BMI weekly news- October 23, 2023
BMI weekly newsletter
October 23, 2023
News:
Congratulations to Dr. Yuan He for receiving his certificate of Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure at the recently held School of Medicine Promotions & Tenure Awards event.
Students:
For all in-person seminars, students need to attend in-person; and for zoom seminars, students need to attend via zoom, in order for attendance to be counted.
Events:
Fall 2023 RDP/JC (BMB790) presentation:
Monday, October 23, 2023, 12:30-1:20pm, 2268 Scott Hall
- Presented by: BMB PhD Grad Student, Abdullah Al-Homoudi
- Title: “The Path to Potent and Selective Non-Covalent Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 PLpro'”
- Mentor: Dr. Ladislau Kovari
Zoom BMI seminar:
Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 11:30am-12:25pm
- Speaker: Timothy Hand, PhD, Associate Professor, of Pediatrics and Immunology, and Director of University of Pittsburgh Gnotobiotic Core, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh
- Title: “Inter-generational Adaptive Immunity Against the Intestinal Microbiota”
- Host: IM PhD student, Bhavita Bhaya for the Microbiology and Immunology students gq7515@wayne.edu
- Zoom link
- Meeting ID: 943 0001 0198
- Passcode: 156698
There will be a student/speaker discussion after the seminar
Upcoming events:
BMI seminar:
Tuesday, October 31, 2023, 11:30am-12:25pm, 2268 Scott Hall
- Speaker: Margaret Petroff, PhD., Professor and Associate Chair, College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University
- Title: “Knocking the AIRE out of Fertility: Central Immune Tolerance and Reproduction.”
- Host: IM PhD student, Bhavita Bhaya for the Microbiology and Immunology students gq7515@wayne.edu
- Zoom link
- Meeting ID: 943 0001 0198
- Passcode: 156698
There will be a student/speaker lunch in room 7370 after the seminar.
Fall 2023 RDP/JC (BMB790) presentation:
Monday, November 6, 2023, 12:30-1:20pm, 2268 Scott Hall
- Presented by: BMB PhD Grad Student, Savni Sawant
- Title: “SpermClock - a Sperm Ageing Clock to Predict the Chances of Pregnancy’”
- Mentor: Dr. Richard Pilsner
Campus news:
Campus Health Center:
CHC, and current Covid-19 guidance