Seminar listings this week: January 31 – February 4, 2022

Monday, January 31

3:00 PM         Biochemistry Colloquium:  Coordination of -1 programmed ribosomal frameshifting by structural features within the transcript and nascent polypeptide chain; Speaker:  Jonathan Schlebach, Indiana University.

Join in person:  Room 1211, HFD Biochemical Sciences Building

Join the livestream:  https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq

3:30 PM         McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Understanding Mad1 upregulation in breast cancer; Speaker:  Sarah Allen Copeland (Advisor:  Beth Weaver).

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97191237717 (PASSCODE:  374167)

Tuesday, February 1

9:30 AM         Biomolecular Chemistry Faculty Candidate Seminar:  Functional genome organization at single-nucleosome & single-molecule resolution; Speaker:  Dr. Stanley Hsieh, UC-Berkeley.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences Building

Join via Zoom:  https://go.wisc.edu/zyij81

12:00 PM      Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center Seminar:  Improved models of the neurovascular unit derived from human pluripotent stem cells; Speaker:  Benjamin Gastfriend, grad student, Palecek and Shusta labs, Chemical and Biological Engineering, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  DeLuca Forum, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96958883460?pwd=bWVHbEdWdGxQdHMyOVkxTHV5UW9mdz09  (PASSCODE:  936743)

1:00 PM         Biochemistry Special Research Seminar:  Mechanisms of delayed aging by caloric restriction:  insights from non-human primates; Speaker:  Tim Rhoads, Dept of Medicine, SMPH, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  Room 1211, HFD Biochemical Sciences Building

Wednesday, February 2

8:00 AM         Oncology Grand Rounds:  Melanoma Clinical Updates; Speaker:  Dr. Vincent Ma, MD, Assistant Professor, Hem/Med Onc, UWSMPH.  Genomic alterations in primary CNS malignancies:  recent updates impacting diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy; Speaker:  Dr. Patrick Grogan, MD, PhD, Postdoc Trainee, UWSMPH.

Join via Zoom:   https://uwmadison.zoom.us/s/97743902974?pwd=Vm8zOGFXVktWWmM0UUxpUnZSTms4Zz09 (passcode:  UWCCC)

10:30 AM      Cancer Biology Seminar:  None this week.

3:30 PM         Genetics Seminar:  TBA; Speaker:  Chris Hittinger, UW-Madison.

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93110169921?pwd=UXQwclJMemxub1B1SGUvTWFJWWxHQT09

Thursday, February 3

8:00 AM         Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Grand Rounds:  A conventional PCR and endpoint detection based SARS-CoV-2 assay:  a rural Wisconsin experience; Speaker:  Ranran Zhang, MD, PhD, Fellow, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96231225846?pwd=UU9KOFhJb3ZEME9URGV3d2E4V1hVUT09

9:30 AM         Biomolecular Chemistry Faculty Candidate Seminar:  Mechanisms of morphogen sensitivity underlying a wide spectrum of birth defects; Speaker:  Dr. Jennifer Kong, Stanford University School of Medicine.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences Building

Join via Zoom:  https://go.wisc.edu/8uxg83

12:10 PM      Molecular Virology Seminar:  Structural studies of virus assembly using cryo-electron tomography; Speaker:  Prof. Elizabeth Wright, Biochemistry, UW-Madison

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences Building.

1:30 PM         Genomics Seminar:  Insights from complex trait fine-mapping in diverse populations; Speaker:  Hilary Finucane, PhD, Assistant in Investigation, Co-Director, Medical and Population Genetics Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Join via Zoom:  https://cgsi.wisc.edu/seminars/

Friday, February 4

12:00 PM      BMI Seminar:  TBA.

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93094124994