BMB Weekly #16: April 21, 2023

 

Engineering cyanobacteria for cross-cultural exchange "The researchers in the PRL Ducat lab show Cyanobacteria, photosynthetic microorganisms which have widespread uses in the production of pigments, antioxidants and supplements and potential ones in biofuels and plastics, have a new way to communicate to control their population." Read the full article here.

 

 

Jennifer Bridwell-Rabb from the University of Michigan will be presenting "Design Principles for Metalloprotein Chemistry." Please join us for the final seminar of the semester!

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

 

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 Exchange is the weekly Tuesday morning event for graduate students. Please join us for the following:
VERITIES — exploring scientific virtues as basis of RCR, with Eric Berling
This special event starts at 7:30!

This meeting is open to Graduate Program Assistants only. Topics will include Slate Updates, COGS, Milestones, Annual Reviews, and GradPlan. Registration is required to attend this event. Meeting info will be shared after registration. Learn more here. 

Please join us for this Zoom webinar with Dr. Naoko Wake titled, "Asian Americans in STEM: The 'Model Minority'?" Please register at this link.

We hope you can join us for a day of amazing student presentations, networking with peers and Alums, and a host of engaging activities: Speed Networking, Workshops, The Sci Files, keynote Lunch and more! Details and registration can be found here: cogs.msu.edu/gac. Please email the COGS Office if you have questions: office@cogs.msu.edu.

 

Nominations are still open for the Outstanding Faculty Mentor and Outstanding Graduate Program Community Awards. These awards recognize graduate programs and faculty mentors whose practice exemplifies the Foundational Values for Graduate Student and Faculty Mentoring Relationships and who make exceptional efforts to sustain the rights and fulfill the responsibilities outlined in the MSU Guidelines for Graduate Student Mentoring and Advising. 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.

 

The Biological Sciences Program at MSU invites applications for a biology education research Postdoctoral Research Associate in developing a curriculum that explicitly supports connections across introductory biology courses. The Research Associate will join a diverse group of educators and discipline-based education researchers working to improve connections between courses in an introductory undergraduate biology curriculum. These courses are focused on supporting three-dimensional learning using evidence-based teaching approaches and are taught by instructional teams made up of faculty, graduate teaching assistants, and undergraduate learning assistants. 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 MSU. 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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