Seminar list for this week: March 20-24

Monday, March 20, 2023

12:00 PM        Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine Seminar:  Precision oncology research and practice at the Gundersen Health System; Speaker:  Paraic Kenny, PhD., Director, Kabara Cancer Research Institute of the Gundersen Medical Foundation; Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  2798 WIMR West Wedge

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96732897260?pwd=ODdKV05LYlNmVHV5T0NOdHZsa05sQT09

 3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Chaperone-mediated mechanisms for loading and editing antigens; Speaker:  Erik Procko, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Join in person:  1211 HFD Biochemical Sciences Bldg.

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

 3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Defining the role of histone modifying enzymes during androgen deprivation therapy and in prostate cancer progression; Speaker:  Tanaya Purohit (Advisor:  David Jarrard, MD).  3D-Speckler:  pushing the limits of quantitative fluorescence microscopy; Speaker:  Jon Loi (Advisor:  Aussie Suzuki, PhD).

Join in person:  6571 WIMR

 

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

 12:00 PM        Cancer Trainee Network:  GM-CSF and IL-7 fusion cytokine engineered tumor vaccine generates long-term Th-17 memory cells and increases overall survival in aged syngeneic mouse models of glioblastoma; Speaker:  Jack Shireman, BS.  Microphysiological models to study glioblastoma immunotherapies; Speaker:  Sara Abizanda Campo, MS.

Join in person:  1229 HSLC

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/s/96427057457

12:00 PM        Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar:  Predicting cardio-potency of hPSC-derived cardiac progenitor cells; Speaker:  Aaron Simmons, PhD student (Palecek lab, Chemical and Biological Engineering).

Join in person:  DeLuca Forum, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

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

 

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

8:00 AM         Oncology Grand Rounds:  Mushrooms, vitamins, and cannabis, Oh My!  Two Oncology pharmacists’ approach to supplement and cannabis use in patients with cancer; Speakers:  Liz Dow-Hillgartner, PharmD, BCOP, BCPS and Lindsey Jung, PharmD, MPH, BCOP; Clinical Pharmacists, Oncology, UW Hospital & Clinics.

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/s/93795409378?pwd=SWRzR1R6cE1HN0dTM2lRbmQvV1NMdz09

11:00 AM       Cancer Biology Seminar:  The co-evolution of a retrovirus and its host:  anti-viral restriction factors and virus counteraction; Speaker:  Susan Ross, PhD, Professor, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago.

Join in person:  1335 HSLC

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

12:00 PM        Neuroscience Seminar:  Intersectional genetic dissection of cell types and circuits and the retina and brain; Speaker:  Yongling Zhu, PhD, Northwestern University.

Join in person:  3571 WIMR

 12:00 PM        Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program Student Seminar (Path-Bio 930):  A respiratory disease cohort study of people and chimpanzees in Uganda; Speaker:  Taylor Weary (Goldberg lab SVM-Pathobiological Sciences).

Join in person:  2255 SVM

2:00 PM          BMI Seminar:  Exploring general dependence in multivariate times series; Speaker:  Hernando Ombao, PhD, Professor of Statistics, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.

Join in person:  Biotech Center Auditorium

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/8215596136

3:30 PM          Genetics Colloquium:  TBA; Speaker:  Jorge Cantu, Northeastern Illinois University.

Join in person:  1111 Genetics/Biotech                             

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

4:00 PM          Statistics Seminar:  Refugees in modern media:  German television coverage of refugees and its impact on inclusion; Speaker:  Adeline Lo, Assistant Professor, Dept of Political Science, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  133 Service Memorial Institute

 

Thursday, March 23, 2023

 9:00 AM         Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Seminar:  Defining transitions in a parasitic life cycle; Speaker:  Sebastian Lourido, PhD, Associate Professor, MIT.

Join in person:  1345 HSLC

11:00 AM       Cancer MoonshotSM Seminar:  Multiplexed tissue imaging to reveal the spatial biology of cancer; Speaker:  Sandro Santagata, MD, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Register here:  https://events.cancer.gov/cm/seminarseries/registration

 

12:10 PM        Molecular Virology Seminar:  Cryo-EM reveals major nodavirus protein A conformational changes in RNA replication complex crown assembly; Speaker:  Hong Glenn Meng Zhan (Paul Ahlquist lab).

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences Bldg.

12:30 PM        Evolution Seminar:  Genomic mechanisms of adaptation during rapid habitat change; Speaker:  Carol Lee, Professor, UW-Madison Integrative Biology.

Join in person:  1111 Biotech/Genetics

 

Friday, March 24, 2023

 12:00 PM        John D. Wiley Seminar:  Building a better in vitro disease model for glaucoma-associated neurodegeneration; Speaker:  Jason Meyer, PhD, Indiana University School of Medicine.

Join in person:  John D. Wiley Conference Center