Seminar list for this week: March 18-22

Monday, March 18, 2024

8:00 AM         UWCCC Director Candidate Seminar:  Joshua Lang, MD, MS, Vice Chair for Biomedical Research, Assoc. Prof. Hematology, Medical Oncology and Palliative Care, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Join in person:  1325 HSLC

Join via Webex:  https://uwmadison.webex.com/uwmadison/j.php?MTID=m1b98ee86970bf0e748902ee460d47b39

 3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Metabolic phenotypes in human disease; Speaker:  Ralph DeBerardinis, MD, PhD, Division of Pediatric Genetics and Metabolism, UT Southwestern.

Join in person:  1211 HFD Biochemical Sciences

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

 3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Spatial analysis of multi-ancestral tumors to define cellular interactions driving the formation of precancers; Speaker:  Maggie Stangis (Advisor: Rich Halberg, PhD); Moving toward environmentally informed immunotherapy: A Role for Cholesterol Handling in Immune Activation in the Pancreas Ductal Adenocarcinoma Tumor-Immune Microenvironment; Speaker:  Johnathan Ebben, MD, PhD.

Join in person:  6571 WIMR II

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

8:00 AM         UWCCC Director Candidate Town Hall:  Joshua Lang, MD, MS, Vice Chair for Biomedical Research, Assoc. Prof. Hematology, Medical Oncology and Palliative Care, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Join in person:  1335 HSLC

Join via Webex:  https://uwmadison.webex.com/uwmadison/j.php?MTID=m8b4fcb90d27577a6f26ad38148c55d99

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

8:00 AM         Oncology Grand Rounds:  Epithelial Plasticity Drives Pancreatic Tumorigenesis;  Speaker: Kathleen DelGiorno, PhD, Asst. Prof. of Cell and Developmental Biology and Surgery, Vanderbilt School of Medicine.

Join in person:  1306 HSLC

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/s/94681614650?pwd=MFBVNHRGWTB6OFRVWnQzemN6ZGJsZz09  (Passcode: Grand)

11:00 AM       Cancer Biology Seminar:  Bench/Bedside Crosstalk: Radiation Therapy Combination Studies for Soft Tissue Sarcoma and Head & Neck Cancer; Speaker:  Yvonne Mowery, MD, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Join in person:  1335 HSLC

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92891363864

 12:00 PM        Comparative Biomedical Sciences Student Seminar: The Potential Role of Kinesin Family Member C1 (KIFC1) in Melanoma; Speaker:  Davis Mau (Advisor: Dr. Nihal Ahmad), SMPH, Dermatology, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  2255 School of Veterinary Medicine

 3:30 PM          Genetics Colloquium:  TBA; Speaker:  Mete Civelek, PhD, Assoc. Prof. Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia.

Join in person:  1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center

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

Thursday, March 21, 2024

10:00 AM       Tumor Virology Faculty Candidate Seminar:  Host cell targets of human papillomavirus oncoproteins; Speaker:  Elizabeth White, PhD, Assist. Prof. Dept. of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Pennsylvania.

Join in person:  1335 HSLC

 11:00 AM       Nutritional Sciences Seminar:  Genetic Approaches to Identify and Validate Genes that Contribute to Metabolic Diseases; Speaker:  Brian Parks, PhD, Assoc. Prof. Nutritional Sciences, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  290 Nutritional Sciences

 12:00 PM        Pathology Grand Rounds:  TBA; Speaker:  Molly Klein, MD, University of Minnesota.

Join in person: 1345 HSLC

 12:10 PM        Molecular Virology Seminar:  The Missing Link: Nodavirus Protein A’s Interdomain Region Controls RNA Replication; Speaker:  Helena Jaramillio Mesa, PhD (Ahlquist Lab), Molecular Virology and Oncology, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences

 12:30 PM        Evolution Seminar:  The Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease; Speaker:  Jessica Hite, Assist. Prof. Pathobiological Sciences, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1360 Genetics/Biotech

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98648374748

 Friday, March 22, 2024

12:00 PM        Medical Microbiology & Immunology Seminar:  Revealing the Genetics of Bacterially Mediated Iodine Transformation in the Subsurface; Speaker:  Courtney Robinson, PhD, Howard University.

Join in person:  1420 Microbial Sciences