Seminar list for this week: October 23-27

Monday, October 23, 2023

3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  NMR Crystallography: An atomic-resolution probe of enzyme structure and mechanism; Speaker:  Leonard Mueller, University of California, Riverside.

Join in person:  1211 HFD Biochemical Sciences

Join via stream:  https://go.wisc.edu/bertics_lec_2023

 3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Real time imaging reveals mechanisms of macrophage mediated melanoma invasion; Speaker:  Gayathri Ramakrishnan (Advisor: Anna Huttenlocher, MD); Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of cancer risk and treatment response; Speaker:  Josh Brand (Advisor: Huy Dinh, PhD).

Join in person:  6571 WIMR II

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

12:00 PM        Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar:  Engineering the Multicellular Niche for T cell Generation; Speaker:  Madeline Smerchansky (Melissa Kinney Lab), Graduate student, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1345 HSLC

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96958883460?pwd=bWVHbEdWdGxQdHMyOVkxTHV5UW9mdz09 (Passcode: 936743)

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

8:00 AM         Oncology Grand Rounds:  N/A

11:00 AM       Cancer Biology Seminar:  Personalized Cancer Models for Target Discovery and Functional Precision Medicine; Speaker:  Chris Kemp, PhD, Prof. Human Biology and Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutch Cancer Center.

Join in person:  1345 HSLC

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92891363864 (Passcode: 629651)

12:00 PM        Neuroscience Seminar:  Bringing transcriptomics and physiology together in the cochlear nuclei; Speaker:  Larry Trussell, PhD, Oregon Hearing Research Center, Oregon Health & Science University/Vollum Institute.

Join in person:  3571 WIMR II

12:00 PM        Comparative Biomedical Sciences Student Seminar:  Developmental exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls disrupts voiding function, in part through a chemokine receptor (Ccr2) in mice, Speaker: Conner Kennedy (Advisor: Dr. Kimberly Keil Stietz), SVM, Comparative Biosciences.

Join in person:  2255 School of Veterinary Medicine

3:30 PM          Genetics Colloquium:  Maternal age effects on offspring: outcomes and mechanisms; Speaker:  Kristin Gribble, Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Chicago.

Join in person:  1111 Genetics/Biotech

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98087850165?pwd=azZ5Q3diR0tXb2p4UTBxTDVZVkJkZz09  

Thursday, October 26, 2023

9:00 AM         Pathology Seminar: Imaging HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 across spatial and temporal scales; Speaker:  Walther Mothes, PhD, Yale School of Medicine.

Join in person:  1335 HSLC

11:00 AM       Nutritional Sciences Seminar:  Cell-to-Cell Transfer of Mitochondria in Obesity, Aging, and Mitochondrial Disease; Speaker:  Jon Brestoff, Washington University.

Join in person:  290 Nutritional Sciences

12:00 PM        Wisconsin Blood Cancer Research Institute Colloquium: N/A

 12:10 PM        Molecular Virology Seminar:  Pediatric common cold viruses in wild chimpanzees; Speaker:  Taylor Weary (Goldberg Lab), Pathobiological Sciences, UW-Madison

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences

12:30 PM        Evolution Seminar:  Sexual selection shapes the evolution of reproductive strategies in insects; Speaker:  Lauren Cirino, Postdoc, UW-Milwaukee.

Join in person:  1125 Biochemistry

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91806319929

3:30 PM          Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Lecture:  David L. DeMets Lecture; Speaker:  Colin Begg, PhD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Join in person:  1335 HSLC

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96250055680

Friday, October 27, 2023

12:00 PM        Medical Microbiology & Immunology Seminar:  Congenital viral infections: from Zika virus to Mpox; Speaker:  Emma Mohr, MD, PhD, Dept. Pediatrics, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1520 Microbial Sciences

12:00 PM        Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Seminar:  TBA; Speaker:  Alan Moses, University of Toronto.

Join in person:  Genetics-Biotechnology Center Auditorium

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94818443929  

 12:00 PM        John D. Wiley Seminar:  Neuromodulation of Bioengineered Organoids with Reactive Human Astrocytes; Speaker:  Robert Krencik, PhD, Houston Methodist Research Institute.

Join in person:  John D. Wiley Conference Center, Waisman Center