Seminar list for this week: November 10-14

Monday, November 10, 2025

3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Leveraging dose heterogeneity from radiopharmaceutical therapy enhances Lutetium-177 anti-tumor efficacy via increased immune response; Speaker: Maya Takashima (Advisor: Zach Morris MD, PhD); Spatial and Epigenetic Mechanisms of AAV2 Persistence; Speaker: Rhiannon Abrahams (Advisor: Kinjal Majumder, PhD).

Join in person:  6571 WIMR II

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

12:00 PM        Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar:  Nuclei have Heart: A hERG1 Channel Subdomain Targets the Nucleus; Speaker: David Jones, PhD, Prof. of Pharmacology, University of Michigan Medical School.

Join in person:  Orchard View Room in WID

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

5:30 PM          RNA Maxi Group:  Harnessing RNA endonucleases to control gene outputs; Speaker: Jeremy Wilusz, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Baylor College of Medicine.

Join in person:  2131 DeLuca Biochemistry Building

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

11:00 AM       Cancer Biology Seminar:  Modeling tumor genome structure and function; Speaker: Emma Watson, PhD, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Systems Biology, UMass Chan Medical School.

Join in person:  1345 HSLC

12:00 PM        Neuroscience Seminar:  TBA; Speaker: David Ehrlich, PhD, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Integrative Biology, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  3571 WIMR II

12:00 PM        Comparative Biomedical Sciences Seminar:  Decoding the role of the neuropeptide receptor PAC1 in tumor-infiltrating pericytes in melanoma development and progression; Speaker: Brajesh Savita, SMPH-Dermatology.

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:

Aspects of the TOR complex; Determining the importance of the RAPTOR gene; Speaker: Erin Alberts, Genetics PhD Student, UW-Madison; Defining the functional genomic architecture underlying high phosphorus use efficiency in Grevillea lanigera; Speaker: Ryan Martinez, Genetics PhD Student, 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:  Mesenchymal Stromal Cells, Fat Tissue Remodeling, and Fibrosis Responses; Speaker: Patrick Seale, PhD, Prof. of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania.

Join in person:  1335 HSLC

5:00 PM          RNA Collaborative Seminar:  Temporal control of CRISPR-Cas9 activity using bio-orthogonal chemistry; Speaker: Maksim Royzen, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Chemistry & The RNA Institute, University at Albany; The emergence of antibiotics resistance and the function of small regulatory RNAs in bacteria; Speaker: Eric Massé, PhD, Prof., Dept. of Biochemistry and Genomics, Université de Sherbrooke.

Join via Zoom:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_r_XhpgFNQqS7sHA7F-keXA

Thursday, November 13, 2025

9:00 AM         Pathology Seminar:  Molecular mechanisms of pain signaling – blame it on the messenger; Speaker: Zachary Campbell, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Anesthesiology, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1325 HSLC

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

12:10 PM        Molecular Virology Seminar:  High-Throughput Characterization of Chromatin Dysregulation Induced by Human Viral Transcriptional Regulators; Speaker: Jame Corban (Raman Lab), Dept. of Biochemistry

UW-Madison; How GCN2 and the Integrated Stress Response Regulate the Antiviral Response; Speaker: Angela Meyer (Campbell Lab), Dept. of Anesthesiology UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences Auditorium

12:30 PM        Evolution Seminar:  Interspecies chemical elicitation: bacterial interactions for antimicrobial discovery; Speaker: Andrés Cumsille, Postdoctoral Researcher, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Dept. of Plant Pathology, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  212 Animal Sciences

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

Friday, November 14, 2025

8:00 AM         Medicine Grand Rounds:  Revolutionizing Tuberculosis Treatment: New Drugs, New Tools; Speaker: Kelly E. Dooley, MD, PhD, MPH, Director, Division of Infectious Diseases, Prof. of Medicine & Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University.

Join in person:  UH G5/119 Clinical Sciences Center

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98899919844?pwd=TaCCEEslZmBnQagZGctvQRIkRJ59a5.1

 (Password: grandround)

12:00 PM        Medical Microbiology & Immunology Seminar:  Tuft Cells at the Nexus of Diet, Microbiome, and Mucosal Immunity; Speaker: Claire O’Leary, PhD, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Pediatrics, Div. of Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1520 Microbial Sciences Building