Seminar list for this week: March 11-15

Monday, March 11, 2024

8:00 AM         UWCCC Director Candidate Seminar:  David Jarrard, MD, Prof., Vice Chair of Urology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Join in person:  1345 HSLC

Join via Webex:  https://uwmadison.webex.com/uwmadison/j.php?MTID=me5733e788d3a3418e79076909ad85a6c

10:00 AM       Tumor Virology Faculty Candidate Seminar:  The strategic inundation of microprocessor in EBV-associated lymphoma; Speaker:  Nathan Ungerleider, PhD, Assist. Prof. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine.

Join in person:  1121 Signe Skott Cooper Hall

 10:30 AM       Neuroscience Faculty Candidate Seminar:  Structure, Function and Dysfunction of TMEM63s, A New Family of Mechanosensitive Channels in the Brain; Speaker:  Wang Zheng, PhD, Harvard University.

Join in person:  3571 WIMR II

 3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Yes! Bacteria have organelles! How are they organized?; Speaker:  Anthony Vecchiarelli, PhD, Asst. Prof. Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology, University of Michigan.

Join in person:  1211 HFD Biochemistry Sciences

Join virtually:  https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq

 3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Development of aB7H3 Murine CAR T Cells; Speaker:  Amanda Shea (Advisor: Zach Morris, MD, PhD); Neutrophil modulation to enhance immune checkpoint blockade responses in head and neck cancer; Speaker:  Anqi Gao (Advisor: Huy Dinh, PhD).

Join in person:  6571 WIMR II

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

12:00 PM        Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar:  Establishing human iPSC-derived neutrophils as a model to study antifungal immunity; Speaker:  Andrew Wagner, Postdoc (Huttenlocher Research Group), Dept. of Pediatrics; Div. of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, 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)

12:00 PM        Precision Medicine Seminar:  Implementing precision medicine in a large healthcare system; Speaker:  Adrian Lee, PhD, Director of Institute for Precision Medicine, University of Pittsburgh.

Join in person:  2798 WIMR West Wedge

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91547869984?pwd=a08zRFYrdmZzUGRDL3lMNmxKbEVPdz09&from=addon

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

11:00 AM       Cancer Biology Seminar: Unique aspects of invasive lobular breast cancer; Speaker:  Steffi Oesterreich, PhD, Prof. of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh.

Join in person:  1345 HSLC

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

12:00 PM        Neuroscience Faculty Candidate Seminar:  TBA; Speaker:  Sandra Kuhlmann, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University.

Join in person:  3571 WIMR II

12:00 PM        Comparative Biomedical Sciences Student Seminar: Neuropathologic & Genetic Investigation of a Late-onset Peripheral Neuropathy in Labrador Retrievers; Speaker:  Ryan Anderson (Advisor: Dr. Susannah Sample), SVM, Surgical Sciences, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  2255 School of Veterinary Medicine

Thursday, March 14, 2024

9:00 AM         Pathology Seminar:  Effects of oxidative phosphorylation inhibition in solid tumors; Speaker:  Mayra Betancourt Ponce, CMP Student, Barroilhet/Patankar Labs, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1345 HSLC

 11:00 AM       Nutritional Sciences Seminar:  Heat Shock Protein 70 (HSP70) Protects Against Diet-Induced Obesity: A Role for Intestinal Fat Metabolism; Speaker:  Kristina Martinez-Guryn, PhD, Midwestern University.

Join in person:  290 Nutritional Sciences

 12:10 PM        Molecular Virology Seminar:  Every breath you take: Transmission of influenza viruses; Speaker:  Seema Lakdawala, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University.

Join in person: 1211 Biochemical Sciences

 12:30 PM        Evolution Seminar:  Group dynamics drive susceptibility to the common evolutionary trap of plastic ingestion; Speaker:  Lea Pollack, Postdoc, Statistics and Botany, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1360 Genetics/Biotech

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

 Friday, March 15, 2024

8:00 AM         UWCCC Director Candidate Town Hall:  David Jarrard, MD, Prof., Vice Chair of Urology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Join in person:  1335 HSLC

Join via Webex:  https://uwmadison.webex.com/uwmadison/j.php?MTID=m6be675b4496154f5fb02c1cee91d69ec