Seminar list for this week: March 2-6

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

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94776586325?pwd=yI9CzToAugHaA07jxeSMWK17kKDsJk.1  

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

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92652990691

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

Join via Zoom:   https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92631712689?pwd=iQhz3cIirzkVBD54iRsF1SG3T4vDVY.1&from=addon

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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