Seminar list for this week: October 9-13

October 9, 2023

Monday, October 9, 2023 3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: Allosteric mechanisms of transcriptional control in FXR; Speaker: C. Denise Okafor, Assist. Prof. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology & Chemistry, University of Penn State. Join in person: 1211 HFD Biochemical Sciences Join via stream: https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq 3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: HCMV entry and tegument protein pp71 localization; Speaker: Esther Wisdom, PhD. (Advisor: Rob Kalejta, PhD). Join in person: 6571 WIMR II Tuesday, October 10, 2023 12:00 PM Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar: Manufacturing virus-free CRISPR CAR Natural Killer Cells for GD2+ solid tumors; Speaker: Keerthana Shankar, Grad student researcher (Saha Lab), UW–Madison. Join in person: DeLuca Forum, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96958883460?pwd=bWVHbEdWdGxQdHMyOVkxTHV5UW9mdz09 (Passcode: 936743) Wednesday, October 11, 2023 8:00 AM Oncology Grand Rounds: ASCO Updates Part 2: Melanoma & Thoracic; Speakers: Vince Ma, MD, Assist. Prof. Dept. of Medicine, UW–Madison; Toby Campbell, MD, MS, Prof. Dept. of Medicine, UW–Madison; Andrea Axtell, MD, MPH, Assist. Prof. Dept. Surgery, UW–Madison. Join in person: 1306 HSLC Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/s/94897211426?pwd=R3BQYVNwTEhjU1pkczIwNUJPM0gydz09 (Passcode: Grand) 11:00 AM Cancer Biology Seminar: Targeting Macrophages for Improved Anti-Tumor Therapy; Judith Varner, PhD, Prof. of Pathology and Medicine, UC San Diego. Join in person: 1345 HSLC Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92891363864 (Passcode: 629651) 12:00 PM Comparative Biomedical Sciences Student Seminar: A Role for Myeloid Derived Growth Factor as a Neutrophil Suppressor, Speaker: Frannie Smith (Huttenlocher Lab), SMPH, Medical Microbiology & Immunology. Join in person: 2255 School of Veterinary Medicine 3:30 PM Genetics Colloquium: Genetic insights into mRNA control in pain; Speaker: Zachary Campbell, Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center, UW–Madison. Join in person: 1111 Genetics/Biotech Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98087850165?pwd=azZ5Q3diR0tXb2p4UTBxTDVZVkJkZz09 4:00 PM Neuroscience Seminar: Cranefield Lecture: Light Detection in the Eye, The Big Picture; Speaker: King-Wai Yau, PhD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Join in person: 1335 HSLC Thursday, October 12, 2023 9:00 AM Pathology Seminar: Targeting the nervous system in the war against cancer; Speaker: Alexander Birbrair, PhD, Dept. of Dermatology, UW–Madison. Join in person: 1335 HSLC 11:00 AM Nutritional Sciences Seminar: Milk exosomes and their relevance in human nutrition and the delivery of therapeutics; Speaker: Janos Zempleni, University of Nebraska. Join in person: 290 Nutritional Sciences 12:00 PM Wisconsin Blood Cancer Research Institute Colloquium: N/A 12:10 PM Molecular Virology Seminar: Curiouser and Curiouser: How HPV enters cells; Speaker: Dan DiMaio, Prof. Genetics, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University. Join in person: 1211 Biochemical Sciences 12:30 PM Evolution Seminar: Pollutants, Parasites, and You: Integrating an evolutionary perspective to understand the effects of pollutants on disease outcomes; Speaker: Jessica Hua, Assoc. Prof. Forest and Wildlife Ecology, UW–Madison. Join in person: 1111 Genetics/Biotech Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91806319929 Friday, October 13, 2023 N/A