Seminar list for this week: September 23-27

Monday, September 23, 2024

3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Targeting Cancer Cells with pH-responsive Transmembrane Peptides; Speaker:  Damien Thévenin, PhD, Prof., Dept. of Chemistry, Lehigh University.

Join in person:  1211 HFD Biochemical Sciences

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

3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  CD40 stimulates sustained NF-kB to promote class switch recombination; Speaker:  Donna Li, (Advisor: Shigeki Miyamoto, PhD); Upper airway papillomavirus infections and longitudinal tracking in immunocompetent mice; Speaker:  Renee King, PhD (Lambert Lab).

Join in person:  6571 WIMR II

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

12:00 PM        Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar:  Stem cell-based functional genomics of the 9p21.3 coronary artery disease risk locus; Speaker:  Elsa Salido, Research Assistant, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96958883460 (Passcode: 936743)

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

8:00 AM         Oncology Grand Rounds:  New and emerging therapies in EGFR-driven non-small cell lung cancer: the role of the tumor microenvironment; Speaker:  Nan Sethakorn, MD, PhD, Asst. Prof, Hematology/Oncology and Cancer Biology, Loyola University.

Join in person:  G5/119 Clinical Sciences Center

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/s/93531859928?pwd=Fi5HIoh2UP1giTDiAE2VqLZt3dFGuh.1 (Passcode: 466863)

 9:00 AM         RNA Collaborative Seminar:  IGF2BPs directly regulate non-canonical translation of toxic proteins from mutant FMR1 mRNA containing expanded CGG repeats; Speaker: Anna Baud, PhD, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Adam Mickiewicz University; Interrogation of RNA-bound proteome with XRNAX illuminates molecular alterations in the mouse brain affected with dysmyelination; Speaker:

Monika Piwecka, PhD, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences.

Join via Zoom:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OKvJN2IFRsyoqqumJsuJ6Q

 11:00 AM       Cancer Biology Seminar:  Arming induced pluripotent stem cells with a synthetic receptor enables the scalable manufacture of highly cytotoxic lymphocytes for “off-the-shelf” cancer immunotherapies; Speaker:  Dave Vereide, PhD, Principal Scientist, Umoja Biopharma.

Join in person:  1345 HSLC

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96369895715  (Passcode: 872480)

 12:00 PM        Neuroscience Seminar:  Endoplasmic Reticulum Acetylation, Proteostasis, and Autism; Speaker:  Luigi Puglielli, PhD, MD, Dept. of Medicine, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  3571 WIMR II

 12:00 PM        Comparative Biomedical Sciences Student Seminar:  Ecology and epidemiology of Sarcina troglodytae, a novel bacterium associated with a lethal disease in chimpanzees in Sierra Leone; Speaker:  Emily Dunay (Advisor: Dr. Tony Goldberg), SVM, Pathobiological Sciences, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  2255 School of Veterinary Medicine

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/95023776889?pwd=fiJYWa0maykVmCXI7usbmWvbQzgvtn.1 (Meeting ID: 950 2377 6889, Passcode: 930)

 

3:30 PM          Genetics Colloquium:  TBD.

Join in person:  1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center

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

Thursday, September 26, 2024

9:00 AM         Pathology Seminar:  Identifying therapeutic targets in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia; Speaker:  Marjorie Brand, PhD, Cell and Regenerative Biology, UW-Madison.

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96202594071?pwd=Xu1J6L51u1A9jRrSeb39ecDGBqMg12.1

11:00 AM       Nutritional Sciences Seminar:  C-di-AMP – an essential second messenger turned toxic; Speaker:          Tu-Anh Huynh, PhD, Assist. Prof, Dept. of Food Science, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  290 Nutritional Sciences

12:10 PM        Molecular Virology Seminar:  Hepatitis B Virus Induces Cellular Replication Stress Signals Upstream of DNA Damage Leading to Localization of the HBx Protein to Areas of DNA Damage; Speaker:  Gavin Marcoe, MS, Molecular Virology & Oncology, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences

12:30 PM        Evolution Seminar:  Antagonistic pleiotropy and realistic fitness functions suggest balancing selection should be frequent in nature; Speaker:  Chris McAllester, PhD student, Dept. of Genetics, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  B302 Birge

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

Friday, September 27, 2024

8:00 AM         Department of Medicine Grand Rounds:  Evidence-based Tools for Well-being; Speaker:  Rohan Bodapati, MD, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Medicine, UW-Madison; Speaker:  Vasundhara Prudhivi

Sadhguru, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97903155300?pwd=Y1dERThlVi9OY1VpYU1idDZzendvZz09  (Password: grandround)