Seminar list for this week: September 29-October 3

Monday, September 29, 2025

3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Harnessing protective immunity against viruses with pandemic potential; Speaker: Nancy Sullivan, ScD, Prof. of Biology and Virology, Immunology & Microbiology, Boston University.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences

Join via Zoom:  https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq 

3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Single-Cell-Informed Microphysiological System Replicates in vivo Macrophage Regulation of CD8+ T Cell Migration in Renal Cell Carcinoma; Speaker: Yuanshan Li (Advisor: David Beebe, PhD); Deploying bioinformatics to explore the genetics of Diffuse Large B cell Lymphoma (DLBCL) and EBV; Speaker: Quincy Rosemarie, PhD (Johannsen Lab).

Join in person:  6571 WIMR II

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

10:00 AM       Morgridge Metabolism Colloquium:  Intracellular lipid transport in immunoregulation and metabolism; Speaker: Yajing Gao, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles.

Join in person:  DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building

12:00 PM        Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar:  Vcam1 in endothelial and stromal cells regulates hematopoietic stem cell contact with the niche; Speaker: Octavia Santis Larrain, PhD student, Cell and Molecular Pathology, UW-Madison; A Novel Model of Diffuse Midline Glioma in Zebrafish To Define Tumor Initation; Speaker: Alice Alhaj Kadour, PhD student, Cell and Molecular Pathology, UW-Madison.

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

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91814162149?pwd=AYgwgbFNekOLHyQrj7wUCkxem9b2Yw.1  (Passcode: 970506)

 3:00 PM          2025 Hans Ris Memorial Lecture:  Multiple pathways of ribosomal subunit association discovered by time-resolved cryo-EM; Speaker: Joachim Frank, PhD, Prof. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics and Biological Sciences, Columbia University.

Join in person:  DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

8:00 AM         Oncology Grand Rounds:  UW SMPH Office of Social Impact and Belonging: The Next Phase; Speaker: Naomi Takahashi, MSW, LCSW, Director of Social Impact and Belonging, Dept. of Admin., UW-Madison.

Join in person:  G5/119 Clinical Sciences Center

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/s/93531859928?pwd=Fi5HIoh2UP1giTDiAE2VqLZt3dFGuh.1

(Passcode: 466863)

12:00 PM        Neuroscience Seminar:  TBA; Speakers: Ryan Risgaard (Sousa Lab), Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Biology, UW-Madison; Speaker: Zhao Zhang (Chapman Lab), Dept. of Neuroscience, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  3571 WIMR II

12:00 PM        Comparative Biomedical Sciences Seminar:  Microphysiological system of immune–microbiome interactions during early infection; Speaker: Kelsea Sholty, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, SMPH.

Join in person:  2255 SVM

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96127660613?pwd=RH9yoChuu3OwzNGav7TGzD3dAjQMAe.1

(Meeting ID: 961 2766 0613    Passcode: 181054)

3:30 PM          Genetics Colloquium:  TBA; Speaker: Liza Loza, PhD, Dept. of Genetics, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1441 Genetics/Biotechnology Center

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98087850165?pwd=azZ5Q3diR0tXb2p4UTBxTDVZVkJkZz09  

 4:00 PM          Cell and Regenerative Biology Seminar:  Optimizing the efficacy of standard-of-care anti-microtubule therapies; Speaker: Caleb Carlsen, Graduate student (Weaver Lab), Cellular and Molecular Biology, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  7001A WIMR

Thursday, October 2, 2025

12:00 PM        Pathology Grand Rounds:  Solving the Puzzle of Unexplained Outbreaks With a Multidisciplinary Approach; Wun-Juh Shieh, MD, MPH, PhD.

Join in person:  1345 HSLC

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

12:10 PM        Molecular Virology Seminar:  Human Metapneumovirus: A Tale of Two Interferons; Speaker: John Williams, MD, Prof., Chair, Dept. of Pediatrics, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences Auditorium

12:30 PM        Evolution Seminar:  Introgression and parental conflict shape repeated occurrences of postzygotic isolation; Speaker: Megan Frayer, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University.

Join in person:  212 Animal Sciences

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92652990691  

1:30 PM          Genomics Seminar:  The Blurred Line Between Genes and Environments: Insights from GWAS of Family Members’ Phenotypes; Speaker: Qiongshi Lu, PhD, Assoc. Prof. of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  Biotechnology Center Auditorium

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91997162129

1:30 PM          Microbiology Dissertation Defense:  Why is the DNA virus Hepatitis B not a RNA virus? – Understanding virion morphogenesis in HBV; Speaker: Abena Kissi-Twum (Advisor: Dan Loeb, PhD).

Join in person:  6571 WIMR II

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97634935298?pwd=33NanXKV0m4vtVB16y6lEE3aiKbRQM.1

(Meeting ID: 976 3493 5298    Passcode: 738274)

 Friday, October 3, 2025

8:00 AM         Medicine Grand Rounds:  Into the Wild: Vaccine Recommendations and Changes to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices; Speaker: Jonathan Temte, MD, PhD, Dept. of Family Medicine and Community Health, UW School of Medicine and Public Health.

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/99333585427?pwd=9i8Oatb43qbItTGwlvobC0jLmFwoP8.1

 (Password: grandround)