Seminar list for this week: April 14-18
Monday, April 14, 2025
3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: Structure and function of NMDA receptors – from neuropharmacology to immunology; Speaker: Hiro Furukawa, PhD, Prof., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Join in person: 1211 DeLuca Biochemical Sciences
3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: Creating new lab models for male breast cancer: Studying hormone-dependent tumorigenesis using the ACI rat; Speaker: Kasey Mitchell (Advisor: Wei Xu, PhD); CARM1-Dependent methylation of ZNF703 modulates its oncogenic role in ER-Positive breast cancer; Speaker: Jingjing Zhou (Advisor: Wei Xu, PhD).
Join in person: 6571 WIMR II
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
12:00 PM Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar: Dual mechanism of inflammation sensing by the hematopoietic progenitor genome; Speaker: Vu Le-Huy Tran, PhD student, Cancer Biology, UW–Madison.
Join in person: DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96958883460 (Passcode: 970506)
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
8:00 AM Oncology Grand Rounds: TBA; Speaker: Dr. Deb Armstrong.
Join in person: G5/119 Clinical Sciences Center
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/s/93531859928?pwd=Fi5HIoh2UP1giTDiAE2VqLZt3dFGuh.1
(Passcode: 466863)
11:00 AM Cancer Biology Seminar: Mechanisms of Chromosomal Instability in Cancer; Speaker: Duane Compton, PhD, Prof. of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Dean of Medical School, Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine.
Join in person: 1345 HSLC
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96369895715?pwd=bPF1FGGfcaNP1bavmXvSwskbDklzEA.1&from=addon (Meeting ID: 963 6989 5715) (Passcode: 872480)
12:00 PM Neuroscience Seminar: TBA; Speaker: Vibhu Sahni, PhD, Asst. Prof. of Neuroscience, Brain and Mind Research Institute, Cornell University.
Join in person: 3571 WIMR II
12:00 PM Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Student Seminar: Referred pain: Connections between injured bladder afferents and their uninjured neighbors in dorsal root ganglia; Speaker: Emily Tran (Advisor: Dr. LaTasha Crawford), SVM, Pathobiological Sciences, UW–Madison.
Join in person: 2255 SVM
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97494138421?pwd=Ibgk6RQ1wi9chQlghKlRrQ4hCn57NM.1 (Meeting ID: 974 9413 8421, Passcode: 930)
Thursday, April 17, 2025
11:00 AM Nutritional Sciences Seminar: Leveraging genetics and genomics to nominate novel drivers of insulin secretion; Speaker: Lauren Clark, PhD student (Attie Lab), Nutritional Sciences, UW–Madison.
Join in person: 290 Nutritional Sciences
12:00 PM Wisconsin Blood Cancer Research Institute Colloquium: PRMT5 inhibition sensitizes B-cell lymphoma cells to ferroptosis; Speaker: Yunxia Liu (Rui lab), Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Join in person: 5001A WIMR
12:00 PM Pathology Grand Rounds: Academic Pediatric Neuropathology: Discussion of Interesting Cases; Speaker: Kelly Mrachek, MD, Asst. Prof. of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin.
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94806170454?pwd=0Pa2ZiE95PZcffLx7aJK7sNKJcZc6F.1
12:10 PM Molecular Virology Seminar: Regulation of rAAV vector expression by host chromatin and cellular DNA damage pathways; Speakers: Clairine Larsen, Graduate Student (Majumder Lab), Institute for Molecular Virology, Cell & Molecular Biology, UW–Madison.
Join in person: 1211 Biochemical Sciences Auditorium
12:30 PM Evolution Seminar: Sex-linked gene traffic and the acquisition of sexually dimorphic
UV color vision in Heliconius butterflies; Speaker: Adriana Briscoe, Prof. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine.
Join in person: Orchard View Room, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/s/94224213290
Friday, April 18, 2025
8:00 AM Medicine Grand Rounds: Beyond the Language Barrier: An International Medical Graduates Orientation Curriculum for Thriving, Not Just Surviving; Speaker: Mazen Almasry, MBBS, Division of General Internal Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health, UW–Madison.
Join in person: UH G5/119 Clinical Sciences Center
Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96606196474?pwd=emVuZk5qNUN2cUN6MzBmUVRvKy80UT09
(Password: grandround)
12:00 PM John D. Wiley Seminar: Neuromodulation of Bioengineered Organoids with Reactive Human Astrocytes; Speaker: Robert Krencik, PhD, Assoc. Prof. of Neurosurgery, Houston Methodist Research Institute.
Join in person: T216 Waisman Center