Seminar list for this week: April 20-24

Monday, April 20, 2026

12:00 PM        Population Health Sciences Seminar: Tobacco Intervention from an Economic Perspective: Too Little, Too Much, or Just Right?; Speaker: Marlon Mundt, PhD, Professor and Director of health economics at the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention.

Join in person:  PHS WARF Room 726

3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium: Still Unscrambling the Puzzle of Biological Machines: The Replisome Continues to Surprise; Speaker: James Berger, Johns Hopkins University.

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences
Join via Zoom: 
https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq    

3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:   Extracellular and Intracellular Functions of Tetherin in Retroviral Restriction and Proinflammatory Signaling; Speaker: Ming-Heng Tsai (Advisor: David Evans, PhD); Utilization of skin commensal bacteria as therapeutic vaccines for HPV-associated cancers; Speaker: Heron Jeon, PhD (Lambert Laboratory).

Join in person:  6571 WIMR II

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

12:00 PM        Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar:   Engineering vascular endothelial cells and microphysiological system to support organ and tissue function; Speaker: Duc-Huy Nguyen.

Join in person:  UW Biotechnology Center Auditorium
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91814162149?pwd=AYgwgbFNekOLHyQrj7wUCkxem9b2Yw.1 
(Meeting ID: 918 1416 2149; Passcode: 970506)

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

12:00 PM        Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program Student Seminar Series: From Screens to Reality: How Dogs Interpret and Respond to Virtual Media; Speaker: Memi Pearsall, Mowat Lab, SVM–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)

12:00 PM        Neuroscience Seminar:  TBD; Speaker: Han Wang, Department of Integrative Biology, UW-Madison.

Join in person:  3571 WIMR II

3:30 PM          Genetics Colloquium:  Developmentally Regulated Changes in Basement Membrane Composition Affect Matrix Viscoelasticity and Tissue Morphogenesis; Speaker: Sally Horne-Badovinac, Professor, Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, The University of Chicago.

Join in person:  1441 Genetics/Biotechnology Center
Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94776586325?pwd=yI9CzToAugHaA07jxeSMWK17kKDsJk.1   

Thursday, April 23, 2026

9:00 AM         Pathology Seminar:  The role of the bone marrow niche in regulating hematopoietic stem cells; Speaker: Xin Gao, PhD – UW Dept. of Pathology.

Join in person: 1345 HSLC

12:00 PM        Pathology Grand Rounds:    Real-World Impact of WHO-HAEM5 and ICC Lymphoma Classification Systems: What Changed, What Matters, and What’s Next; Speaker: Brooj Abro, MD – Emory University.

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

12:10 PM        Molecular Virology Seminar:  Dual Role for Influenza A Protein PA-X: Limiting Inflammatory Response and Disrupting MHC Antigen Presentation in Human Respiratory Epithelium; Speaker: Alessandra Setaro (Gaglia Lab, Institute for Molecular Virology & Dept. of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, UW-Madison).

Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences Auditorium

12:30 PM        Wisconsin Evolution Seminar: Comparative Genomics Uncovers Mutation and Repair Mechanisms in Fungal Evolution; Speaker: Einat Hazkani-Covo, Associate Professor, Department of Natural Sciences, The Open University of Israel.

Join in person:  1441 Genetics Building
Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92652990691

Friday, April 24, 2026

8:00 AM         Medicine Grand Rounds: Clinical Reasoning: Demonstration of the Core Tenants with a Clinical Unknown Case; Speaker: Rabih Geha, MD, Division of Emergency Services, University of California San Francisco.

Join in person:  UH G5/119
Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94440838307?pwd=irMINVeFievdmUmUZfb2rEMWIl8aEe.1
(Password: grandround)

12:00 PM        Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Seminar:  TBD; Speaker: George P. Tiley (NCSU).

Join in person:  Morgridge Hall Room 2516
Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96633729112
(Passcode: 621125)

 12:05 PM        Medical Microbiology & Immunology Seminar:  Immune Determinants of Influenza Outcomes; Speaker: Dr. Juliet Morrison, Univ. of California-Riverside.

Join in person:  1520 Microbial Sciences Building