03-03-2020

IMMUNOLOGY FOCUS GROUP 

Speaker: Dr. Amin Jiang, Henry Ford Hospital
Title: TBA
Host: Dr. Qing-Sheng Mi

02-25-2020

Speaker: Dr. Jared Schrader, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, WSU
Title: "Ribonucleoprotein Bodies Organize Bacterial mRNA Decay"
Host: Madison Peterson and BMI students

02-18-2020

Speaker: Dr. Shannon Manning, Associate Professor, Microbiology and Genetics, Michigan State University
Title: "Compositional and functional changes in the intestinal microbiome following infection with enteric pathogens"
Host: Dr. Kevin Theis

02-11-2020

Speaker: Dr. Ahmed Ibrahim, Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology & Visual Anatomical Sciences, SOM, WSU
Title: Bioactive Lipids and Ischemic Retinal Diseases
Host: Dr. Phil Pellett

02-04-2020

IMMUNOLOGY FOCUS GROUP

Speaker: Dr. Cheryl Rockwell, Acting Director, Applied Immunology Center for Education and Research, Associate Professor, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Michigan State University
Title: "The role of the stress-activated transcription factor Nrf2 in T cell function."
Host: Dr. Wei-Zen Wei

01-28-2020

Speaker: Dr. Joongkyu Park, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology & Dept. of Neurology, WSU School of Medicine
Title: "Molecular Mechanisms of Fear Learning in Mice and beyond…"
Host: Dr. Jianjun Wang

01-21-2020

Speaker: Dr. Domenico Gatti, Associate Professor, Biochem. & Molecular Biology, SOM, WSU
Title: "The Deep Learning Revolution in Biology and Medicine"
Host: TBA

12-18-2019

Faculty Candidate Seminar-- 1:00 pm, Room 3125 Scott Hall

Speaker: Melanie Higgins, Ph.D.
Title: Investigating Bacterial Enzymes to Improve Human Health
Host: Dr. Bharati Mitra

12-17-2019

Speaker: Dr. Shengyi (Iris) Sun*, Assistant Professor, CMMG, Wayne State University
Title: Regulation of ER Homeostasis in Health and Disease
Host: Dr. Jianjun Wang

12-10-2019  

Speaker: Dr. Yang Zhang, Professor, Dept. of Computational Medicine and BioInformatics,Dept. of Biological Chemistry, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Title:  Protein Structure Prediction
Host: BMI students, (Kendall Muzzarelli)

12-3-2019

Speaker: Dr. Niel Henriksen, Scientist, Atomwise, Inc., Artificial Intelligence for Drug Discovery San Francisco, CA
Title: AIMS and AtomNet: The largest prospective study of a machine learning model for hit discovery
Host: Dr. Ladislau Kovari

11-19-2019

Speaker: Dr. Xiaofan Wang, from Duke University
Title: New insights into mechanisms underlying cellular senescence
Host: Dr. Qing-Sheng Mi, HFHS

11-12-2019   

Speaker: Dr. Nichole Klatt, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Vice-Chair of Research, Univ. Of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Title: Mechanisms underlying microbiome influence on HIV infection.
Host: IM students (Madison Peterson)

11-05-2019          IMMUNOLOGY FOCUS GROUP -- Wertz Auditorium 12:00-1:15pm    

Speaker: Dr. Mitchell Kronenberg, La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Title: Development and function of natural killer T cells: an innate-like lymphocyte population.
Host: Dr. Qing-Sheng Mi, HFHS

10-29-2019         

Speaker: Dr. Stefan Pukatzki, Professor, Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado, Aurora
Title: The cholera bacterium: human pathogen and bacterial predator
Host: Dr. Jeffrey Withey

10-22-2019        

Speaker: Dr. Andrew M. Tai, Associate Professor, Departments of Internal Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Title: Reorganizing cellular membranes to support RNA virus replication: lessons from hepatitis C and dengue virus
Host: Dr. Philip Pellett

10-15-2019

Speaker: Dr. Zahra Assar-Nossoni, Scientist I - Structural Biologist, Structural Biology Services, Cayman Chemical Company, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Title: Structure-Based-Drug-Design Approaches in Industry
Host: BMI students (Cameron Roberts)

10-08-2019

Speaker: Dr. Basel Abuaita, Univ. of Michigan
Title: IRE1α: Regulator of ER Stress and Innate Immune Defense.
Host: Dr. Jeffrey Withey

