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BMI Weekly News - March 10, 2025

BMI Weekly Newsletter

March 3, 2025

News:

 

  • BMI Dissertation Public Lecture Presentation for the Degree of Ph.D. Doctor of Philosophy,

Date: Friday, March 14, 2025, 2:00 p.m., 3125 Scott Hall

BMB PhD Student Candidate: Michael Muczynski

Defense Title: “Biochemical, Structural, and Drug Design Studies of Sars-Cov-2 3CL Protease”

Advisor: Dr. Ladislau Kovari

  • From Immunology Focus Group:

Please mark your calendars!  We cordially invite you to our SoM Thematic Research Initiative 2nd Mini-Symposium, which will include a pizza lunch from 12 -3 PM on Wednesday, March 26, in the Blue Lecture Hall, Scott Hall. This event is part of the Dean’s research initiatives, with the goal to:

  • Enhance collaborations and promote joint grant applications.
  • Provide seed funding for innovative and collaborative projects.
  • Host quarterly research mini-symposia to foster dialogue across disciplines and provide an informal platform to learn about our colleagues’ research. 

The focus of the 2nd mini-symposium will be on the thematic areas of Immunology, Inflammation & Infectious Disease and Oncology.

Additionally, an announcement regarding seed funding will be made during this event.

Symposium Presenters:

  • Eric Sebzda (I3D, BMI): “Peripheral-derived regulatory T cells are necessary for tumors to escape immune detection”
  • Guojun Wu (Oncology): " Unraveling the Molecular Mechanism of FOXQ1 in Breast Cancer Lineage Reprogramming."
  • Yuan He (I3D, BMI): “The NLRP3 inflammasome: Mechanism of action and role in disease”
  • HyeonJoo Cheon (Oncology):  “The Multi-faceted Roles of PD-L1 in Cancer.”
  • Hasan Korkaya (Oncology): “Tumor-immune interactions regulate systemic immune microenvironment”
  • Ladislau Kovari (Core, BMI): “WSU and LS-CAT at Argonne: A collaborative hub for structural biology”
  • Jessica Back (MICR Core) “How the Microscopy, Imaging, and Cytometry Resources (MICR) Core Can Support and Advance Biomedical Research” 

Following the presentations, there will be an opportunity for networking and discussions with Dean Sakr, the speakers, and all participants from 2 to 3 p.m.

Please advertise this event and encourage your colleagues, students, and lab members to join us for an engaging and dynamic discussion.

An official invitation with a registration link for the pizza lunch will be sent out in the coming week.

Regards, Hyeong-Reh Kim, Larry Matherly, Ladislau Kovari, Maik Hüttemann, Tomomi Ichinose, and Paul Stemmer

This Week’s Events:

  • No Seminar or Journal Club scheduled for this week: Spring Break

Upcoming Events:

  • Next BMI Seminar: Tuesday, March 18, 2025, 11:30a.m., 2268 Scott Hall

Speaker: Liman Zhang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Van Andel Institute

Title: “Navigating Sensitivity and Stability: Exploring the Structural Basis of Inflammasome Pathways”

Hosted by: Dr. Yuan He yhe@med.wayne.edu

  • Next Journal Club: Wednesday, March 19, 2025, 11:30a.m., 3125 Scott Hall

Presenter: IM PhD Student, Abiola Abolade

Title: TBA

  • Next Immunology Focus Group Seminar: Tuesday, April 1, 2025, 12:00-1:00p.m., Hudson-Webber 2nd Floor, Wertz Auditorium

Speaker: Alan J. Tackett, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Deputy Director, Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Executive Associate Dean for Basic Research, College of Medicine, Scharlau Family Endowed Chair in Cancer Research, Director, NIH-IDeA National Resource for Quantitative Proteomics, Director, NIH Center of Biomedical Research Excellence, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Title: “Uncovering Molecular Targets to Overcome Therapy Resistance in Metastatic Melanoma”

Hosted by: Wei-Zen Wei, Ph.D., Herrick Endowed Chair of Cancer Research, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, and Wayne State University

Sponsored by: Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and Henry Ford Health System

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