Seminar list for this week: April 28-May 2

April 28, 2025

Monday, April 28, 2025 3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: Phase separation, emergent properties of condensates and effects on selected disease processes; Speaker: Tanja Mittag, PhD, Dept. of Structural Biology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Join in person: 1211 DeLuca Biochemical Sciences Join via Zoom: https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq 3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: Temporal dynamics of cancer cell-intrinsic cGAS-STING mediated type 1 IFN response after fractionated radiotherapy; Speaker: Yeseo Choi (Advisor: Pippa Cosper, MD, PhD); Contributions of DNA tumor viruses to oncoprotein-induced replication stress; Speaker: Christopher Collins, PhD (Spurgeon Lab). Join in person: 6571 WIMR II Tuesday, April 29, 2025 12:00 PM Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar: Using human pluripotent stem cells to model human development and disease; Speaker: Paul Gaude, PhD, Assoc. Director, Human Embryonic Stem Core, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Join in person: Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96958883460 (Passcode: 970506) Wednesday, April 30, 2025 8:00 AM Oncology Grand Rounds: The Role of Rural Providers and Hospitals in Supporting Patients and Communities Across the Care Continuum; Speaker: Whitney Zahnad, PhD, Asst. Prof. of Health Management and Policy, University of Iowa. 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 Goldilocks Histone: How Genomic Stability Requires Centromeres to Be Epigenetically ‘Just Right’; Speaker: Yael Nechemia-Arbely, PhD, Asst. Prof. of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh. Join in person: 1345 HSLC Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96369895715 (Meeting ID: 963 6989 5715) (Passcode: 872480) 3:30 PM Genetics Colloquium: TBA; Speaker: Mia Levine, PhD, Assoc. Chair & Prof. of Biology, University of Pennsylvania. Join in person: 1111 Genetics-Biotechnology Center Join via Zoom: https://genetics.wisc.edu/colloquium/ 4:00 PM Neuroscience Seminar: Woolsey Lecture; Speaker: TBA. Join in person: 1345 HSLC Thursday, May 1, 2025 11:00 AM Nutritional Sciences Seminar: Two Tales of Mutations in Pancreatic Lipases: Fat Maldigestion and Pancreatitis; Speaker: Xunjun Xiao, PhD, Assoc. Prof. of Pediatrics, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, & Nutrition, Washington University in St. Louis. Join in person: 290 Nutritional Sciences 12:00 PM Wisconsin Blood Cancer Research Institute Colloquium: TBA; Speaker: Xin Gao, Asst. Prof. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UW-Madison. Join in person: 5001A WIMR 12:00 PM Pathology Seminar: Too Much Work, Too Few People: Workload & Staffing Strategies; Speaker: Christina Kong, MD, FACOG, Prof. of Pathology, Stanford University. Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94806170454?pwd=0Pa2ZiE95PZcffLx7aJK7sNKJcZc6F.1 12:10 PM Molecular Virology Seminar: Viral dissemination and spike structure dynamics between feline coronavirus pathotypes; Speaker: Phoenix Shepherd, PhD student, Molecular Virology, Cellular & Molecular Pathology, UW-Madison. Join in person: 1211 Biochemical Sciences 12:30 PM Evolution Seminar: Comparison of mutation rates in different ploidy states of Schizosaccharomyces pombe as a test of the drift-barrier hypothesis; Speaker: Kevin Bao, PhD student, Dept. of Genetics, UW-Madison. Join in person: 1111 Genetics/Biotech Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/s/94224213290 2:00 PM Biochemistry Special Seminar: Creating a drug for an ‘undruggable’ oncogene in Ewing sarcoma; Speaker: Jeffrey Toretsky, PhD, Prof. and Peds Hematology-Oncology Div. Director, Georgetown University. Join in person: 1211 DeLuca Biochemical Sciences Friday, May 2, 2025 8:00 AM Medicine Grand Rounds: Contingency Planning in Patients who Inject Drugs with Serious Bacterial Infections; Speaker: Haley Probst, MD; Div. of General Internal Medicine, UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Join in person: UH G5/119 Clinical Sciences Center Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/99046156680?pwd=VUJOQnpwdmlXcVMzaTgxSFRNR1FYUT09 (Password: grandround)