Month: February 2026

Seminar list for this week: February 23-27

Monday, February 23, 2026 3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Distinct Recognition Mechanisms by RNA Regulatory Protein Partners; Speaker: Traci Hall, PhD, Senior Investigator: Epigenetics & RNA Biology Laboratory / Macromolecular Structure Group. Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences Join via Zoom:  https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq  3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar: Contributions of DNA tumor viruses to oncoprotein-induced replication stress; …

Night of Hope February 9th 2026

On February 9th, Verona Area High School Staff and Saturn’s 8 DJs hosted a raffle and trivia night at The Seminole Tap in Fitchburg.  All proceeds benefit the UW McArdle Lab for Cancer Research toward the prevention and treatment of all types of cancer.  Over the past 19 years, the Night of Hope has raised …

Seminar list for this week: February 16-20

Monday, February 16, 2025 3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Deep Mutational Pharmacology Reveals the Molecular Basis of Opioid Receptor Activity; Speaker: Willow Coyote-Maestas, PhD, Asst. Prof. of Bioengineering, School of Pharmacy, University of California-San Francisco. Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences Join via Zoom:  https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq  3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar: IPMK Regulates Cytosolic ACLY–PIP3 Complex Formation …

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Nobel laureate Howard Temin

On Sep. 12, 2025 the scientific community celebrated the 50th Anniversary Temin Nobel Prize Symposium hosted by the McArdle Laboratory at the UW–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health in partnership with the UW Carbone Cancer Center and the Morgridge Institute for Research. The Morgridge Institute wrote a summary of the symposium, with links to the speaker recordings. Read th article here: …

McArdle Student Organizes Goodman Center Thanksgiving Basket Food Drive

For Johannsen lab graduate student Lily Wenger (Cancer Biology Graduate Program), it has always been important to give back to the community. Working with a friend, Katie Strother, and with support from fellow graduate students Audrey Chambers and Sarah Lofland, and McArdle’s Chris Carollo-Zeuner, Lily recently organized a holiday food drive in support of the …

Seminar list for this week: February 9-13

Monday, February 9, 2025 2:00 PM          Molecular Virology Special Seminar:  The role of structural biology in infectious disease research in South Africa; Speaker: Thandeka Moyo-Gwete, PhD, Senior Researcher, University of the Witwatersrand. Join in person:  Orchard View Room, Discovery Building  3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Mitochondrial Phosphopantetheinylation: The Modification You Can’t Pronounce but Should Know; Sara …

McArdle Trainee Seminar Prize Winner Announced

Every year, the McArdle Lab makes awards for the best trainee presenters of research presentations, in two categories: 1) Junior (first two years of graduate work) and 2) Senior (3+ years of graduate work).  Our research presentations run weekly for both semesters.   This year we will have 50 presentations from 28 different research groups, …

Seminar list for this week: February 2-6

Monday, February 2, 2025 12:00 PM        Problems in Precision Medicine and Genomics Seminar:  Improving Variant Interpretation Through Collaboration in the UW Undiagnosed Disease Program; Speakers: Bryn Webb, MD, FACMG, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Pediatrics, Div. of Genetics & Metabolism, UW–Madison; Nistha Panda, Graduate student, Dept. of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, UW–Madison. Join in person:  2798 …