Department of Oncology
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 …
Monday, September 28, 2026 3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium and Krause Metabolism Seminar: Inflammaging Checkpoints; Speaker: Vishwa Deep Dexit, Yale University Join in person: 1211 DeLuca Biochemical Sciences Building 3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: Notch Signaling Activation and Ferroptosis Suppression Drive Pirtobrutinib Resistance in Mantle Cell Lymphoma; Speaker: Qinyu Ni, Rui Lab Join in person: 6571 …
Monday, September 21, 2026 12:00 PM UW Sponsored Seminar: Introducing the Lloviu virus, a temperate climate bat filovirus from Europe; Speaker: Dr. Gábor Kemenesi, Director of Hungary’s national BSL-4 virology reference laboratory, coordinator of VECTORACT Erasmus+ consortium. Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/QVuR5slASGyYXcv9fAGLbA#/registration Meeting ID: 930 6906 7849 Passcode: 888825 12:00 PM Precision Medicine Seminar: TBD;Speaker: Dr. …
NF-κB/RelA Signaling Required for CD40-Induced Humoral Immunity Depends on Specific NEMO Lysine Residues in Mice. The NF-κB signaling pathway serves several key purposes in biology, often focused on immune cells. Using their deep understanding of a specific branch of this signaling pathway, Dr. Miyamoto’s team (along with two more junior McArdle faculty, Drs. Dinh and …
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 …
Monday, September 7, 2026 No seminars Tuesday, September 8, 2026 12:00 PM Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar: The ISSCR Consortium: Advancing Human Stem Cell-Based Models in Drug Discovery & Development; Speaker: Chris Barry. 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) 3:00 PM …
Monday, August, 31, 2026 No seminars Tuesday, September 1, 2026 No seminars Wednesday, September 2, 2026 8:00 AM Oncology Grand Rounds: ASCO Updates: Part 1 (Panc and GU); Speakers: Jeremy Kratz, MD, Assistant Professor (CHS), Department of Medicine, SMPH, Heme, Med Onc and Palliative Care-Chief; Anthony Serritella, MD, Dept of Medicine, SMPH, Heme, Med Onc …
McArdle graduate student Carstyn Joiner has been awarded a Kirschstein-NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The F31 fellowship is designed to support specialized training for promising graduate students and build on their potential to become productive, independent research scientists. Carstyn, who joined the Cancer Biology Graduate Program in 2022, is carrying …
Spurgeon ME, Lange TE, Baty A, Li H, Lambert PF, Setchell KDR, Wells SI, Zhao X. Lipid reprogramming of stratified squamous epithelium by the high-risk HPV E6 and E6/E7 oncoproteins. Metabolomics. 2026 Jul 1;22(4):111. doi: 10.1007/s11306-026-02498-2. PMID: 42384270; PMCID: PMC13323514. Viruses cleverly manipulate their host cells to support their maintenance, replication and spread. Genes and …
Umar SA, Wang W, Jeon D, Pham LK, Ward-Shaw ET, Lee D, Hu R, Bilger A, Spurgeon ME, Lambert PF. Estrogen receptor α (Esr1) mediates estrogen’s ability to promote papillomavirus-induced cutaneous disease in male and female mice. mBio. 2026 May 29:e0078326. doi: 10.1128/mbio.00783-26. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42212803. Tumors of reproductive tissues often use …