Happy Give Green Day! We are making an effort to raise money for the BMS professional development fund. We would love your support! givingto.msu.edu/crowdpower/…

BMS will have an exhibition booth at the 2021 AGEP Conference being held November 5-6, 2021. Please visit our booth to learn more about our program! #MSUAGEPSSC

Alexandra Colón-Rodríguez, Ph.D. @alexcr_1 Aug 9 xitter.cf/alexcr_1/status/142486…

Dissertation Examination Announcement Andrew (Ted) Van Alst MMG Ph.D. Candidate Title: Metabolic and Respiratory Pathways Controlling Vibrio Cholerae Colonization Wednesday, July 28, 2021 12:00 PM Zoom link: msu.zoom.us/j/99476651416 Passcode: 587307

Dissertation Examination Announcement Joshua Franklin MMG Ph.D. Candidate Title: Cost-Benefit Trade-Offs Determine the Optimal Number of Flagella in Salmonella Enterica Wednesday, August 4, 2021 10:00 AM Zoom link: msu.zoom.us/j/96247626515 Passcode: 149214

Please join us in congratulating Joanne Thomson, first year student in Federica Brandizzi’s lab and recipient of the NSF-supported NRT-IMPACTS fellowship! We are very pleased that Joanne joined the Brandizzi lab and chose the CMB program for her studies. prl.natsci.msu.edu

Amanda Jurgelewicz in the LaPres lab just had a recent publication: “Genetics-Based Approach to Identify Novel Genes Regulated by the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor (AHR) in Mice Liver” academic.oup.com/toxsci/adva…

March 4, 2021; 7:00 pm GRIT Movie Discussion: Hidden Figures Following your personal screening of the 2016 film “Hidden Figures”, GRIT invites graduate students and faculty to join us in a meet and greet and informal discussion on March 4 at 7 pm. RSVP: forms.gle/TZd9Bt2njsw2LmJ16

Congratulations Amanda Koenig (Susanne Hoffmann-Benning's lab) on being selected as a recipient of the COGS Disciplinary Leadership Award. This award recognizes leadership in their respective disciplines at the local, state, regional, national, or international levels.

Congratulations to DO-PhD student @yajing_ji for successfully defending her thesis entitled "Characterization of Signaling Networks in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension"! Good luck in your clinical studies! #DoubleDocs

Pharmarcology and Toxicology student Jess Moerland, Pharmacology and Toxicology Alumni Di Zhang, and DO/PhD student Lyndsey Reich were published in scientific reports. Awesome work published by the Liby Lab! nature.com/articles/s41598-0…

Please join me in congratulating Andrea Luttman (Cathy Ernst's lab) who successfully passed her comprehensive examination in the Genetics and Genome Sciences Program. Congratulations Andrea on becoming a PhD candidate!

Please congratulate Athanasios Kondilis for the successful completion of his comprehensive exam! Athanasios gave an outstanding seminar on his research. Well done!

Congratulations to @Briana_To_ on her successful PhD thesis defense entitled "The Role of E2F5 in Normal Mammary Gland Development and Breast Cancer." Best of luck as you return to your clinical studies!

Congratulations to Emily Roggenkamp (Marty Chilvers’ lab) who successfully passed her comprehensive examination in the Genetics and Genome Sciences Program. Congratulations Emily on becoming a PhD candidate!

Congratulations to Dr. Ramya Kalyana Kumar who successfully defended her dissertation exam in Pharmacology and Toxicology. She will be joining the Safety Pharmacology unit at Charles River in Ohio.

ABRCMS 2020 will take place from November 9-13, 2020. The Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students is one of the largest communities of underrepresented minorities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. abrcms.org/index.php/registe…

Mustafa Ahmadzai will be presenting his Doctoral Dissertation Defense titled "Novel roles for enteric glia in intestinal motor circuits and gut motility" on October 28, 2020, at 1:00 p.m. Zoom In: msu.zoom.us/j/92666527458 Password: 782515