BMI Weekly News- May 10, 2021
BMI Weekly News
May 10, 2021
News:
• Please see the attached flyer and registration information for a free upcoming virtual symposium about Alzheimer’s disease, which will be held on June 15. Thanks to Immunology and Microbiology Emerita Professor Judith Whittum-Hudson for sharing.
• Congratulations to BMI Student, Kay Ekwuazi, from the Mitra Lab, for successfully defending her Master's Thesis, "Investigating Human ZIP Transporters in the Prostate using ZupT from E.coli as a model system".
• This year’s BMI Department Picnic will be Friday, August 27th (the Friday before classes start). It will be at Belle Isle Park, Shelter 12, the same large shelter that was used for the 2019 picnic. Any questions or concerns contact Jillian Green fo1050@wayne.edu or Taylor Vensko gq1369@wayne.edu. More details to come as we get closer to the event.
• COVID-19 Vaccination: The COVID-19 Vaccine
♦ Public Health Committee – Reminder the COVID-19 vaccine is available to ALL Faculty, Staff and Students. For appointment process click link: Six Step-by-step process for COVID-19 vaccination appointment
♦ From the Office of the President: If you would like to participate in a vaccination survey, due by May 14, click on the following link: Complete the anonymous survey
• Call for 2021 SOM Award Nominations due Friday, May 21, 2021: https://facaffairs.med.wayne.edu/faculty-recognition
Events This Week:
This is our last BMI Seminar for Winter 2021. A BMI new faculty search is underway. There will be virtual seminars by three BMI Faculty Candidates on Thursday, 5/20, Monday, 5/24 and Thursday, 6/3. These will be exciting seminars by junior people starting their scientific careers. We hope you will continue to join us for these seminars too. The format will be the same as for our usual seminars, one zoom session for the seminar itself first attended by everyone, followed by a discussion session with students and post-docs.
• BMI Seminar: Tuesday, May 11, 2021, 11:30am – 12:30pm via Zoom
Speaker: Aaron Ralby, Ph.D., Founder/Director, Linguisticator Ltd, Cambridge and CEO Lynxeus, UK
Title: “Activating Advanced Recall through Memory Palaces”
Host: Dr. Matt Jackson mpjacks@med.wayne.edu
Zoom Link: https://wayne-edu.zoom.us/j/91055161087?pwd=cTgyZnBvMGRoem1mSmRnK3psQjV4Zz09
Meeting ID: 910 5516 1087
Passcode: 313007
**After the seminar BMI students and post docs will have an opportunity to meet with the speaker in the same Zoom session.
Upcoming Events:
• BMI Faculty Candidate Seminar: Thursday, May 20, 2021, 12:00noon – 1:00pm via Zoom
Speaker: Simone Brixius-Anderko, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Medicinal Chemistry (College of Pharmacy), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Title: “Understanding Aldosterone Biosynthesis for Enhanced Treatment of Hypertension”
Host: Dr. Bharati Mitra bmitra@med.wayne.edu
Zoom Link: https://wayne-edu.zoom.us/j/93568696011?pwd=UkQ0d09EWlNDZVk1TkVNUDEvVXVyZz09
Meeting ID: 935 6869 6011
Passcode: 844986
**After the seminar BMI students and post docs will have an opportunity to meet with the speaker in the same Zoom session.
Coronavirus Info:
• Website: https://www.med.wayne.edu/coronavirus
▫ Campus Health Center – The COVID-19 Vaccine: The COVID-19 Vaccine
▫ Campus Health Center – Coronavirus: COVID-19 – Recent updates: https://wayne.edu/coronavirus
▫ WS students, faculty and staff eligible for COVID-19 testing for no out-of-pocket charge: COVID-19 Testing
▫ Facts about the COVID-19 Vaccine: COVID-19 Vaccine Facts
▫ 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: Travel During COVID-19 | CDC
• 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):
Public Health Committee – Reminder the COVID-19 vaccine is available to ALL Faculty, Staff and Students: https://i.wayne.edu/view/6092bb63e58a3?utm_source=link&utm_medium=email-6092bb63e58a3&utm_campaign=REMINDER-COVID+vaccine+available+to+ALL+Faculty%2C+Staff+and+Stud&utm_content=Read+this+email+on+the+Web
From the Office of the President: Covid-19 vaccination anonymous survey: https://waynestate.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0GOcTPqRq3sSTmC?utm_source=link&utm_medium=email-60919e59dbe1e&utm_campaign=Participate+in+a+vaccination+survey&utm_content=accessed+online
Campus Health Center – COVID-19 Vaccination
• Campus Health Center – Facts about the Covid-19 Vaccine
• Domestic & International Travel during the COVID-19 Pandemic: