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BMI Weekly News- October 10, 2022

BMI Weekly Newsletter  

October 10, 2022  

2022 BMI Retreat: This year’s departmental retreat will take place this coming Friday (Oct. 14) from 8:30-5 PM.  The purposes are to renew relationships that might have slipped away during the pandemic, to meet our new students and let them know what goes on in our laboratories, and to share our science with each other.  We will be joined by alumni from each of our graduate programs, who will share some of their experiences since completing their degrees.   

The program will begin with a social gathering (pastries, coffee, etc.) at 8:30 am, while we set up posters in the Scott Hall cafeteria.  At 8:55 am, we will migrate to one of the medical lecture halls to begin the scientific program.  Around mid-morning, we will migrate back to the cafeteria for a poster session, and then into the Margherio Conference Center (connected to the far end of the cafeteria) for other presentations.  Lunch will be provided.  We will adjourn a little before 5:00 pm, after which, those who wish can head down the street for fellowship at HopCat. 

  • Poster submission deadline: noon Tuesday (tomorrow; details provided last week). 
  • A more detailed program will be available tomorrow. 

If you have questions, please contact anyone on the planning committee. We look forward to seeing you Friday: 

  • Olivia Haskin, Angelica Quiroz, Michael Pawlitz, and Nouran Yonis 
  • Sharon Ackerman and Raghavendar Thipparthi 
  • Phil Pellett 
  • 2022 BMI Retreat Planning Committee 

Computing & Information Technology (C&IT): The phone migration for Scott Hall is scheduled for Sept- Dec 23. No specific date is available for the Scott Hall and Lande Building migrations. 

The following link is information on Campus Telephones are Migrated to Microsoft Teams. From there is a second link to Unified Communications project. which goes into more details related to the Microsoft Teams parts of the process.  On that page, you can find a video play button, which explains more about how to use the new system, provides tidbits about using Teams for your phone calls, and much more. 

Events this Week: 

  • Journal Club: Monday, October 10, 2022, 12:30pm, Scott Hall, Room 2268 
    • Presented by:  IM PhD student, Nathan Kelley 
    • Title: “Defining the Novel NLRP10 Inflammasome” 
    • Mentor:  Dr. Yuan He 
  • In-Person BMI Seminar: Tuesday, October 11, 2022, 11:30am, Scott Hall, Room 2268 
    • Speaker:  Morgan DeSantis, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan    
    • Title: “Connecting Dynein Activity to Discrete Cellular Events” 
    • Hosted by: Susanna Viljaj fp1080@wayne.edu and BMI students  
    • Alt Viewing Zoom Link: 
    • There will be a student/speaker lunch in room 7370 after the seminar. 

Upcoming Events: 

  • Journal Club: Monday, October 17, 2022, 12:30pm, Scott Hall, Room 2268 
    • Presented by:  BMB PhD student, Abdullah Al-Homoudi  
    • Title: "Computational, Biochemical and Structural Drug Design against SARS-CoV-2 Papain-like Protease (PLpro) and related HCoV" 
    • Mentor:  Dr. Ladislau Kovari 
  • BMI Seminar: Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 11:30am, Scott Hall, Room 2268 

Return to Campus: 

  • Current Trash Pick Up Procedures for Scott Hall:  During the current staffing shortage in the custodial department, if your regular custodian is out, please take your trash to the central location (near the elevators) until your custodian returns.  If you need more bags, please call the School of Medicine’s Facilities & Support Services office at 313 577-1460 and they will get some for you.

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