a Biochemical Intuition”
Hosted by: Michael Muczynski and the BMI Students Michael.muczynski2@med.wayne.edu
Zoom link: https://wayne-edu.zoom.us/j/94300010198?pwd=VDJKOFgzUE1wRWcyY1hmN1lqMlFnUT09
Meeting: 943 0001 0198
Passcode: 1566988
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.
- 2024 Coffee Hour: A meet and greet event, with School of Medicine Dean Sakr and colleagues, is on the last Wednesday of the month, 3:00 – 4:00 p.m., 1325 Scott Hall.
- Immunology Focus Group Lecture: Tuesday, February 6, 2024, !2:00 – 1:00 p.m., In-person Hudson Weber Auditorium, 4100 John R, Detroit, MI 48201. A simple lunch will be provided.
Speaker: Kathleen M. Kokolus, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Dr. Kokolus studies immunotherapy, with a focus on strategies to enhance response to immunotherapy in patients with advanced cancers. In particular, she is interested in the interplay between stress and the anti-tumor immune response and manipulating the tumor microenvironment to promote susceptibility to immune-based therapies. In addition, Dr. Kokolus works to encourage the next generation of cancer researchers by training junior researchers and teaching graduate students.
Title: “Chemokine Modulation as An Anti-PD-1 Sensitizing Strategy”
Host: Jennifer Jacob, Ph.D., Department of Oncology, Wayne State University
Sponsored by: The Office of Vice President for Research, Wayne State University, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and Henry Ford Health System
- February 28, 2024: Wayne State Graduate Research Symposium. Event details: https://gradschool.wayne.edu/students/professional-development/research-symposium
Campus News:
- Campus Health Center: CHC
- Office of President: Campus Resources Link for Student, Faculty and Staff Campus Resource Link