NYCU News You Can Use, week of May 9, 2023
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This week in NYCU
- COVID-19 Updates
- M&I Seminar Series - Jasper Chan
- Travel reimbursements
- Applications accepted for Michigan Pioneer Fellows Program and an NCI Cancer Prevention Postdoc Fellowship
- See below for (wonderfully awful) limericks!
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Chair Chat
Hello M&I and Happy Tuesday,
This week we have faculty meeting at noon today. In person in 5623 or if needed: Join via zoom
Meeting ID: 981 7991 0775
Passcode: MIfacmtg
In addition, there is a faculty-only learning event on “Value Added Mentoring” to be led by Denise Kirschner today at 4 in 5613 Med Sci 2 (library). Thursday wraps up our normal Thursday seminar series with Jasper Chan visiting from Univ. of Hong Kong. Should be a very informative seminar, so please do attend. Finally, the State of the Department address will be in person in the North Lecture Hall on Thursday, May 25th at noon. However, I will attempt to make it a hybrid offering for those of you offsite and I will record the session. Here is the zoom link for that:
Join Zoom Meeting for State of the Department”
Meeting ID: 939 1742 4225
Passcode: 268197
Have a great week!
Beth
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Holidays and Happenings
10th - National Mental Health Awareness Week
11th - National Limerick Day (check the end of NYCU)
14th - Mother's Day
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Tuesday, May 9th @ 1pm: Admin Team Virtual Drop-in Office Hours Join via Zoom, Passcode: Team
(FOR PIs) Tuesday, May 9th @ 4pm - On Mentoring
Denise Kirschner, PhD
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Value-added mentoring in our labs
5613 MS II
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Wednesday, May 10th @ 10:00am: Drop-in IT Office Hours
Open office hours with our IT liaisons, Jeanette Guilbault and Ryan Echlin; bring all of your IT questions and issues.
Thursday, May 11th @ noon: M&I Seminar Series
Jasper (Fuk-Woo) Chan, MD
Deputy Chairperson, Microbiology
Clinical Associate Professor, Infectious Disease & Microbiology
University of Hong Kong
Deputy Chief-of-Service, Infectious Disease & Microbiology
HKU-Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China
3695 MS II (NLH)
COVID-19: What have we learned from animal models?
3697 MS II WLH
Thursday, May 11th @ 1pm: Immunology Dissertation Defense
M. Sydney Smith
Role of CAR and JAM-A in regulation of intestinal epithelial cell function
Meeting ID: 932 2879 3785 Passcode: 848023
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Congratulations to Dr. Malini Raghavan on being named the recipient of the Walls Research Professorship.
Malini's research portfolio and service have always been stellar, and we couldn't be prouder to bestow this honor on her. Read more about Malini here.
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Congratulations to the Marcy Balunas Lab who have recently had two papers accepted for publication: one in Analytical Chemistry and the other in PNAS!!! Well done!
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Here is a news article to further welcome Anukul Shenoy to the department.
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COVID-19 updates
- COVID-19 testing will no longer be available through OHS for symptomatic employees beginning May 11, 2023. In addition, the Michigan Medicine location for the Community Sampling and Tracking Program (CSTP) will close after May 10, 2023. Campus locations for CSTP will close after May 12, 2023.
- Employees who test positive for COVID-19 should continue to report their results through Wolverine Access so they can receive appropriate guidance from OHS regarding isolation.
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Additional information about COVID-19 for employees can be found on the OHS website.
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A reminder about travel reimbursements:
- You likely got emails with this headline: New Payment Method for Airfare Launches May 1
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U-M does have a new travel partner; however after discussions with Alan and Melissa, we want to encourage you not to use this on your own!
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In M&I, you should continue to use your pcard to book your own travel and then submit the receipts to expensereports@umich.edu and put in the body of the email what the expense relates to (business purpose) and what shortcode to reconcile it too
- Then Shared Service will reconcile and the faculty will be prompted to go in and submit the report in Concur
- You can also pay for your student/post-doc travel and conference registration on your pcard and handle as above.
- If you have so many folks traveling that you will hit your pcard limit…or if you want help, please contact Melissa McGeorge and she will assist
- When students have food or conference charges on their own credit cards, they need to save receipts and send to Melissa who will help them get reimbursed
- Melissa can book in the new system for you if needed (e.g. in case of hitting pcard limit)….this will save a lot of admin burden on faculty.
Thanks Melissa!
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Research Opportunities, Resources, Info |
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Please see here for information on the NCI Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program for postdocs which is accepting applications now.
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The Department of Communication recently launched Health Lab, formerly known as the Michigan Health and Michigan Health Lab blogs. Same Michigan Medicine experts, and same compelling health and research stories, but now all in one convenient location with a brand-new look.
We also revamped our weekly newsletters and we’re encouraging faculty and staff to subscribe in order to stay informed of the latest articles we publish that feature their colleagues within your department and coworkers across the institution. Here is the sign-up link for both: https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab-newsletter-signup
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NIH transitioning Funding Opportunity Terminology
NIH is transitioning to updated terminology regarding funding opportunities to better align with the Uniform Guidance.
Effective immediately, NIH will use the term notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) to refer to formal announcements of the availability of Federal funding through a financial assistance program.
Previously, such announcements were referred to as funding opportunity announcements (FOAs). See the NIH Grants & Funding Glossary for the full definition. NIH is currently updating its website with these changes.
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New FacsCanto and Fortessa Recharge Rates
Effective 5/1/23 the recharge rates are:
- FacsCanto $45.69 per machine hour
- Cell Analyzer Flow Cytometry (Fortessa) $24.87 per machine hour
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Keratinocytes sense and eliminate CRISPR DNA through STING/IFN-κ activation and APOBEC3G induction. Sarkar MK, Uppala R, Zeng C, Billi AC, Tsoi LC, Kidder A, Xing X, Perez White BE, Shao S, Plazyo O, Sirobhushanam S, Xing E, Jiang Y, Gallagher KA, Voorhees JJ, Kahlenberg JM, Gudjonsson JE. J Clin Invest. 2023 May 1;133(9):e159393. doi: 10.1172/JCI159393. PMID: 36928117 Free PMC article.
PMID: 36610039
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Join us for Movement in May! Fridays @ noon, in the main office reception area, join us for a half hour of an exercise pick-me-up!
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In honor of National Limerick Week:
My proof fills up 100 pages;
'Tis I solved it, it stumped all the sages.
It was recently checked
And pronounced quite correct,
But it hasn't augmented my wages. (Ouch!)
(On microorganisms)
We are vast and small but we cover it all
On stones, on walls, and even your skin we crawl,
Various places some thrive,
While the rest decline,
Now watch as our presence stands tall.
(On resistance)
Chemical warfare we did not foresee.
Our colony's at risk and cannot flee.
But a solution I laid,
Structures subtly remade,
These invaders will not harm me.
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