BMI Weekly News- March 22, 2021

BMI Weekly News                                                          

March 22, 2021 

News: 

• The Spring/Summer 2021 Course Announcement for Current Trends in Immunology IM 7450 is attached: The Course coordinator is Dr. Yuan He (yhe@med.wayne.edu; 313-577-5075). See attachment for course details. 

Events This Week: 

• BMI Seminar: Tuesday, March 23, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm via Zoom. 

Speaker: Dr. Walter Chazin, Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry, Chancellor’s Chair in Medicine, Vanderbilt University. 

Title: The action of EF-hand proteins inside and outside cells: From regulating cardiac channel to suppressing the growth of bacterial pathogens.” 

Host: Dustin Farr dfarr@med.wayne.edu and IM Students 

Zoom Link: https://wayne-edu.zoom.us/j/98045897756?pwd=ajRBeC92NGNQRjVtbjBmblg0TXlPZz09 

Meeting ID: 980 4589 7756 

Passcode: 663135 

**After the seminar BMI students and post docs will have an opportunity to meet with the speaker in 

the same Zoom session. 

• Journal Club – Two Masters Student Presentations: Wednesday, March 24, 2021, 11:30am via Zoom 

◦ Jacob Sobota 

Title: “Sperm chromatin-condensing protamine enhances SMYD5 thermal stability.” 

Mentor: Dr. Zhe Yang 

And 

◦ Ashomathi Mollin 

Title: “Quantitative modeling predicts mechanistic links between pre-treatment microbiome composition and metronidazole efficacy in bacterial vaginosis.” 

Mentor: Dr. Robert Akins  

Zoom Link: https://wayne-edu.zoom.us/j/94418261159?pwd=R1hGbE9EV0pxZ1JkS3IrT2lrcUhLUT09  

Meeting ID: 944 1826 1159 

Passcode: 598587 

Upcoming Events: 

• Next BMI Seminar: Tuesday, March 30, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm via Zoom. 

Speaker: Dr. Charlie Fehl, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, WSU 

Title: “TBA” 

Host: Dr. Philip Pellett ppellett@med.wayne.edu   

Zoom Link:  Meeting ID:  Passcode: TBA 

•  Next Journal Club – Wednesday, March 31, 2021, 11:30am – 12:20pm via Zoom 

◦ PhD student candidate, Ummay Tamima Tasnim 

Title: “TBA” 

Zoom Link:  Meeting ID:  Passcode: TBA 

Coronavirus Information:   

•  Website:  https://www.med.wayne.edu/coronavirus    

▫ Campus Health Center – Covid-19 Vaccine Information: THE CO  VID-19 VACCINE 

▫ Vaccination information: https://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): 

•  Campus Health Center – Covid-19 Vaccine Information:   

https://health.wayne.edu/coronavirus-vaccine/?utm_source=link&utm_medium=email-603fe93a1b391&utm_campaign=Wednesday%2C+March+3%2C+2021+-+Today%40Wayne+-+Wayne+State+University&utm_content=Vaccines+FAQ   

•  Campus Health Center (CHC) FAQ and answers on COVID-19 Vaccine: https://health.wayne.edu/coronavirus-vaccine/?utm_source=link&utm_medium=email-600b2bf8e870f&utm_campaign=Friday%2C+January+22%2C+2021+-+Today%40Wayne+-+Wayne+State+University&utm_content=Vaccines+FAQ   

•  Domestic & International Travel during the COVID-19 Pandemic:   

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/travel-during-covid19.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=email-5fe10149941c3&utm_campaign=CDC+guidelines+for+domestic+and+international+travel&utm_content=CDC+travel+website 

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