BMI Weekly Newsletter

September 16, 2024

This Week's Events:

• BMI ZOOM Seminar: Tuesday, September 17, 2024, 11:30 a.m.
  Presenter: Angela Potochnik, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Head of the Philosophy Department, and Director of the Center for Public Engagement with Science at the University of Cincinnati.
  Her research addresses the nature of science and its successes, the relationships between science and the public, and methods in science, especially biology. She is the author of Idealization and the Aims of Science (2017) and Science and the Public (2024) and coauthor of Recipes for Science (2018, 2nd Ed. 2024), an introduction to scientific methods and reasoning. 
  Title: “Recipes for Science: An Introduction to Scientific Methods and Reasoning.”
  Zoom link: https://wayne-edu.zoom.us/j/92791529535?pwd=aP0JKkmWsv9YybJixaL3qa2xRkSt8x.1
  Host: Dr. Matt Jackson mpjacks@med.wayne.edu

For all in-person seminars, students need to attend in-person, and for zoom seminars, students need to attend via zoom, for attendance to be counted. Graduate Students will need to stay on following the seminar presentation to meet via zoom with Dr. Potochnik. 

• Journal Club F24: Organizational Meeting In-Person (no student presentation), Wednesday, September 18, 2024,12:20 p.m., 2268 Scott Hall

Upcoming Events:

• Journal Club: Monday, September 23, 2024, 12:30-1:00 p.m., 2268 Scott Hall
  Presenter: Nouha Odeh
  Title: “ASC-ing Why: Unraveling the role of the Pyroptosome”
  Mentor: Dr. Yuan He
• BMI Seminar: Tuesday, September 24, 2024, 11:30 a.m., In-person, 2268 Scott Hall.
  Presenter: Roger Lippe, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology Infection and Immunology, University of Montreal
  Title: “The proteomics of host-pathogen interactions”
  Host: Dr. Phil Pellett phil_pellett@wayne.edu
  For all in-person seminars, students need to attend in-person, and for zoom seminars, students need to attend via zoom, for attendance to be counted.
  Student/speaker luncheon following seminar in room 7370 Scott Hall.
• BMI Seminar: Tuesday, October 8, 2024, 11:30 a.m., 2268 Scott Hall
  Presenter: Maik Huttemann, PhD, Professor of Molecular Medicine and Genetics and of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Division Director of Research, CMMG, Wayne State University School of Medicine.
  Title: “Cytochrome c Takes Center Stage: From Prostate Cancer to Ischemia-reperfusion Injury and Infrared Light Therapy”
  Hosted by: Dr. Bharati Mitra bmitra@med.wayne.edu
  For all in-person seminars, students need to attend in-person, and for zoom seminars, students need to attend via zoom, for attendance to be counted. Student/Speaker Luncheon following seminar in room 7370 Scott Hall.

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