Seminar list for this week: February 27-March 3

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

 10:00 AM       Faculty Candidate Seminar:  Deciphering the molecular basis of embryogenesis across space and time; Speaker:  Ehsan Habibi, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Register for Zoom streaming:  https://go.wisc.edu/seminar_0228zoom_habibi

 

12:00 PM        Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar:  Turning back the clock on aging mesenchymal stromal cells; Speaker:  Dr. Wan-Ju Li, Associate Professor, Dept of Biomedical Engineering.

Join in person:  DeLuca Forum, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

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

 

3:30 PM          Pathobiological Sciences Seminar:  Adrift in the virosphere:  pandemic prevention in the age of metagenomics; Speaker:  Tony Goldberg, PhD, DVM, MS, Professor, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  2350 School of Vet Med.

 

5:30 PM          Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center Graduate Student Association spring meeting for graduate students and postdocs.

Join in person:  3239 Engineering Hall (food will be provided)

 

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

8:00 AM         Oncology Grand Rounds:  Supportive care for the cancer patient with opioid use disorder; Speaker:  Drew A. Rosielle, MD, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota.

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/s/94210718484?pwd=S3B1TXpacHZ5MW5lMDJteUN4NEpVZz09

 

11:00 AM       Cancer Biology Seminar:  N/A

 

12:00 PM        Precision Medicine Interest Group Seminar:  TBA; Speaker:  Stephanie Savage, MD, MS, Professor, Director of Emergency General Surgery, Division of Acute Care and Regional General Surgery.

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92883594719?pwd=OGJxRE1ZUEh0K2d0UVdZelJvR2JEQT09

Join in person:  2798 WIMR West Wedge

 

12:00 PM        CBS Grad Program Student Seminar (Path-Bio 930):  Hijacking bat keratinocytes:  mechanistic insights into the early stages of White-nose Syndrome; Speaker:  Marcos Isidoro-Ayza (Klein lab, SMPH – MMI).

Join in person:  2255 SVM

 

12:00 PM        Neuroscience Seminar:  Life in the fast brain:  dendritic and axonal processes underlying auditory computations; Speaker:  Nace Golding, PhD, Univ of Texas-Austin.

Join in person:  3571 WIMR

 

3:00 PM          RNA Collaborative Seminar:   To what extent do mRNA stem-loops pause the translating ribosome?; Speaker:  Dmitri Ermolenko, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics; Member, UR Center for RNA Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.  The preQ1 riboswitch family uses multiple knotty strategies to control translation; Speaker:  Joseph Wedekind, PhD, Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics; Member, UR Center for RNA Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.

ModeratorLynne E. Maquat, PhD, J. Lowell Orbison Endowed Chair and Professor, Departments of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Oncology, and Pediatrics; Founding Director, UR Center for RNA Biology; Founding Chair, UR Graduate Women in Science (GWIS), University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.

Zoom Webinar Registration:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dMbohf4aQky7gCNX4E2FRg

 

3:30 PM          Genetics Colloquium:  Massively parallel mutagenesis of an essential cellular machine in human cells; Speaker:  Hiten Madhani, UCSF.

Join in person:  1111 Genetics/Biotech

Join via Zoom:  https://genetics.wisc.edu/colloquium

 

Thursday, March 2, 2023

 8:00 AM         Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Grand Rounds:  A tale of one academic transfusion service in response to blood shortage around COVID-19 pandemic; Speaker:  Fatima Aldarweesh, MD, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago.

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94856975605?pwd=ZlpXS1NuLzdmNTNLMU9HeGsydm4rdz09

 

12:10 PM        Molecular Virology Seminar:  Conserved strategies of infection among members of the largest family of plant RNA viruses; Speaker:  Prof. Aurelie Rakotondrafara, Plant Pathology.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences Bldg.

 

12:30 PM        Evolution Seminar:  Evolutionary mechanisms underlying the repeated evolution of adaptive traits; Speaker:  Rachel Moran, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University.

Join in person:  1360 Biotech/Genetics

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92427136645

 

1:30 PM          Genomics Seminar:  Understanding the functional effects of genetic variation at scale; Speaker:  Lea Starita, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Dept of Genome Sciences, Univ of Washington.

Join in person:  Room 1111 Biotech Center Auditorium.

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93948038390

 

Friday, March 3, 2023

 12:00 PM        John D. Wiley Seminar:  Dynamics of communication in infants’ lives; Speaker:  Casey Lew-Williams, PhD, Princeton University.

Join in person:  John D. Wiley Conference Center