09-24-2019

Speaker: Dr. Zhibing Zhang, Associate Professor, Depts. Of Physiology and Obstetrics/Gynecology, SOM, WSU
Title: The structural basis of meiosis expressed gene 1 (MEIG1) in modulating manchette function and its crosstalk with intraflagellar transport."
Host: Dr. Jianjun Wang

09-17-2019  

Speaker: Jeanne Stuckey
Title: Patient to Lead Compound. U-M Cores can accelerate the process.
Host: Drs Brian Edwards & Ladislau Kovari

09-10-2019          IMMUNOLOGY FOCUS GROUP      

03-07-2019 Faculty Candidate Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Christopher Colbert, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University
Title: Structural Basis for Cell-Surface Signaling (CSS) by the Sigma-Regulator PupR in Pseudomonas capeferrum.
Host: Dr. Bharati Mitra
Time: 1-2pm

02-28-2019 Faculty Candidate Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Pascale Charest, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona
Title: Understanding chemical attraction…of cells!
Host: Dr. Bharati Mitra
Time: 1-2pm

02-14-2019 
Speaker: Dr. Grant Shauer, NIH (NIGMS) Pathway to Independence Postoctoral Fellow, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rockefeller University
Title: Functional Dynamics in the Eukaryotic Replisome.
Host: Dr. Bharati Mitra

02-12-2019
Speaker: Dr. Yang Zhang, Professor, Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Professor, Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Title: Protein Structure Prediction
Host: BMI Students (Kendall Muzzarelli)

02-05-2019 Immunology Focus Group 
Speaker: Dr. C. Garrison (Garry) Fathman, MD, Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Stanford Univ. School of Medicine
Title: Translational research in immunology does not occur rapidly.
Host: Dr. Harley Tse
Location: Wertz Auditorium, Hudson Webber Cancer Research Center, 4100 John R. Street, Detroit, MI 48201

01-29-2019
Speaker: Dr. Neal Hammer, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University College of Natural Science
Title: Investigating Staphylococcus aureus metabolic versatility reveals unexpected links to cell surface physiology and nutritional requirements for pathogenesis.
Host: Dr. Jeff Withey

01-22-2019
Speaker: Dr. Michael Bachman, Associate Professor & Associate Director of Clinical Microbiology, University of Michigan
Title: Klebsiella pneumoniae: Colonization, Infection, and the Accessory Genome
Host: Paul Breen and Matthew Fountain, BMI Graduate Students

01-15-2019
Speaker: Dr. Mallary Wacker, Assistant Professor, Central Michigan University
Title: Some like it hot, but they sweat when the heat is on: uncontrolled inflammation in staphylococcal infections.
Host: Matthew Fountain, BMI Graduate Student

01-08-2019
Immunology Focus Group
Speaker: Dr. Ethan Shevach, Chief of the Cellular Immunology Section, Laboratory of Immune System Biology, NIAID
Title: Mechanism of Action of Foxp3+ Treg cells
Host: Dr. Eric Sebzda

12-18-2018
Speaker: Dr. Rodney Dietert, Professor, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, Cornell University
Title: "Protecting the Human Superorganism".
Host: BMI post-docs, Dr. Andrew Winters

12-11-2018
Speaker: Prof. Jeff Mackeigan, Professor of Cancer Biology and complex Diseases, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University
Title: "Genomic Landscape of a Rare Multisystem Genetic Disease"
Host: BMI students, James Glassbrook

11-06-2018
Immunology Focus Group
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Wynn, Head, Early Discovery-Inflammation & Immunology Unit, Pfizer Inc.(formerly, Senior Investigator at NIAID) Title:Immune Drug Discoveries at Pfizer
Host: Matthew Fountain

10-30-2018
Speaker: Dr. Alan Wolfe, Loyola University, Chicago
Title: Urine is Not Sterile: What's Next?
Host: Dr. Kevin Theis11-20-2017

10-23-2018
Speaker: Dr. Arun Iyer, Assistant Professor, Director, U-BiND Systems Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, WSU
Title: Tumor multicomponent targeting using theranostic nanoconstructs.
Host: Dr. Bharati Mitra

10-16-2018
Speaker: Dr. Xuequen Chen, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School Medicine
Title: Insulin Biogenesis and Beta Cell Protein/lipid Homeostasis in Health and Diabetes
Host: Dr. Yuan He

