Seminar list for this week: April 7-11
Monday, April 7, 2025
12:00 PM Problems in Precision Medicine and Genomics Seminar: Many brain disorders have sex-biased prevalence. Why is it so challenging to find sex-differential genomic signals in brain?; Speaker: Donna Werling, PhD, Asst. Prof. of Genetics, UW-Madison.
Join in person: 2798 WIMR
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/99776513436?pwd=E7uqjiCYLmJ0OvoXLGwq6OEtF4eCpe.1
3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: Natural Product Antibiotics: Past, Present, Future; Speaker: Mohammad Seyedsayamdost, PhD, Prof. of Chemistry, Princeton University.
Join in person: 1211 DeLuca Biochemical Sciences
3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: The role of NSD2 in the survival of prostate cancer during androgen deprivation therapy; Speaker: Zachery Schultz (Advisor: David Jarrard, MD); Phosphatidylinositol Transfer Proteins are essential mediators of the PARP1–GCN5 interaction; Speaker: Colin Sterling (Advisor: Vince Cryns, MD).
Join in person: 6571 WIMR II
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
12:00 PM Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar: Rhesus macaque iPSCs for in vitro modeling of genetic frontotemporal dementia; Speaker: Julia Colwell, PhD candidate, Cellular and Molecular Pathology, UW-Madison.
Join in person: DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96958883460 (Passcode: 970506)
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
8:00 AM Oncology Grand Rounds: The AYA Oncology Program at the University of Chicago: Making the cancer journey a little less sucky; Speaker: Adam DuVall, MD, MPH, Prof., Dept. of Medicine, University of Chicago.
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: Investigating the impact of biological sex on cancer metabolism; Speaker: Joseph Ippolito, MD, PhD, Assoc. Prof. of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine.
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 Neuroscience Seminar: TBA; Skyler Jackman, PhD, Assist. Scientist, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University.
Join in person: 3571 WIMR II
12:00 PM Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Student Seminar: Larvicide Resistance and Cross-resistance in the Culex pipiens Assemblage; Speaker: Ali Ross (Bartholomay/Paskewitz Lab), SVM, Pathobiological Sciences/CALS Entomology, UW-Madison.
Join in person: 2255 SVM
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97494138421?pwd=Ibgk6RQ1wi9chQlghKlRrQ4hCn57NM.1 (Meeting ID: 974 9413 8421, Passcode: 930)
3:00 PM RNA Collaborative Seminar: Discovery and Therapeutic Applications of RNA “Stitching”; Speaker: Doug Anderson, PhD, Asst. Prof. of Medicine, University of Rochester; High-Throughput Identification of Small Molecule Inhibitors Targeting OncoMiR-181a for Cancer Therapy; Speaker: Grace McIntyre, PhD Candidate, Dept. of Pathology, University of Michigan; Real-time Monitoring of Ligand Recognition by a Riboswitch during Transcription; Speaker: Adrien Chauvier, PhD, Research Lab Specialist, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Michigan.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QYg_EA_uSkK2CB987gltVA
3:30 PM Genetics Colloquium: The paradox of scale in viral evolution and emergence; Speaker: Thomas Friedrich, PhD, Prof., Dept. of Pathobiological Sciences, UW-Madison.
Join in person: 1111 Genetics/Biotechnology Center
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98087850165?pwd=azZ5Q3diR0tXb2p4UTBxTDVZVkJkZz09
Thursday, April 10, 2025
9:00 AM Pathology Seminar: Intracellular Monitoring by Dendritic Cells: Emerging Mechanisms and Implications; Botond Igyártó, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Microbiology, Thomas Jefferson University.
Join in person: 1325 HSLC
11:00 AM Nutritional Sciences Seminar: Mitochondria, Energy Constraints, and Cellular Aging; Speaker: Martin Picard, PhD, Assoc. Prof. of Behavioral Medicine, Columbia University.
Join in person: 290 Nutritional Sciences
12:10 PM Molecular Virology Seminar: Viral manipulation of host chromatin; Speakers: Daphne Avgousti, PhD, Assoc. Prof. of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami.
Join in person: 1211 Biochemical Sciences Auditorium
12:30 PM Evolution Seminar: Evolutionary inference in natural populations of non-model organisms using species-specific genomic resources; Speaker: Maria Akopyan, NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology, Dept. of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, UC Riverside.
Join in person: 1111 Genetics/Biotech
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/s/94224213290
Friday, April 11, 2025
8:00 AM Medicine Grand Rounds: How Gene Therapy Saves Sickle Cell Disease (Hint – It Is Not What You Think); Speaker: Julie Kanter, MD, Div. of Hematology and Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Join in person: UH G5/119 Clinical Sciences Center
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96606196474?pwd=emVuZk5qNUN2cUN6MzBmUVRvKy80UT09
(Password: grandround)
12:00 PM Comparative Biomedical Sciences Dissertation Defense: Viral and bacterial pathogens in sanctuary chimpanzees across Africa; Speaker: Emily Dunay (Advisor: Dr. Tony Goldberg), SVM – Pathobiological Sciences, UW-Madison.
Join in person: 2255 School of Veterinary Medicine
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98052720752?pwd=WxBjF8Lr1DreINigfMEbZq8h87libr.1
(Meeting ID: 980 5272 0752, Passcode: 544206)
12:00 PM John D. Wiley Seminar: The PI3K-mTOR Pathway in Neurodevelopment and Disease; Speaker: Harley Kornblum, MD, PhD, Prof. of Pediatrics Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences Pediatric Neurology, University of California-Los Angeles.
Join in person: T216 Waisman Center