Seminar list for this week: March 16-20

Monday, March 16, 2026

10:00 AM       Tumor Virology Faculty Candidate Seminar:  Novel insights into the Epstein-Barr virus

lytic switch and therapeutic targets; Speaker: Yifei Liao, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Ben Gewurz lab.

Join in person:  1345 HSLC

12:00 PM        Precision Medicine Seminar Series:  Making Genomic Care the Standard of Care in the NICU; Speaker: Kristen Suhrie, PhD, Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Medical and Molecular Genetics at Indiana University School of Medicine.
Join in person:  2798 WIMR
Join via Zoom: 
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94806573353?pwd=p2JDBPbelaAIDgQw6LvIZbv6TTOA8p.1

 3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Protein Editing: Getting at the Center of Things; Speaker: Tom Muir, PhD, Professor of Chemistry and Associated Faculty in Molecular Biology, Princeton University.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences

Join via Zoom:  https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq 

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

12:00 PM        Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar:  Towards Bioengineering Scalable Models of Human Central Nervous System Development and Disease; Speaker: Frank Seipel (Advisor: Randolph Ashton, PhD).

Join in person: Deluca Forum in the Discovery Building

Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91814162149?pwd=AYgwgbFNekOLHyQrj7wUCkxem9b2Yw.1   

( Meeting ID: 918 1416 2149; Passcode: 970506)

4:00 PM          Founder’s Day Lecture:  Pressure Is a Privilege: Industrializing an mRNA Platform for Speed, Scale, and Reliability; Speaker: Nedim Emil Altaras, SVP Technical Development Lead, Moderna Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA.

Join in person: Room 1610 Engineering Hall

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

8:00 AM          Oncology Grand Rounds:     The New Carbone Cancer Center Tobacco Treatment Program; Speakers: Michael Fiore, MD, MPH, MBA, Professor Emeritus, UW-CTRI Emeritus, Dept. of Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health; Danielle McCarthy, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health; Jesse Kaye, PhD, Scientist III, Dept. of Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health.

Join in person: 1306 HSLC

Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_M3e-OhuwRFas5jgMYj4DEw#/registration

(Passcode: 466863)

12:00 PM        Neuroscience Seminar:  TBD; Speaker: Yue Yang, Northwestern University.

Join in person:  3571 WIMR II

12:00 PM        Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program Student Seminar Series:  Know Your Neighbors: Managing and modeling backyard ticks and their hosts; Speaker: Tom Richards, Bartholomay/Paskewitz Labs, SVM–Pathobiological Sciences/CALS-Entomology.

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:  TBD; Speaker: Mark Peifer.

Join in person:  1441 Genetics/Biotechnology Center

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

 4:00 PM          Cell and Regenerative Biology Distinguished Seminar Series:  TBD; Speaker: Zea Borok.

Join in person:  1345 HSLC

Thursday, March 19, 2026

12:00 PM        Pathology Grand Rounds:  Advanced Cardiac Histopathology: Diagnostic Challenges; Speaker: Emily Duncanson, MD – Allina Health.

Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93995845597?pwd=0ruw7noaEuC5m1UPpweFVRvLwQ8PDU.1&jst=1

12:00 PM        Wisconsin Blood Cancer Research Institute Colloquium:  Engineering enhanced specificity and function into AML CAR T cells; Speaker: Becky Richards, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Wisconsin-Madison.

Join in person:  5001A WIMR

12:10 PM        Molecular Virology Seminar:  Identification of Critical Host Factors Regulating Influenza Virus and Friends; Speaker: Dr. Zhenyu Zhang, Mehle Lab, Dept. of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences Auditorium

12:30 PM        Wisconsin Evolution Seminar:  Seasonal immune timing alters parasite growth and transmission in a multi-host system; Speaker: Chloe Fouilloux, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  1441 Genetics Building

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

Friday, March 20, 2026

8:00 AM          Medicine Grand Rounds: Beyond the Measure: Bridging Specialty Practice and Value-based Care; Speaker: Sancia Ferguson, MD, MPH, Division of Rheumatology, UW School of Medicine and Public Health.

Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96508927548?pwd=reQhSaAbQRPJ1L5j3gM1t5kaWSIHAg.1

 (Password: grandround)

12:05 PM        Medical Microbiology & Immunology Seminar:  Conserved Mechanisms of Protein Translocation and Regulation in Pathogenic Mycobacteria; Speaker: Dr. Patricia Champion, Univ. of Notre Dame.

Join in person:  1520 Microbial Sciences Building