Seminar list for this week: October 14-18

Monday, October 14, 2024

3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  The mechanism of mRNA activation; Speaker:  Ruben L Gonzalez, Jr., PhD, Prof., Dept. of Chemistry, Columbia University.

Join in person:  1211 DeLuca Biochemical Sciences Building

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

3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Potential role of alpha-2-macroglobulin (A2M) in the tumor microenvironment of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma; Speaker:  Somak Chaudhuri, MD (Advisor: Dustin Deming, MD); TBD; Speaker:  Pankaj Parihar, PhD (Xing Lab).

Join in person:  6571 WIMR II

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

12:00 PM        Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar:  Understanding Single Cell RNA Sequencing and It’s Utility in Stem Cell Research; Speaker:  Sam Dettle, Graduate student, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  Biotechnology Center Auditorium

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96958883460 (Passcode: 970506)

1:00 PM          NCI’s Emerging Technologies Seminar:  Tools to Evaluate, Track, and Ensure the Integrity of Biospecimens; Speaker:  Chad Borges, PhD, Arizona State University.

Register online:  https://events.cancer.gov/cssi/technology-seminar/registration

Wednesday, October 16, 2024

8:00 AM         Oncology Grand Rounds:  Serving Precision, Not Pâté: Liver Proton Therapy and Functional Imaging Innovations; Speaker:  Smith “Jim” Apisarnthanarax, MD, Prof. of Radiation Oncology, University of Washington School of Medicine.

Join in person:  G5/119 Clinical Sciences Center

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

11:00 AM       Cancer Biology Seminar:  Harnessing computation to guide more individualized cancer therapies to the lung; Speaker:  Mohamed Abazeed, MD, PhD, Assoc. Prof. of Radiation Oncology, Northwestern University.

Join in person:  1345 HSLC

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

 3:30 PM          Genetics Colloquium:  Expanding mechanisms and therapeutic targets for neurodegenerative disease; Speaker:  Aaron Gitler, PhD, Prof., Dept. of Genetics, Stanford University.

Join in person:  1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center

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

Thursday, October 17, 2024

11:00 AM       Nutritional Sciences Seminar:  TBD; Speaker:  William Holland, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology, University of Utah.

Join in person:  290 Nutritional Sciences

 12:00 PM        2024 Gilbert-Barness Lecture:  Manifestations of abnormal lung development: insights from under the microscope; Speaker:  Gail H. Deutsch, M.D., Prof., Dept. of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington and Medical Director, Research Laboratory Services, Seattle Children’s Hospital.

Join in person:  1345 HSLC

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

 12:10 PM        Molecular Virology Seminar:  SARS-CoV-2 evolutionary dynamics during prolonged infection in immunocompromised hamsters; Speaker:  Wanting Wei, PhD student (Thomas Friedrich Lab), Pathobiological Sciences – Biophysics, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences

 12:30 PM        Evolution Seminar:  Living with a killer: how coevolved Saccharomyces cerevisiae become killer toxin resistant; Speaker:  Michelle Hays, Postdoctoral scholar, Dept. of Genetics, Stanford University.

Join in person:  1360 Genetics/Biotech

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

Friday, October 18, 2024

8:00 AM         Medicine Grand Rounds:  De-mystifying Amyloidosis: An Internist’s Guide to Early Recognition; Speaker:  Timothy Schmidt, MD, Asst. Prof. (CHS), Hematology, Medical Oncology and Palliative Care, UW-Madison.

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97869535737?pwd=V214RlRpTWZHWlovVFBtTEZRTGRmZz09  (Password: grandround)