Monday, October 10, 2022
12:00 PM Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine: “Newborn screening by whole genome sequencing – opportunities & challenges;” Speaker: David Bick, MD, PhD, Principal Clinician for the Newborn Genomes Programme at Genomics England.
Join in person: 2798 West Wedge
Join online: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96732897260?pwd=NXBMajBkdEtvRUZHLzFZYXY3ckFudz09
3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: “Activity-based proteomics – target and ligand discovery on a global scale;” Speaker: Benjamin Cravatt, Scripps.
Streamed here: https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq
3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: “Investigating the effects of MCPyVT antigen expression in relevant cell types;” Speaker: Amanda Loke (Advisor: Paul Lambert). “Getting to the core: single-cell analysis reveals nucleocytoplasmic trafficking dynamics of hepatitis B virus core protein;” Speaker: Sofia Romero Ferrufino (Advisor: Nate Sherer).
Join in person: 6571 WIMR
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
12:00 PM Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar: “Printing functional human neural tissues;” Speaker: Dr. Yuanwei Yan, Scientist, Waisman.
Join in person: DeLuca Forum, WID.
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96958883460?pwd=bWVHbEdWdGxQdHMyOVkxTHV5UW9mdz09
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
8:00 AM Oncology Grand Rounds: “Systemic toxicity associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors – more questions than answers;” Speaker: Dr. Kerry Reynolds, MD, Clinical Director, Inpatient Oncology Units; Director, Severe Immunotherapy Complications Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/s/92969244579?pwd=NzBCQXNDYU5oYlliajdZZ3A1M2Qzdz09
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM CHGPM Precision Medicine Symposium: Keynote Speaker will be Dr. Paul Lambert, “How insights gained from studying papillomaviruses helped us understand cancer resistance to immunotherapy.”
Join in person: HSLC Atrium & Auditorium 1335
For registration and more details, see: CHGPM Symposium website
11:00 AM Cancer Biology Seminar – WARF Therapeutics Drug Discovery Series: “Drugging the undruggable: lessons from DNA tumor viruses, cancer mutations, and small molecules;” Speaker: Goutham Narla, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, Univ of Michigan Medical School.
Join in person: 1306 HSLC
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97329437283?pwd=TlZRSVhNb0NKMW5SQkgvWFRTZGo0Zz09
12:00 PM Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program Student Seminar (PBS930): “Dendritic cell differentiation as progress towards off-the-shelf immunotherapies; Speaker: Sarah Ferguson (Gumperz lab, MMI).
Join in person: 2255 SVM
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96323508948?pwd=am9aU25OT1ZXQktTaWppaFFNRXVCZz09
12:00 PM Neuroscience Seminar: “Slowing down as we age: effects of aging in the function of voltage-gated calcium channels in the cardiac pacemaker;” Speaker: Claudia Moreno, PhD, Washington University.
Join in person: 1345 HSLC
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98248357487?pwd=Y0VVVStUajZScVZHTmFQUFQ5MUFHZz09
1:15 PM Cell and Regenerative Biology Seminar: “Cardiac vasculature supports heart development and regeneration;” Speaker: Ching-Ling (Ellen) Lien, PhD, Director; Heart Regeneration Research Laboratory, Dept of Surgery, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and Associate Professor; Surgery and Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine, University of Southern California.
Join in person: 1345 HSLC
3:30 PM Genetics Colloquium: “Genotypic outcomes of the parasexual mating program in the yeast Candida albicans;” Speaker: Matt Anderson, Associate Professor, The Ohio State University.
Join in person: Gen/Biotech 1111
Join via Zoom: https://www.genetics.wisc.edu/colloquium
4:00 PM Statistics Seminar: “Covariate-informed latent interaction models: addressing geographic taxonomic bias in predicting bird-plant interactions;” Speaker: Georgia Papadogeorgou, Assistant Professor, Dept of Statistics, University of Florida.
Join in person: 133 SMI (Service Memorial Institute, 470 N. Charter St.)
4:00 PM Special Event: Biochemistry Dept, Wednesday Nite @ the Lab, and WARF present “The Warfarin Story: Public Discussion and Groundbreaking Ceremony”.
Join in person: The groundbreaking will be held outdoors at the UW-Madison Biochemistry Courtyard at 4:00 PM. The indoor presentation and audience Q&A will start at 4:15 PM in 1211 Biochemical Sciences Bldg.
REGISTER HERE: https://www.warf.org/event/the-warfarin-story-groundbreaking-ceremony-and-public-presentation/
Thursday, October 13, 2022
9:00 AM Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Seminar: “Microglial-vascular interactions in health and disease;” Speaker: Ukpong Eyo, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept of Neuroscience, Univ of Virginia.
Join in person: 1335 HSLC.
12:00 PM Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine Seminar: “Empowerment through Indigenous research and data management capacity;” Speaker: Matt Anderson, MD, Associate Professor, Dept of Microbiology and the Dept of Microbial Infection and Immunity, Ohio State.
Join in person: 2798 West Wedge
12:10 PM Molecular Virology Seminar: “Antibody evasion drives evolution of neurovirulent polyomavirus;” Speaker: Prof. Aron Lukacher, Pennsylvania State University.
Join in person: 1211 Biochemical Sciences.
12:30 PM Evolution Seminar: “Narrow bottlenecks constrain influenza A virus genetic diversity during direct contact transmission;” Speaker: Luis Haddock Soto, Grad Student, UW-Madison Cell & Mol Biology.
Join in person: Genetics/Biotech Auditorium (Room 1111)
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92427136645
Friday, October 14, 2022
12:00 PM Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Seminar: “Graph AI to enable precision medicine;” Speaker: Marinka Zitnik, Assistant Professor, Dept of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard University.
Join in person: Genetics/Biotech Auditorium
3:30 PM Hilldale Lecture: “Why do germline mutation rates depend on sex and age?;” Speaker: Molly Przeworski, Columbia University.
Join in person: Wisconsin Idea Room, Education Bldg, 1000 Bascom Mall
Reception to follow