BMB Weekly #15: April 14, 2023

 

RSVP for the BMB Awards Ceremony & Banquet! The RSVP for the BMB Awards Ceremony & Banquet is live and ready for your response! Deadline to respond is Sunday, April 16. If you have any additional questions/concerns please email BMB.Office@msu.edu or Leslie Williams, glady@msu.edu. Feel free to share with your lab personnel as needed. Looking forward to seeing you there! RSVP using the Qualtrics link here (survey will open in a new window).

 

 

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.

 

The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning is offering teaching and learning programming throughout April. This week and next, they continue the event series on driving your own professional development, and on the various career paths that CIRTL alumni have pursued in and beyond academia. At the end of the month, finish out the term with the annual Teaching-as-Research presentations. 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 Exchange is the weekly Tuesday morning event for graduate students. Please join us for the following:
Journal Club: Mary Huff, Ph.D. (neuroscience, U. Iowa)
Mental Health in Academia (https://dragonflymentalhealth.org/)

Featuring Graduate Career Services! Negotiation is an activity we all perform daily. From self-negotiating to negotiating with others to get the best outcome, we continuously indulge in this decision-making process. However, have you ever prepared yourself before starting a negotiation? This in-person interactive workshop will help you build new skills and put that thinking hat to get the best win-win outcome whenever you are in a negotiation space again. Be it negotiating your salary with an employer or with a realtor for the next house you are going to buy, the real-life exercise conducted in the workshop will provide you with an edge and equip with the right tools to handle tough situations. Come join us for this engaging workshop, featuring the MSU Graduate Career Development Advising Team! Register here.

Lunch will be provided while you meet and greet with Dean Pero Dagbovie and Associate Dean Terah Chambers where we talk generally about inclusion and belonging for graduate students at MSU. Learn more here.

This panel will explore the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), institutional policy, and academic integrity. Join us as three MSU educators share their take on the potential benefits and challenges associated with the use of AI in academic institutions, and how institutional policies can be developed to ensure that AI is used ethically and in a manner that upholds academic integrity. The panelists will draw on their experiences and expertise in their disciplines to provide insights into this complex and rapidly evolving topic. Learn more here.

What does wellness look like for queer graduate students? Drawing from decolonial and anti-cisheteronormative perspective, this dialogue will serve as a safe and brave space for queer graduate students to discuss what wellness looks like for us, how Westernized notions of wellness have alienated marginalized communities, and imagine wellness as a tool for radically sustained life and freedom. 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 offers 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.

 

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

 

To provide feedback or submit content, please email bmb.web@msu.edu. Don't forget to follow us on social media!

College of Natural Science | BMB Weekly | Vol. 56, No.15