Seminar list for this week: February 10-14

February 10, 2025

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 (Password: grandround)