NYCU News You Can Use, week of March 21, 2023
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This week in NYCU
- Pilot for Drop-in Childcare for Student Caregivers
- March M&I Movie Night: 3/31 6000 THSL
- DEI-Invited Seminar - Irene Garcia Newton
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Chair Chat
Dear M&I,
We have made it past the vernal equinox, but it still is not feeling much like spring. Sorry about that!
I want to again stress the importance of taking the 2023 faculty and staff engagement survey. As of today, M&I has only a 23% response rate. The survey is redesigned and streamlined so should take only 10-12 minutes to fill out. Please do so:
Generic Links:
2023 Faculty Survey:
The password convention for both Faculty and Staff is as follows:
· 8-digit employee ID (UMID) and last two digits of birth year.
· (Example: UMID is 12345678 and birth year is 1979, password will be 1234567879).
No identifying information will be reported to Michigan Medicine with your response.
On Friday, several students and faculty are making their way to U-M Flint to share information about how to prepare for graduate school and what to expect in graduate school. This is supported by our Rackham Faculty Allies grant and is a great outreach opportunity. If you want to join us..contact Yasmina Laouar or myself.
A question has been raised about whether we want to move our student 812 seminar on Fridays back to the more intimate seminar room in M&I (5623… the Wheeler seminar room). We’d like to get your opinion, so please take this one question survey. Remember if we move back to that room, you can only see the top 2/3 of the slides, but it may be worth it for the more intimate setting and team building. Please fill out this one question survey by Thursday, March. 23rd. https://forms.gle/kVt5rvCAe2C6cbuD7
Finally, the Dean’s office has asked the department to host at least 2 sessions open to faculty and learners on how to better meet our educational objectives. I am hoping to schedule one session related to improving mentor-mentee relationships and I welcome your input and suggestions on how to make it fun, interactive and informative. Let me know if you want to help.
Much appreciated,
Beth
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Holidays and Happenings
20th - National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
20th - Spring begins!
21st - Race Relations Day
22nd - April 21st: Ramadan
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Tuesday, March 21st @ 1pm: Admin Team Virtual Drop-in Office Hours Join via Zoom, Passcode: Team
Wednesday, March 22nd @ 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, March 22nd @ noon: Immunology Seminar
Gale and Ira Drukier Director of Children's Health Research
Ronay Menschel Professor of Pediatrics
Weill Cornell Medical College
Systemic Lupus: Lessons from Immunomintoring Pediatric Patients
Thursday, March 23rd @ noon: M&I DEI-invited Seminar Speaker
Irene Garcia Newton, PhD
Professor, Biology
University of Indiana, Bloomington
Friends with benefits: Beneficial microbial symbioses in the honeybee
5330 MS I
Friday, March 24th @ noon: 812
Helen Rich, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Moore Lab
Amanpreet Kaur, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Raghavan Lab
3697 MS II WLH
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Congrats to Avrokin Surnilla, undergraduate student in the Raghavan Lab for being named a James B. Angell Scholar. Avrokin has done impressive work in the lab and recently submitted his first co-authored manuscript!
Congrats to Yifan Wang on a great new paper coming out in mBio!!
CRISPR Screens Identify Toxoplasma Genes That Determine Parasite Fitness in Interferon Gamma-Stimulated Human Cells Shruthi Krishnamurthy 1, Parag Maru 1, Yifan Wang 1, Mebratu A Bitew 1, Debanjan Mukhopadhyay 1, Yoshiki Yamaryo-Botté 2, Tatiana C Paredes-Santos 1, Lamba O Sangaré 1, Christopher Swale 3, Cyrille Y Botté 2, Jeroen P J Saeij mBio. 2023 Mar 14:e0006023. doi: 10.1128/mbio.00060-23. Online ahead of print. PMID: 36916910
And Wei Zou and Mike Imperiale's new paper in the Journal of Virology was selected as Editor's Pick!
Regulation of Virus Replication by BK Polyomavirus Small T Antigen Wei Zou, Michael Imperiale. J Virol 2023 Mar 14;e0007723. doi: 10.1128/jvi.00077-23. Online ahead of print.
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March Microbiology & Immunology Movie Night! Friday, March 31 at 6:15 PM in THSL 6000.
There will be pizza and snacks provided to those who RSVP before Wednesday, March 29. You'll also get to vote for which movie we'll be showing off of our Movie Menu (attached). Fill out this google form to RSVP!
Directions to THSL 6000: The easiest way to get from MSII to THSL 6000 is to go to floor 4, cross into Taubman Library towards the library cafe, and just after you pass the door requiring an MCard, take the elevators on the right to floor 6. Take a right out of the elevator and a left near the lounge booths. THSL 6000 is at the end of the hall.
