Seminar list for this week: February 26-March 1

Monday, February 26, 2024

10:00 AM Tumor Virology Seminar:  Going against the tide: a novel RNA element protects against viral-induced RNA decay; Speaker:  Mandy Muller, PhD, Assoc. Prof., University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Join in person:  1345 HSLC

1:30 PM UWCCC Director Candidate Seminar:  Jen Jen Yeh, MD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Join in person:  3110B HSLC

Join via Webex:  https://uwmadison.webex.com/uwmadison/j.php?MTID=mada31ab7872e49769f9a76ea6265dda9 

3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Revealing the importance of AZIN1 and polyamines in translational regulation; Speaker:  Aysiah Jaeke (Advisor: Jason Cantor, PhD); Modeling high-risk blastemal and metastatic Wilms tumors by reprogramming WiT49; Speaker:  Gui Ma, PhD (Advisor: Wei Xu, PhD).

Join in person:  6571 WIMR II

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

12:00 PM Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar:  Maturation, Metabolism, and mTORC1 in Cardiac Regeneration; Speaker:  Wyatt Paltzer, Genetics Graduate Student, Mahmoud Lab, 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)

1:30 PM UWCCC Director Candidate Town Hall:  Jen Jen Yeh, MD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Join in person:  1325 HSLC

Join via Webex:  https://uwmadison.webex.com/uwmadison/j.php?MTID=mada31ab7872e49769f9a76ea6265dda9

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

11:00 AM Cancer Biology Seminar: The role of nuclear receptors and pioneer factors in cancer; Speaker:  Jason Carroll, PhD, University of Cambridge.

Join in person:  1335 HSLC

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

12:00 PM Neuroscience Seminar:  TBA; Speaker:  Debosmita Sardar, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine.

Join in person:  3571 WIMR II

12:00 PM Comparative Biomedical Sciences Student Seminar:  S. aureus superantigens secrets unveiled: Insights into superantigen (TSST1) binding partners; Speaker:  Dammy Babatunde (Advisor: Dr. Wilmara Salgado-Pabon), Pathobiological Sciences, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  2255 School of Veterinary Medicine

3:30 PM Genetics Colloquium:  TBA; Speaker:  Jennifer Elisseeff, PhD. 

Join in person:  1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93050972388?pwd=aUt0UUorL3AxRFo1U1p0WEROS2ZMdz09 

Thursday, February 29, 2024

8:00 AM UWCCC Director Candidate Seminar:  Elisabeth Heath, MD, Wayne State University.

Join in person:  1325 HSLC

Join via Webex:  https://uwmadison.webex.com/uwmadison/j.php?MTID=me03dbfc6da1c1ffa490d0e40eaf5888a

11:00 AM Nutritional Sciences Seminar:  Assessment of Dietary Patterns Over the Life Course; Speaker:  Jill Reedy, PhD, NIH National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Control & Population Sciences.

Join in person:  290 Nutritional Sciences 

12:10 PM Molecular Virology Seminar:  Modulating the conformation and function of disease-relevant RNA with small molecules; Speaker:  Amanda Hargrove, PhD, Duke University.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences

12:30 PM Evolution Seminar:  The eco-evolutionary origins of life: experimental evolution of major transitions; Speaker:  Maria Kalambokidis, PhD student, University of Minnesota.

Join in person:  H.F. DeLuca Forum, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery

Join via Zoom:  https://go.wisc.edu/39mk44 

Friday, March 1, 2024

12:00 PM John D. Wiley Seminar:  Accelerating Our Understanding of Females on the Autism Spectrum; Speaker: Clare Harrop, PhD, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Join in person:  T216 John D. Wiley Conference Center.

2:00 PM UWCCC Director Candidate Town Hall:  Elisabeth Heath, MD, Wayne State University.

Join in person:  1306 HSLC

Join via Webex:  https://uwmadison.webex.com/uwmadison/j.php?MTID=md015227d755fac6213f1c74155c49105