Seminars this week: September 20-24, 2021

Monday, September 20

9:00 AM      Cell and Regenerative Biology Seminar:  Epigenetic regulation of stem cell function during muscle regeneration; Speaker:  Jeff Dilworth, PhD, Senior Scientist, Sprott Centre for Stem Cell Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and Professor, Dept of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Dept of Medicine, Dept of Surgery, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

Seminar to be held in WIMR II RM 4571 

12:00 PM    Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine Seminar:  Genomic Medicine:  Opportunities and Challenges; Speaker:  Wendy Chung, MD, PhD, Clinical and Molecular Geneticist and the Kennedy Family Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine and Director, Irving Institute, Columbia University.

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3:00 PM      Biochemistry Colloquium:  CANCELLED 

3:30 PM      McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Developing a safer version of SARS-CoV-2; Speaker:  Adityarup Chakravorty, PhD (Advisor:  Bill Sugden).

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Tuesday, September 21

9:00 AM      Faculty Candidate Seminar:  Dissecting Viruses:  From Cell Circuits to First Drafts; Speaker:  Sagi Shapira, Assistant Professor of Systems Biology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Columbia University.

Register for virtual seminar:  https://go.wisc.edu/nrr6tv 

12:00 PM    Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar:  Regenerative medicine research:  why should people participate if they are unlikely to reap the benefits?; Speaker:  Dr. Pilar Nicole Ossorio, PhD, JD, Professor of Law and Bioethics, UW-Madison and Co-Director of the Law and Neuroscience Program.

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Attend in person:  DeLuca Forum, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery 

Wednesday, September 22

8:00 AM      Oncology Grand Rounds:  No session due to Division Meeting

10:30 AM    Cancer Biology Seminar:  No seminar scheduled for today.

11:00 AM    Statistics Seminar:  Projected least squares quantum tomography; Speaker:  Jonas Kahn.

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12:00 PM    Neuroscience Fall Seminar Series:  Motor control and adaptation by the fish cerebellum; Speaker:  David Ehrlich, PhD, UW-Integrative Biology

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Thursday, September 23

9:00 AM      Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Seminar:  Epitranscriptomic regulation of the ischemic brain by m6A methylation; Speaker:  Anil Chokkalla, Cellular and Molecular Pathology Graduate Student (Vemuganti lab), UW-Madison.

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12:10 PM    Molecular Virology Seminar:  RNA-mediated antiviral defense mechanisms and viral escape; Speaker:  Dr. Michaela Gack, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic.

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Friday, September 24

N/A