Seminar list for this week: April 28-May 2

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)