10-2-2018
ORTEN LECTURE (wednesday)
Speaker: Dr. Bruce Beutler, Professor, 2011 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Title: Using high speed forward genetics to study immunity in mice.
Host: Biochemistry Students, Kendall Muzzarelli, Dr. Domenico Gatti

09-18-2018
Speaker: Robert Ryan, Professor and Department Chair, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nevada, Reno
Title: Metabolic Origin of a Novel Heart Disease Biomarker.
Host: Dr. Jianjun Wang

09-11-2018
Speaker: Dr. Andrew Berti, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice,College of Pharmacy, WSU
Title: Rational Interventions to Improve Outcomes of Challenging Staphylococcal Infection
Host: Dr. Bharati Mitra

07-10-2018
Immunology Focus Group- Karmanos

05-29-2018 Immunology Focus Group
Speaker: Dr. Michael Nishimura, Professor and Co-Director, Oncology Institute Director, Immunologic Therapeutics Program, Layola University.
Title: "Antigen Recognition by T-cell Receptor-Transduced T-Cells"
Lunch for lecture audience: 12:00pm.
Lecture: 12:15-1:30pm.
Lunch for the speaker and students: 1:30 p.m.
Host: Wei-Zen Wei

05-15-2018      
Speaker: Jun Li, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Neurology, Scientifice Director of Translational Neuroscience Institute, Wayne State University
Title: Segmental Demyelination
Location: 3125 Scott Hall
Time: 11:30 am – 1:15 pm
Host: Dr. Ladislau Kovari

05-08-2018  Immunology Focus Group
Speaker: Aaron M. Newman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University
Title: Decoding Tumor Cellular Heterogeneity with Digital Cytometry
Host: Donovan Watza, Wayne State University MD/PhD Program

05-01-2018 Vera Fay Righthand Seminar
Speaker: Dr. James Alwine, Emaritus Professor, Department. of Cancer Biology, University of Pennsylvania  http://www.cbio.med.upenn.edu/bioTemplate.asp?pageID=5
Title: Human Cytomegalovirus: a master manipulator of host cell biology
Time: 11:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
Host: Dr. Philip Pellett

04-24-2018
Speaker: Dr. Huangtian Yang, M.D., Principal Investigator, Head of Laboratory of Molecular Cardiology, Shanghai Instutues for Biological Sciences, Chinese academy of Sciences, Shanghai China
Title: "Plurpipotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiac Lineage Cells and Cardiac Repair."
Host: Dr. Jianjun Wang

04-17-2018        
Speaker: Dr. Sabra Klein, Associate Professor, W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Title: Sex as a Biological Variable in Infectious Diseases
Host: Ashley Anderson, Doctoral Candidate, ananders@med.wayne.edu

04-10-2018         
Speaker: Laurie Krug, Associate Professor, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, New York
Title: Herpesviruses armed to combat uracils: the role of dUTPase and uracil-DNA repair in gammaherpesvirus pathogenesis and genomic stability
Host: Dr. Philip Pellett

03-27-2018         
Speaker: Dr. Nobukiko Kamada, Assistant Professor, Division of Gastroenterology , Department of Internal Medicine,University of Michigan
Title: The mouth-gut axis: The influence of oral pathobionts on gastrointestinal disease
Host: Dr. Yuan He

03-20-2018         
Speaker: Dr. Jian Hu, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology & Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University     
Title: Structural Biology of the ZIP Metal Transporters
Host: Dr. Bharati Mitra

02-27-2018 
Speaker: Peter Ma, Ph.D., Biologic & Materials Sciences, Professor, University of Michigan     
Title: Biomimetic environment for stem cells and regeneration
Host: Dr. Jianjun Wang

02-20-2018 
Speaker:  Scott Rothbart, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, MI
Title: "Functional Proteomics Approaches to Annotate the Lysine Methylome"
Host: Biochemistry Students

02-13-2018
Speaker: Penelope Higgs, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University
Title: "Signaling Networks Controlling Cell Fate Segregation in the Multicellular Developmental Program of Myxococcus Xanthus"
Host: Dr. Bharati Mitra bmitra@med.wayne.edu

02-06-2018 - Immunology Focus Group
Speaker: Jeffrey Frelinger, Ph.D. Professor of Immunobiology, University of Arizona
Title:  New Genetic Tools for Mouse Immunologists
Host: Wei-Zen Wei, Wayne State University
Location: Wertz Auditorium, Hudson Webber Cancer Research Building, 4100 John R Street.
Time: 12:15 p.m.- 1:30 p.m.

