NYCU News You Can Use, week of January 17, 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 – Dr. Olszewski shares photos from conference trip to Uganda
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Chair Chat
Hello M&I,
It is hard to believe we are already halfway through January! Just a few things to note:
- It is time to send me nominations for M&I AdMIration awards. Just send a short email with who you want to nominate and why.
- We have made a lot of updates to the website to get it ready for recruiting weekends. If you see something that still needs updating let me know…and send us pictures if yours is missing.
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I will be out of town from Wed. the 18th through Monday the 23rd to attend the AMSMIC chairs meeting. Vern has kindly agreed to field urgent business while I am away. I should still have access to email and texts, but responses may be delayed.
- Be sure to promptly send your evaluations of Dr. Callaway and Biering so the search committee can have your input in their decision making process.
- Also, don’t forget to come to Tea@3 today (Tuesday) to wish Mae Huynh a Happy Retirement. There will be chocolate cake!
Thanks and have a great week,
Beth
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Holidays and Happenings
17th - Ben Franklin Day
22nd - Chinese (Lunar) New Year
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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 17th @ 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 18th @ 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.
Wednesday, January 18th @ noon: Immunology Research Seminar
J. Michelle Kahlenberg, MD, PhD
Professor, Internal Medicine and Dermatology
Giles Bole and Dorothy Muler Research Professor of Rheumatology
Associate Chief, Basic and Translational Research, Rheumatology
New targets of immunotherapies: Interferons
MEDICAL SCIENCE BLDG 1 (M5330)
Thursday, January 19th @ noon: M&I Seminar Series
Kirsten Nielsen, PhD
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
University of Minnesota
Cryptococcus cell wars: The ultimate battle between host and pathogen
5330 MS I
Friday, January 20th @ noon: 812
Krista Armbruster, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Koropatkin Lab
Katie Winner, PhD Candidate, Dickson Lab
3697 MS II – West Lecture Hall
Monday, January 23rd @ noon: Roger Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Jeffrey Ravetch, MD, PhD (Introduction by Santa Ono)
Theresa and Eugene M. Lang Professor, Immunology, Virology & Microbiology
Rockefeller University
Fc receptors: Drivers of immunity
Hybrid: 3695 MS II NLH OR Zoom Meeting ID: 969 3098 4735 | Passcode: 576794
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SAVE THE DATE
PIBS Recruiting:
- January 26-28: Interview Weekend #1
- February 2-4: Interview Weekend #2
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Please welcome Tad Eichler to our department who is working as a Research Lab Specialist Intermediate in the Mobley Lab. Tad grew up just West of Chicago in Glen Ellyn, IL. During his academic career, he has made the circuit in the Big Ten earning his B.S. in Zoology at University of Wisconsin Madison, conducting graduate work in Plant Research in Michigan State University, serving as Research Associate and Lab Manager at UM Medical School, and was Chief Research Associate at Nationwide Children’s Hospital (yes, Ohio State University) from 2008-2021, where he co-authored numerous important papers on Antimicrobial Peptides in Pediatric Urinary Tract Infections (two published in J. Clin. Invest). Overall, he has co-authored 12 publications including 5 as first author and has presented 30 oral and poster presentations at regional and national meetings. He and his family returned to Michigan where he served as Lab Manager in a General Surgery lab during the Covid pandemic (fun!). Currently he lives in Pinckney, MI with wife Mary, daughter Ellie (7), son Evan (3), and cat Mira. He loves most things outdoors including fishing of all types (especially for salmon), camping, hiking, bird watching, a bit of sailing, and golf. We are delighted that he has joined the Mobley Lab where he brings 20 years of research experience to our Clinical UTI project. Welcome Tad!
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Please welcome Santosh Paudel, Ph.D. to our department who has started as Postdoctoral Fellow in the Mobley Lab. Santosh was born and raised in Nepal, where he received his B.S. in Microbiology at Tri-Chandra Campus and his M.S. in Medical Microbiology at Tribhuvan University. After which, he served as Lecturer in Microbiology courses at two undergraduate institutions, hospital microbiologist, water chemist during Nepal’s major earthquake, and Public Health Field Officer. In the U.S., Santosh earned his Ph.D. at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, defending his dissertation at the end of 2022. His thesis work involved the metabolic fitness of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the urinary tract and its interaction with the NLRP3 inflammasome. He has authored six papers, four as first author including one in Appl. Environ. Microbiol. that was selected for Spotlight. Santosh joins us with his wife Shova and two young children. In his spare time, he loves watching Premier League Soccer. Welcome Santosh!
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Please welcome Margaret Gaca to our department who has started as Research Lab Specialist in the Mobley lab. She will be handling our murine models of UTI and bacteremia. She comes to us from Jackson Labs in Bar Harbor, Maine, where, as Scientific Curator and Research Project Lead, she managed large-scale projects investigating the underlying genetic mechanism of type 2 diabetes and handled tens of thousands of specimens from thousands of mice. Hopefully our numbers of animals won’t be so intimidating. Her work has involved all aspects of animal husbandry including pancreatic islet isolation, micro-dissection and behavioring phenotyping. Before starting her animal work, she earned her B.A. in Anthropology from Albion College and conducted remote field work in Collinsville, Illinois. She is returning to her home state with husband Kohle, who is an Air Traffic Controller Supervisor at the Lansing International Airport (LAN) tower. They will be setting up their new household in Howell, MI. In her spare time, Margaret enjoys reading, hiking, and fishing. Welcome Margaret!
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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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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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Intersection of immune and oncometabolic pathways drives cancer hyperprogression during immunotherapy. Li G, Choi JE, Kryczek I, Sun Y, Liao P, Li S, Wei S, Grove S, Vatan L, Nelson R, Schaefer G, Allen SG, Sankar K, Fecher LA, Mendiratta-Lala M, Frankel TL, Qin A, Waninger JJ, Tezel A, Alva A, Lao CD, Ramnath N, Cieslik M, Harms PW, Green MD, Chinnaiyan AM, Zou W. Cancer Cell. 2023 Jan 3:S1535-6108(22)00594-3. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2022.12.008. Online ahead of print. PMID: 36638784
An NmrA-like enzyme-catalysed redox-mediated Diels-Alder cycloaddition with anti-selectivity. Liu Z, Rivera S, Newmister SA, Sanders JN, Nie Q, Liu S, Zhao F, Ferrara JD, Shih HW, Patil S, Xu W, Miller MD, Phillips GN, Houk KN, Sherman DH, Gao X. Nat Chem. 2023 Jan 12. doi: 10.1038/s41557-022-01117-6. Online ahead of print. PMID: 36635598
Science. 2023 Jan 6;379(6627):28-29. doi: 10.1126/science.adf6582. Epub 2023 Jan 5. PMID: 36603093
A steamed broccoli sprout diet preparation that reduces colitis via the gut microbiota. Zhang T, Holman J, McKinstry D, Trindade BC, Eaton KA, Mendoza-Castrejon J, Ho S, Wells E, Yuan H, Wen B, Sun D, Chen GY, Li Y. J Nutr Biochem. 2023 Feb;112:109215. doi: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2022.109215. Epub 2022 Nov 9. PMID: 36370930
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Ways to Wellness
February Virtual Cooking Class Series: Registration opens Jan. 16 for February’s two-class cooking series. It’s American Heart Month so you’ll learn to prepare delicious, heart healthy dishes. Sign up to be notified when registration opens!
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