BMI Weekly Newsletter

September 9, 2024

Note from the Chair:

Scott Hall condition reporting
School of Medicine administration wants to address the many issues in the several buildings on the School of Medicine campus, starting with Scott Hall.
Last week (last week (Sept. 5) we all received an emailed message on behalf of Thane Peterson, the School of Medicine’s vice dean of Finance and Administration) about a survey to identify problems in Scott Hall. The email was sent by Philip Van Hulle.

As it said:

Please consider taking a few moments each day and throughout each day (including weekends) to quickly report on the condition of your area(s) in the fields below. The form is anonymous. At its completion, the survey results will be shared with everyone on these email listservs.

We encourage you to submit this form as many times as you wish and as needed during the timeframe that it is open, until Oct. 4.https://forms.wayne.edu/66d850c3bac0b

Please take the time to report issues in your areas, in BMI spaces, and in other spaces you use throughout the building.  You can do this as individuals, labs, and other groups, such as our student government.  You can submit as many forms as you wish.

Deadline: October 4, 2024

News:

• The BMI Faculty meeting is this week, Thursday, September 12, 2024, 11:30am, 7374 Scott Hall.  Agenda and zoom link will be sent prior to meeting.
  Congratulations to Dr. Taylor Vensko for successfully defending his dissertation, “The Way Out: Human Cytomegalovirus Multi-Ome and Virion Egress,” and earning a Ph.D. in Immunology and Microbiology.
  Advisor: Dr. Philip Pellett

Events:

• BMI Seminar: Tuesday, September 10, 2024, 11:30 a.m., 2268 Scott Hall
  Presenter: Mark Hochstrasser, Ph.D., Eugene Higgins Professor of the Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, and Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
  Title: “New roles for ubiquitin in cell homeostasis and endosymbiont-host interactions”
  Hosted by: Shichao Wu gy7774@wayne.edu and BMB students
  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 in room 7370 Scott Hall following this seminar.

Upcoming 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.
• BMI Seminar: Tuesday, September 24, 2024, 11:30 a.m., 2268 Scott Hall.
  Presenter: Dr. Roger Lippe, Full Professor, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, University of Montreal
  Title: TBA
  Host: Dr. Phil Pellett phil_pellett@wayne.edu

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