BMI Weekly News, May 19, 2025
May 19, 2025
News:
- Join us in welcoming Dr. Jeffrey Withey as Interim Chair of the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology. Jeffrey H. Withey, Ph.D. - Appointed BMI Interim Chair 04.14.2025
- Congratulations to BMB MS Student, Natalie McGinnis, for successfully defending her thesis, “Metabolic and Ecological Complexities of Sneathia: A Fastidious Emerging Pathogen in the Female Reproductive Tract”!. Advisor: Dr. Kevin Theis
- Congratulations to BMB PhD student, Savni Sawant, on her second publication “A Machine Learning Approach Using Semen Parameters and Sperm Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number to Predict Couples’ Fecundity” from her PhD research! Link for more details on her second publication: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666334125000716Advisor: Dr. Richard Pilsner
This Week’s Events:
- No events scheduled for this week.
Upcoming Event:
- BMI Faculty Candidate Seminar: Thursday, May 29, 2025, 11:30am, 2268 Scott Hall
Speaker: Fengrong Wang, PhD, Research Investigator, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School
Title: “How a Parasite Tailors Protein Synthesis to Survive: Translation Control in Toxplasma gondii”
Hosted by: Dr. Jeffrey Withey and the BMI Faculty
Campus News:
- Campus Health Center: Campus Health Center - Wayne State University
- Office of President: Campus Resources link for Students, Faculty and Staff, Campus Resource Link