Seminar list for this week: May 8-12

Monday, May 8, 2023

9:30 AM         Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Seminar:  Waning immunity of the BNT162b2 vaccine and the Israeli decision on a booster campaign; Speaker:  Yair Goldberg, PhD, Associate Professor, Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology.

Join in person:  227 WARF

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98102584384

12:00 PM        Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine Seminar:  Advancing gastric cancer genomic disparities in Latinos; Speaker:  Luis Carvajal-Carmona, PhD, UC-Davis.

Join in person:  2798 WIMR West Wedge

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

3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Cellular mechanisms of lipid homeostasis and lipotoxicity; Speaker:  James Olzmann, UC-Berkeley.

Join in person:  Room 1211 HFD Biochemical Sciences Bldg.

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

3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Chromosomal instability (CIN) in tumor evolution; Speaker:  Sherry Bradford (Advisor:  Mark Burkard, MD, PhD).  Spatial and epigenetic mechanisms of AAV2 persistence; Speaker:  Rhiannon Abrahams (Advisor:  Kinjal Majumder, PhD).

Join in person:  6571 WIMR

 

Tuesday, May 9, 2023

 5:30 PM          RNA MaxiGroup:  Roles of miRNAs in animal development:  lessons from C. elegans; Speaker:  Luisa Cochella, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Join in person:  2131 HF DeLuca Biochemistry Bldg.

 

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

8:00 AM         Oncology Grand Rounds:  Onco-Palliative care practice pearls from the annual assembly of hospice and palliative care; Speakers:  Shumway, Karlson, Fischer, Schueller, Trainor, and Matthews (see announcement for full details).

Join in person:  1244 HSLC (note different room than usual)

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/s/94461345731?pwd=MktVTUFwRWtrdjdHMWhod2hMYzZHdz09

9:00 AM         RNA Collaborative Seminar:  RNA-cofactor conjugates as bisubstrates for the study of RNA methyltransferases; Speaker:  Mélanie Ethève Quelquejeu, PhD, Professor, Laboratory of Therapeutic Chemistry and Biochemistry, University Paris-Cité, Paris, France.

Epitranscriptomic adaptation to antibiotics: queuosine tRNA modification in Vibrio cholerae; Speaker:  Zeynep Baharoglu, PhD, Group Leader, Bacterial Responses to Antimicrobial Stress – Bacterial Genome Plasticity Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

Moderator: Maria Duca, PhD, CNRS Research Director; Director of TNA Research Group, Institute of Chemistry of Nice (ICN), Université Côte d’Azur – CNRS, Nice, France.  Hosted by: Groupement de Recherche (GDR) RNA

Zoom Webinar Registration:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sSnohXvOQ_ievDgXykUl9g

 11:00 AM       Cancer Biology Seminar:  Diagnostic and treatment of ovarian cancer through immune cell imaging and inhibition of oxidative phosphorylation; Speaker:  Manish Patankar, PhD, Professor, Reproductive Sciences, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1335 HSLC

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

12:00 PM        Neuroscience Seminar:  Molecular logic of synaptic organization and plasticity; Speaker:  Tabrez Siddiqui, PhD, University of Manitoba, Canada.

Join in person:  3571 WIMR

 

Thursday, May 11, 2023

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Friday, May 12, 2023

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