McArdle Assistant Professor Huy Dinh Receives NIH MIRA Award

McArdle Assistant Professor Huy Dinh recently received a $1.8 million 5-year NIH R35 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) that will propel his laboratory’s work aiming to understand the role of immune cells known as neutrophils in wound healing and cancers. Neutrophils are the most abundant cell type in the blood and are the first to …

McArdle Faculty Member Beth Weaver Receives Women’s Health Research Mentorship Award

The McArdle laboratory for Cancer Research is pleased to announce that Dr. Beth Weaver (Depts. of Oncology and Cell and Regenerative Biology) has been awarded the prestigious 2023 UW SMPH Group on Women in Medicine and Science/BIRCHWH Women’s Health Research Mentorship Award. The award recognizes impactful mentorship of women scientists who are pursuing careers in …

Seminar list for this week: April 8-12

Monday, April 8, 2024 3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  A radical solution for C(sp3)-C(sp3) bond formation during the biosynthesis of macrocyclic membrane lipids; Speaker:  Squire Booker, PhD, Prof. Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University. Join in person:  1211 HFD Biochemical Sciences Join virtually:  https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq  3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  HuSH EBV: An unexpected inhibitory …

Seminar list for this week: April 1-5

Monday, April 1, 2024 3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Structural insights into phase transitions and unpublished experiments from my time in Betty Craig’s lab; Speaker:  James Bardwell, PhD, Prof. of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology and Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan. Join in person:  1211 HFD Biochemical Sciences Join virtually:  https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq  3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar: …

Seminar list for this week: March 25-29

Monday, March 25, 2024 10:00 AM       Tumor Virology Faculty Candidate Seminar:  Leveraging Functional Genomics to Uncover Oncogenic Dependencies in Viral Lymphoma; Speaker:  Mark Manzano, Asst. Prof., University of Arkansas. Join in person:  1335 WIMR  Tuesday, March 26, 2024 N/A Wednesday, March 27, 2024 8:00 AM         Oncology Grand Rounds:  Genetic Testing: When Germline and Somatic Results …

Seminar list for this week: March 18-22

Monday, March 18, 2024 8:00 AM         UWCCC Director Candidate Seminar:  Joshua Lang, MD, MS, Vice Chair for Biomedical Research, Assoc. Prof. Hematology, Medical Oncology and Palliative Care, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Join in person:  1325 HSLC Join via Webex:  https://uwmadison.webex.com/uwmadison/j.php?MTID=m1b98ee86970bf0e748902ee460d47b39  3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Metabolic phenotypes in human disease; Speaker:  Ralph DeBerardinis, MD, PhD, Division of …

Seminar list for this week: March 11-15

Monday, March 11, 2024 8:00 AM         UWCCC Director Candidate Seminar:  David Jarrard, MD, Prof., Vice Chair of Urology, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Join in person:  1345 HSLC Join via Webex:  https://uwmadison.webex.com/uwmadison/j.php?MTID=me5733e788d3a3418e79076909ad85a6c 10:00 AM       Tumor Virology Faculty Candidate Seminar:  The strategic inundation of microprocessor in EBV-associated lymphoma; Speaker:  Nathan Ungerleider, PhD, Assist. Prof. of Pathology and Laboratory …

Seminar list for this week: March 4-8

Monday, March 4, 2024 10:00 AM       Tumor Virology Faculty Candidate Seminar:  The Double-Edged Sword of Gene Regulation: Antiviral RNA Biology During Gammaherpesvirus Infection; Speaker:  John Karijolich, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Join in person:  1121 Signe Skott Cooper Hall  10:30 AM       Neuroscience Faculty Candidate Seminar:  Leveraging circuit …

Seminar list for this week: February 26-March 1

Monday, February 26, 2024 10:00 AM Tumor Virology Seminar:  Going against the tide: a novel RNA element protects against viral-induced RNA decay; Speaker:  Mandy Muller, PhD, Assoc. Prof., University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Join in person:  1345 HSLC 1:30 PM UWCCC Director Candidate Seminar:  Jen Jen Yeh, MD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Join in person:  …

Seminar list for this week: February 19-23

Monday, February 19, 2024 10:00 AM       Tumor Virology Seminar:  Defining the Mechanisms of Action of Merkel Cell Polyomavirus in Tumorigenesis; Speaker:  Megan Spurgeon, PhD, Senior Scientist, Oncology, UW–Madison. Join in person:  1335 HSLC  12:00 PM        Precision Medicine Seminar:  Dissecting genome organization and stability dysregulation in metastatic prostate cancer; Speaker:  Veronica Rodriguez Bravo, PhD, Mayo Clinic. …