Monday, February 14 3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: Back to the basics: studying the structures of RNA viruses offer clues on how to inhibit them; Speaker: Blanton Tolbert, Case Western. Virtual Seminar; Register here: https://go.wisc.edu/bc_tolbert 3:30 …
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Seminar list for this week: February 7-11, 2022
Monday, February 7 3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: Engineering promiscuous enzymes for the synthesis of non-standard amino acids; Speaker: Andrew Buller, UW-Madison. Join in person: Room 1211, HFD Biochemical Sciences Building Join the livestream: https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq 3:30 …
Seminar listings this week: January 31 – February 4, 2022
Monday, January 31 3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: Coordination of -1 programmed ribosomal frameshifting by structural features within the transcript and nascent polypeptide chain; Speaker: Jonathan Schlebach, Indiana University. Join in person: Room 1211, HFD Biochemical …
Seminar listings this week: January 24-28, 2022
Monday, January 24 9:30 AM Biomolecular Chemistry Faculty Candidate Seminar: Maintaining chromosome fidelity: novel mechanisms and perturbations; Speaker: Dr. Jacob Herman, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Join via Zoom: https://go.wisc.edu/iv569r Join in person: 1211 Biochemical …
Seminar listings this week: Dec. 13-17, 2021
Monday, December 13 3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: “Coronavirus novel replicase functions and targets for antivirals” Speaker: Mark Denison, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Join in person: Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Building 3:30 PM McArdle Trainee …
The Spirit of Innovation: Leading the Way in Cancer Virology
It’s estimated that roughly 15-20 percent of cancers are associated, in some way, with a virus. Whether it’s Human Papillomavirus (HPV), Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) or Hepatitis C – just to name a few – …
Breast Cancer Researchers Learn How to Teach an Old Drug New Tricks to Help Patients
Paclitaxel, or Taxol, is an old standby drug in the oncologist’s tool belt. Yet only about half of breast cancer patients treated with the drug see their tumors shrink or disappear, and doctors and researchers …
Seminars listings this week: Dec. 6-10, 2021
Monday, December 6 3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: “New insights into regulating energy metabolism in health and disease” Speaker: Alan Saltiel, UCSD. Register to join via Zoom (pword: 126_colloq) 3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: “Investigating the …
Reflections
In a recently published article in JBC, Dick Burgess, Emeritus Professor of Oncology, describes his time as a graduate student at Harvard when he discovered the first positive transcription factor sigma and determined the subunit …
Seminars listings this week: Nov. 29 – Dec. 3, 2021
Monday, November 29 3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: “Single particle Cryo-EM, and a story during the COVID-19 pandemic” Speaker: Yifan Cheng, UCSF/HHMI Investigator. Join in person: Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences 3:30 PM McArdle Trainee …