NYCU News You Can Use, week of April 11, 2023
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This week in NYCU
- Learning analytics: A promising approach to educational improvement
- Call for R01 Boot Camp Mentees
- M&I Seminar Series - Spencer Freeman ROOM CHANGE THIS WEEK BSRB KAHN AUDITORIUM
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Chair Chat
Hello M&I,
I hope those of you celebrating Easter, Passover or Ramadan had a pleasant and meaningful weekend. It is going to feel A LOT like Spring…even Summer around here this week with temps in the 70s! I hope you all make time to get outside as much as possible because I know we are not out of the cool and damp weather yet for good!
This week, we will be making a presentation to Dr. Runge in Faculty Meeting highlighting what makes M&I special. I’ve always known this was an awesome department, but it makes me so proud to see the depth and breadth of our research, education and SERVICE missions. M&I has what I call a “service heart” and it is impressive to see how generous we are with our time and talents. That is what I want to celebrate and lift up this week.
With that service theme in mind, I am starting to think about a Fall Department “Retreat” likely at NCRC again and just one day. I’d like this event to focus on some community team building activities, some time for discussion and feedback on important questions and also some science. I am looking for people who want to help me plan this event, and it could easily be staff and trainees, not just faculty. If you have a little more service heart left to help with this…please let me know.
Finally, special congratulations are in order for Megan Procario. Not only did she defend her dissertation last Thursday but she learned on Saturday that her paper was accepted in Spectrum! Congrats Dr. Procario!
Sincerely,
Beth
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Holidays and Happenings
April is Arab American Heritage Month
3/22 - April 21st: Ramadan
5th - 13th: Jewish Passover
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Tuesday, April 11th @ noon: Immunology Seminar
Research Director, Mucosal Inflammation and Immunity Group
Institut Cochin & Institut Pasteur
Mucosal immunity in the context of bladder disease
North Lecture Hall
Tuesday, April 11th @ 1pm: Admin Team Virtual Drop-in Office Hours Join via Zoom, Passcode: Team
Wednesday, April 12th @ 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, April 13th @ noon: M&I Seminar Series
Spencer Freeman, PhD
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry
University of Toronto
Fluid surveillance and solute transport in macrophages: The small things become big things
BSRB Kahn Auditorium
Friday, April 14th @ noon: 812
Pariksheet Nanda, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Kirschner Lab
Juliet Anku, Masters Student, O'Meara Lab
3697 MS II WLH
Wednesday, April 19th @ 2pm: Dissertation Defense
Innate Immune Mechanisms That Regulate Disease Flare in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
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Wednesday, May 3rd @ noon - Panel Discussion
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Friday, May 5th @ 1pm
Michele Swanson, PhD
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Strengthening postdoctoral training at Michigan Medicine
5623 MS II
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Congratulations to Steve Gurczynski and Ayish Menon on the arrival of their beautiful new daughter Seetha Menon Gurcyznski born on March 31st. Everyone is home and doing well. Steve says Seetha is small but mighty! Great to welcome the newest member of M&I! Congrats Steve!
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Congratulations to Dr. Procario who successfully defended last week!!!
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Dr. Anukul Shenoy started as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine last week. He leads the Shenoy Lab of Barrier Immunobiology (SLOBI). Dr. Shenoy earned a BS and MS in Biotechnology from Ruia College (University of Mumbai, India) before moving to USA and starting his doctoral training with Dr. Carlos Orihuela at Univ. of Texas Health Center at San Antonio in 2014. In 2015, he moved with Dr. Orihuela to the Dept. of Microbiology at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) where he went on to complete his PhD in 2017. His doctoral work was focused on understanding host-pathogen interactions involved in pneumococcal infections. In 2018, he joined Dr. Jay Mizgerd’s lab at the Pulmonary Center, Boston University School of Medicine where his work focused on elucidating the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying lung epithelial and resident CD4 T cell communication in context of pulmonary immunity during health and disease. Please welcome Anukul when you see him in the halls!
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Taubman Health Sciences Library - even through tight budget restrictions, they continue to do some purchasing for high priority needs. In an effort to gain insight into what your collection needs are, they are asking for you to respond to the following areas:
· Reserves: As you prepare for your Spring/Summer and Fall semesters, remember to consider any materials that you wish to place on reserve. Use this form for Course Materials Requests and find additional information on placing your request here.
· Purchase Requests: We are doing some purchasing now and wanted to remind you that you can make requests for books, films, journals, and more now and any time through the year. While the library cannot guarantee that we will be able to purchase all items, please submit your requests so that they can be considered. We recommend providing information about how this item would be helpful to you and if electronic access (if available) works for your needs in the "Comments" section.
· Gaps in the collection: We would also like to learn of any known gaps in our collections that need to be addressed. Are there topics/areas that the library should purchase for our collection? Please send your requests and suggestions for collection area needs to: Kelly Price pricek@umich.edu Collections Specialist, Taubman Health Sciences Library.
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BioArtography is now collecting images for its 2023 collection, which will debut at the Ann Arbor Art Fair in July 2023! The BioArtography program, a unique blend of art and science, captures the microscopic beauty of cells in their environment, affording the public a deeper understanding of state-of-the-art biomedical research at the University of Michigan. The goal of our program is to provide support for training of the next generation of scientists, while simultaneously informing and engaging the public about important new developments in health and disease.
Submission Deadline
April 24, 2023
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Research Opportunities, Resources, Info |
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Call for R01 Boot Camp Mentees
The UMMS Office of Research will be kicking off our annual R01 Boot Camp Program on September 13, 2023. The application deadline for the 2023-24 cohort of R01 Boot Camp is Monday, May 15, 2023.
R01 Boot Camp is an intensive mentorship program designed to help early career faculty obtain their first NIH Research Project Grants (R01, or equivalent). While developing proposals over the 9-month course, mentees attend a variety of workshops on topics such as grant writing, statistics and study design, budgeting, and constructing components of the grant application.
More information about the program and links to the application can be found here. We are taking applications for both participants (mentees) and coaches.
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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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The NIH is updating the post-submission material policy effective May 25, 2023:
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Position: Research Assistant
Location: Toledo, OH, USA
Laura Mike Lab (Former trainee in the Mobley Lab)
Description: The Mike lab at the University of Toledo is seeking a research assistant to study the molecular mechanisms of Klebsiella biology. The research assistant will also provide lab manager support to the Mike Lab which includes maintaining lab inventories, ordering supplies, preparing reagents, training students, and maintaining the equipment and laboratory.
Apply here: https://careers.utoledo.edu/cw/en-us/job/495361/research-assistant-medical-microbiology-immunology
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Integr Biol (Camb). 2023 Apr 4:zyad004. doi: 10.1093/intbio/zyad004. Online ahead of print. PMID: 37015816
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 pr;15(4):526-534. doi: 10.1038/s41557-022-01117-6. Epub 2023 Jan 12.
PMID: 36635598 Free PMC article.
Drohan CM, Molyneaux PL, Dickson RP. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2023 Apr 1;207(7):812-814. doi: 10.1164/rccm.202211-2179ED. PMID: 36473273 No abstract available.
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Seetha - new daughter of Mark Anderson and Ayish Menon |
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