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