Seminar list for this week: October 5-October 9

 Monday, October 5, 2026

12:00 PM Madison AI for Proteins Presentation: From Protein Structures to Function: Learning Conformational Changes and Kinetics;Speaker: Xuhui Huang

Join in person: 1109 McArdle Building

3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: How Does EBV Evade Nonsense-Mediated Decay During Viral Reactivation; Speaker: Emilie Greene, Johannsen Lab

Join in person: 6571 WIMR II

3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: Therapeutic Manipulation of Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts to Improve Immunotherapy Response; Speaker: Ruchi Shah, Deming Lab

Join in person: 6571 WIMR II

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

10:00 AM Morgridge Metabolism Colloquium: TBD; Speaker: TBD

Join in person: H.F. DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building

12:00 PM Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar: Tiny Fish, Big Insights: Danionella Cerebrum as a Novel Vertebrate Model for Regeneration Research; Speaker: Penny Lam, Associate Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin.

Join in person: Orchard View Room (Discovery Building)

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

Meeting ID: 918 1416 2149
Passcode: 970506

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

11:00 AM Cancer Biology Seminar: Inherit the Chromosomes: Multiple Faces of the Nucleosome for Chromosome Identity: Hironori Funabiki, PhD, Professor, Cancer Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY

Join in person: 1345 HSLC

12:00 PM Comparative Biomedical Sciences Seminar: Staphylococcus aureus superantigen TSST-1-induced endothelial dysfunction: Unveiling Host Targets and the Role of the Dodecapeptide; Speaker: Oluwadamilola Babatunde

Join in person: Room 2255S SVM – 2015 Linden Dr.

Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96690535664?pwd=pgiagjt469VazVEy90dq8bX8JSaRai.1

Meeting ID: 966 9053 5664

Passcode: 748072

3:30 PM Genetics Colloquium: Ecology and Evolution Within the Gut Microbiome; Speaker: KC Huang- Stanford University

Join in person: 1441 Genetics/Biotechnology Center

TBD Oncology Grand Rounds: Midwest Fellows Program: Speaker TBD

Thursday, October 8, 2026

9:00 AM Pathology Seminar: Role of Innate Immune Dysfunction in Neurodegenerative Disease; Speaker: John Lukens, PhD, University of Virginia

Join in person: 1325 HSLC

10:00 AM Cellular and Molecular Biology Graduate Program: Genome Regulation at the Virus-Host Interface: DNA Damage Responses and Chromatin Architecture in Parvovirus Infection; Speaker: Clairine Larsen, Majumder Lab

Join in person: Room 1211, DeLuca Biochemical Sciences Building

Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92312775040

12:00 PM Blood Cancer Colloquium: TBD: Suresh Marulasiddappa, DVM, MVSc., PhD, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, Immunological Mechanisms

Join in person: WIMR 5001A

12:10 PM Molecular Virology Seminar: Development of Novel Esptein-Barr Virus Model Systems for Understanding EBV-Induced B Cell and Epithelial Cell Cancers; Speaker: Shannon Kenney, MD, McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research

Join in person: Room 1211, Biochemical Sciences Auditorium

12:30 PM Wisconsin Evolution Seminar Series: TBD; Speaker: Caitlin Pepperell, Professor, Department of Medicine and Medical Microbiology & Immunology, UW Madison

Join in person: Microbial Sciences Building 1420

Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/99886790505

Friday, October 9, 2026

8:00 AM Medicine Grand Rounds: Embedding AI Tools in Every Day Clinical Workflows; Speaker: Adam Wright, PhD, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Join in person: UH G5/ 119

Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94415644864?pwd=4jhGx6QR2NlxgqqWW8QbR6vBUbR0SP.1

Password: grandround

12:00 PM Biostatistics & Medical Informatics Seminar: TBD: Yin Li, Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, UW Madison

Join in person: 7560 Morgridge Hall

Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96633729112

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