Seminar list for this week: October 28-November 1

Monday, October 28, 2024

3:00 PM          Jim and Katie Krause Metabolism Seminar:  How Nutrients Leave Their Mark: Metabolism, Histone Modification, and Gene Regulation in Physiology and Cancer; Speaker:  Kathryn Wellen, PhD, Prof. of Cancer Biology, University of Pennsylvania.

Join in person:  1211 HFD Biochemical Sciences

Join via Zoom:   https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq

3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  SLBP promotes infectivity of HCMV; Speaker:  Kylee Morrison, PhD (Kalejta Lab); Host DNA damage response signals regulate AAV/rAAV life cycle; Speaker:  Clairine Larsen (Advisor: Kinjal Majumder, PhD).

Join in person:  6571 WIMR II

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

12:00 PM        Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar:  Cellular therapy for treatment of radiation-induced salivary dysfunction – preclinical to Phase I studies; Speaker:  Randy Kimple, MD, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Human Oncology, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  Discovery Building, Orchard View

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

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

11:00 AM       Cancer Biology Seminar:  Organoid modeling cancer evolution and drug response; Speaker:  Dechen Lin, PhD, Asst. Prof., Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, University of Southern California.

Join in person:  1345 HSLC

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

12:00 PM        Neuroscience Seminar:  Understanding and Engineering Cell Biology in Space and Time with Programmable Reaction-Diffusion Systems; Speaker:  Scott Coyle, PhD, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Biochemistry, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  3571 WIMR II

 12:00 PM        Comparative Biomedical Sciences Student Seminar:  Assessing Cardiac Fibrosis Immunopathology in Humanized Rodent Models; Speaker:  Jiwon Seo (Brown Lab), SMPH – Surgery/Transplant R&D, 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)

 2:00 PM          Dissertation Defense:  Versican, an immunoregulatory proteoglycan leveraged by cancer to evade immune elimination; Speaker:  Sean Kraus, Advisor: Dustin Deming, MD.

Join in person: 1306 HSLC

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/3942238897?pwd=V8b43bpRLjLkoYfeu2jA0yrmB8dJ4m.1

 3:30 PM          Genetics Colloquium:  Temperature sensation in fly larvae; Speaker:  Lina Ni, PhD., Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Neuroscience, Virginia Tech.

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

Thursday, October 31, 2024

11:00 AM       Nutritional Sciences Seminar:  Folate-mediated One-carbon metabolism as an exemplar of the promise and perils of precision nutrition; Speaker:  Patrick Stover, PhD, Prof., Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University.

Join in person:  290 Nutritional Sciences

 12:10 PM        Molecular Virology Seminar:  Intrinsic defenses against retroviral infection; Speaker:  Melissa Kane, PhD, Prof., Dept. of Pediatrics & Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences

 12:30 PM        Evolution Seminar:  Inferring biological networks; Speaker:  Claudia Solis-Lemus, PhD, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Plant Pathology, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1111 Genetics/Biotech

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

 Friday, November 1, 2024

8:00 AM         Medicine Grand Rounds:  Social and Political Determinants of the US Homelessness Crisis and Increased Risk for Infectious Disease Outbreaks; Speaker:  Joshua Barocas, MD, Assoc. Prof., Division of Internal Medicine, University of Colorado.

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94778485045?pwd=ZjhmRVQ1enFDQU5jM2VZa1dOOG54Zz09

(Password: grandround)