Seminar list for this week: September 14-18
Monday, September 14, 2026
12:00 PM Biochemistry Seminar: Cell-free expression workflows for generating user-directed deep mutational libraries of enzymes;Speaker: Quentin Dudley
Join in person: 1109 McArdle Building
3:00 PM Steenbock Lectures in Biochemistry: Engineering broadly protective vaccines and antibodies against infectious disease; Speaker: Peter S. Kim
Join in person: 1211 DeLuca Biochemical Sciences Building
3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: Epstein-Barr Virus Gene Expression is Independent of Genome Number; Speaker: Madilyn Ellis, Advisor: Bill Sugden, PhD.
Join in person: 6571 WIMR II
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
12:00 PM Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar: The Surprising Biology of Metadherin: Lessons from a Dispensable but Evolutionarily Conserved Cancer Fitness Gene; Speaker: Yibin Kang
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
3:00 PM Steenbock Lectures in Biochemistry: Using large language models to understand and guide protein evolution; Speaker: Peter S. Kim
Join in person: 1211 DeLuca Biochemical Sciences Building
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
8:00 AM Oncology Grand Rounds: American Society of Clinical Oncology, Updates Part 2; Speakers: Drs. Leah Wells (Thoracic) & Rubina Qamar (Breast)
Join in person: G5/119 Clinical Sciences Center
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/s/96439227117?pwd=VBYKNo46Bole5Gqbyq0aDhFU4aKbN3.1
3:30 PM Genetics Colloquium: TBD; Speaker: Anita Manogaran – Marquette University
Join in person: 1441 Genetics/Biotechnology Center
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91067379663
Thursday, September 17, 2026
12:00 PM Blood Cancer Colloquium: TBD; Speaker: Murtaza Muhammed, MBBS, PhD, Professor, Department of Surgery, Director of the Center for Precision Medicine
Join in person: WIMR 5001A
12:00 PM Pathology Grand Rounds: Gynecologic Yolk Sac Tumors; Tricia Numan, MD – Roswell Park
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93219745762?pwd=ECuOAZtF192ct0LIvHxmUlRtXupGUp.1
12:05 PM Analytical Seminar: Mucinomics as the next frontier of mass spectrometry; Speaker: Professor Stacy Malaker, Yale University.
Join in person: 1315 Seminar Hall
12:10 PM Molecular Virology Seminar: Exploring the Structure and Dynamics of Viral Glycoproteins in Membranes through Cryo-Electron Tomography; Speaker: Professor Wenwei Li, PhD, McArdle & Department of Oncology.
Join in person: Rm 1211 Biochemical Sciences Building
12:30 PM Wisconsin Evolution Seminar Series: Mutations and sex in Drosophilia Melanogaster; Speaker: Rob Melde
Join in person: Microbial Sciences Building 1420
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/99886790505
Friday, September 18, 2026
8:00 AM Medicine Grand Rounds: Comorbidity Based Treatments of Type 2 Diabetes; Speaker: Priyathama Vellanki, MD, MS. Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipids. Emory University School of Medicine.
Join in person: UH G5/119 Clinical Sciences Center
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91485459727?pwd=bKpAhhPG4yXeT4pkrGVC9vbilVUMa9.1
Password: grandround
12:00 PM Biostatistics & Medical Informatics Seminar: TBD; Daifeng Wang, Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, UW–Madison
Join in person: 7560 Morgridge Hall
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96633729112
12:05 PM Medical Microbiology & Immunology Seminar: Microbe-Based Strategies to Eradicate Uropathogens from the Urogenital Mucosa; Speaker: Dr. Katy Patras, Baylor College
Join in person: 1520 Microbial Sciences Building
Seminar announcements available in Box: https://uwmadison.box.com/s/jpw33d7963xbysbe0gg4lj9wrhlrrpfk