Monday, February 19, 2024
10:00 AM Tumor Virology Seminar: Defining the Mechanisms of Action of Merkel Cell Polyomavirus in Tumorigenesis; Speaker: Megan Spurgeon, PhD, Senior Scientist, Oncology, UW-Madison.
Join in person: 1335 HSLC
12:00 PM Precision Medicine Seminar: Dissecting genome organization and stability dysregulation in metastatic prostate cancer; Speaker: Veronica Rodriguez Bravo, PhD, Mayo Clinic.
Join in person: 2798 WIMR West Wedge Room
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91547869984?pwd=a08zRFYrdmZzUGRDL3lMNmxKbEVPdz09&from=addon
3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: Rethinking the cellular response to heat stress; Speaker: D. Allan Drummond, Assoc. Prof. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Chicago.
Join in person: 1211 HFD Biochemistry Sciences
Join virtually: https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq
3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: Versican proteolysis as a potential biomarker for immune cell infiltration across cancers; Speaker: Somak Chaudhuri (Advisor: Dustin Deming, MD); Investigating the Impact of Aneuploidy on Cellular Fitness in Cancer Evolution; Speaker: Sherry Bradford (Advisor: Mark Burkard, MD, PhD).
Join in person: 6571 WIMR II
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
12:00 PM Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar: Context Specific Effects of Common Genetic Variation on Molecular and Cellular Traits; Speaker: Justin Wolter, PhD, Asst. Prof. of Medical Genetics, UW-Madison.
Join in person: Discovery Center at Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery (WID)
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96958883460?pwd=bWVHbEdWdGxQdHMyOVkxTHV5UW9mdz09 (Passcode: 936743)
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
8:00 AM Oncology Grand Rounds: ASH Updates – Part 3; Speakers: Eliot Williams, MD, PhD, Prof. Dept. of Medicine; Moniba Nazeef, MD, Asst. Prof. Dept. of Medicine; John Sheehan, MD, Assoc. Prof. Dept. of Medicine, Luke Zurbriggen, MD, Medical Oncologist, Dept. of Medicine.
Join in person: 1306 HSLC
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/s/98343170042?pwd=bU1NK2EvaTZ2QmpCb1QyMks2RDB4Zz09 (Passcode: Grand)
11:00 AM Cancer Biology Seminar: Fatty acid metabolism as a barrier of RT-induced anti-tumor immunity against glioblastoma; Speaker: Claire Vanpouille-Box, PhD, Asst. Prof. Cell Biology in Radiation Oncology, Weill Cornell Medical College.
Join in person: 1335 HSLC
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92891363864 (Passcode: 629651)
12:00 PM Neuroscience Seminar: Cones and cone pathways remain functional in advanced retinal degeneration; Speaker: Alapakkam Sampath, PhD, Dept. Ophthalmology & Neurobiology, UCLA.
Join in person: 3571 WIMR II
12:00 PM Comparative Biomedical Sciences Student Seminar: Understanding Genetic Predisposition to Myelodysplastic Syndromes due to Variation in the RNA Helicase DDX41; Speaker: Christina Jurotich (Advisor: Dr. Emery Bresnick), Cell and Regen Biology, UW-Madison.
Join in person: 101 Hansen Labs, School of Veterinary Medicine
3:30 PM Genetics Colloquium: Everything old is new again: Challenges in polyploidy evolutionary genetics for increasing ecosystem resilience; Speaker: George Tiley, PhD, Marie Curie Fellow at Kew.
Join in person: 1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93050972388?pwd=aUt0UUorL3AxRFo1U1p0WEROS2ZMdz09
Thursday, February 22, 2024
9:00 AM Pathology Seminar: Investigation of metabolic alterations in Type 2 diabetes; Speaker: Ben Wancewicz, CMP Graduate Student (Ge Lab), UW-Madison.
Join in person: 1345 Health Sciences Learning Center
11:00 AM Nutritional Sciences Seminar: Advancing Culturally Responsive Mentorship; Speaker: Angela Byars-Winston, PhD, MA, Prof. General Internal Medicine, UW-Madison.
Join in person: 290 Nutritional Sciences
12:10 PM Molecular Virology Seminar: Gammaherpesviruses and innate immunity; Speaker: Blossom Damania, PhD, Prof. Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina.
Join in person: 1211 Biochemical Sciences
12:30 PM Evolution Seminar: The Epigenetics Revolution: How Epigenetics Links Environment and Genes; Speaker: Hasan Khatib, PhD, Prof. Animal and Dairy Sciences, UW-Madison.
Join in person: H.F. DeLuca Forum, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
Join via Zoom: https://go.wisc.edu/39mk44
Friday, February 23, 2024
12:00 PM John D. Wiley Seminar: The Brain Gene Registry: An IDDRC Resource for Rare Disease Research; Speaker: Christina Gurnett, MD, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis.
Join in person: T216 John D. Wiley Conference Center.