Seminar list for this week: February 3-7

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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