Seminar list for this week: April 14-18

Monday, April 14, 2025

3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Structure and function of NMDA receptors – from neuropharmacology to immunology; Speaker: Hiro Furukawa, PhD, Prof., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Join in person: 1211 DeLuca Biochemical Sciences

3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Creating new lab models for male breast cancer: Studying hormone-dependent tumorigenesis using the ACI rat; Speaker: Kasey Mitchell (Advisor: Wei Xu, PhD); CARM1-Dependent methylation of ZNF703 modulates its oncogenic role in ER-Positive breast cancer; Speaker: Jingjing Zhou (Advisor: Wei Xu, PhD).

Join in person:  6571 WIMR II

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

12:00 PM        Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar:  Dual mechanism of inflammation sensing by the hematopoietic progenitor genome; Speaker: Vu Le-Huy Tran, PhD student, Cancer Biology, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building

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

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

8:00 AM         Oncology Grand Rounds: TBA; Speaker: Dr. Deb Armstrong.

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:  Mechanisms of Chromosomal Instability in Cancer; Speaker: Duane Compton, PhD, Prof. of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Dean of Medical School, Dartmouth Geisel 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; Speaker: Vibhu Sahni, PhD, Asst. Prof. of Neuroscience, Brain and Mind Research Institute, Cornell University.

Join in person:  3571 WIMR II

12:00 PM        Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Student Seminar:  Referred pain: Connections between injured bladder afferents and their uninjured neighbors in dorsal root ganglia; Speaker: Emily Tran (Advisor: Dr. LaTasha Crawford), SVM, Pathobiological Sciences, 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)

Thursday, April 17, 2025

11:00 AM       Nutritional Sciences Seminar:  Leveraging genetics and genomics to nominate novel drivers of insulin secretion; Speaker: Lauren Clark, PhD student (Attie Lab), Nutritional Sciences, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  290 Nutritional Sciences

12:00 PM        Wisconsin Blood Cancer Research Institute Colloquium:  PRMT5 inhibition sensitizes B-cell lymphoma cells to ferroptosis; Speaker: Yunxia Liu (Rui lab), Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Join in person:  5001A WIMR

12:00 PM        Pathology Grand Rounds: Academic Pediatric Neuropathology:  Discussion of Interesting Cases; Speaker: Kelly Mrachek, MD, Asst. Prof. of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin.

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

12:10 PM        Molecular Virology Seminar:  Regulation of rAAV vector expression by host chromatin and cellular DNA damage pathways; Speakers: Clairine Larsen, Graduate Student (Majumder Lab), Institute for Molecular Virology, Cell & Molecular Biology, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences Auditorium

12:30 PM        Evolution Seminar:  Sex-linked gene traffic and the acquisition of sexually dimorphic

UV color vision in Heliconius butterflies; Speaker: Adriana Briscoe, Prof. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine.

Join in person:  Orchard View Room, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery

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

Friday, April 18, 2025

8:00 AM         Medicine Grand Rounds:  Beyond the Language Barrier: An International Medical Graduates Orientation Curriculum for Thriving, Not Just Surviving; Speaker: Mazen Almasry, MBBS, Division of General Internal Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health, UW-Madison.

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        John D. Wiley Seminar:  Neuromodulation of Bioengineered Organoids with Reactive Human Astrocytes; Speaker: Robert Krencik, PhD, Assoc. Prof. of Neurosurgery, Houston Methodist Research Institute.

Join in person:  T216 Waisman Center