Monday, November 29
3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: “Single particle Cryo-EM, and a story during the COVID-19 pandemic” Speaker: Yifan Cheng, UCSF/HHMI Investigator.
Join in person: Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences
3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: “Investigating the expression of MCPyV T antigens in different cell types” Speaker: Amanda Loke (Advisor: Paul Lambert). “Who’s in charge? Determining the master regulator of EBV lytic replication” Speaker: Ahmed Ali, PhD (Advisor: Eric Johannsen).
Join via Zoom (Passcode: 374167)
Tuesday, November 30
12:00 PM Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar: “Stem cells vs. immune cells: the chicken vs. the egg” Speaker: Dr. Stephen Badylak, DVM, PhD, MD, Professor of Surgery, Deputy Director, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh.
Attend in person: DeLuca Forum, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
Join via Zoom (Passcode: 936743)
Wednesday, December 1
8:00 AM Oncology Grand Rounds: “DNA vaccines as T-cell activating agents to treat prostate cancer” Speaker: Dr. Douglas McNeel, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, UW-Madison.
10:30 AM Cancer Biology Seminar: No seminar scheduled
12:00 PM Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program Student Seminar (PBS 930): “Development of a one health-based vaccine for Nipah virus” Speaker: Emily Medina Magues (Osorio lab, Pathobiological Sciences).
12:00 PM Neuroscience Seminar: “Shared neural circuitry of visually guided behavior and visual cognition” Speaker: Tirin Moore, PhD, Stanford University/HHMI.
1:00 PM Cell and Regenerative Biology Seminar: “Regulators of fibroblast fate and fibrosis” Speaker: Jennifer Davis, PhD, Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Biology; Associate Professor of Lab Medicine & Pathology and Bioengineering; Associate Director of the Institute for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Attend in person: 1309 HSLC
3:00 PM RNA Collaborative Seminar: “IMP-licating RNA binding proteins in intestinal tissue regeneration” Speaker: Kathryn Hamilton, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania. “Consequences of RNA-binding protein mutations in cancer” Speaker: Peter Choi, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Hosted by: Penn RNA Group, University of Pennsylvania
3:30 PM Genetics Colloquium: “Title: TBA” Speaker: Randall Tibbetts, Human Oncology, UW-Madison.
Attend in person: 1111 Gen/Biotech
4:00 PM Statistic Seminar: “Extension of differential topic analysis for microbiome data” Speaker: Pratheepa Jeganathan, Dept of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University.
Attend in person: 1310 Sterling Hall
Thursday, December 2
12:10 PM Molecular Virology Seminar: “Title: TBA” Speaker: Aryel Clarke.
Attend in person: Room 1211 – Biochemical Sciences Building, 440 Henry Mall.
1:30 PM Genomics Seminar: “Drilling down on mechanisms for islet cell dysfunction in diabetes: mining type 2 diabetes GWAS for gold” Speaker: Anna Gloyn, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford.
3:30 PM Biology Colloquium: “Conserving biodiversity: a global view” Speaker: Tanisha Williams, Bucknell University.
Friday, December 3
12:00 PM MMI Seminar: “Therapeutic targeting of metabolism in autoimmunity” Speaker: Laurence Morel, Professor, University of Florida.
Attend in person: 1520 MSB