Monday, April 13, 2026
1:00 PM Cellular and Molecular Pathology Dissertation Defense: Defining neutrophil heterogeneity and plasticity in pre-clinical murine models treated with combined myeloid-modulating immunotherapies by single-cell multi-omics profiling; Speaker: Anqi Gao, Advisors: Huy Dinh, PhD; Paul Sondel, MD, PhD
Join in person: 1325 HSLC
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96137533477?pwd=kruU5CURbjNfPyd5n1s4AmwdvU8MoR.1
3:00 PM Harry Steenbock Lectures in Biochemistry Colloquia: Genome Mining for Novel Enzymatic Reactions; Speaker: Wilfred van der Donk, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Join in person: 1211 Biochemical Sciences
Join via Zoom: https://go.wisc.edu/steen_lect1
3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: Investigating the role of MCPyV T antigens in skin cell reprogramming during Merkel cell carcinoma development; Speaker: Tejas Sabu (Advisor: Megan Spurgeon, PhD); Investigating the mechanism and effects of HIV-1 Vif-induced pseudo-metaphase arrest; Speaker: Dhaval Ghone (Advisor: Aussie Suzuki, PhD).
Join in person: 6571 WIMR II
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
12:00 PM Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar: Stem Cell Seminar with the Wisconsin Stem Cell Graduate Scholars; Speakers: Aishwarya Krishnan, Washington University in St. Louis; Amos Espinosa, Yale University; Claire Ang, Harvard University; Infencia Xavier Raj, Washington University in St. Louis; JinYoung Park, University of Oklahoma Health Campus; Lauren Kageler, Harvard University; Omid Tavakoli Rouzbehani, University of Utah; Romain Menard, MDI Biological Laboratory.
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)
3:00 PM Harry Steenbock Lectures in Biochemistry Colloquia: Biosynthesis and Engineering of Macrocyclic Peptides; Speaker: Wilfred van der Donk, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Join in person: 1211 Biochemical Sciences
Join via Zoom: https://go.wisc.edu/steen_lect2
3:00 PM Pathobiological Seminar: Shortening TB Treatment: Novel Pharmacologic and Immunologic Targeting of Mtb Persisters; Speaker: Petros Karakousis, M.D., FIDSA, Professor of Medicine, International Health, and Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Join in person: Room 2007 – School of Veterinary Medicine
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
8:00 AM Oncology Grand Rounds: Hacking Metastasis; Speaker: Grinu Matthew, PhD, Assistant Professor, UNMC Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases.
Join in person: G5/119 Clinical Sciences Center
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_M3e-OhuwRFas5jgMYj4DEw#/
(Passcode: 466863)
12:00 PM Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program Student Seminar Series: Physiological and Pathological Mechanisms of DDX41 in Hematopoiesis and Cancer; Speaker: Christina Jurotich, Bresnick Lab, SMPH–Cell and Regenerative Biology.
Join in person: 2255S SVM
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96365434171?pwd=lgr5O1BXj7P0HOR15jNv7UZmvmYtZ9.1
(Meeting ID: 963 6543 4171 Passcode: 168065)
12:00 PM Neuroscience Seminar: TBD; Speaker: Mercedes Paredes, University of California — San Francisco.
Join in person: 3571 WIMR II
3:30 PM Genetics Colloquium: Spatiotemporal Genomic Analyses and Insights into Pest Evolution; Speaker: Sean Schoville, Professor and Chair, Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Join in person: 1441 Genetics/Biotechnology Center
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94776586325?pwd=yI9CzToAugHaA07jxeSMWK17kKDsJk.1
Thursday, April 16, 2026
12:00 PM Pathology Grand Rounds: What Binary HRD signatures and Mutation Testing Miss: A Multimodal Precision Framework for DNA Repair Subtyping in Prostate Cancer; Speaker: Navonil De Sarkar, PhD – Medical College of Wisconsin.
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93995845597?pwd=0ruw7noaEuC5m1UPpweFVRvLwQ8PDU.1&jst=1
12:00 PM Wisconsin Blood Cancer Research Institute Colloquium: Degron-mediated discovery of GATA2 programs; Speaker: Daniel Matson, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.
Join in person: 5001A WIMR
12:10 PM Molecular Virology Seminar: Innate Immune Detection of Herpesviruses Mediated by DDX41 and STING; Speaker: Hunter Krzysik (Hoskins Lab).
Join in person: 1211 Biochemical Sciences Auditorium
12:30 PM Wisconsin Evolution Seminar: TBD; Speaker: Jasmine Childress, Assistant Professor, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, UW-Madison.
Join in person: 1441 Genetics Building
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92652990691
Friday, April 17, 2026
8:00 AM Medicine Grand Rounds: GME Updates and Chief Resident Presentation; Speakers: Andy Coyle, MD, Division of General Internal Medicine, UW School of Medicine and Public Health; Jessica Comerford, MD, Division of General Internal Medicine, UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
Join in person: UH G5/119
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/99336966084?pwd=GlWX6QRcm7y5LEpIdgqz35Qr09qNAM.1
(Password: grandround)
12:00 PM Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Seminar: TBD; Speaker: Pengtao Xie (UCSD).
Join in person: Morgridge Hall Room 7560
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96633729112?pwd=tHFc9i1dAAgmXe05uWtw8wXBIQZxGB.1
Passcode: 621125
12:00 PM Essential Tools and New Frontiers in Fluorescence Microscopy Seminar: Speaker: Daniel Beacham, Senior Staff Scientist, Research & Development, Protein & Cell Analysis, Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Join in person: 5001A WIMR
Register here: thermofisher.com/upcomingevents
12:05 PM Medical Microbiology & Immunology Seminar: Clostridioides difficile Pathogenesis: from Nursery to Nursing Home; Speaker: Dr. Joseph Zackular, Univ. of Pennsylvania.
Join in person: 1520 Microbial Sciences Building