Seminar list for this week: March 6-10

Monday, March 6, 2023

3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Microfluidics for high-throughput and quantitative biophysics and biochemistry; Speaker:  Polly Fordyce, Stanford.

Join in person:  Room 1211, HFD Biochemical Sciences Bldg.

Streaming here:  https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq

3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Live cell imaging reveals HIV-1 Vpr-mediated suppression of Vif-induced cell cycle arrest; Speaker:  Maddi Bandini (Advisor:  Nate Sherer, PhD).  Identifying candidates for the entry receptor for Kaposi’s sarcoma herpesvirus in B-cells; Speaker:  Beniah Brumbaugh (Advisor:  Bill Sugden, PhD).

Join in person:  6571 WIMR

 

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

 10:00 AM       Faculty Candidate Seminar:  Fighting the ever-mutating threat:  how do PIWI Argonaute proteins find and destroy transposon transcripts?; Speaker:  Ildar Gainetdinov, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School RNA Therapeutics Institute.

Join in person:  1211 HFD Biochemical Sciences Bldg

12:00 PM        Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar:  Analysis of stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes structure and function in an engineered culture platform; Speaker:  Dr. Mitchell Josvai (Crone lab, WID).

Join in person:  DeLuca Forum, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

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

 

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

8:00 AM         Oncology Grand Rounds:  TBA; Speaker:  Dr. Aric Hall.

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

11:00 AM       Cancer Biology Seminar:  Enhancer regulation of transcriptional bursting and heterogeneity in breast cancer; Speaker:  Joseph Rodriguez, PhD, NIEHS.

Join in person:  1335 HSLC

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97329437283

12:00 PM        Neuroscience Seminar:  Learning and forgetting in the olfactory cortex; Speaker:  Andrew Fink, PhD, Columbia University.

Join in person:  3571 WIMR

 12:00 PM        Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program Student Seminar (Path-Bio 930):  Early detection of digital dermatitis in cattle using artificial intelligence; Speaker:  Srikanth Aravamuthan (Döpfer lab, SVM-Medical Sciences).

Join in person:  2255 SVM

3:30 PM          Genetics Colloquium:  TBA; Speaker:  Irfan Lodhi, Washington University, St. Louis.

Join in person:  1111 Genetics/Biotech

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

4:15 PM          Microbial Mechanisms Forum:  An Acinetobacter baumannii essential gene network; Speaker:  Jennifer Tran (Peters lab).

Join in person:  6201 Microbial Sciences Bldg.

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/5830414929

 

Thursday, March 9, 2023

 9:00 AM         Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Seminar:  Advancing the measure of chromosomal instability toward clinical utility; Speaker:  Andrew Lynch, CMP Grad Student (Burkard lab).

Join in person:  1345 HSLC

12:10 PM        Molecular Virology Seminar:  Manipulating bromodomain protein Brd4 reveals divergent viral and cellular transcriptional signatures; Speaker:  Prof. Gopal Iyer, Human Oncology.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences Bldg.

12:30 PM        Evolution Seminar:  Defective viral genomes:  adaptable molecular parasites of virus growth and spread; Speaker:  John Yin, Professor, UW-Madison Chem. & Bio. Engineering.

Join in person:  1111 Biotech/Genetics

3:30 PM          Biology Colloquium:  Evolution and plasticity of the ecological niche, with implications for coexistence; Speaker:  Sharon Strauss (UC-Davis).

Join in person:  168 Noland Hall.

 

Friday, March 10, 2023

 12:00 PM        John D. Wiley Seminar:  Optimizing benefits from cochlear implants using  behavioral and objective measurements; Speaker:  Matthew Goupell, PhD, University of Maryland.

Join in person:  John D. Wiley Conference Center