Year: 2025

In Memoriam: William F. Dove

It is with great sadness that we let you know that Dr. William F. Dove passed away on January 27, 2025. Bill was a respected colleague at the University of Wisconsin for 60 years and made seminal contributions to cancer research and to genetics. Below is a brief tribute. Please see the obituary for additional …

Seminar list for this week: March 3-7

Monday, March 3, 2025 10:00 AM       Tumor Virology Faculty Candidate Seminar:  Exploring the Structure and Dynamics of Viral Glycoproteins in Membranes through Cryo-Electron Tomography; Speaker:  Wenwei Li, Assoc. Research Scientist, Yale University School of Medicine. Join in person: 1345 HSLC  3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Targeting epigenetic readers: Novel approaches to manage inflammation, diabetes, and cancer; …

Seminar list for this week: February 24-28

Monday, February 24, 2025 10:00 AM       Tumor Virology Faculty Candidate Seminar:  Complex Transcriptional Control of Viral Gene Expression; Speaker:  David Morgens, PhD, Posdoctoral Researcher, University of California – Berkeley. Join in person: 1325 HSLC  3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Nuclear Phosphoinositides on p53: A Novel Therapeutic Target for TNBC; Speaker:  Muhammad Salah (Advisor: Vince Cryns, …

Seminar list for this week: February 17-21

Monday, February 17, 2025 3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  MicroED solution to the MP20 enigma; Speaker: Tamir Gonen, PhD, Prof. of Biological Chemistry and Physiology, University of California-Los Angeles. Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences  3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Dose heterogeneity from radiopharmaceutical therapy enhances the anti-tumor immune response; Speaker:  Maya Takashima (Advisor: Zach Morris, …

Seminar list for this week: February 10-14

Monday, February 10, 2025 3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Combining antigen-specific vaccination with radiopharmaceutical therapy to enhance anti-tumor immunity and efficacy; Speaker:  Daeun Shim (Doug McNeel, MD, PhD). Join in person:  6571 WIMR II Tuesday, February 11, 2025 11:00 AM       Biomolecular Chemistry Faculty Candidate Seminar:  The Proteasome Beyond Ubiquitin: New Degradation Mechanisms and Emerging Functions; …

Seminar list for this week: February 3-7

Monday, February 3, 2025 10:00 AM       Tumor Virology Faculty Candidate Seminar:  Structure-Guided Discovery in the Viral Proteome; Speaker:  Jason Nomburg, PhD, Posdoctoral fellow, University of California – Berkeley and Gladstone Institute. Join in person: 1345 HSLC 12:00 PM        Precision Medicine Interest Group Seminar:  Genetics in a dish: leveraging induced pluripotent stem cells to identify genetic …

Seminar list for this week: January 27-31

Monday, January 27, 2025 3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Role of Polycomb in cancer and neurodevelopment; Speaker: Lluis Morey, PhD, Assoc. Prof. of Human Genetics, University of Miami. Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences 3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  HuSH EBV: An unexpected inhibitory complex of EBV in Burkitt lymphoma; Speaker:  Madilyn Ellis (Advisor: Bill Sugden, …

Seminar list for this week: January 20-24

Monday, January 20, 2025 N/A Tuesday, January 21, 2025 11:00 AM       Biomolecular Chemistry Faculty Candidate Seminar:  Neuronal Long Non-Coding RNAs: Insights from the Fly Olfactory System; Speaker: Gaelle Talross, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale School of Medicine. Join in person:  1211 (Auditorium) Biochemical Sciences Building 12:00 PM        Stem Cell & …

Seminar list for this week: January 13-17

Monday, January 13, 2025 N/A Tuesday, January 14, 2025 N/A Wednesday, January 15, 2025 N/A Thursday, January 16, 2025 12:00 PM        Pathology Grand Rounds:  TBD; Speaker:  Kamran M. Mirza, MD, PhD, FCAP, FASCP, Dept. of Pathology and Clinical Laboratories, University of Michigan. Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96202594071?pwd=Xu1J6L51u1A9jRrSeb39ecDGBqMg12.1 Friday, January 17, 2025 8:00 AM         Medicine Grand Rounds: …

Bothwell Prize winner for 2024 is announced: Analysis of blood-borne cell-free DNA can be used as a reliable diagnostic for a wide range of cancer types

View this year’s Bothwell prize announcement here. The 2024 Bothwell prize is awarded for a paper published by Muhammed Murtaza, the Director of the Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine, University of Wisconsin–Madison, together with his colleagues. In this paper, Budhraja et al report their latest findings on the development of a blood test able …