Department of Oncology
Monday, September 2, 2024 N/A Tuesday, September 3, 2024 3:00 PM Dissertation Defense: Role of toll-like receptor agonists as cancer vaccine adjuvants; Speaker: Heron Jeon (Advisor: Doug McNeel, MD, PhD). Join in person: 7001A WIMR Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/9902102568?pwd=cRjEMnCWMxKxABbrv2P4rDFKPlbZQC.1&omn=98447914570 (Passcode: 1234) Wednesday, September 4, 2024 3:30 PM Genetics Colloquium: Genomic medicine lets ions travel through …
Where are you from and what’s your previous training? Why Madison and the Cancer Biology program? I graduated summa cum laude from St. Norbert College in the spring of 2021 with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology (biomedical sciences) and Spanish. During my three years in undergrad, I worked with Dr. Russ Feirer studying the …
The McArdle Laboratory and Cancer Biology Graduate Program were delighted to host Dr. Asha Collins to present and field questions as part of a professional development workshop sponsored by the program’s NCI-funded T32 training program in cancer biology. Students, postdocs, undergraduates, and academic staff were all invited to participate. Asha received her PhD in Cancer …
Where are you from and what’s your previous training? Why Madison and the Cancer Biology program? I’m originally from the Northern VA area, but grew up in a military family, so there’s not a specific place I consider to be my childhood home. After graduating from the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA, I …
Monday, May 20, 2024 12:00 PM Precision Medicine Seminar: Precision Oncology: The Emperor of All Maladies Has No Clothes; Speaker: Razelle Kurzrock, MD, Prof. of Medicine, Assoc. Dir. Of Clinical Research, Medical College of Wisconsin. Join in person: HSLC 1335 Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91547869984?pwd=a08zRFYrdmZzUGRDL3lMNmxKbEVPdz09&from=addon 3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: Nuclear Phosphoinositides on p53: A Novel …
Monday, May 13, 2024 3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: The Effect of Radiation Dose Heterogeneity on the Immunomodulation of the Tumor Microenvironment; Speaker: Maya Takashima (Advisor: Zach Morris, MD, PhD); Delineate the Oncogenic Functions of ZNF703 and Regulation by PRMTs in Estrogen Receptor Positive Breast Cancer; Speaker: Jingjing Zhou (Advisor: Wei Xu, PhD). Join in …
Monday, May 6, 2024 10:00 AM Dissertation Defense: Preclinical Models to Investigate the Role of Merkel Cell Polyomavirus T Antigens in Merkel Cell Carcinoma Development; Speaker: Amanda Loke (Advisor: Paul Lambert, PhD). Join in person: 6571 WIMR II Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92373437667?pwd=RGFuYWhCbGpOWXhiUlBlQ2lwUURlQT09 3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: A tale of many algae: From new biochemistry to …
Monday, April 29, 2024 1:30 PM Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine, Research Director Candidate Seminar: Wei Xu, PhD, Prof. of Oncology, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Join in person: HSLC 1306 3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: Chromosome inheritance during cell division; Speaker: Sue Biggins, PhD, Fred Hutch Cancer Center. Join in person: 1211 HFD Biochemical Sciences …
Monday, April 22, 2024 3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: CRISPR Versus Climate Change (and Antibiotic Resistance!); Speaker: Jason M. Peters, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Join in person: 1211 HFD Biochemical Sciences Join virtually: https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq 3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: Evaluating the Efficacy of Tumor-Specific Vaccination and Radiopharmaceutical Therapy for Prostate Cancer …
Monday, April 15, 2024 12:00 PM Precision Medicine Seminar: Artificial Intelligence in Precision Medicine: Improving the Diagnosis of Pediatric Enteropathies; Speaker: Sana Syed, MD, Assoc. Prof., University of Virginia School of Medicine and School of Data Science. Join in person: 2798 West Wedge WIMR Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91547869984?pwd=a08zRFYrdmZzUGRDL3lMNmxKbEVPdz09&from=addon 3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: Formation of our …