University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: April 2024

Seminar list for this week: April 29-May 3

Monday, April 29, 2024 1:30 PM          Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine, Research Director Candidate Seminar:         Wei Xu, PhD, Prof. of Oncology, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Join in person:  HSLC 1306 3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Chromosome inheritance during cell division; Speaker:  Sue Biggins, PhD, Fred Hutch Cancer Center. Join in person:  1211 HFD Biochemical Sciences …

Seminar list for this week: April 22-26

Monday, April 22, 2024 3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  CRISPR Versus Climate Change (and Antibiotic Resistance!); Speaker:  Jason M. Peters, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Join in person:  1211 HFD Biochemical Sciences Join virtually:  https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq  3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Evaluating the Efficacy of Tumor-Specific Vaccination and Radiopharmaceutical Therapy for Prostate Cancer …

Seminar list for this week: April 15-19

Monday, April 15, 2024 12:00 PM        Precision Medicine Seminar:  Artificial Intelligence in Precision Medicine: Improving the Diagnosis of Pediatric Enteropathies; Speaker: Sana Syed, MD, Assoc. Prof., University of Virginia School of Medicine and School of Data Science. Join in person:  2798 West Wedge WIMR Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91547869984?pwd=a08zRFYrdmZzUGRDL3lMNmxKbEVPdz09&from=addon   3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Formation of our …

McArdle Assistant Professor Huy Dinh Receives NIH MIRA Award

McArdle Assistant Professor Huy Dinh recently received a $1.8 million 5-year NIH R35 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) that will propel his laboratory’s work aiming to understand the role of immune cells known as neutrophils in wound healing and cancers. Neutrophils are the most abundant cell type in the blood and are the first to …

McArdle Faculty Member Beth Weaver Receives Women’s Health Research Mentorship Award

The McArdle laboratory for Cancer Research is pleased to announce that Dr. Beth Weaver (Depts. of Oncology and Cell and Regenerative Biology) has been awarded the prestigious 2023 UW SMPH Group on Women in Medicine and Science/BIRCHWH Women’s Health Research Mentorship Award. The award recognizes impactful mentorship of women scientists who are pursuing careers in …

Seminar list for this week: April 8-12

Monday, April 8, 2024 3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  A radical solution for C(sp3)-C(sp3) bond formation during the biosynthesis of macrocyclic membrane lipids; Speaker:  Squire Booker, PhD, Prof. Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University. Join in person:  1211 HFD Biochemical Sciences Join virtually:  https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq  3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  HuSH EBV: An unexpected inhibitory …

Seminar list for this week: April 1-5

Monday, April 1, 2024 3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Structural insights into phase transitions and unpublished experiments from my time in Betty Craig’s lab; Speaker:  James Bardwell, PhD, Prof. of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology and Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan. Join in person:  1211 HFD Biochemical Sciences Join virtually:  https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq  3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar: …