Seminar list for this week: February 24-28

Monday, February 24, 2025

10:00 AM       Tumor Virology Faculty Candidate Seminar:  Complex Transcriptional Control of Viral Gene Expression; Speaker:  David Morgens, PhD, Posdoctoral Researcher, University of California – Berkeley.

Join in person: 1325 HSLC

 3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Nuclear Phosphoinositides on p53: A Novel Therapeutic Target for TNBC; Speaker:  Muhammad Salah (Advisor: Vince Cryns, MD); Exploring the mechanism underlying HIV-1 viral assembly using super-resolution microscopy; Speaker:  Dhaval Ghone (Advisor: Aussie Suzuki, PhD).

Join in person:  6571 WIMR II

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

11:00 AM       Biomolecular Chemistry Faculty Candidate Seminar:  Connecting R-loops and G-quadruplexes to Genome Organization Through a Proteomics Screen; Speaker:  Phillip Wulfridge, PhD, Wistar Institute.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences Auditorium

 12:00 PM        Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar:  ISSCR Initiatives & Resources: Supporting the Global Stem Cell Research Community; Speaker:  Chris Barry, PhD, Director of Strategic Partnerships, ISSCR.

Join in person:  DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building

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

5:30 PM          RNA Maxigroup Seminar:  What forces underlie liquid-liquid phase separation mediated by biopolymers?; Speaker:  Samuel Gellman, PhD, Prof. of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Join in person:  2131 DeLuca Biochemistry

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

11:00 AM       Cancer Biology Seminar:  Dissecting the cytokine microenvironment of AML CAR T cell therapy; Speaker:  Becky Richards, MD, PhD, Asst. Prof., Div. of Hematology, Oncology, Transplant, and Cellular Therapy, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1335 HSLC

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

 3:30 PM          Genetics Colloquium:  TBD; Speaker:  Lillian Fritz-Laylin, PhD, Prof., Dept. of Biology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Join in person:  1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center

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

Thursday, February 27, 2025

9:00 AM         Pathology Seminar:  Engineering tissue microenvironments in vitro for investigating disease progression; Speaker:  Maria Virumbrales-Muñoz, PhD, Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1325 HSLC

12:10 PM        Molecular Virology Seminar:  Structure-function links in nodavirus RNA replication complex crowns; Speaker:  Johan den Boon, PhD, Rowe Center for Virology, Morgridge Institute for Research, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences Auditorium

12:30 PM        Evolution Seminar:  Two decades of bacterial ecology and evolution in a freshwater lake; Speaker:  Trina McMahon, PhD, Prof. of Bacteriology and Civil & Environmental Engineering, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1111 Genetics/Biotech

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

Friday, February 28, 2025

8:00 AM         Medicine Grand Rounds:  Cultivating Compassion in Clinical Education; Speaker:  Sonja Raaum, MD, FACP, Division of General Medicine, University of Utah Hospital.

Join in person:  1325 HSLC

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93034070120?pwd=OUtBWmtTakhRWDJxZ2JORUlzcFZNdz09    

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12:00 PM        Medical Microbiology & Immunology Seminar: Pleural macrophages and viral lung infections; Speaker:  Juliet Morrison, PhD, Asst. Prof., of Microbiology & Plant Pathology, University of California-Riverside.

Join in person:  1520 Microbial Sciences Building