Seminar list for this week: February 17-21

Monday, February 17, 2025

3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  MicroED solution to the MP20 enigma; Speaker: Tamir Gonen, PhD, Prof. of Biological Chemistry and Physiology, University of California-Los Angeles.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences

 3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Dose heterogeneity from radiopharmaceutical therapy enhances the anti-tumor immune response; Speaker:  Maya Takashima (Advisor: Zach Morris, MD, PhD); Characterizing EBV-positive DLBCL: patient tumors and model cell lines; Speaker:  Quincy Rosemarie, PhD (Johannsen Lab).

Join in person:  6571 WIMR II

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

12:00 PM        Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar:  Girk3 in bone development and disease; Speaker:  Samantha Weaver, PhD, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Comparative Biosciences, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  Discovery Building, Orchard View

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

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

11:00 AM       Cancer Biology Seminar:  Function of the human non-canonical inflammasomes during innate immune activation; Speaker:  Cornelius Taabazuing, PhD, Asst. Prof. of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania.

Join in person:  1345 HSLC

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

 12:00 PM        Comparative Biomedical Sciences Student Seminar:  Myeloid Derived Growth Factor: A Target of Neutrophil-Driven Inflammation; Speaker:  Frannie Smith, SMPH, Medical Microbiology & Immunology.

Join in person:  2255 SVM

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97494138421?pwd=Ibgk6RQ1wi9chQlghKlRrQ4hCn57NM.1

(Meeting ID: 974 9413 8421      Passcode: 930)

3:30 PM          Genetics Colloquium:  Control of Ooctye Meiotic Maturation and the Oocyte-to-Embryo Transition in C. elegans; Speaker:  David Greenstein, PhD, Prof. of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota.

Join in person:  1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center

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

Thursday, February 20, 2025

9:00 AM         Pathology Grand Rounds:  Polyp Patrol: A Pathologist’s Guide to Colonic Polyposis Syndromes; Speaker:  Byoung Uk Park, MD, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94806170454?pwd=0Pa2ZiE95PZcffLx7aJK7sNKJcZc6F.1

11:00 AM       Nutritional Sciences Seminar:  Mechanisms of diet-microbiota-immune interactions during autoimmunity; Speaker: Maggie Alexander, PhD, Asst. Prof. of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  290 Nutritional Sciences

12:10 PM        Molecular Virology Seminar: Viral dissemination and spike structure dynamics between feline

coronavirus pathotypes; Speaker:  Phoenix Shepherd, PhD, Molecular Virology, Cellular & Molecular Pathology, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences

12:30 PM        Evolution Seminar:  Deciphering diets: The role of sociality in primate nutritional ecology; Speaker:  Margaret Bryer, PhD, Prof., Dept. of Anthropology, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1360 Genetics/Biotech

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

1:30 PM          Bio-Tech Talks:  Is It Me You’re Looking For? A Multi-Platform and Cross-Site Evaluation of Technologies and Methods Used for DNA Methylation Profiling; Speaker:  Molly Zeller, Lab Manager, UWBC DNA Sequencing Core Facility, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1111 Biotechnology Center

Join via Zoom:  https://go.wisc.edu/b50t6j

Friday, February 21, 2025

8:00 AM         Medicine Grand Rounds:  Providing Care to Patients with Advanced Lung Disease in a New Era of Advanced Treatment; Speaker:  Erin Lowery, MD, MS, Assoc. Prof., Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health, UW-Madison.

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/95549475950?pwd=cEtlaXdZYXNITnlXT2FZYkkzNzltZz09   (Password: grandround)