Seminar list for this week: November 18-22

Monday, November 18, 2024

10:00 AM       Metabolism Colloquium:  Metabolic regulation of anti-malarial humoral immunity; Speaker:  Noah S. Butler, PhD, Prof. of Immunology, University of Iowa.

Join in person:  HF DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building

3:00 PM          Henry Steenbock Lecture in Biochemistry:  Developing microbiome-targeted therapeutics for childhood undernutrition: Part 1; Speaker:  Jeffrey I. Gordon, MD, Prof. of Pathology & Immunology, Developmental Biology, and Molecular Microbiology, Washington University in St. Louis.

Join in person:  1211 HFD Biochemical Sciences

Join online:   https://go.wisc.edu/steen_gordon1

3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Patient-derived cancer organoids as a model for predicting clinical response and drug discovery; Speaker:  Lexie Schmitz (Advisor: Dustin Deming, MD); Utilizing the HiBiT system to identify CARM1 degraders for targeted cancer therapy; Speaker:  Megan Bacabac (Advisor: Wei Xu, PhD).

Join in person:  6571 WIMR II

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

12:00 PM        Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar:  Direct reprogramming of canine fibroblasts to induced-motor neurons: A model for age-related canine peripheral neuropathies; Speaker:  Ryan Anderson, PhD candidate, School of Veterinary Medicine, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum

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

3:00 PM          Henry Steenbock Lecture in Biochemistry:  Developing microbiome-targeted therapeutics for childhood undernutrition: Part 2; Speaker:  Jeffrey I. Gordon, MD, Prof. of Pathology & Immunology, Developmental Biology, and Molecular Microbiology, Washington University in St. Louis.

Join in person:  1211 HFD Biochemical Sciences

Join online:   https://go.wisc.edu/steen_gordon2  

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

8:00 AM         Oncology Grand Rounds:  ASTRO Updates; Speakers:  John Floberg, MD, PhD, Asst. Prof, Radiation Oncologist, Dept. of Human Oncology, UW-Madison; Hari Menon, MD, Radiation Oncology Resident, Dept. of Human Oncology, UW-Madison; Jessica Moore Schuster, MD, Clinical Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Human Oncology, UW-Madison.

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:  Empowering mass spectrometry for de novo unbiased sequencing of RNA modifications; Speaker:  Shenglong Zhang, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Chemistry, SUNY University at Albany; Elucidating the influence of RNA modifications and Magnesium ions on tRNAPhe conformational dynamics using Molecular Dynamics Simulations; Speaker:  Sweta Vangaveti, PhD, Research Scientist, SUNY University at Albany.

Join via Zoom:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8s7zkvZBRqi24EARR8IZYA 

11:00 AM       Cancer Biology Seminar:  Leveraging liquid biopsies to track mechanisms of targeted therapy resistance in breast and prostate cancer; Speaker:  Marina Sharifi, MD, PhD, Asst. Prof. of Hematology, Medical Oncology, and Palliative Care, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1345 HSLC

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

12:00 PM        Neuroscience Seminar:  A Marriage of Applied Chemical Biology and Electrical Signaling: A Play In Three Acts; Speaker: Chris Ahern, PhD, Prof. of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Iowa.

Join in person:  3571 WIMR II

12:00 PM        Comparative Biomedical Sciences Student Seminar:  Applications of Computer Vision in Veterinary Medicine; Speaker:  Marlee Heinge (Advisor: Dr. Dörte Döpfer), SVM – Medical 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:  Human Fungal Pathogens through the Lens of Evolutionary Genetics; Speaker:  Aleeza Gerstein, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Microbiology, University of Manitoba.

Join in person:  1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center

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

Thursday, November 21, 2024

11:00 AM       Nutritional Sciences Seminar:  Amino acid stress regulates vitamin A delivery from the liver stores to the periphery of the body; Speaker:  Loredana Quadro, PhD, Prof. of Food Science, Rudgers University.

Join in person:  290 Nutritional Sciences

 11:30 AM       Molecular Virology Seminar:  Flavivirus host interactions; Speaker:  Kristen Bernard, PhD, Prof. of Pathobiological Sciences, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences

 12:00 PM        Wisconsin Blood Cancer Research Institute Colloquium:  Multiple myeloma: challenges and opportunities; Speaker:  Natalie Callander, MD, Prof. of Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Join in person:  5001A WIMR

 12:30 PM        Evolution Seminar:  Experimental evolution of species ranges and coexistence using competing duckweed species; Speaker:  Takuji Usui, Post-doctoral Scholar, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto.

Join in person:  1111 Genetics/Biotech

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

 Friday, November 22, 2024

8:00 AM         Medicine Grand Rounds:  Cancer Survivorship: The Lymphoma Paradigm; Speaker:  Priyanka Pophali, MBBS, Div. of Hematology, Medical Oncology, and Palliative Care, UW School of Medicine and Public Health.

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91619086179?pwd=RE5IL1ZYU2RuaGZET2pGUklkQVA3QT09

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