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The UM Native American Student Association and Powwow Planning Committee would like to extend an invitation to all UM community members to join us for our 49th Annual Dance for Mother Earth Powwow March 25-26th. Visit powwow.umich.edu
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Research Opportunities, Resources, Info |
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Please join Steve Kunkel, Executive Vice Dean for Research and Chief Scientific Officer for Michigan Medicine, Karl Jepsen, Associate Dean for Research, and Medical School Research Directors on Tuesday, March 14 (10:00-11:00) for a “Great Minds, Greater Discoveries” Bold Science interactive, virtual event.
- Learn about the Bold Science Research Scouts Program
- Each scout has $150,000 to invest in Medical School faculty performing novel and potentially transformative research
- How can you submit an idea for consideration?
- Who are the scouts?
- Contribute to the creation of a long-term, sustainable Bold Science program at UMMS
- Join a roundtable discussion facilitated by Research Directors
- Victoria Blanc, Director, Central Biorepository
- Kate Huffman, Associate Director, Clinical Trials Support Office
- Erin Kaleba, Director, Data Office
- Bradley Martin, Director, Fast Forward for Medical Innovation
- Mike Ranella, Associate Director, Fast Forward for Medical Innovation
- Provide your vision for transformative biomedical research at the University of Michigan
- We want to hear from you!
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The Taubman Health Sciences Library has developed a new resource guide for health sciences researchers and students interested in the basic sciences (https://guides.lib.umich.edu/basicsciences). It includes useful links to:
· databases
· e-books
· protocols
· gene, protein, and genome resources
· training opportunities
· And more...
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William R. Farrand Memorial Lecture
Counter-Culture: The art and science of microbes
Friday, March 31, 2023 @ 7:00 p.m.
Central Campus Classroom Building Auditorium (#1420)
This event will be live streamed on the U-M Museum of Natural History website, ummnh.org.
A public reception will precede the lecture at the U-M Museum of Natural History beginning at 6:00 p.m. RSVP to let us know you are coming. The museum is located in the Biological Sciences Building, 1105. N. University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI. The Central Campus Classroom Building is a short walk, at grade, from the museum.
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Please see below for an opportunity to get assistance in the lab and provide experience to a budding, young scientist.
I am a 10th-grade student at Canton High School. I found out about your research on your lab page. I would appreciate it if we could discuss the possibility of joining your lab as an assistant/volunteer
I have experience in introductory-level biology and psychology classes through the AP curriculum offered in high school, and I have always been interested in microbiology since an early age. I look forward to expanding my research skills and developing a better understanding of microbiology. Please let me know if there is any other information I can provide.
Thank you,
Shourik Das (sdas036@pccsk12.com)
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CRISPR Screens Identify Toxoplasma Genes That Determine Parasite Fitness in Interferon Gamma-Stimulated Human Cells Shruthi Krishnamurthy 1, Parag Maru 1, Yifan Wang 1, Mebratu A Bitew 1, Debanjan Mukhopadhyay 1, Yoshiki Yamaryo-Botté 2, Tatiana C Paredes-Santos 1, Lamba O Sangaré 1, Christopher Swale 3, Cyrille Y Botté 2, Jeroen P J Saeij mBio. 2023 Mar 14:e0006023. doi: 10.1128/mbio.00060-23. Online ahead of print. PMID: 36916910
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 Mar 16:e159393. doi: 10.1172/JCI159393. Online ahead of print. PMID: 36928117
Lotakis DM, Dheer R, Dame MK, Cuttitta AJ, Tigani DJ, Spence JR, Young VB, Ralls MW. J Pediatr Surg. 2023 Feb 18:S0022-3468(23)00140-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2023.02.020. Online ahead of print. PMID: 36922279
K-medoids clustering of hospital admission characteristics to classify severity of influenza virus infection. Leis AM, McSpadden E, Segaloff HE, Lauring AS, Cheng C, Petrie JG, Lamerato LE, Patel M, Flannery B, Ferdinands J, Karvonen-Gutierrez CA, Monto A, Martin ET. Influenza Other Respir Viruses. 2023 Mar 7;17(3):e13120. doi: 10.1111/irv.13120. eCollection 2023 Mar. PMID: 36909298 Free PMC article.
Fitness advantage of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron capsular polysaccharide in the mouse gut depends on the resident microbiota. Hoces D, Greter G, Arnoldini M, Stäubli ML, Moresi C, Sintsova A, Berent S, Kolinko I, Bansept F, Woller A, Häfliger J, Martens E, Hardt WD, Sunagawa S, Loverdo C, Slack E. Elife. 2023 Feb 9;12:e81212. doi: 10.7554/eLife.81212. PMID: 36757366 Free PMC article.
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Registration opens March 20 for April’s free cooking classes. Classes will focus on creating delicious protein-packed meatless meals. You’ll also have an opportunity to cook along with the chef in real-time and get cost- and time-saving tips. Register for one or both classes. Sign up to be notified when registration opens.
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Heritage Lecturer Erin Hagan Garcia and former mentor Harry Mobley |
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