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
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