Seminar list for this week: April 17-21

Monday, April 17, 2023

12:00 PM        Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine Seminar:  Challenges and opportunities to paving the path toward broad and equitable implementation and clinical adoption of precision medicine; Speaker:  Emily Mrig, PhD, Assistant Professor, UC-San Francisco Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Center for Translational and Policy Research on Precision Medicine.

Join in person:  2798 West Wedge

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91547869984?pwd=a08zRFYrdmZzUGRDL3lMNmxKbEVPdz09&from=addon

 3:00 PM          Harry Steenbock Lectures in Biochemistry:  Plant hormone signaling:  molecular glues and allosteric switches; Speaker:  Sean Cutler, UC-Riverside.  (Reception to follow in HFD BSB Atrium)

Join in person:  1211 HFD Biochemical Sciences Bldg.

Join via stream:  https://go.wisc.edu/steen_sclect1

 3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Improving the efficacy of cancer vaccines by combining Toll-like receptor agonists and immune checkpoint blockade; Speaker:  Heron Jeon (Advisor:  Doug McNeel, MD, PhD).  Evaluating context dependent radiation dose response relationships for immune cells; Speaker:  Amanda Shea (Advisor:  Zach Morris, MD, PhD).

Join in person:  6571 WIMR

 

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

 12:00 PM        Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar:  Generation of tumor-killing macrophages through genetic interrogation of the “don’t eat me” receptor pathways; Speaker:  Portia Smith, PhD candidate (Slukvin lab), Wisconsin National Primate Research Center.

Join in person:  DeLuca Forum, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

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

12:00 PM        Cancer Trainee Network:  Overcoming the suppressive pancreas adenocarcinoma tumor immune microenvironment:  toward mechanistic understanding of tumor induced dysfunction in gamma delta T cells; Speaker:  Johnathan Ebben, MD, PhD, Oncology Fellow, Physician-Scientist Training Program.

Join in person:  1229 HSLC

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

3:00 PM          Harry Steenbock Lectures in Biochemistry:  Plant hormone sensors as programmable chemical-induced dimerization modules; Speaker:  Sean Cutler, UC-Riverside.

Join in person:  1211 HFD Biochemical Sciences Bldg.

Join via stream:  https://go.wisc.edu/steen_sclect2

4:00 PM          Neuroscience – Woolsey Lecture:  Discovering, reinforcing and refining actions; Speaker:  Rui Costa, PhD, President and CEO of the Allen Institute.

Join in person:  1325 HSLC

5:30 PM          RNA MaxiGroup:  Designing histone genes to interrogate effects of PTMs on pre-mRNA processing and cellular memory; Speaker:  Greg Matera, UNC-Chapel Hill.

Join in person:  2131 HF DeLuca Biochemistry Bldg

 

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

8:00 AM         Oncology Grand Rounds:  Walking forward:  addressing cancer disparities in the Northern Plains American Indians – a community based NCI funded program; Speaker:  Daniel G. Petereit, MD, FABS, FASTRO, PI of Walking Forward, Avera Cancer Institute, Sioux Falls, SD and Cancer Care Institute at Monument Health, Rapid City, SD.

Join in person:  1306 HSLC

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

11:00 AM       Cancer Biology Seminar:  Role of MK2 on head and neck cancer metastases; Speaker:  Gregory Gan, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology and Cancer Biology, Kansas University Medical Center, University of Kansas.

Join in person:  1335 HSLC

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

12:00 PM        Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program Student Seminar (Path-Bio 930):  Investigating macrophage’s role in the hypersensitization of sensory neurons in a cystitis model; Speaker:  Sara Stuedemann (Crawford lab, SVM – Pathobiological Sciences).

Join in person:  2255 SVM

4:00 PM          Statistics Seminar:  The shape of adversarial training; Speaker:  Nicolás García Trillos, Assistant Professor, Dept of Statistics, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  133 SMI

 

Thursday, April 20, 2023

 12:10 PM        Molecular Virology Seminar:  Aberrant viral replication and transcription contribute to innate immune activation during influenza virus infection; Speaker:  Prof AJ te Velthuis, Molecular Biology, Princeton University.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences Bldg.

12:30 PM        Evolution Seminar:  The dynamic history of Madagascar’s open biomes; Speaker:  George Tiley, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom.

Join in person:  1360 Biotech/Genetics

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

 1:30 PM   UWBC Hybrid Bio-Tech Talk:  TotalSeq:  an integrated end-to-end solution for single cell multiomic analysis; Speaker:  Leesa Pennell, PhD, Technical Applications Scientist, BioLegend.

Join in person:  UW Biotech Auditorium, room 1111

Zoom Registration Link:  https://go.wisc.edu/b50t6j

 

Friday, April 21, 2023

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