Seminar list for this week: November 17-21

Monday, November 17, 2025

12:00 PM        Precision Medicine Seminar:  Turning harmful inborn errors of metabolism into benign biochemical abnormalities; Speaker: Sander Houten, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Join in person:  2798 WIMR West Wedge

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94806573353?pwd=p2JDBPbelaAIDgQw6LvIZbv6TTOA8p.1

3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Synthetic Lethality of mRNA Quality Control; Speaker: William Pappano, PhD, Research Fellow and Senior Principal Research Scientist, AbbVie.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences

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

3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Nuclear Phosphoinositides on p53: A Novel Therapeutic Target for Mutant p53 Cancers; Speaker: Muhammad Salah (Advisor: Vincent Cryns, MD); Creating New Models for Male Breast Cancer: Hormone-Dependent Tumorigenesis using the ACI rat; Speaker: Kasey Mitchell (Advisor: Wei Xu, PhD).

Join in person:  6571 WIMR II

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

12:00 PM        Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar:  Decoding Cardiotoxicity with Human iPSCs and CRISPR Screens; Speaker: Chun Liu, PhD, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin.

Join in person:  Orchard View Room in WID

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

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

8:00 AM         Oncology Grand Rounds:  Implementing Evidence-based Cancer Care in Rural (and Non Rural) Settings; Speaker: Shellie Ellis, PhD, Visiting Prof., Dept. of Medicine, Hematology, Medical Oncology and Palliative Care, 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:  Unlocking the Hidden Proteome; Speaker: Iain Cheeseman, PhD, Prof. of Biology, Assoc. Dept. Head, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Join in person:  1345 HSLC

12:00 PM        Comparative Biomedical Sciences Seminar:  A multimodal pipeline leveraging artificial intelligence to improve the accuracy and efficiency of lameness detection in beef cattle; Speaker: Fernando Valle, SVM- Medical 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)

Thursday, November 20, 2025

11:00 AM       Nutritional Sciences Seminar:  A Commensal-Derived Sugar Protects Against Obesity; Speaker: Neil Surana, MD, Ph.D., Duke University.

Join in person:  290 Nutritional Sciences
Join online:  https://go.wisc.edu/4cikv0

12:00 PM        Pathology Grand Rounds:  What would you do? Ethical Issues in anatomic and clinical pathology; Speaker: Lauren Smith, MD, HEC-C, Clinical Prof., Dept. of Pathology, University of Michigan.

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

12:00 PM        Wisconsin Blood Cancer Research Institute Colloquium:  Bone marrow metabolites in the regulation of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells; Speaker: Owen Tamplin, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Cell & Regenerative Biology, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  3001A WIMR

12:10 PM        Molecular Virology Seminar:  Spatially Resolved Protein Mapping of Human Cytomegalovirus Virions; Speaker: John Chlystek (Coon Lab), Depts. of Chemistry & Biomolecular Chemistry, Morgridge Institute for Research, UW-Madison; Regulation of Varicella Zoster Virus Gene Expression During Quiescent Infection; Speaker: Jake Shapiro (Campbell Lab), Dept. of Anesthesiology, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences Auditorium

12:30 PM        Evolution Seminar:  Universal GPTases reveal the early evolution of translation; Speaker: Evrim Fer, PhD Candidate, Dept. of Bacteriology, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  212 Animal Sciences

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

Friday, November 21, 2025

8:00 AM         Medicine Grand Rounds:  Dissemination and Implementation with the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research; Speaker: Shellie Ellis, PhD, Div. of Hematology, Oncology, and Palliative Care, UW School of Medicine and Public Health & Maria Mora Pinzon, MD, MS, Div. Geriatrics and Gerontology

UW School of Medicine and Public Health.

Join in person:  UH G5/119 Clinical Sciences Center

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97252473101?pwd=E21UeaDpQbLL8pHHptWeNRszPAJ7sh.1

 (Password: grandround)

12:00 PM        Medical Microbiology & Immunology Seminar:  Mechanisms of Stress Resistance in Bacteria; Speaker: Sean Crosson, PhD, Prof., Dept. of Microbiology, Genetics, & Immunology, Michigan State University.

Join in person:  1520 Microbial Sciences Building