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; Speaker: Christopher Collins, PhD (Spurgeon Laboratory).
Join in person: 6571 WIMR II
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
12:00 PM Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar: Multi-omic and predictive modeling approaches to engineer robust human pluripotent stem cell differentiation to cardiomyocytes; Speaker: Austin Feeney, MD/PhD Student at University of Wisconsin – Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health.
Join in person: DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91814162149?pwd=AYgwgbFNekOLHyQrj7wUCkxem9b2Yw.1 (Meeting ID: 918 1416 2149 Passcode: 970506)
3:00 PM Pathobiological Seminar: Host-ile reception: Mining the host-parasite interface for anthelmintic discovery; Speaker: Mostafa Zamanian, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Join in person: Room 2007 – School of Veterinary Medicine
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
8:00 AM Oncology Grand Rounds: Noninvasive molecular imaging of the microenvironment to assess treatment response in pancreatic cancer; Speaker: Peter Caravan, PhD, Prof. of Radiology, Mass General Research Institute, Harvard.
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/s/93531859928?pwd=Fi5HIoh2UP1giTDiAE2VqLZt3dFGuh.1
(Passcode: 466863)
11:00 AM Cancer Biology Seminar: Dissecting the Stemness Associated Cancer Immune Resistance; Speaker: Yuxuan (Phoenix) Miao, PhD, Asst. Prof., Ben May Department for Cancer Research, University of Chicago.
Join in person: 1345 HSLC
3:30 PM Genetics Colloquium: TBD; Guillermina Lozano, PhD, Chair, Department of Genetics, at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Join in person: 1441 Genetics/Biotechnology Center
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94776586325?pwd=yI9CzToAugHaA07jxeSMWK17kKDsJk.1
Thursday, February 26, 2026
9:00 AM Pathology Seminar: Heart-brain communication in cardiovascular disease; Speaker: YiFilip Swirski, PhD – Mount Sinai.
Join in person: 1345 HSLC
12:10 PM Molecular Virology Seminar: Use of Fluorescent Reporter Viruses to Study
EBV-Host Interactions; Speaker: Eric Johannsen, MD, Prof., Dept. of Medicine & McArdle Laboratory (Dept. of Oncology), UW-Madison.
Join in person: 1211 Biochemical Sciences Auditorium
12:30 PM Wisconsin Evolution Seminar: How evolutionary biology can guide the search for life: a case for ancient enzymes and nitrogen; Speaker: Holly Rucker, PhD Candidate, Department of Bacteriology, UW-Madison.
Join in person: 1441 Genetics Building
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92652990691
1:00 PM Cancer Immunotherapy/Tumor Immunology (RISE/THRIVE) Seminar: Cellular networks that lead to intra-tumoral heterogeneity associated resistance in metastatic TNBCs; Speaker: Diego Pedroza, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine,Houston, Texas.
Join in person: 1345 HSLC
Friday, February 27, 2026
8:00 AM Medicine Grand Rounds: Please Don’t Lecture me! Promoting Higher Value in Medical Education; Speaker: Wardrop, III, MD, PhD, MACP, SFHM, FAAP (Visiting Speaker) Department of Medical Education, Northeast Ohio Medical University Health Care.
Join in person: 1325 HSLC
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97991459774?pwd=2uSnR6nZ2K9WAEa9MbOI2tthiSEzzB.1
(Password: grandround)
12:00 PM Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Seminar: TBD; Speaker: Erin Molloy, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland.
Join in person: 1441 Genetics-Biotechnology Center Building
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94776586325?pwd=yI9CzToAugHaA07jxeSMWK17kKDsJk.1
12:05 PM Medical Microbiology & Immunology Seminar: Electrogenetic Actuation Enabled by Quorum Sensing and Redox Signaling; Speaker: Dr. William E. Bentley, Univ. of Maryland.
Join in person: 1520 Microbial Sciences Building