Monday, February 21
3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: Building patterning-dependent chromatin states during embryogenesis; Speaker: Shelby Blythe, Northwestern University.
Attend in person: Room 1211, HFD Biochemical Sciences Building.
Streamed here: https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq
3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: Defining the pentamer’s mechanism of silencing the major immediate-early promoter in human cytomegalovirus latent infections; Speaker: Mike Ohman (Advisor: Rob Kalejta). GATA2-dependent innate immune machinery function in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells; Speaker: Vu Le-Huy Tran (Advisor: Emery Bresnick).
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97191237717 (PASSCODE: 374167)
Tuesday, February 22
12:00 PM Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center Seminar: Connecting the dots on cell identity; Speaker: Dr. Coral Wille, PhD, Postdoc, Epigenetics (Sridharan lab).
Join in person: DeLuca Forum, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96958883460?pwd=bWVHbEdWdGxQdHMyOVkxTHV5UW9mdz09 (PASSCODE: 936743)
Wednesday, February 23
8:00 AM Oncology Grand Rounds: none this week
10:30 AM Cancer Biology Seminar: TBA; Speaker: Muhammed Murtaza, MBBS, PhD, Associate Professor of Surgical Oncology, UW-Madison.
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93738315345 (Passcode: 631057)
12:00 PM Biostats Seminar: How statisticians can get involved with multi-center clinical trials – Q&A after the talk; Speaker: Dave DeMets, PhD, Max Halperin Emeritus Professor of Biostatistics.
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91403840338?pwd=VGkxRUFZSEg0YklBc0g1SWQ3VGg1Zz09
**Instructions to participants: Prior to attending the talk participants should view the following two videos (from the James Neaton, PhD/Dave DeMets, PhD series):1. DMC Structure and Function (Length 1 hr. 34 min)https://www.biostat.wisc.edu/~demets/SCT_DMC_Training_Videos/2_Neaton_DeMets/Neaton-Demets_Lecture_1.mp42. DMC Statistical Tools (Length: 1 hr. 17 min.)https://www.biostat.wisc.edu/~demets/SCT_DMC_Training_Videos/2_Neaton_DeMets/Neaton-Demets_Lecture_3.mp4
3:30 PM Genetics Seminar: TBA; Speaker: Amanda Moehring, Western Uniersity.
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93110169921?pwd=UXQwclJMemxub1B1SGUvTWFJWWxHQT09
Thursday, February 24
9:00 AM Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Seminar: How does an Epstein-Barr Virus infected B cell become a tumor cell?; Speaker: Rebecca Hutcheson, CMP Grad Student (Sugden lab).
Join in person: 1345 HSLC
11:00 AM Cancer Moonshot Seminar: Improving implementation of genetic testing for Lynch Syndrome; Speaker: Alanna Rahm, PhD, Geisinger Health System.
Register here: https://events.cancer.gov/cm/seminarseries/registration
12:10 PM Molecular Virology Seminar: What can a fluorescent Epstein-Barr virus teach us about host shutoff?; Speaker: Alejandro Casco, UW-Madison (Johannsen lab).
Join in person: 1211 Biochemical Sciences Building.
3:30 PM John D. Ferry Lectureship in Macromolecular Science: Physical basis of RNA function: from past to present; Speaker: Professor Jody Puglisi, Stanford University.
Join in person: Orchard Room in the WID
Friday, February 25
11:00 AM John D. Ferry Lectureship in Macromolecular Science: The exquisite choreography of translation initiation; Speaker: Professor Jody Puglisi, Stanford University.
Join in person: Orchard Room in the WID