Select Seminar list for this week: May 12-16

Monday, May 12, 2025

3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  CARM1 and PARP1: Unraveling the molecular interactions governing DNA repair and genomic stability; Speaker: Mason McGuire (Advisor: Wei Xu, PhD); Microenvironmental factors that influence metastasis in High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer (HGSOC); Speaker: Larkin Clem (Advisor: Pam Kreeger, PhD).

Join in person:  6571 WIMR II

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

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Wednesday, May 14, 2025

8:00 AM         Oncology Grand Rounds:  A 2025 Roadmap for Progress in the Melanoma Clinic that Includes Directions from Man and Woman’s Best Friend; Speaker: Mark Albertini, MD, Prof. of Hematology, Medical Oncology and Palliative Care, Div. of the School of Medicine & Public Health, Dept. of Medicine, 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:  Dances with nuclear condensates: establishment of heterochromatin compartments and nucleolar interactions; Speaker: Gary Karpen, PhD, Prof., Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley.

Join in person:  1345 HSLC

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96369895715

(Meeting ID: 963 6989 5715)   (Passcode: 872480)

Thursday, May 15, 2025

11:00 AM       Global Infectious Disease Seminar:  Exploring the clinical significance of co-infection with pegiviruses; Speaker: Jason Blackard, PhD, Prof. of Medicine, Dept. of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati.

Join in person:  117 AIDS Vaccine Research Laboratory

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94882022023

12:00 PM        Wisconsin Blood Cancer Research Institute Colloquium:  Molecular machines that safeguard our chromosome ends; Speaker: Jane Churpek, MD, MS, Assoc. Prof. of Medicine and Ci Ji Lim, Asst. Prof. of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Join in person:  5001A WIMR

Friday, May 16, 2025

8:00 AM         Medicine Grand Rounds:  Pregnancy’s Silent Echo: Hypertensive Disorders and Atherosclerotic Heart Disease; Speakers: Kara Hoppe, DO, PhD, Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UW School of Medicine and Public Health; Allexa Licon, MD, Div. of Cardiovascular Medicine, UW School of Medicine and Public Health.

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/95267427223?pwd=MlVrZ1k1cjRQbWFmSXRrZmNiOFB1Zz09

(Password: grandround)

 12:00 PM        Cancer Biology Dissertation Defense:  Translational potential of patient-derived cancer organoids to study tumor heterogeneity and precision medicine; Speaker: Shirsa Udgata (Advisor: Dustin Deming, MD).

Join in person:  1345 HSLC

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91031159491?pwd=4pM74NglOz8oF6tcICfzkLlJtFyqaA.1

(Meeting ID: 910 3115 9491; Passcode: 942674)

 2:00 PM          Cellular & Molecular Pathology Defense:  Single cell and spatial characterization of the tumor microenvironment in squamous cell carcinomas; Speaker: Athena Golfinos-Owens (Advisor: Huy Dinh, PhD).

Join in person:  6571 WIMR II