BMI Weekly News - September 22, 2025
BMI Weekly Newsletter
September 22, 2025
News
- Thank you to our 2025 BMI Retreat Committee (Abiola Abolade, Pelumi Oladipo, Shalini Suman, and Thamarahansi Mugunamalwaththa) and to all those who participated in making our departmental retreat a great day of events and fellowship. Our next retreat will be September 25, 2026.
- Congratulations to the winners of the 3MT Competition! 1st Place – Savni Sawant, 2nd Place – Savannah Schick and 3rd Place – Bhavita Bhaya. All the presentations were great and it was a really fun event!
This Week’s Events
- Journal Club: Monday, September 22, 2025, 12:30am, 2268 Scott Hall
Presented by: IMM PhD Student, Tamima Tasnim
Title: “Biofilms and Beyond: Understanding Cholera in a Zebrafish Model”
Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Withey
- BMI Seminar: Tuesday, September 23, 2025, 11:30am, 2268 Scott Hall
Speaker: Tongqing Zhou, Ph.D., Chief and Principal Investigator, Structural Biology Section Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH
Title: “From Atoms to Algorithms: Structure and AI for Next-Generation Vaccines”
Hosted by: Dr. Jianjun Wang jjwang@med.wayne.edu
Upcoming Events
- Next Journal Club: Monday, September 29, 2025, 12:30am, 2268 Scott Hall
Presented by: IMM PhD Student, Apoorva Rao
Title: “Decoding Functional and Developmental Trajectories of Tissue-Resident Uterine Dendritic Cells Through Integrative Omics”
Mentor: Dr. Gil Mor
- Next BMI Seminar: Tuesday, September 30, 2025, 11:30am, 2268 Scott Hall
Speaker: Parjwal Gurung, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Iowa (https://internalmedicine.medicine.uiowa.edu/profile/prajwal-gurung)
Title: “TBA”
Hosted by: Dr. Yuan He yhe@med.wayne.edu
Campus News
- Campus Health Center: Be well, Warriors: It's time to schedule your flu clinic appointment CHC will be in School of Medicine on October 6th for those who wish to receive the flu shot then. Click on the following link for details. Flu Clinic at the School of Medicine
- Office of President: 2025-26 Campus health and safety resources