Monday, March 9, 2026
10:00 AM Tumor Virology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Disrupting host homeostasis: KSHV hijacks host factors to replicate and cause disease; Speaker: Annabel Olson, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Benham Nabet lab.
Join in person: 1345 HSLC
12:00 PM Population Health Sciences Monday Seminar Series: Poisoned by the Secret of Life: James Watson and the Creation Myth of Molecular Biology; Speaker: Nathaniel Comfort, PhD, MS Professor, History of Medicine Johns Hopkins University.
Join in person: 1335 HSLC
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93069067849?pwd=4kYfbJHgcNQeigXS9AXwnlSbT1IvX5.1
(Meeting ID: 930 6906 7849; Passcode: 888825)
3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: Stress Controls Epigenetic Inheritance of Repressive Chromatin; Speaker: Shiv Grewal (NIH).
Join in person: 1211 Biochemical Sciences
Join via Zoom: https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq
3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: Novel humanized organ-on-a-chip for metastatic prostate cancer extravasation into the liver niche; Speaker: Kate Vietor (Advisor: Joshua Lang, MD, MS); Exploring targeted KRAS therapies and combination strategies for KRAS mutant colorectal cancer; Speaker: Ellie Boeree (Advisor: Dustin Deming, MD).
Join in person: 6571 WIMR II
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
12:00 PM Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar: Species-specific developmental clock models derived from pluripotent stem cells; Speaker: Li Fang (Jack) Chu, Assistant Professor, Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary.
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: Innate Immune Signaling Transcriptionally Programs Durable Pulmonary Tissue-Resident T Cell Immunity; Speaker: Marulasiddappa Suresh, DVM, MVSc., PhD, Professor, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Join in person: Room 2360 – School of Veterinary Medicine
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
8:00 AM Oncology Grand Rounds: Large Language Models to Advance Precision Oncology: Balancing Innovation with Impact; Speaker: Danielle Bitterman, MD, Assistant Professor, Mass General Research Institute, Harvard.
Join in person: 1222 HSLC
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/s/93531859928?pwd=Fi5HIoh2UP1giTDiAE2VqLZt3dFGuh.1
(Passcode: 466863)
11:00 AM Cancer Biology Seminar: Targeting Mitotic Vulnerabilities in Breast Cancer; Ruth Keri, PhD, Professor, Molecular Medicine, Genetics and Genome Sciences, Associate Director for Basic Research, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
Join in person: 1345 HSLC
12:00 PM Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program Student Seminar Series: Defining the cellular and molecular features of a late-onset peripheral neuropathy in the Labrador Retriever: Ryan Anderson, Sample Lab, SVM–Department of Surgical Sciences.
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: Mechanisms that promote spindle assembly and stability during oocyte meiosis; Speaker: Sadie Wignall, Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University.
Join in person: 1441 Genetics/Biotechnology Center
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94776586325?pwd=yI9CzToAugHaA07jxeSMWK17kKDsJk.1
Thursday, March 12, 2026
12:00 PM Pathology Seminar: TBD; Speakers: GJulia Colwell/Vaibhav Vemuganti – UW Dept of Pathology CMP Students.
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93995845597?pwd=0ruw7noaEuC5m1UPpweFVRvLwQ8PDU.1&jst=1
12:10 PM Molecular Virology Seminar: Emerging Deadly Viruses and their Glycoproteins– From Infection to Vaccines and Anti-Virals; Speaker: Hector Aguilar-Carreno, PhD, Dept. of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California -Los Angeles.
Join in person: 1211 Biochemical Sciences Auditorium
12:30 PM Wisconsin Evolution Seminar: Folding and unfolding phylogenetic networks to understand polyploid evolution; Speaker: Joshua Justison, PhD, postdoctoral scholar, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Join in person: 1441 Genetics Building
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92652990691
Friday, March 13, 2026
8:00 AM Medicine Grand Rounds: Back Again: The Challenge of Improving Care for Frequently Hospitalized Patient; Speaker: Kevin O’Leary, MD, Division of Hospital Medicine, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine.
Join in person: UH G5/119
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/95939157965?pwd=DNPQdHiAs8AnqngrA5oxAe9KZby9dl.1
(Password: grandround)
12:00 PM Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Seminar: TBD; Speaker: Halil Kilicoglu.
Join in person: Morgridge Hall Room 7560
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96633729112?pwd=tHFc9i1dAAgmXe05uWtw8wXBIQZxGB.1
Passcode: 621125
12:05 PM Medical Microbiology & Immunology Seminar: Genetic Control of Viral Infection; Speaker: Dr. John Schoggins, UT Southwestern.
Join in person: 1520 Microbial Sciences Building