Seminar list for this week: May 8-12

May 8, 2023

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 N/A Friday, May 12, 2023 N/A