Monday, March 2, 2026
10:00 AM Tumor Virology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Leveraging RNA-based methods to study
viral variation and host interaction; Speaker: Catherine Freije, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Rockefeller University, Charles Rice lab.
Join in person: 1345 HSLC
3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: Getting Started on a Big Job: How RNA Structures and Sequences Control Production of Humanity’s Largest Protein; Speaker: Joel McManus, PhD, Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University.
Join in person: 1211 Biochemical Sciences
Join via Zoom: https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq
3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: Therapeutic manipulation of cancer-associated fibroblasts to improve immunotherapy response; Speaker: Ruchi Shah (Advisor: Dustin Deming, MD).
Join in person: 6571 WIMR II
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
12:00 PM Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar: Targeting inflammatory salivary gland dysfunction: the therapeutic potential of MSCs; Speaker: Sara McCoy, MD, PhD, RhMSUS, Assistant Professor in Rheumatology and the Director of the University of Wisconsin Health Sjögren’s Clinic..
Join in person: Orchard View Room in WID
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91814162149?pwd=AYgwgbFNekOLHyQrj7wUCkxem9b2Yw.1
( Meeting ID: 918 1416 2149; Passcode: 970506)
5:30 PM RNA Maxi Group: Understanding and Targeting Aberrant RNA Splicing in Cancer; Speaker: Omar Abdel-Wahab, MD, Chair, Molecular Pharmacology Program, SKI; Evnin Family Chair in Molecular Pharmacology; Attending Physician, Leukemia Service.
Join in person: 2131 DeLuca Biochemistry Building
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
8:00 AM Oncology Grand Rounds: ASH Updates – Part II: Leukemia, Myeloma and Lymphoma; Speakers: Matt Brunner, MD, Department of Medicine, SMPH; Kalyan Vg Nadiminti, MBBS, Department of Medicine, SMPH; Christopher Fletcher, MD, Department of Medicine, SMPH.
Join in person: G5/134 Clinical Sciences Center
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/s/93531859928?pwd=Fi5HIoh2UP1giTDiAE2VqLZt3dFGuh.1
(Passcode: 466863)
12:00 PM Neuroscience Seminar: TBD; Speaker: Randy Goldsmith, PhD, Dept. of Chemistry, UW-Madison.
Join in person: 3571 WIMR II
12:00 PM Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program Student Seminar Series: The Role and Functional Significance of KIFC1 in human melanoma; Speaker: Davis Mau (Advisor: Dr. Nihal Ahmad).
Join in person: 2255S SVM
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96365434171?pwd=lgr5O1BXj7P0HOR15jNv7UZmvmYtZ9.1
(Meeting ID: 963 6543 4171 Passcode: 168065)
3:30 PM Genetics Colloquium: Rethinking Stress Granules; Allan Drummond, PhD, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,Genetic Medicine, The University of Chicago.
Join in person: 1441 Genetics/Biotechnology Center
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Thursday, March 5, 2026
12:00 PM Pathology Grand Rounds: TBD; Speaker: Gregory Gauthier, MD – UW Department of Infectious Disease.
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93995845597?pwd=0ruw7noaEuC5m1UPpweFVRvLwQ8PDU.1&jst=1
12:00 PM Wisconsin Blood Cancer Research Institute Colloquium: Clinical trial and research studies relating to allogeneic iNKT cell immunotherapy following hematopoietic transplantation; Speaker: Jenny Gumperz, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Wisconsin-Madison.
Join in person: 5001A WIMR
12:10 PM Molecular Virology Seminar: The Role of RSV Matrix in Particle Assembly; Speaker: Hayley Hirsch, Wright Lab, Dept. of Biochemistry, UW-Madison.
Join in person: 1211 Biochemical Sciences Auditorium
12:30 PM Wisconsin Evolution Seminar: From Deep-Time Migrations to Contemporary Displacement: Reconstructing Indigenous Histories in the Americas; Speaker: Epifania Arango Isaza, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Integrative Biology, UW-Madison.
Join in person: 1441 Genetics Building
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1:30 PM Genomics Seminar: Computational tools to examine dynamics of 3D genome organization and long-range gene regulation within and across species; Speaker: Sushmita Roy, PhD, UW-Madison.
Join in person: Biotechnology Center Auditorium, Rm 1111
Friday, March 6, 2026
8:00 AM Medicine Grand Rounds: Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations: How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Headed? Speaker: Trentham-Dietz, PhD, Department of Population Health Sciences, UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/95939157965?pwd=DNPQdHiAs8AnqngrA5oxAe9KZby9dl.1
(Password: grandround)
8:30 AM Cancer Biology Dissertation Defense: Evaluating histone trimethylation and the development of therapy resistance in prostate cancer; Speaker: Zach Kauffman, Advisor: Joshua Lang, MD.
Join in person: 1306 HSLC
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12:00 PM Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Seminar: TBD; Speaker: Moo Kyung Chung.
Join in person: Morgridge Hall Room 2516
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96633729112?pwd=tHFc9i1dAAgmXe05uWtw8wXBIQZxGB.1
Passcode: 621125
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