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BMI Weekly News - March 3, 2025

BMI Weekly Newsletter

March 3, 2025

News:

  • Congratulations to Callan Bleick, from Dr. Michael Rybak’s Lab, for successfully defending her M.S. Thesis, "Optimizing Phage-Antibiotic Combinations (Pacs): Impact of Administration Order Against Daptomycin Non-susceptible (DNS) Mrsa Clinical Isolates".

This Week’s Events:

  • Immunology Focus Group (IFG) Seminar: Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 11:30 a.m. - 12:20 a.m., 2268 Scott Hall

Speaker: Zhen Xi, Ph.D., Li Ka Shing Endowed Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Radiology and Neurosurgery, University of Michigan, Co-Inventor of Histotripsy, Co-Founder, HistoSonics, Fellow of NAI, AIMBE, and IEEE

Dr. Zhen Xu’s research focuses on ultrasound therapy and imaging. She is a pioneer and world leader of histotripsy, which has been developed for cancer, neurological, and cardiovascular applications. Her work has led to the FDA approval of histotripsy treatment of liver tumors. She has been elected as Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (NAI), Fellow of American Institute of Medicine and Bioengineering (AIMBE), and IEEE. She received the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control (UFFC) Outstanding Paper Award in 2006, Frederic Lizzi Award from The International Society of Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU) in 2015, Lockhart Memorial Prize for Cancer Research in 2020, and IEEE Carl Hellmuth Hertz Ultrasonics Award in 2024. She has 36 issued US and international patents, and is a principal investigator of grants funded by the NIH, Office of Navy Research, American Cancer Association, and Focused Ultrasound Foundation.

Title: “Non-invasive Histotripsy Cancer Treatment: The Road from Bench to Bedside”

Hosted by: Dr. Kang Chen, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Sponsored by: Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Henry Ford Health System.

Student/Speaker Luncheon following the seminar in room 7370 Scott Hall. This week's seminar lunch will include additional students from the SOM Graduate Programs invited by Dr. Kang Chen.  

  • Journal Club: Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 11:30a.m., Room 3125 Scott Hall

Presenter: IMM PhD Student, Zachary Pomicter

Title: “Establishing a Model Cell Line for Studying A20 in Neutrophils”

Mentor: Dr. Marta Rodriguez-Garcia

Once this week's Journal Club concludes, there will be a mandatory BMI student meeting in the same room to discuss our graduate programs.

  • BMI Faculty meeting: Wednesday, March 5, 10:30 a.m., 7364 Scott Hall. Agenda and optional zoom link, sent out prior to meeting.

Upcoming Events:

  • No Seminar or Journal Club scheduled for this week: Spring Break 
  • Dissertation Public Lecture Presentation for the Degree of Ph.D. Doctor of Philosophy: Wednesday, March 14, 2025, 2:00 p.m., 3125 Scott Hall

BMB Ph.D. Student, Michael Muczynski

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

Advisor: Dr. Ladislau Kovari

  • 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

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