Seminar list for this week: May 2-6, 2022
Monday, May 2
12:00 PM Biostatistics and Medical Informatics BDS MS Graduation Presentations: Speakers: Meggie Griffin, Maryam Vazirabad, Spencer Halberg-Spencer, Lindsay Heimerl, and Ze Yu (see flyer for more info).
Join in person: 1360 Biotechnology Center. Social Hour to follow from 1:00-2:00pm
3:00 PM International Steenbock Lectures in Biochemistry: Cryo-EM structures of amyloid filaments from human brain; Speaker: Sjors Scheres, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.
Join in person: 1211, HFD Biochemical Sciences Bldg. Reception in HFD BSB Atrium to follow.
Join via livestream: https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq
(Second lecture tomorrow, Tuesday, May 3)
3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: None this week
Tuesday, May 3
12:00 PM Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center Seminar: Overcoming the host immune responses for cell therapies; Speaker: Dr. Sonja Schrepfer, MD, PhD, Professor of Surgery, UCSF.
Join virtually here: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96958883460?pwd=bWVHbEdWdGxQdHMyOVkxTHV5UW9mdz09
Passcode 936743
3:00 PM International Steenbock Lectures in Biochemistry: Recent developments in cryo-EM image processing; Speaker: Sjors Scheres, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.
Join in person: 1211, HFD Biochemical Sciences Bldg.
Join via livestream: https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq
Wednesday, May 4
8:00 AM Oncology Grand Rounds: None this week
10:30 AM Cancer Biology Seminar: The DNA damage response in HIV replication and cure; Speaker: Oliver Fregoso, PhD, Assistant Professor, Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, UCLA.
Join in person: 1335 HSLC
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/s/97884899427
11:30 AM Distinguished Lecture Series: Health disparities and mounting health concerns coming out of a pandemic; Speaker: Dr. Lyle Ignace, CEO of the Gerald L. Ignace Indian Health Center.
RSVP HERE
12:00 PM Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program Student Seminar (PBS 930): Developing nano-vaccine for mycobacterial infections; Speaker: Mostafa Hanafy (Talaat lab, SVM – Pathobiological Sciences).
Join in person: 2255 SVM.
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97556353520?pwd=Sk5JMlRWUGdhTXZXeHlrWDFaMUp4QT09
(Passcode: 124861)
3:00 PM RNA Collaborative Seminar: Hosted by: The Bay Area RNA Club (BARC). “Developmentally regulated RNA isoforms expression programs revealed by scRNA-seq”; Speaker: Julia Salzman, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Biochemistry, Stanford University. “Dissecting post-transcriptional circuits in immune responses”; Speaker: Mark Ansel, PhD, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, University of California-San Francisco. Moderator: Miri Krupkin, PhD, Basic Life Research Scientist, Structural Biology, Stanford University
Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ReZpFtR6Qi6TccPiWfZUbw
4:00 PM Statistics Seminar: Causal inference in the time of Covid-19; Speaker: Larry Wasserman.
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93105497138
Thursday, May 5
12:10 PM Molecular Virology Seminar: Machine learning to guide drug screening and protein engineering; Speaker: Professor Tony Gitter, BMI, UW-Madison.
Join in person: 1211 Biochemical Sciences Building.
1:30 PM Genomics Seminar: From loops to leukemia: how 3D chromatin structures contribute to human health and disease; Speaker: Doug Phanstiel, PhD, Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology, UNC.
Join in person: 1111 Biotechnology Center Auditorium.
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93948038390
Friday, May 6
12:00 PM Biostatistics and Medical Informatics BDS PhD Student Rotation Presentations: Speakers: Jiren Sun, Parth Khatri, Nathan Kolbow, Wallance Wei, and Colin Longhurst (see flyer for more info).
Join in person: Biotechnology Center Auditorium
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91893258165?pwd=UUVIbDMxS2xBdmJTVWsrOW9TdEwwdz09