Seminar list for this week: November 11-15

Monday, November 11, 2024

3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Regulation of Rad54 during homologous recombination; Speaker:  Eric C. Greene, PhD, Prof. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University.

Join in person:  1211 HFD Biochemical Sciences

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

 3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Identifying the primary B cell subset that Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) infects; Speaker:  Beniah Brumbaugh (Advisor: Bill Sugden, PhD); Spatial and epigenetic mechanisms of AAV2 persistence; Speaker:  Rhiannon Abrahams (Advisor: Kinjal Majumder, PhD).

Join in person:  6571 WIMR II

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

12:00 PM        Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar:  The ASPIRO Trial: Development of an Autologous, iPSC-based Neuron Replacement Cell Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease; Speaker:  Andres Bratt-Leal, PhD, Aspen Neuroscience.

Join in person:  Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum

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

1:00 PM          NCI Emerging Technology Seminar:  Modeling the blood-brain niche to study cancer metastasis; Speaker:  Sofia Merajver, MD, PhD, Prof. of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Michigan Medical School.

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

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

8:00 AM         Oncology Grand Rounds:  Acute Myeloid Leukemia Management: Beyond Standard of Care; Speaker:  Hussein Abbas, MD, PhD, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Leukemia, Div. of Cancer Medicine, University of Texas.

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 innate immunity in sarcoma; Speaker:  Ping Chi, MD, PhD, Assoc. Prof. of Cell & Developmental Biology, Weill Cornell School of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Join in person:  1345 HSLC

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

3:30 PM          Genetics Colloquium:  Starships: a new frontier for fungal biology; Speaker:  Emile Gluck-Thaler, PhD., Asst. Prof., Dept. of Plant Pathology, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center

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

Thursday, November 14, 2024

9:00 AM         Zu Rhein Lecture:  Novel Mechanism Based Biomarker and Therapeutic Strategies for Parkinson’s Disease; Speaker:  Anumantha Kanthasamy, PhD, Prof., Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Georgia.

Join in person:  1306 HSLC

11:00 AM       Nutritional Sciences Seminar:  TBA; Speaker:  Fengyi Wan, PhD, Prof., Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Health, Johns Hopkins University.

Join in person:  290 Nutritional Sciences

12:10 PM        Molecular Virology Seminar:  The Pentamer: a glycoprotein complex-ity for human cytomegalovirus; Speaker:  Mike Ohman, (Kalejta Lab) Molecular Virology & Cancer Biology, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences

12:30 PM        Evolution Seminar:  The evolution of reproductive novelty in the family Drosophilidae; Speaker:  Ben Hopkins, Post-doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Evolution & Ecology, University of California-Davis.

Join in person:  1111 Genetics/Biotech

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

Friday, November 15, 2024

8:00 AM         Medicine Grand Rounds:  A Health Policy Hurricane: ​the Climate Crisis and Health Services Research​; Speaker:  Sue Ann Bell, PhD, FNP-BC, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Systems, Populations, and Leadership, University of Michigan.

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94183463173?pwd=MSsxSjROMXlXMmxIMnRncDFYcy9wQT09  (Password: grandround)