Seminar list for this week: March 31-April 4

Monday, March 31, 2025

3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  DNA repair mechanisms involved in bacterial resistance to genotoxic natural products; Speaker: Brandt Eichman, PhD, Prof. and Chair of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University.

Join in person: 1211 DeLuca Biochemical Sciences

3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Versican status in the tumor microenvironment impacts inflammatory pathway expression and immune infiltration; Speaker: Ruchi Shah (Advisor: Dustin Deming, MD).

Join in person:  6571 WIMR II

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

10:00 AM       Cancer Biology Dissertation Defense:  Delivery of plasmid DNA vaccines with checkpoint blockade or lipid nanoparticles to improve anti-tumor efficacy; Speaker: Jena Moseman (Advisor: Doug McNeel, MD, PhD)

Join in person:  1306 HSLC

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/95628831333?pwd=LLqehFDBaDuiJHpdyc2JK7xAuqeBE6.1

 12:00 PM        Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar:  Seminar with the 2025 Wisconsin Stem Cell Graduate Scholar Awardees; Speaker: Adam Hall, PhD Candidate from Drexel University; Bruno Ghirotto, PhD Student from Max Planck Institute; Katherina Tavernini, PhD Student from Austrian Academy of Sciences; Shiyu Xiao, PhD Candidate from Northwestern University; Nivedeta Krishna Kumar, PhD Candidate from University of Nebraska; Morgen VanderGiessen, PhD Candidate from Virginia Tech.

Join in person:  DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building

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

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

8:00 AM         Oncology Grand Rounds:  What Role of Psychedelic Drugs in Palliative Care?; Speaker: Paul Hutson, Pharm D, BCOP, Professor, School of Pharmacy, 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:  The long journey into the genome of B Cell Lymphoma; Speaker: Ricardo Della-Favera, MD, Prof. of Pathology and Cell Biology, Genetics and Development, and Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University.

Join in person:  1345 HSLC

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96369895715?pwd=bPF1FGGfcaNP1bavmXvSwskbDklzEA.1&from=addon  (Meeting ID: 963 6989 5715)   (Passcode: 872480)

12:00 PM        Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Student Seminar:  CAR T cell dependence on native T cell surface molecules for AML killing; Speaker: Lauren Mahoney (Advisor: Dr. Becky Richards), SVM, Hematology.

Join in person:  2255 SVM

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97494138421?pwd=Ibgk6RQ1wi9chQlghKlRrQ4hCn57NM.1 (Meeting ID:  974 9413 8421, Passcode:  930)

1:20 PM          Scientific Accountability Seminar:  Lacking Benefit: Vampirism in Modern Human Genomics; Speaker: Matt Anderson, PhD, Assoc. Prof. of Genetics, UW-Madison.

Join in person: 1111 Genetics/Biotech

3:30 PM          Genetics Colloquium:  TBA; Speaker: Zach Burton, PhD, Prof. Emeritus, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Michigan State University.

Join in person:  1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center

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

Thursday, April 3, 2025

11:00 AM       Nutritional Sciences Seminar:  Connecting Nutrition to Soil Science Through the Dairy Innovation Hub; Speaker: Matt Ruark, PhD, Prof., Dept. of Soil and Environmental Sciences, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  290 Nutritional Sciences

12:00 PM        Pathology Grand Rounds:  ALIGNING WITH VALUES a tool for personal and organizational transformation; Speaker: Sarah Webber, MD, Dept. of Pediatrics, UW-Madison.

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

12:00 PM        Wisconsin Blood Cancer Research Institute Colloquium:  Mechanistic studies of

leukemogenesis; Speaker: Roberta Dollinger/Steven Tur (Brand lab), Dept. of Cell and Regenerative Biology, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  5001A WIMR

12:10 PM        Molecular Virology Seminar:  Innate and intrinsic immunity in primate retina and the effect on gene delivery; Speakers: Curtis Brandt, PhD, Prof., Depts of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Medical Microbiology & Immunology, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences Auditorium

12:30 PM        Evolution Seminar:  The Eco-Evolutionary Implications of Climate Dipoles; Speaker: Benjamin Zuckerberg, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Forest & Wildlife Ecology, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1111 Genetics

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

1:30 PM          Genomics Seminar:  Identifying hidden states in the central nervous system; Speaker: Abbas Rizvi, PhD, Asst. Prof. of Neuroscience, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  Biotechnology Center Auditorium

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91997162129

Friday, April 4, 2025

8:00 AM         Medicine Grand Rounds:  Social and Structural Drivers of Dementia Risk and Resilience; Speaker: Jennifer Manly, PhD, Dept. of Neurology, Columbia University.

Join in person:  UH G5/119 Clinical Sciences Center

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91861507080?pwd=QTdqN1lxdHlINTM4VWtxNXh2azBFUT09

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