Seminar list for this week: December 1-5

Monday, December 1, 2025

10:00 AM       Cancer Biology, Dissertation Defense:  Defining the Role of Histone-modifying Enzymes in the Development of Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer; Speaker:  Tanaya Purohit (Advisor: David Jarrard, MD).

Join in person:  1325 HSLC

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96383109996  (Meeting ID: 963 8310 9996)

12:00 PM        Problems in Precision Medicine and Genomics:  Adding dimensions: How to analyze genomic screens done across many genetic backgrounds; Speaker: Audrey Gasch, PhD, Prof. of Genetics & Dir. of Center for Genomic Science Innovation, UW-Madison

Join in person:  2789 West Wedge WIMR or 5406 Genetics/Biotechnology Center

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/hCvy57ZaQniSjdZ9q_BzFA?_x_zm_rtaid=KJ90WTTZTheVelYmVqJ2QQ.1752087391979.ac4327368ccbdc1f7d8b72bbd51671ef&_x_zm_rhtaid=380#/registration

3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Repair of stalled replication by DNA remodeling enzymes; Speaker: Brandt Eichman, PhD, Professor of Biological Sciences & Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

12:00 PM        Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar:  On the Factory Floor: Building Brains with Stem Cells; Speaker: Bryce LaFoya, PhD, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Biochemistry, 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, December 3, 2025

11:00 AM       Cancer Biology Seminar:  Arginine Methylation in Control of HPV Oncogene Biology and Splicing Dynamics; Speaker: Koenraad Van Doorslaer, PhD, Assoc. Prof. of Immunology, University of Arizona.

Join in person:  1345 HSLC

12:00 PM        Neuroscience Seminar:  TBD; Speaker: Tyler Ulland, PhD, Assoc. Prof. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  3571 WIMR II

3:30 PM          Genetics Colloquium:  TBD; Speakers: Phil Bergman and Becca Back.

Join in person:  1441 Genetics/Biotechnology Center

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

Thursday, December 4, 2025

12:00 PM        Pathology Grand Rounds:  What would you do? Ethical issues in anatomic and clinical pathology; Speaker: Christine Seibert, MD, MACP, Prof., General Internal Medicine, UW-Madison.

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

12:10 PM        Molecular Virology Seminar:  Viruses, Mosquitoes, and Ticks; Speaker: Kristen Bernard, PhD, Prof., Dept. of Pathobiological Sciences, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences Auditorium

12:30 PM        Evolution Seminar:  Interrogating embeddings-based ancestral sequence reconstruction; Speaker: Evan Gorstein, PhD Candidate, Dept. of Statistics, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  212 Animal Sciences

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

1:30 PM          Genomics Seminar:  Transcriptional priming of young endogenous transponsons is regulated by ANP32E; Speaker: Patrick Murphy, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University.

Join in person:  Biotechnology Center Auditorium

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

3:30 PM          The Elizabeth McCoy Named Lecture:  Genomic Time Travel: Decoding Microbial Chronicles of Earth’s Evolution; Speaker: Rika Anderson, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Biology, Carleton College.

Join in person:  Ebling Symposium Center MSB

Friday, December 5, 2025

8:00 AM         Medicine Grand Rounds:  Hot Topics in STI and HIV Prevention; Speaker: Ina Park, MD, Prof., Dept. of Family and Community Medicine, University of California-San Francisco.

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/99371095965?pwd=IFZweVQPWAC5VFvcMbR6BnHymz4uBK.1

 (Password: grandround)

12:00 PM        Medical Microbiology & Immunology Seminar:  Mechanistic Insights into the Tug-of-War of Staphylococcus aureus Pathobiology; Speaker: Victor Torres, PhD, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Join in person:  1520 Microbial Sciences Building