Monday, February 3, 2025
10:00 AM Tumor Virology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Structure-Guided Discovery in the Viral Proteome; Speaker: Jason Nomburg, PhD, Posdoctoral fellow, University of California – Berkeley and Gladstone Institute.
Join in person: 1345 HSLC
12:00 PM Precision Medicine Interest Group Seminar: Genetics in a dish: leveraging induced pluripotent stem cells to identify genetic modifiers of rare diseases; Speaker: Justin Wolter, PhD, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Genetics, UW-Madison.
Join in person: 2798 WIMR
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/99776513436?pwd=E7uqjiCYLmJ0OvoXLGwq6OEtF4eCpe.1
3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: Modeling ER+ metastatic breast cancer driven by FGFR aberration in rats; Speaker: Carstyn Joiner (Advisor: Carstyn Joiner); Mad1 facilitates α5 integrin trafficking from the Golgi to promote cytokinesis; Speaker: Daniel Sam (Advisor: Beth Weaver, PhD).
Join in person: 6571 WIMR II
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
11:00 AM Biomolecular Chemistry Faculty Candidate Seminar: Mechanisms of Adaptive Mitochondrial Respiration; Speaker: Pedro Latorre-Muro, PhD, Postdoctoral fellow, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School.
Join in person: 1211 (Auditorium) Biochemical Sciences Building
12:00 PM Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar: The spatio-temporal regulation of neural stem cells by their progeny; Speaker: Armen Saghatelyan, PhD, Prof., Dept. of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Université Laval.
Join in person: Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96958883460 (Passcode: 970506)
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
8:00 AM Oncology Grand Rounds: The role of radiotherapy in the management of metastatic cancer; Speaker: C. Jillian Tsai, MD, PhD, Assoc. Prof. and Site Lead, Allan and Ruth Kerbel PROP Radiation Medicine Program and Medical Director at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre.
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: Dynamic Genome Interactions during DNA Virus Infections; Speaker: Matthew D. Weitzman, PhD, Prof. of Microbiology, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.
Join in person: 1345 HSLC
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96369895715 (Passcode: 872480)
12:00 PM Neuroscience Seminar: Nanoscale regulation of mechanotransduction in mammalian auditory hair cells; Speaker: Gregory Frolenkov, PhD, Prof., Dept. of Physiology, University of Kentucky.
Join in person: 3571 WIMR II
3:30 PM Genetics Colloquium: How T cells find antigen in animals without lymph nodes; Speaker: Tanner Robertson, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Div. of Allergy, Immunology, Rheumatology, UW-Madison.
Join in person: 1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98087850165?pwd=azZ5Q3diR0tXb2p4UTBxTDVZVkJkZz09
Thursday, February 6, 2025
12:10 PM Molecular Virology Seminar: Investigating the connection between post-translational modifications of the DNA sensor cGAS and caspase-8 mediated inhibition of the type I interferon response during KSHV lytic replication; Speaker: Guillermo Najarro, PhD, Molecular Virology, Medical Microbiology & Immunology, UW-Madison; Caspase-8 is non-canonically activated through theTLR3-TRIF pathway during KSHV lytic infection; Speaker: Deepak Kumar, PhD, Molecular Virology, Medical Microbiology & Immunology, UW-Madison.
Join in person: 1211 Biochemical Sciences
12:30 PM Evolution Seminar: TBD; Speaker: Gustavo Barroso, Scientist, Dept. of Integrative Biology, UW-Madison.
Join in person: 1111 Genetics/Biotech
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/s/94224213290
1:30 PM Genomics Seminar: Chromatin mechanisms and genome maintenance functions of histone code writers; Speaker: Brian Strahl, PhD, Prof. of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Join in person: 1111 Biotechnology Center Auditorium
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91997162129
Friday, February 7, 2025
8:00 AM Medicine Grand Rounds: Take a Seat: Teaching Practical Communication Skills in the Hospital; Speakers: Blair Golden, MD, MS, Division of Hospital Medicine, UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92816937145?pwd=dTlhUXRHeDU1Ri85VEoybEEzR0FwUT09
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