Seminar list for this week: April 10-14
Monday, April 10, 2023
3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: How microsporidia pathogens use ballistic organelles to invade host cells; Speaker: Gira Bhabha, New York University.
Join in person: 1211 HFD Biochemical Sciences Bldg.
Join via stream: https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq
3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: Investigating the conditionally essential role of AZIN1 in human cells; Speaker: Aysiah Jaeke (Advisor: Jason Cantor, PhD). How does polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1) protect the centromere from microtubule pulling force during mitosis?; Speaker: Roshan Norman (Advisor: Mark Burkard, MD, PhD).
Join in person: 6571 WIMR
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
12:00 PM Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar: Genetics, hormones and ductal sex determination: what will I become after I grow up?; Speaker: Dr. Fei Zhao, Assistant Professor, Comparative Biosciences, UW–Madison.
Join in person: DeLuca Forum, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96958883460?pwd=bWVHbEdWdGxQdHMyOVkxTHV5UW9mdz09
2:00 PM Comparative Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. Dissertation Defense: Applied technology for disease prediction and health management in dairy cattle; Speaker: Emil Walleser, DVM (Döpfer lab, SVM – Medical Sciences).
Join in person: 2217 Vet Med Bldg., 2015 Linden Drive
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
8:00 AM Oncology Grand Rounds: Theranostics: current status and emerging trends; Speaker: Steve Cho, MD, Professor; Section Chief of the Nuclear Medicine Section of the Dept of Radiology, UWSMPH.
Join in person: 1306 HSLC
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/s/96001260645?pwd=OE5vcnZQZWtXbDNjN2J0U21rOHV6UT09
11:00 AM Cancer Biology Seminar: Stem cells and reprogramming in human acute leukemia; Speaker: Ravindra Majeti, MD, PhD, Director, Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Professor of Medicine, Stanford University.
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97329437283
12:00 PM Neuroscience Seminar: Human-specific genetic modifiers of cortical circuit connectivity, function and behavioral performance; Speaker: Franck Polleux, PhD, Columbia University.
Join in person: 3571 WIMR
12:00 PM Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program Student Seminar (Path-Bio 930): Bromodomain protein Brd4 and its function as a transcriptional co-regulator in HPV16 viral oncogene induced carcinogenesis in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC); Speaker: Dhruthi Suresh (Iyer lab, SMPH – Human Oncology).
Join in person: 2007 SVM
1:00 PM Cell and Regenerative Biology Seminar: Uncovering conserved mechanisms and novel concepts in heart failure: insight from Rho signaling, epigenomics to exosomes; Speaker: Dr. Jiang Chang, PhD, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Houston, TX.
Join in person: 1325 HSLC
3:30 PM Genetics Colloquium: TBA; Speaker: Hudson Freeze, Sanford Burnham Prebys
Join in person: 1111 Genetics/Biotech
Join via Zoom: https://genetics.wisc.edu/colloquium
4:00 PM Statistics Seminar: Clustering a mixture of Gaussians with unknown covariance; Speaker: Mateo Diaz.
Join in person: 1210 MSC
Thursday, April 13, 2023
9:00 AM Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Seminar: CROs: What we do and why; Speaker: Inger Arum, Founder and co-CEO, ProTrials (2023 CMP student choice speaker).
Join in person: 1345 HSLC
12:10 PM Molecular Virology Seminar: Cancelled.
12:30 PM Evolution Seminar: A morphological basis for path dependent evolution of visual systems; Speaker: Rebecca Varney, Postdoc, UC-San Diego (early career awardee).
Join in person: 1360 Biotech/Genetics
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92427136645
1:00 – 5:30 PM 14th Annual Bioethics Symposium: Toward an anti-racist bioethics; Speakers: Yolanda Wilson, Keisha Ray, Jasmine Zapata, Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, Govind Persad, and Camisha Russell.
Join in person: 1306 HSLC
To register, for talk titles and more information: www.go.wisc.edu/bioethicssymposium
3:30 PM Biology Colloquium: Genetic features of parallel floral evolution in penstemon wildflowers; Speaker: Carrie Wessinger, U. South Carolina.
Join in person: 168 Noland Hall
Friday, April 14, 2023
12:00 PM John Wiley Seminar: Uncovering the mechanisms of motor neuron development and degeneration using human pluripotent stem cells; Speaker: Xue-jun Li, PhD, College of Medicine, Rockford and the University of Illinois-Chicago.
Join in person: John D. Wiley Conference Center
3:30 PM Chemistry/Biochemistry Seminar: Biophysical studies of protein self-assembly interactions and of the mechanism of transcription initiation; Speaker: M. Thomas Record, Jr.
Join in person: 1435 Chemistry Bldg. (North Tower)
Join via livestream: https://go.wisc.edu/zsi0p1