Seminar list for this week: February 10-14

Monday, February 10, 2025

3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Combining antigen-specific vaccination with radiopharmaceutical therapy to enhance anti-tumor immunity and efficacy; Speaker:  Daeun Shim (Doug McNeel, MD, PhD).

Join in person:  6571 WIMR II

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

11:00 AM       Biomolecular Chemistry Faculty Candidate Seminar:  The Proteasome Beyond Ubiquitin: New Degradation Mechanisms and Emerging Functions; Speaker: Elijah Mena, PhD, Research fellow, Harvard Medical School.

Join in person:  1211 (Auditorium) Biochemical Sciences Building

 12:00 PM        Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar:  Inducible Expression of MKK3 as a Potential Therapeutic to Increase Skeletal Muscle Mass; Speaker:  Corey Flynn, Hornberger Lab, Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Biology, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1345 HSLC

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

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

8:00 AM         Oncology Grand Rounds:  ASH Updates – Part 1: Lymphoma & Hematology; Speakers:  Vaishalee Kenkre, MD, Assoc. Prof. of Medicine; Julie Change, MD, Assoc. Prof. CHS; Thorunn Thordardottir, MD, Hematology/Oncology Fellow; Elyse Harris, MD, Clinical Asst. Prof., UW-Madison.

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:  Inflammation and cancer: from basic mechanisms to therapeutic targets; Speaker:  Lisa M. Coussens, PhD, Prof. of Cell, Developmental, & Cancer Biology, Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University.

Join in person:  1345 HSLC

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

 12:00 PM        Neuroscience Seminar:  Patient-based structural biology of protein misfolding in health and disease; Speaker: Anthony Fitzpatrick, PhD, Asst. Prof. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University.

Join in person:  3571 WIMR II

 3:00 PM          RNA Collaborative Seminar:  Molecular warfare between plants and microbes at the RNA level; Speaker:  Dennis Halterman, USDA/ARS Vegetable Crops Research Unit and Dept. of Plant Pathology, UW-Madison; The role of mRNA modifications in ribosomal decoding: a molecular dynamics study; Speaker:  Mark Lea, University of Lethbridge; Back to the future: how ancient ribosomes could unlock efficient biotech; Speaker:  Jessica Willi, PhD, Asst. Prof., Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge.

 3:30 PM          Genetics Colloquium:  TBD; Speaker:  Bret Payseur, PhD, Prof. of Genetics, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center

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

Thursday, February 13, 2025

9:00 AM         Pathology Seminar:  A tale of two protists: insights into how cross-kingdom interactions between commensal microeukaryotes and their hosts shape gut mucosal immunity; Speaker:  Marienela Heredia, PhD Candidate (Knoll Lab), Medical Microbiology & Immunology, UW-Madison

Join in person:  1325 HSLC

12:00 PM        Wisconsin Blood Cancer Research Institute Colloquium:  Role of SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes in normal and leukemic hemopoiesis; Speaker: Julie Lessard, PhD, Assoc. Prof. of Medicine, Dept. of Pathology and Cell Biology, University of Montreal.

Join in person: 5001A WIMR

 12:10 PM        Molecular Virology Seminar:  CTCF and HSV-1: making the connections necessary for efficient

viral reactivation; Speaker:  Donna Neumann, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences

12:30 PM        Evolution Seminar:  The gene’s-eye view of evolution; Speaker:  J. Arvid Agren, PhD, Research Associate, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic.

Join in person:  1111 Genetics/Biotech

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/s/94224213290

Friday, February 14, 2025

8:00 AM         Medicine Grand Rounds:  Unravelling Systems of Resolution of Inflammation in Asthma; Speaker:  Bruce Levy, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Prof. of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Join in person:  UH G5/119 Clinical Sciences Center

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98868717831?pwd=RTFndGNJVzJCeWFabVYvb1BHbVJyQT09    

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