NYCU News You Can Use, week of January 3, 2023
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This week in NYCU
- Faculty Candidate Visits
- Faculty Family Care Academic Travel Support Program
- M&I Annual Giving Link
- Inspiration – Happy New Year! 31 things to do in Jan. in SE MI
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Chair Chat
Happy New Year and Welcome Back M&I!
I hope you all got some time for rest and rejuvenation over the holiday break. I am always so optimistic in the New Year, and this year we have great reason to be! Dr. Yifan Wang officially starts today! His office will temporarily be in Mae Huynh’s former office in 5740B. Please join me in welcoming Yifan to the department when you see him and be sure to stop by Tea@3 on Jan 10th when the O’Meara lab is hosting and the theme will be to welcome Yifan to the departmental eukaryotic pathogens team!
(Don’t forget to sign up for Tea@3! We need a host for Jan. 24th. Click here: Tea@3)
We are also sad to say good-bye to Mae, so be watching for an opportunity to have cake soon to officially wish her well on her retirement.
I will be running a fellowship bootcamp on Mondays from 4-6 pm on the following dates: Jan 30, Feb 6, 13, 20 (not 2/27), March 6 and March 13. If interested, this will help you prepare for the April grant submission deadline. Email me at bmoore@umich.edu so I can add you to the dropbox and get you on the email list. Once we know who is interested we can decide whether to do this virtually or in person. Each session will have about 30 minutes of overview and then dedicated time for writing with me available for questions.
You will notice they took down many of our hallway photos to paint the walls (sigh), but we will figure out somewhere new to put them, so keep the photos coming.
January is a busy month with grad school and faculty recruiting events and a new semester starting…but I am excited to see us “be all that we can be in ‘23!”
Sincerely,
Beth
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Holidays and Happenings
1st - New Year's Day
2nd - New Year's Day observed
5th - George Washington Carver Day
6th - Feast of the Epiphany
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There will be a memorial service on campus on February 18 at NCRC - Building 18 - Dining Hall. Check back in the coming weeks for more details. |
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Tuesday, January 3rd @ 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 4th @ 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.
Thursday, January 5th @ noon: M&I Seminar Series
Melanie Pearson, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
The tangled web of Proteus mirabilis urovirulence
M3330 MS I
Friday, January 6th @ noon: 812
Joey Krampen, PhD Candidate, Collins Lab
Kyle Gontjes, PhD Candidate, Snitkin Lab
3697 MS II – West Lecture Hall
Tuesday, January 10th @ 9am - Faculty Candidate Seminar
Heather Callaway, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, La Jolla Institute of Immunology
Rabies virus glycoprotein: Solving the trimeric glycoprotein structure for improved vaccines and antibody therapies
3695 MS II NLH
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SAVE THE DATE
Faculty Candidate Seminars
- Scott Biering, PhD, Monday 1/16 @ noon 3695 MS II NLH
- Kavi Mehta, PhD, Tuesday, 2/7 @ 2pm 3699 MS II SLH
PIBS Recruiting:
- January 26-28: Interview Weekend #1
- February 2-4: Interview Weekend #2
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Huge Congratulations to Kathy Collins for being recognized with the prestigious Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award. So proud of you!
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Congratulations also to Vince Young for being elected to a 3-year term as a member of the Board of Directors for the American Society for Microbiology. Well done!
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The Faculty Family Care Academic Travel Support Program will provide funding for UMMS faculty to help offset caregiving expenses incurred with travel to academic meetings and conferences.
The program will provide:
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Caregiving travel expense support (up to $1000 annually, taxable) for tenure, clinical, and research track faculty in the early stage of their careers.
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Examples of expenses that might be covered include: cost of travel to bring your child to the meeting/conference; childcare for your child while at a conference; child, dependent, or elder care while you are away from home.
We will use a simple application form and approval process in the Office of Faculty Affairs. Applications to request support for travel to meetings in calendar year 2023 will be accepted quarterly. Confirmation will be received at the beginning of each travel quarter. Due dates are as follows:
- Dec 31 for academic meetings that would occur between January 1 and March 31
- March 31 for meetings occurring between April 1 and June 30
- June 30 for meetings occurring between July 1 and Sept 30
- Sept 30 for meetings occurring between Oct 1 and Dec 31
Details about eligibility, the application form and process are provided here:
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What do you do if child care falls through?
Contact Kids Kare at Home
If your regular child care provider is unavailable, and you simply can't miss work or school, the U-M Work-Life Resource Center has a solution - Kids Kare at Home.
Kids Kare at Home
· Back-up child care for U-M families
· In-home care by screened and trained caregivers
· Registration is required and free
· Sliding-scale hourly rate for child care
· No obligation to use the service
Sign up as soon as possible to ensure you are registered for service starting January 1, 2023.
Please Note: Even if you are enrolled for service in 2022, you must re-register for 2023.
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Description of the fund:
The Microbiology and Immunology Annual Fund will be used to meet the greatest needs in the department. This fund will be flexible enough to support a variety of purposes, such as research in any discipline in the department, to fund professional development and travel, to support maintenance contracts on critical equipment, to bring in a relevant speaker or workshop, or to provide refreshments for key meetings or conferences.
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New autoclaves will be put in locations that M&I oversee. The rooms that the Med School have identified are listed below.
Mike Bush is the Project Manager that will be overseeing this project. The goal is to have these ordered sometime in January. There is a 20-week lead time once they ordered.
- MS2 6715
- MS2 5744
- MS2 4711A
- RCC 4126
Mike will also arrange to have the units that are currently there removed and get the utilities ready for the new autoclave units. Look for Mike’s communications in the future.
