Seminar list for this week: March 3-7

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)