NYCU News You Can Use, week of January 24, 2023
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This week in NYCU
- Dr. Oveta Fuller Celebration of Life 2/18 *RSVP by 1/31*
- Request access to Medical School Fitness Center 2802 MSII
- Medical School Staff Forum
- Inspiration –
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Chair Chat
Hello M&I,
It is recruiting week #1. Please remember that we will have visitors on campus this week, especially on Friday. It will also be cold, so it is especially important that we provide a warm and welcoming environment for all of these students, and also our visiting faculty when here. May I ask that each of you commit to saying hello or Welcome to U-M or even Go Blue! as you pass these visitors in the halls. They will be identified by wearing name badges. Let’s show them what a friendly and helpful department we really are. Remember, the best thing we can do to ensure our success is recruit the very best colleagues. With that in mind, I hope you will be especially mindful of how you speak about the department and our culture with these visitors. I am not trying to censor anyone, but my hope is that if there is something here you want us to fix or work on….that you will tell me, not our guests. I believe our department has truly committed faculty working for the benefit of the trainees and that we have tried hard to address every issue that has come to our attention. Graduate school is hard, and the road is not always easy, but I do believe we have a special department and a good culture and I truly hope you will reflect that in all your conversations with these visiting students this week and next.
I hope every one of them leaves here wanting to be a Wolverine!
Thanks in advance for your help with this!
Sincerely,
Beth
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Holidays and Happenings
24th - National Day of Education
26th Indian Republic Day
27th Holocaust Memorial Day
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Dr. Fuller's Celebration of Life will be held in the dining hall of NCRC building 18, from 2:00-3:30pm on Saturday, February 18th. Please RSVP here by January 31st.
Please send your photos, tributes, stories, etc. to Elisabeth Paymal (paymal@med.umich.edu) by January 31st so we can include those in a special presentation.
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Tuesday, January 24th @ 1pm: Admin Team Virtual Drop-in Office Hours (Plus see below in announcements for in-person options) Hop on to connect with an administrator for a quick question you may have. If you need a more in-depth meeting, feel free to join the drop-in hour to connect with your team member to get something on the calendar.
Wednesday, January 25th @ 10:00am: Drop-in IT Office Hours
Open office hours with our IT liaisons, Deb McCaffrey and Ryan Echlin; bring all of your IT questions and issues.
January 26 - 28: PIBS 1st Recruitment Weekend
Thursday, January 26th @ noon: M&I Seminar Series
Melanie Ohi, PhD
Rowena G Matthews Collegiate Professor in the Life Sciences
Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology
University of Michigan
Cryo-EM analysis of bacterial T4SSs
5330 MS I
Friday, January 27th @ noon: 812 (Recruitment - students only)
Jenn Baker, PhD Candidate, Dickson and Huffnagle Labs
5623 MS II
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SAVE THE DATE
PIBS Recruiting:
- February 2-4: Interview Weekend #2
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We are happy to have Isabel Buhn and Chloe Emch with us as student assistants this semester! Please let Sheryl and Kim know if you have any projects on which you’d like their assistance.
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Please welcome Surbhi Gupta, PhD to our department who has started as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Mobley lab. She was born and raised in India where she received her B.S. in Zoology with Honors from the University of Delhi, M.S. in Microbial Biotechnology from Panjab University in Chandigarh and her PhD in Biomedical Sciences at the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research at the University of Delhi. Her dissertation described CRISPR spacer sequences found in uropathogenic E. coli as compared to commensal isolates. Previously, in India she trained at the National Center for Disease Control and The Energy and Resources Institute in Microbial Biotechnology and conducted research at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital Department of Research. She has published seven papers, two as first author, on the topic of pathogenic E. coli, antimicrobial resistance, and the innate immunity provided by NLRP3 inflammasome. Here, she will work on determining the contribution of specific E. coli transporters to infection of the urinary tract by Uropathogenic E. coli in our Molecular Mechanisms of Uropathogenesis project. In her spare time, Surbhi enjoys running, workouts, reading and exploring new places.
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Eric Martens and Grace Chen were awarded an R01 from the NIDDK, the title is: Dietary fiber and soy protein-based microbiome metabolites for IBD prevention. The start date is 1/17/23 - congratulations!
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First Medical School Staff Forum of 2023
The forum will be held virtually from 2-3 p.m. on Monday, February 6. We will convene at: Join via Zoom Passcode: 106479
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Request access to Med School Fitness Center - 2802 MS II.
If this opportunity is of interest, please review the attached guidelines carefully and return a signed copy of the Request for Access and Release of Liability form to Helen McDowell via email (mchelen@umich.edu), with the subject: “Fitness Center Access”. Please note that fitness center access requests may require a few weeks to process.
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ATTENTION: updated student listservs
M&I is cleaning up its listservs. We now have one for PhD, one for Master’s, and one for both PhD and Master’s students.
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You may have noticed that many people’s photos are on their outlook emails now. If you would like to have your photo show you can do so by granting photo consent via this [idm.med.umich.edu/profile]link. Note what will show is the photo on your MCard.
Also: Your storage on google accounts will be changed from unlimited to now capped at 250GB effective today, January 16. This storage includes your @umich.edu email and anything on Google Drive or Google Photos. This change affects less than 3% of all faculty across the entire campus and you may have been contacted if it impacts you already. If you have any issues and need assistance for data storage please contact ITS or HITS directly to find alternative storage.
This "new" policy was decided in 2021 by Google and is becoming effective 1-16-23 for U of M. The policy applies to all institutions using Google Workspace for Education, because unlimited cloud storage is becoming unsustainable.
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Research Opportunities, Resources, Info, etc. |
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MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS JOURNAL CLUB 2022 - 2023
Time: Every other Monday from 9:00 – 10:00am
Next Meeting: 1/23/2023, Presenter: from the O'Riordan Lab
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The Data Analysis Networking Group (DANG!) will restart monthly meetings for M&I in 2023. The first meeting will be on January 13th at 3 PM in the Wheeler Seminar room.
The M&I Data Analysis Networking Group (DANG!) aims to provide a friendly group environment for solving problems in biological data analysis, including reproducibility, statistics, visualization, and any computational or data challenges. Feel free to bring your data and questions, or just come to learn from problems that others are working on.
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The Michigan Medicine Office of Corporate and Foundation relations welcomes the presidents of five of the most prestigious biomedical research funders in the nation for a virtual panel session on February 7 @ 3pm. The session will provide faculty with insight into each foundation’s decision-making process, their advice on successfully securing non-profit research support, and trends they are anticipating in medical research funding in the coming months and years. Click here for details.
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Fee-Free Open Access
Thanks to an agreement negotiated by the Big Ten Academic Alliance, U-M authors are now able to publish their articles open access in all Microbiology Society journals, both hybrid and fully open access titles. See the section called Fee-free Open Access via Publish and Read on the society website for more information.
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Ways to Wellness
It's more important than ever to find ways to nurture and sustain meaningful connections. So reach out to friends or family. Or look for new ways to connect with colleagues in safe and appropriate ways. Because, just like your physical health, your mental and emotional health is an essential part of your overall wellness, deserving of your ongoing attention and care.
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Harry Mobley gets his Chair photo! |
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