Seminars

Monday, October 21, 2019

12:00 PM  Using Moral Foundations to Make the Case for Community-Level Interventions to Reduce Childhood Obesity; Speaker: Jeff Niederdeppe PhD, Associate Professor, Communication, Cornell University. Population Health Sciences Monday Seminar, 1335 HSLC.

12:00 PM  Special Topic: Responsible Conduct of Research. Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology Seminar, 1345 HSLC.

3:30 PM  Host Cell Chromatin Reorganization During EBV’s Lytic Phase; Speaker: Quincy Rosemarie (Sugden Lab). DDX3-Mediated Regulation of Androgen Receptor in Prostate Cancer Progression; Speaker: Jordan Vellky (Ricke Lab). Cancer Biology Student/Postdoc Seminar, 6571 McArdle Lab (WIMR II).

3:30 PM  Regulation and Function of mRNPs During the Drosophila Maternal-to-Zygotic Transition; Speaker: Howard Lipshitz, University of Toronto. Biochemistry Colloquium, 1211 HFD Biochemical Sciences Bldg.

11:00 AM  Fluctuations as a Source of Information in Fluorescence Spectroscopy: From Protein Oligomerization to Excited-State Dynamics; Speaker: Professor Marcia Levitus, Arizona State University. Joint Seminar Physical Chemistry and Chemical Biology, 1315 Chemistry Bldg.

12:00 PM  Stress-Induced Beta Cell Dedifferentiation Prior to Immune Cell Infiltration Prevents Type 1 Diabetes; Speaker: Feyza Engin, Assistant Professor, Biomolecular Chemistry and Medicine. Campus Stem Cell Meeting, HF Deluca Forum (First Floor) Town Center WID.

4:00 PM  High-throughput Identification of MHC Class I Binding Peptides Using an Ultradense Peptide Array; Speaker: Amelia Haj, Graduate Student, UW-Madison. Analyzing Polypeptide Microarrays Data to Quantify Peptide Binding Affinity to Immunological Components; Speaker:  David Baker, Graduate Student, UW-Madison. CIBM Seminar, 1360 Biotechnology Center.

4:00 PM  Renewable Organonitrogen Chemicals from Biomass; Speaker: Ning Yan, Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore. CBE Seminar, 1610 Engineering Hall.

4:00 PM  Resolving Recombination Intermediates: Functions of the E. coli Uup and RadD Proteins; Speaker: Zachary Romero (Cox Lab). Microbial Mechanisms Forum, 6201 MSB.

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

8:00 AM  Role of Adult Stem cell Niches and Primed Pluripotency Programs in Early DCC Dormancy; Speaker: Julio Aguirre-Chiso MSc PhD, Professor, Hematology and Oncology, Medicine. UWCCC Grand Rounds, G5/119 CSC.

10:30 AM  Targeting Cell Signaling Pathways for Cancer Therapies; Speaker: Wenyi Wei PhD, Professor, Pathology; Director, Biochemistry, Cancer Research Institute, BIDMC Cancer Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. Cancer Biology Seminar, 1345 HSLC.

12:00 PM  Effective DNA Vaccine Against Coronavirus in Poultry; Speaker: Shaswath Sekar Chandrasekar (Talaat Lab) Pathobiological Sciences. Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program Student Seminar (PBS 930), 2255 SVM.

12:05 PM  Speaker: Carolina Mendoza Cavazos. MDTP Seminar, 1520 MSB.

12:30 PM  Speaker: Kangwook Lee. SILO Seminar, Researchers’ Link, Discovery Bldg.

3:30 PM  Experience at Promega; Speaker: Nate Kuch, Trainee. BTP Seminar, 175 HF DeLuca Biochemistry Labs.

3:30 PM  Epidermal Control of Somatosensory Neuron Development in Drosophila; Speaker: Jay Parish, Associate Professor, Biology, University of Washington. Genetics Colloquium, 1111 Genetics/Biotech.

3:30 PM  Diet, Evolution, and Gut Health ; Speaker: Dr. John Furness, Professor, Agriculture and Food, University of Melbourne. Special Nutritional Sciences Seminar, 458 Nutritional Sciences Library.

4:00 PM  Statistical Leadership and the Birth of an International Clinical Trials Network; Speaker: James Neaton PhD, Professor, Biostatistics, University of Minnesota. BMI and Statistics Seminar, 140 Bardeen.

7:00 PM  Fighting Antibiotic Resistance with Broken Scissors; Speaker: Jason Peters, Assistant Professor, UW-Madison. Wednesday Nite @ the Lab, Genetics/Biotech Center Auditorium.

Thursday, October 24, 2019

11:00 AM  Speaker: Rana Gupta. Nutritional Sciences Seminar, 290 Nutritional Sciences.

12:10 PM  Interferon Regulatory Factor 1 and gammaherpesvirus: Balancing on the Razor’s Edge.; Speaker: Vera Terakanova PhD, Medical College of Wisconsin. Molecular Virology Seminar, 1211 Biochemical Sciences Auditorium. (Dr. Terakanova is a candidate for the Assistant Professor DNA Virology Cluster Hire position at UW-Madison)

12:30 PM  Speaker: Scott Edwards, Professor, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University. Evolution Seminar, 1360 Genetics/Biotech.

3:00 PM  Dementia Capable Care: Utilizing Science to Inform Policy; Speaker: Claire Erickson, N&PP Student, UW-Madison. Neuroscience & Public Policy Seminar, 1111 Biotechnology Center Auditorium.

3:30 PM  Mechanisms of Enterococcal Colonization and Genome Defense in the Intestine; Speaker: Breck Duerkop, University of Colorado, Denver. Distinguished Lectures in Microbiology, 1220 Ebling Symposium Center, MSB.

3:30 PM  ‘Flashy’ Speciation in Bioluminescent Marine Ostracods; Speaker: Gretchen Gerrish. Biology Colloquium, B302 Birge Hall.

Friday, October 25, 2019

11:00 AM   Interpreting the Cancer Genome through Physical and Functional Models of the Cancer Cell; Speaker: Dr. Trey Ideker, University of California, San Diego. Metabolism Colloquium, Orchard View Room, Discovery Bldg.

12:00 PM FXTAS: An Older Face of the Fragile X Gene; Speaker: Paul Hagerman MD PhD, UC Davis Health System. Harry A. Waisman Memorial Lecture, John D. Wiley Conference Center, Waisman Center.

12:00 PM  SYGL-1 and the Molecular Switch Between Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Differentiation; Speaker: Tina Lynch, Biochemistry, UW-Madison. IPiB Seminar, Khorana Auditorium, HFD Biochemistry Labs.

12:00 PM  Bayesian Causal Inference with Some Invalid Instrumental Variables; Speaker: Gyuhyeong Goh PhD, Kansas State University. Biostatistics Seminar, 133 SMI.

3:30 PM  Intestinal Fucose, in Sickness and in Health; Speaker: Jennifer Kohler PhD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar, 2006 Rennebohm Hall.