Seminar list for this week: January 27-31

Monday, January 27, 2025

3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Role of Polycomb in cancer and neurodevelopment; Speaker: Lluis Morey, PhD, Assoc. Prof. of Human Genetics, University of Miami.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences

3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  HuSH EBV: An unexpected inhibitory complex of EBV in Burkitt lymphoma; Speaker:  Madilyn Ellis (Advisor: Bill Sugden, PhD); Dual mechanism of inflammation sensing by the hematopoietic progenitor genome; Speaker:  Vu Tran (Advisor: Emery Bresnick, PhD).

Join in person:  6571 WIMR II

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

11:00 AM       Biomolecular Chemistry Faculty Candidate Seminar:  Mechanisms at the Intersection of RNA Synthesis and DNA Repair; Speaker: Tycho Mevissen, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School.

Join in person:  1211 (Auditorium) Biochemical Sciences Building

 12:00 PM        Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar:  The machinery of innate heart regeneration; Speaker: Kenneth Poss, PhD, Prof. of Cellular and Molecular Biology, UW-Madison, Director of Regenerative Biology, Morgridge Institute.

Join in person:  Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum

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

1:00 PM          NCI’s Emerging Technologies Seminar:  Dynamics of 3D Genome Structure and Function; Speaker:  Anders Sejr Hansen, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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

 3:00 PM          Pathobiological Sciences Seminar:  Exploring the interplay between warming temperatures and future implications for West Nile virus transmission; Speaker:  Johnny Uelmen, Asst. Prof. of Population Health Sciences, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  2350 School of Veterinary Medicine

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

8:00 AM         Oncology Grand Rounds:  Can we turn the tide? Residual disease in patients with triple negative breast cancer; Speaker: Keerthi Gogineni, MD, MSHP, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University 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:  Engineering NK cells for the treatment of cancer: from bench to bedside; Speaker:  Katy Rezvani, MD, PhD, Prof. of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center.

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

 12:00 PM        Neuroscience Seminar:  Molecular Ballet: Decoding Biochemical Signaling Dynamics in the Brain; Speaker: Yao Chen, PhD, Asst. Prof. of Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Join in person:  3571 WIMR II

 3:30 PM          Genetics Colloquium:  History Repeats Itself: Genetic changes underlying convergent phenotypic traits are revealed through comparative genomics; Speaker:  Nathan Clark, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh.

Join in person:  1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center

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

 Thursday, January 30, 2025

12:00 PM        Wisconsin Blood Cancer Research Institute Colloquium:  The role of vcam1 in the niche during development of hematopoietic stem cells; Speaker:  Octavia Santis Larrain/Cesi Deng (Tamplin Lab), Dept. of Cell and Regenerative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Join in person:  5001A WIMR

12:10 PM        Molecular Virology Seminar:  Barcodes, bottlenecks, and influenza virus population dynamics; Speaker:  Anice Lowen, PhD, Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences

12:30 PM        Evolution Seminar:  High-throughput approaches to understand and engineer bacteriophages; Speaker:  Vatsan Raman, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Biochemistry, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1111 Genetics/Biotech

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

Friday, January 31, 2025

8:00 AM         Medicine Grand Rounds:  Breathing Easier – Reducing COPD Readmissions; Speakers:  Samantha Murray-Bainer, MD, and Alexis Waters, PA, Division of Hospital Medicine, UW School of Medicine and Public Health.

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97394127989?pwd=YWl2eVBsRjNIbUhBYkxKblVyRFNzZz09  

(Password: grandround)

3:00 PM          Paul D. Boyer Lecture in Biochemistry:  Spin and Twist: Solid State NMR for Probing Parkinson’s Disease; Speaker:  Collin Borcik, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Biochemistry, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1211, DeLuca Biochemical Sciences Building

Join online:  https://go.wisc.edu/boyer_25