Seminar list for this week: March 3-7

March 3, 2025

Monday, March 3, 2025 10:00 AM Tumor Virology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Exploring the Structure and Dynamics of Viral Glycoproteins in Membranes through Cryo-Electron Tomography; Speaker: Wenwei Li, Assoc. Research Scientist, Yale University School of Medicine. Join in person: 1345 HSLC 3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: Targeting epigenetic readers: Novel approaches to manage inflammation, diabetes, and cancer; Speaker: Brian Smith, PhD, Assoc. Prof. of Biochemistry, Medical College of Wisconsin. Join in person: 1211 Biochemical Sciences Join via Zoom: https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq 3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: Exploring the interaction between TAMs and CD8+ T cells in ccRCC with microfluidic devices; Speaker: Yuanshan Li (Advisor: David Beebe, PhD). Join in person: 6571 WIMR II Tuesday, March 4, 2025 11:00 AM Biomolecular Chemistry Faculty Candidate Seminar: Navigating the Single-Molecule Landscape of Transcription; Speaker: Hin Ling, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University. Join in person: 1211 Biochemical Sciences Auditorium 12:00 PM Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar: Metabolic Modulation to Minimize Graft-versus-host Disease and Promote Anti-cancer Immunity; Speaker: Craig Byersdorfer, MD, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Pediatrics, Div. of Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, University of Minnesota. Join in person: DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96958883460 (Passcode: 970506) Wednesday, March 5, 2025 8:00 AM Oncology Grand Rounds: ASH Updates, Part II: Myeloma & Leukemia; Speakers: Natalie Callander, MD, Prof., Hematology, Medical Oncology and Palliative Care, UW-Madison; Timothy Schmidt, MD, Asst. Prof., Hematology, Medical Oncology and Palliative Care, UW-Madison; Kalyan VC Nadiminti, MD, Asst. Prof., Hematology, Medical Oncology and Palliative Care, 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: Bedside-to-bench approaches for modeling treatment resistance in breast cancer; Speaker: Prasanna Alluri, MD, PhD, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96369895715 (Passcode: 872480) 12:00 PM Neuroscience Seminar: TBD; Speaker: Stanislav Zakharenko, MD, PhD, Dept. of Developmental Neurobiology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, St. Jude Children’s Hospital. Join in person: 3571 WIMR II 3:30 PM Genetics Colloquium: TBD; Speaker: Charles Boone, PhD, Prof., Dept. of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto. Join in person: 1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98087850165?pwd=azZ5Q3diR0tXb2p4UTBxTDVZVkJkZz09 Thursday, March 6, 2025 12:00 PM Pathology Grand Rounds: Chromosomal instability as a marker and mechanism of radiation sensitivity in head and neck cancer; Speaker: Pippa Cosper, MD, PhD, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Human Oncology, UW-Madison. Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94806170454?pwd=0Pa2ZiE95PZcffLx7aJK7sNKJcZc6F.1 12:00 PM Wisconsin Blood Cancer Research Institute Colloquium: Targeting the immune microenvironment in myeloid leukemia through epigenetic modulation; Speaker: Jing Zhang, PhD, Prof. of Oncology, UW-Madison. Join in person: 5001A WIMR 12:10 PM Molecular Virology Seminar: Host polymerase hijacking of high-risk HPVs through the viral life cycle; Speaker: Kavi Mehta, PhD, Dept. of Comparative Biosciences, UW-Madison. Join in person: 1211 Biochemical Sciences Auditorium 12:30 PM Evolution Seminar: Studying the invasion and evolution of Amanita muscaria from a natural product lens; Speaker: Grant Nickles, PhD student, Dept. of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, UW-Madison. Join in person: 1111 Genetics/Biotech Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/s/94224213290 1:30 PM Genomics Seminar: Protein language models: Teaching old sequences new tricks; Speaker: Anthony Gitter, PhD, Assoc. Prof. of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, UW-Madison. Join in person: Biotechnology Center Auditorium Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91997162129 Friday, March 7, 2025 8:00 AM Medicine Grand Rounds: Diverticulitis: Evolution in Science and Management; Speaker: Lisa Strate, MD, MPH, Div. of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96632632635?pwd=aUk4aHpqOXJzcitTcG1Ybk9rUlpxQT09 (Password: grandround)