01-30-2018         **Cancelled: rescheduled for 2/20/18
Speaker: Scott Rothbart, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, MI
Title: Functional proteomics approaches to annotate the lysine methylome
Host: Biochemistry Students

01-23-2018         
Speaker: Dr. Wanqing Liu, Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Pharmacy, Wayne State University
Title: "Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Diseaes: Genetics, Diet and Precision Medicine"
Host: Dr. Jianjun Wang

01-16-2018         
Speaker: Andrew Winters, Post-Doc, K. Theis Lab
Title: The perinatal microbiome and its future role in precision medicine.
Host: Dr. Kevin Theis

01-12-2018 - Immunology Focus Group
Speaker: Jun Lu, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, Yale University.
Title: Non-Cell-Intrinsic Mechanisms in the Control of Leukemia and Melanoma
Host: Qing-Sheng Mi, M.D., Ph.D. HFHS

12-19-2017- Faculty Candidate
Speaker: Dr. Min Wu, M.D. Professor of Immunology & Microbiology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of North Dakota
Title: Can non-coding RNA's Regulate Inflammation in Bacterial Infection
Host: Dr. Harley Tse

12-12-2017           
Speaker: John Guatelli, M.D., Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego
Title:"How HIV-1 Vpu and Nef Co-op Endosomal Trafficking Pathways to Evade Host Immunity."
Host: Dr. Raghavendar Thipparthi

11-28-2017 - Faculty Candidate
Speaker: Wook-Jin Chae, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist, Department of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine
Title: Dickkopf-1 (DKK-1): A new immunomodulator of inflammatory diseases.
Host: Dr. Harley Tse     

11-14-2017         
Speaker: Yuru Liu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, University of Illinois at Chicago,
College of Medicine
Title: Regulation of alveolar type II Cells in in the repair of lung injury.           
Host: Dr. Jianjun Wang 

10-31-2017 -Faculty Candidate
Speaker: Heather M. Gibson, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Department of Oncology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Title: Genetic Linkage analysis and immunoPET imaging to identify regulators of immunotherapy response.
Host: Dr. Harley Tse   

10-17-2017 - Faculty Candidate
Speaker: Eric Sebzda, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology. Division of Molecular Pathogenisis, Vanderbilt University Medical Ctr, Nashville, TN.
Title: Targeting immune regulators to treat autoimmunity and cancer.
Host: Dr. Harley Tse   

10-10-2017 - IMMUNOLOGY FOCUS GROUP
Speaker:  Shari Pilon-Thomas, Ph.D., Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL
Title: Adoptive Cell Therapy with Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes
Host: Wei-Zen Wei, PhD

10-03-2017 - Orten Lecture
Speaker: Dr. Michael Levin, Professor, Vannevar Bush Chair
Director, Allen Discovery Center at Tufts, and Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology Morphological and behavioral information processing in living systems           
Title: Rewriting bioelectrical pattern memories for the control of growth and form: exploiting somatic primitive cognition for regenerative medicine.
Host: BMI graduate students and Dr. Domenico Gatti

9-26-2017           
Speaker:David Crich, Ph.D. Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, WSU
Title:  "Shaping Next Generation Aminoglycoside Antibiotics for Treatment of Multidrug Resistant Diseases.
Host: Dr. Ladislau Kovari

9-12-2017           
Speaker:Joseph Brunzelle, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Dept. of Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry and Life Sciences Collaborative Access Team, Argonne, IL
Title:"Structural Biology and LS-CAT at the Advanced Photon Source."
Host: Dr. Ladislau Kovari

9-05-2017 - IMMUNOLOGY FOCUS GROUP
Speaker: Xiaoping Zhong, M.D., Ph.D., Duke University
Title: Signal control of invariant T cell development and function
Host: Dr. Qing-Sheng Mi, Henry Ford Health System

Seminar: Tuesday, February 21, 2017, 11:30-12:30 pm, 7364 Scott Hall School of Medicine – Speaker, Gilda Hillman, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University. Title: "Synergy of Radiotherapy and Viral Cancer Vaccine for Induction of Specific Immunity to Tumor", Hosted by: Dr. Raghavendar Thipparthi trreddy@med.wayne.edu (313) 577-1310

"Synergy of Radiotherapy and Viral Cancer Vaccine for Induction of Specific Immunity to Tumor"