BMB Weekly #14: April 7, 2023

 

Save the Date: The Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Annual Awards Ceremony and Banquet! Please save the date for the BMB Annual Awards Ceremony and Banquet on Thursday, April 20 at the MSUFCU Club at Spartan Stadium. More information coming soon.

 

 

Cristano Gutiérrez from Centro de Biologia Molecular Severo Ochoa, Madrid Spain will be presenting "Understanding plant root growth: a crosstalk of cell division and chromatin dynamics."

To join us on Zoom, click this link. Password: bmbseminar

The Spring BMB Seminar Series will run through the end of April. The complete schedule is available on the BMB Spring Seminar Series website. If you are interested in meeting with any of these speakers please email Leslie Williams, glady@msu.edu. Many speakers are planning to visit in-person. A zoom option will continue to be offered for all seminars.

 

Evolution of acylsugars within the Solanum genus

To join us on Zoom, click this link. Password: acylsugars

Developing Deep Learning Models to Mitigate Flagellum-motile Bacterial Phytopathogens of Citrus Crops

To join us on Zoom, click this link. Password: flg22

Diterpenoid Biosynthesis in American Beautyberry and the Lamiaceae family

To join us on Zoom, click this link. Password: terpene

 

Do you have questions regarding formatting your thesis or dissertation? Stop in during one of our help sessions to talk to Graduate School staff about any specific formatting questions you may have. These are walk-in sessions. No registration is required. Learn more here.

In this online session, we ask how our syllabi can be revolutionary experiments in reimagining and restructuring a small part of the vast educational project. Join to learn about and discuss one model for engaging a living syllabus--a syllabus that unfolds through collective processes in the context of one course. Learn more here.

The Exchange is the weekly Tuesday morning event for graduate students. Please join us for the following:
Journal Club: Dr. Crisanto Gutiérrez, Autonomous U. Madrid (Erich Grotewold)
Cell cycle regulation

Volunteers: Carson Broeker, Joshua Kaste, Christina Plantz

These write-ins are hosted and facilitated to provide writers with an opportunity to write in a shared writing space where other writers are present, and a writing center consultant/staff member is present to provide consultations for writers who would like to have a consultation appointment during the session. Learn more here.

The Weill Institute Emerging Scholars Symposium in Ithaca, NY, is a one-day event in October where exceptional senior Ph.D. students from institutions external to Cornell are invited to share their research with the Weill Institute community, celebrate their academic achievements, interact with students and faculty, and explore post-doctoral collaboration and research opportunities. Learn more here.

The Graduate School is happy to invite graduate program directors to the 2023 Graduate Program Director Summit. This summit will allow us to come together to explore important aspects of graduate education in a setting that encourages engagement, interaction, and collaboration. GPDs are strongly encouraged to attend this event. Learn more and register here.

 

The IIT Fellowship Program is for doctoral students with an interest in interdisciplinary inquiry and undergraduate teaching. The primary goal of the IIT Fellowship Program is to broaden and enrich the professional development experience of a diverse group of graduate students by placing them within an environment, James Madison College, with an established tradition in excellence in undergraduate teaching. Learn more here.

The Cultural Heritage Informatics Graduate Fellowship Program offer MSU graduate students the skills to creatively and thoughtfully apply digital methods and computational approaches to cultural heritage collections, materials, data, questions, and challenges. While the fellowship, which spans an academic year, involves workshops, collaborative development work, and technical experimentation, the overall organizational focus of the fellowship is the development (either individually or collaboratively) of a significant and innovative digital cultural heritage project. Learn more and apply here. 

 

It's tax time and there are free resources available to help!

• MSU VITA: https://www.vita.msu.edu/appointments
• MSU College of Law Taxpayer Clinics: International Students and Scholars | Michigan State University (msu.edu)
• OISS: International Students and Scholars | Michigan State University (msu.edu)

In an effort to support students this semester, revised Credit-No Credit (CR-NC) grade reporting options are being put in place for Spring Semester 2023 only. MSU will return to the CR-NC policy listed in the Academic Programs Catalog effective Summer 2023. Learn more here. 

To help field questions, Global Safety has developed a guide with recommended steps and resources. This is available as a PDF and on the Global Safety website at www.globalsafety.msu.edu/positive-COVID-19. The first step is to call ISOS for guidance.

 

A Project Administrator is sought to work in a translational cancer research laboratory in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The selected candidate will provide organizational and administrative support, as well as support for collaborations with clinical, behavioral, community, and population science researchers, to the Principal Investigator. We seek a highly organized, committed and motivated candidate with a Master’s degree in a relevant field preferred.  The candidate must have demonstrated ability to provide organizational, administrative, and leadership support to demanding research programs. The Project Administrator will provide administrative support for day-to-day operations of the research program related to fiscal management, budgeting, progress reports, communication with collaborators, arrangement for collaboration meetings, and coordination with other researchers, as needed. Learn more about this MSU Careers posting and apply at this link.

