BMI Weekly News- January 4, 2021
Happy New Year 2021!
BMI Weekly News
January 4, 2021
News:
• The BMI Faculty meeting has been rescheduled to Friday, January 15, 2021, 11:30am.
• BMI Students, please note that the last day to add/drop a course with 100% tuition reimbursement is Monday, January 25.
Events This Week:
• No BMI Events scheduled for this week.
Upcoming Events:
• Next Immunology Focus Group (IFG) Seminar: Tuesday, January 12, 2021, 12:00-1:00 pm via Zoom.
Speaker, TBA
• Next Journal Club: Wednesday, January 13, 2021, BMI Masters Students, Antoine Khobeir and Farrah Al-
Hashimi will present. Title and Zoom Link: TBA
• Next BMI Seminar: Tuesday, January 19, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm via Zoom.
Speaker, Andrew Garrett, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Ophthalmology, Visual and Anatomical Sciences, School of Medicine, Wayne State University. Biosketch is attached.
Title: “Balancing adhesion and self-avoidance in retinal neural circuit formation”
Hosted by: Dr. Jianjun Wang jjwang@med.wayne.edu
Zoom Link: TBA
Coronavirus Information:
• Website: https://www.med.wayne.edu/coronavirus
▫ Warrior Safe Training: https://wayne.edu/coronavirus/warrior-safe-training/
▫ Campus Daily Screener: https://forms.wayne.edu/covid-19-screening/
▫ Medical Campus operations: https://www.med.wayne.edu/coronavirus/med-campus
▫ Campus screener/follow-up process: https://www.med.wayne.edu/coronavirus/campus-screener-process
• Domestic and International Travel During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Domestic & International travel and return to campus - CDC guidelines
• Complete SOM guidelines: https://www.med.wayne.edu/coronavirus/guidelines
• COVID-19 SOM return guidelines pdf: https://www.med.wayne.edu/pdfs/covid-som-guidelines.pdf
Links (as embedded in items above):
• Domestic & International Travel during the COVID-19 Pandemic:
♦ If you have news you would like to share, send an email to mdismuke@med.wayne.edu by the Thursday before the upcoming week to be included in the next BMI news.