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After a hiatus due to COVID, M&I sponsored postdoc travel awards are BACK! The department will provide $500 travel awards to two postdocs twice per year. I will advertise these in the Winter and Summer for travel in the first and second halves of the year. Please send me your application (linked here) if you plan to attend a conference during the first half of the year (Jan 1 - June 31 2023) and wish to be considered for a travel award. Please send your application to me by Friday December 23rd. We will announce awardees shortly after returning from Holiday Break.
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Have you forgotten most of your stats training? Never understood it in the first place? Do you skip over the statistics sections when reading a journal article? Do you wish you could converse more effectively about statistics with your team? Faculty Workshop: A Gentle Introduction to Data Analyses
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Research Opportunities, Resources, Info, etc. |
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The NIH has provided 12 tips on the new DMS policy which is effective January 25, 2023:
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Postdoc opportunity in Sienna,Italy: Fábio Bagnoli runs a research operation at GSK vaccines in Italy and he is looking for a post-doc to work on a Klebsiella pneumoniae project. If interested, please contact Dr. Bagnoli directly at: fabio.x.bagnoli@gsk.com. He is a collaborator of David Markovitz here at U-M if you want to speak to David as well.
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From AAI:
The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) is currently accepting applications for the 13th year of the AAI Public Policy Fellows Program (see announcement below: deadline is January 18, 2023). I am very pleased to report that, of the 109 scientists who have completed the program to date, 100% indicated (in an anonymous survey) that - based on their experience - they would recommend the program to other eligible scientists.
I am writing to you, as a department chair, with the hope that you will share information about this program with any interested members of your department and institution. We welcome applicants from all over the country who are within fifteen years of their terminal degree. Flyer here.
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Departmental support for research: M&I is committed to supporting research needs by both our tenure track and research track faculty. If you have a compelling research need, you can solicit the department for funding using the “Request for Departmental Support” located under the Finance tab in the Google Drive.
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Michigan Science Writers is excited to announce that we will be publishing edition 2 of EquilibriUM, a print magazine from MiSciWriters! EquilibriUM is a STEAMM (science, technology, engineering, arts, math, and medicine) magazine that aims to make research more engaging and tangible to the public by bringing science, writing, and art together into one medium. You can read the inaugural edition here.
As we plan to print and distribute in September 2023, we will be opening our inbox for your submissions starting January 4th. This year’s theme is “The Future of Science” – all submissions regardless of medium should be relevant to this theme and incorporate at least two elements of STEAMM. See the attached flyer and our submissions page for full info about what we’re looking for and how to submit.
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Elements
With Faculty CVs live, and a help menu has been added directly into the app to support users.
Quick help links in the Elements App:
IF you don't need your CV converted right away, please do wait - we are working on hiring staff to do this.
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Kevin J. Thompson Fund for Sepsis Research Postdoctoral/Research Investigator Travel Award
A postdoctoral fellow or RI is eligible to receive one travel grant award (either domestic or international, but not both) during a fiscal year, which runs from July 1 to June 30, based on the start date of the conference.
- Up to $1500 for the continental United States.
- Up to $1750 for Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Europe.
- Up to $2000 for Africa, Asia, South America, and Australia.
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See google drive or email Kim Rize to apply (rizek@umich.edu)
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SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Diversity in Households Highlights the Challenges of Sequence-Based Transmission Inference. Bendall EE, Paz-Bailey G, Santiago GA, Porucznik CA, Stanford JB, Stockwell MS, Duque J, Jeddy Z, Veguilla V, Major C, Rivera-Amill V, Rolfes MA, Dawood FS, Lauring AS. mSphere. 2022 Dec 21;7(6):e0040022. doi: 10.1128/msphere.00400-22. Epub 2022 Nov 15. PMID: 36377913 Free PMC article.
Alarming antibody evasion properties of rising SARS-CoV-2 BQ and XBB subvariants. Wang Q, Iketani S, Li Z, Liu L, Guo Y, Huang Y, Bowen AD, Liu M, Wang M, Yu J, Valdez R, Lauring AS, Sheng Z, Wang HH, Gordon A, Liu L, Ho DD. Cell. 2022 Dec 14:S0092-8674(22)01531-8. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.12.018. Online ahead of print. PMID: 36580913 Free PMC article.
Monto AS, Lauring AS, Martin ET. J Infect Dis. 2022 Dec 28;227(1):4-8. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiac454. PMID: 36424890
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Professional development: Providing time for trainees and staff |
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The M&I faculty have agreed that trainees and professional staff should be eligible for at minimum 1 hour per week of professional development time or 4 h per month. There are a number of online resources that have been shared with staff on the research staff SLACK channel and UMMS will provide tuition reimbursement according to SPG rules. Please check SLACK, google drive or reach out to Kim Rize with questions. While staff requested $1000 per year for support, not all faculty have ability to cover that. If the PI cannot provide financial support at this level for a needed professional development program, please contact Kim Rize to determine whether the department may be able to help.
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Ways to Wellness
It’s that germy time of year. Yes, you need to report if you’re positive for COVID. Read the COVID-19 work restrictions here.
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With your support, United Way of Washtenaw County
will continue to:
· connect low-income seniors with a network of services available to them which are vital to ensuring they stay healthy, engaged, and independent for as long as possible;
· support programs for those at highest risk of becoming homeless and connect them with services to stay housed;
· assist clients with enrolling in public benefits, such as Medicaid and SNAP (food stamps) and help them find providers for the services they need to stay healthy;
· intervene and support economically disadvantaged youth succeed in school with a focus on tutoring, attendance, and educational advocacy; and
· make quality childcare accessible to low-income families.
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