This Communications Manager I position is a dual reporting position that supports two core departments in the MSU College of Natural Science (NatSci): the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (50%) and the Department of Chemistry (50%). The position is a part of the NatSci Communications infrastructure, with a primary reporting relationship within the departments and a secondary reporting relationship to the NatSci Senior Communications and Marketing Director. Key responsibilities for this position include identifying, researching, producing and editing releases and feature materials for on-line communications, media, and publications. Learn more about this MSU Careers posting and apply at this link.

We are inviting applications for multiple postdoctoral positions in a cancer biology laboratory in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Michigan State University. Candidates competitive for these postdoctoral positions will be highly motivated, creative, and have interest in translational cancer biology. A qualified candidate is expected to have had outstanding graduate training, experience and/or training in mammalian cell culture, mouse tumor studies, molecular biology techniques, cell biology techniques, genome engineering techniques, and biochemical techniques. They will be expected to collect, and analyze data, and supervise students. Learn more about this MSU Careers posting and apply at this link.

The Biological Sciences (BioSci) Program at MSU is seeking two fixed-term faculty members to join the BioSci Program teaching team. The successful candidate for the first position will serve as curriculum coordinator and instructor for BS172, a large enrollment introductory organismal biology lab course designed for life-science majors. The successful candidate for the second position will serve as an instructor for introductory biology lecture and lab courses designed to actively engage life-science majors in three-dimensional learning and will work with teams of faculty to develop curriculum for these courses. Questions regarding the position may be directed to Dr. Katie Krueger, BioSci Program Assistant Director and Chair of the Search Committee (krueg172@msu.edu). 

 

Chaturvedi, S. S., Thomas, M. G., Bathir Jaber Sathik Rifayee, S., White, W., Wildey, J., Warner, C., Schofield, C. J., Hu, J.,
         Hausinger, R. P., Karabencheva-Christova, T. G., & Christov, C. Z. (2023). Dioxygen Binding Is Controlled by the Protein
         Environment in Non-heme Fe^II and 2-Oxoglutarate Oxygenases: A Study on Histone Demethylase PHF8 and an
         Ethylene-Forming Enzyme. Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), e202300854. Advance online publication.
         https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202300854

Doherty, J. H., Scott, E. E., Cerchiara, J. A., Jescovitch, L. N., McFarland, J. L., Haudek, K. C., & Wenderoth, M. P. (2023).
         What a Difference in Pressure Makes! A Framework Describing Undergraduate Students' Reasoning about Bulk Flow
         Down Pressure Gradients. CBE life sciences education, 22(2), ar23. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.20-01-0003

Feng, H., Elladki, R., Jiang, J., & Wei, G. W. (2023). Machine-learning analysis of opioid use disorder informed by MOR, DOR,
         KOR, NOR and ZOR-based interactome networks. Computers in biology and medicine, 157, 106745.
         https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2023.106745

Liu, J., Hiser, C., Li, F., Hall, R., Garavito, R. M., & Ferguson-Miller, S. (2023). New TSPO Crystal Structures of Mutant and
         Heme-Bound Forms with Altered Flexibility, Ligand Binding, and Porphyrin Degradation Activity. Biochemistry, 62(7),
         1262–1273. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biochem.2c00612

Rogers, D. M., Agarwal, R., Vermaas, J. V., Smith, M. D., Rajeshwar, R. T., Cooper, C., Sedova, A., Boehm, S., Baker, M.,
         Glaser, J., & Smith, J. C. (2023). SARS-CoV2 billion-compound docking. Scientific data, 10(1), 173.
         https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01984-9

Roussey, N. M., & Dickson, A. (2023). Quality over quantity: Sampling high probability rare events with the weighted ensemble
         algorithm. Journal of computational chemistry, 44(8), 935–947. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcc.27054

Sharma, N., Froehlich, J. E., Rillema, R., Raba, D. A., Chambers, T., Kerfeld, C. A., Kramer, D. M., Walker, B., & Brandizzi, F. (2023).
         Arabidopsis stromal carbonic anhydrases exhibit non-overlapping roles in photosynthetic efficiency and development. The
         Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology, 10.1111/tpj.16231. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.16231

Soave, C., Ducker, C., Islam, N., Kim, S., Yurgelevic, S., Nicely, N. I., Pardy, L., Huang, Y., Shaw, P. E., Auner, G., Dickson, A.,
         & Ratnam, M. (2023). The Small Molecule Antagonist KCI807 Disrupts Association of the Amino-Terminal Domain of the
         Androgen Receptor with ELK1 by Modulating the Adjacent DNA Binding Domain. Molecular pharmacology, 103(4),
         211–220. https://doi.org/10.1124/molpharm.122.000589

Voss, P. G., & Wang, J. L. (2023). Liquid-liquid phase separation: Galectin-3 in nuclear speckles and ribonucleoprotein complexes. 
         Experimental cell research, 427(1), 113571. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yexcr.2023.113571

 

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