Seminar list for this week: April 10-14

Monday, April 10, 2023

3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  How microsporidia pathogens use ballistic organelles to invade host cells; Speaker:  Gira Bhabha, New York University.

Join in person:  1211 HFD Biochemical Sciences Bldg.

Join via stream:  https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq

 3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Investigating the conditionally essential role of AZIN1 in human cells; Speaker:  Aysiah Jaeke (Advisor:  Jason Cantor, PhD).  How does polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1) protect the centromere from microtubule pulling force during mitosis?; Speaker:  Roshan Norman (Advisor:  Mark Burkard, MD, PhD).

Join in person:  6571 WIMR

 

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

 12:00 PM        Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar:  Genetics, hormones and ductal sex determination:  what will I become after I grow up?; Speaker:  Dr. Fei Zhao, Assistant Professor, Comparative Biosciences, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  DeLuca Forum, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

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

2:00 PM          Comparative Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. Dissertation Defense:  Applied technology for disease prediction and health management in dairy cattle; Speaker:  Emil Walleser, DVM (Döpfer lab, SVM – Medical Sciences).

Join in person:  2217 Vet Med Bldg., 2015 Linden Drive

 

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

8:00 AM         Oncology Grand Rounds:  Theranostics:  current status and emerging trends; Speaker:  Steve Cho, MD, Professor; Section Chief of the Nuclear Medicine Section of the Dept of Radiology, UWSMPH.

Join in person:  1306 HSLC

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/s/96001260645?pwd=OE5vcnZQZWtXbDNjN2J0U21rOHV6UT09

11:00 AM       Cancer Biology Seminar:  Stem cells and reprogramming in human acute leukemia; Speaker:  Ravindra Majeti, MD, PhD, Director, Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Professor of Medicine, Stanford University.

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

12:00 PM        Neuroscience Seminar:  Human-specific genetic modifiers of cortical circuit connectivity, function and behavioral performance; Speaker:  Franck Polleux, PhD, Columbia University.

Join in person:  3571 WIMR

12:00 PM        Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program Student Seminar (Path-Bio 930):  Bromodomain protein Brd4 and its function as a transcriptional co-regulator in HPV16 viral oncogene induced carcinogenesis in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC); Speaker:  Dhruthi Suresh (Iyer lab, SMPH – Human Oncology).

Join in person:  2007 SVM

1:00 PM          Cell and Regenerative Biology Seminar:  Uncovering conserved mechanisms and novel concepts in heart failure:  insight from Rho signaling, epigenomics to exosomes; Speaker:  Dr. Jiang Chang, PhD, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Houston, TX.

Join in person:  1325 HSLC

3:30 PM          Genetics Colloquium:  TBA; Speaker:  Hudson Freeze, Sanford Burnham Prebys

Join in person:  1111 Genetics/Biotech                             

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

4:00 PM          Statistics Seminar:  Clustering a mixture of Gaussians with unknown covariance; Speaker:  Mateo Diaz.

Join in person:  1210 MSC

 

Thursday, April 13, 2023

 9:00 AM         Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Seminar:  CROs:  What we do and why; Speaker:  Inger Arum, Founder and co-CEO, ProTrials (2023 CMP student choice speaker).

Join in person:  1345 HSLC

12:10 PM        Molecular Virology Seminar:  Cancelled.

12:30 PM        Evolution Seminar:  A morphological basis for path dependent evolution of visual systems; Speaker:  Rebecca Varney, Postdoc, UC-San Diego (early career awardee).

Join in person:  1360 Biotech/Genetics

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

 1:00 – 5:30 PM   14th Annual Bioethics Symposium:  Toward an anti-racist bioethics; Speakers:  Yolanda Wilson, Keisha Ray, Jasmine Zapata, Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, Govind Persad, and Camisha Russell.

Join in person:  1306 HSLC

To register, for talk titles and more information:  www.go.wisc.edu/bioethicssymposium

3:30 PM          Biology Colloquium:  Genetic features of parallel floral evolution in penstemon wildflowers; Speaker:  Carrie Wessinger, U. South Carolina.

Join in person:  168 Noland Hall

 

Friday, April 14, 2023

 12:00 PM        John Wiley Seminar:  Uncovering the mechanisms of motor neuron development and degeneration using human pluripotent stem cells; Speaker:  Xue-jun Li, PhD, College of Medicine, Rockford and the University of Illinois-Chicago.

Join in person:  John D. Wiley Conference Center

3:30 PM          Chemistry/Biochemistry Seminar:  Biophysical studies of protein self-assembly interactions and of the mechanism of transcription initiation; Speaker:  M. Thomas Record, Jr.

Join in person:  1435 Chemistry Bldg. (North Tower)

Join via livestream:  https://go.wisc.edu/zsi0p1