BMI Weekly News- September 8, 2025
BMI Weekly Newsletter
September 8, 2025
News
- Welcome to our new BMI students! Our newsletter is here to help keep you informed with this week’s events, upcoming events along with current news.
- Congratulations to IMM BMB student, Pelumi Oladipo, on her publication being published from her PhD research, titled, “New diagnostic methods for Escherichia marmotae and its first report of its identification in clinical isolates in North America.” https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2025.1664775
This Week’s Events
- Journal Club Public Student Presentation: Monday, September 8, 2025, 12:30pm, 2268 Scott Hall
Presented by: BMB PhD Student, Savni Sawant
Title: “Crosstalk Between Sperm DNA Methylation and Sperm mtDNAcn: EWAS and Machine Learning Approaches”
Mentor: Dr. Richard Pilsner
- ZOOM BMI Seminar: Tuesday, September 9, 2025, 11:30am
Speaker: Kate Meeson, Ph.D., Research Associate, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Title: “Applications of Constraint-Based Modelling Across Cancer Biology and Biotechnology”
Zoom link:
https://wayne-edu.zoom.us/j/92762523300?pwd=PcsjBC9hCx3xEoNHeKh0c8H0RbVMMb.1
Meeting ID: 927 6252 3300
Passcode: 502318
Hosted by: Dr. Domenico Gatti dgatti@med.wayne.edu
Upcoming Events
- Journal Club Public Student Presentation: Monday, September 15, 2025, 12:30am, 2268 Scott Hall
Presented by: IM PhD Student, Ravipaul Singh
Title: “What’s in the Gut? Exploring Vibrio cholerae Pathogenesis”
Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Withey
- BMI Seminar: Tuesday, September 16, 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
- The BMI Retreat: Friday, September 19, 2025 - Draft agenda set, final details coming soon.
Campus News
- Campus Health Center: Be well, Warriors: It's time to schedule your flu clinic appointment
- Office of President: 2025-26 Campus health and safety resources