Monday, November 3, 2025
3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: Beyond the active site: Structure guided insight into function, mechanism and evolution in bacterial glycoconjugate biosynthesis; Speaker: Karen Allen, PhD, Prof. of Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering, Boston University.
Join in person: 1211 Biochemical Sciences
Join via Zoom: https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq
3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: Combining tumor-specific vaccination with radiopharmaceutical therapy to enhance anti-tumor immunity; Speaker: Daeun Shim (Advisor: Doug McNeel, MD, PhD); Allele salvaging: An unexpected allele provides a therapeutic path for glaucoma; Speaker: Alex Veith, PhD (Bradfield Lab).
Join in person: 6571 WIMR II
3:30 PM Special Seminar Prof. Philipp Kukura (University of Oxford): Unravelling biomolecular self-assembly by single molecule mass measurement; Speaker: Philipp Kukura
Join in person: Chemistry Building, 1315 Seminar Hall
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
12:00 PM Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar: KMT2D acts through both enzyme-dependent and -independent mechanisms to regulate cell fate changes during muscle regeneration; Speaker: Sarah Hachmer (Dilworth Lab), Cellular and Molecular Biology, UW-Madison.
Join in person: Orchard View Room in WID
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91814162149?pwd=AYgwgbFNekOLHyQrj7wUCkxem9b2Yw.1 (Passcode: 970506)
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
8:00 AM Oncology Grand Rounds: From Diagnosis to Thriving: The Role of Health Behaviors in Cancer Survivorship; Speaker: Whitney A. Morelli, PhD, FACSM, Asst. Prof., Research Dir., Dept. of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Medical College of Wisconsin.
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; Speaker: Jeff Martell, PhD, Asst. Prof. of Chemistry, UW-Madison.
Join in person: 3571 WIMR II
12:00 PM Comparative Biomedical Sciences Seminar: Investigating toxic heavy metals in pet dogs and the home environment shared with their owners; Speaker: Michele Salzman, SVM – Surgical Sciences.
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: Adaptation vs sexual selection: exploring the genetic basis of fruit fly phermones across natural populations; Speaker: Myron Child (Pool Lab), Genetics, UW-Madison; TFEB/HLH-30 Maintains Neurotransmission at Neuromuscular Junctions During Aging; Speaker: Manny Alvarez (Richardson Lab), 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: Regeneration Genomics: From omics technologies to mechanism-informed regenerative medicine; Speaker: Yarui Diao, PhD, Assoc. Prof. of Cell Biology, Duke University School of Medicine.
Join in person: 1335 HSLC
Thursday, November 6, 2025
12:00 PM Pathology Grand Rounds: Moving On: Lessons Learned from a Major Lab Relocation; Speaker: Adam Seegmiller, MD, PhD, Prof. of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vice Chair for Clinical Pathology and Clinical Affairs, Executive Medical Dir., Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Clinical Service Center, Vanderbilt University.
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94806170454?pwd=0Pa2ZiE95PZcffLx7aJK7sNKJcZc6F.1
12:00 PM Wisconsin Blood Cancer Research Institute Colloquium: A new model of hematopoiesis; Speaker: Lee Grimes, PhD, Prof., Dept. of Pediatrics, Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
Join in person: 1335 HSLC
12:10 PM Molecular Virology Seminar: Cross-Species Coronavirus Polymerase Structural Virology; Speaker: Robert Kirchdoerfer, PhD, Asst. Prof., Institute for Molecular Virology and Dept. of Biochemistry, UW-Madison.
Join in person: 1211 Biochemical Sciences Auditorium
12:30 PM Evolution Seminar: Here we glow again: How historical contingency shaped the convergent evolution of bioluminescence systems; Speaker: Emily Lau, Postdoctoral scholar, Dept. of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago.
Join in person: 212 Animal Sciences
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92652990691
1:30 PM Genomics Seminar: Genomic Pillars of the Social Brain: Lessons from the Honey Bee; Speaker: Gene Robinson, PhD, Prof. of Entomology, Dir. of Inst. for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Join in person: Biotechnology Center Auditorium
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91997162129
5:00 PM Wisconsin Biosecurity Initiative Seminar: Developing Expertise in High-Containment Research; Speaker: Asuka Nanbo, PhD, School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health at Nagasaki University.
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96790066308?pwd=wljgQ5rNE0fD70t5u3jOJSANXgW8aT.1
(Meeting ID: 967 9006 6308 Passcode: 133504)
Friday, November 7, 2025
8:00 AM Medicine Grand Rounds: Realizing the Vision of a Learning Health System; Speaker: Sunil Kripalani, MD, MSc, SFHM, FACP, Dept. of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98058032349?pwd=ChKbsNHoxpkjaYj8Kmgjh6aWvP9o5n.1
(Password: grandround)
12:00 PM Medical Microbiology & Immunology Seminar: Mapping the Chemistry of Fungi: Linking Biosynthetic Genes to Metabolite Structures; Speaker: Sung Chul Park (Keller Lab), PhD, Medical Microbiology & Immunology, UW-Madison.
Join in person: 1520 Microbial Sciences Building