Seminar list for this week: February 12-16

Monday, February 12, 2024 3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Structural insights into phase transitions and unpublished experiments from my time in Betty Craig’s lab; Speaker:  James Bardwell, Prof. of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan. Join in person:  1211 HFD Biochemistry Sciences Join virtually:  https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq  3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Integrated single cell and spatial analysis of …

Seminar list for this week: February 5-9

Monday, February 5, 2024 3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Engineering synthetic regulatory systems in human cells; Speaker:  Caleb Bashor, Asst. Prof. of Bioengineering & Biosciences, Rice University. Join in person:  1211 HFD Biochemistry Sciences Join virtually:  https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq  3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Validating entry receptor candidates for Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus; Speaker:  Beniah Brumbaugh, (Advisor: Bill Sugden, …

Seminar list for this week: January 29-February 2

Monday, January 29, 2024 12:15 PM        Pathobiological Sciences Seminar:  From mucus-maker to virus-maker: how astrovirus hijacks goblet cells and disrupts gut homeostasis; Speaker:  Valerie Cortez, PhD, Asst. Prof. Dept. of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz. Join in person:  2007 School of Veterinary Medicine Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92133588287?pwd=U0lCcVpPUVo1a0t2WTFWRGxFeUNCdz09  3:00 PM          Biochemistry …

Seminar list for this week: January 22-26

Monday, January 22, 2024 10:30 AM       Neuroscience Seminar:  Organizing the brain: how do neurons identify their targets?; Speaker:  Daniel Pederick, PhD, Stanford University. Join in person:  3571 WIMR II  3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Histone acetylation: reading, writing, and beyond; Speaker:  Xiaobing Shi, PhD, Van Andel Institute. Join in person:  1211 HFD Biochemistry Sciences Join virtually:  …

Seminar list for this week: January 16-19

Tuesday, January 16, 2024 5:30 PM          RNA MaxiGroup:  Molecular innovation at the interface between transposons and CRISPR-Cas systems; Speaker: Sam Sternberg, Assist. Prof. Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University. Join in person:  2131 HF DeLuca Biochemistry Building Wednesday, January 17, 2024 11:00 AM       Cancer Biology Seminar:  p53 and senescence in cancer and beyond; Speaker:  Scott …

Bothwell Prize Winner for 2023 is announced: Prostate Cancer Diagnostics from Liquid Biopsy Sampling

View this year’s Bothwell prize announcement here. This year’s Bothwell prize winner is a paper from Zhao et al (with senior author Dr. Josh Lang, Department of Human Oncology), “A clinical-grade liquid biomarker detects neuroendocrine differentiation in prostate cancer”.   The committee chose this paper because the technique it describes could quickly impact the treatment of men …

McArdle Students Win UWCCC Trainee Network Travel/ Enrichment Award

 Started in 2019, the Heidi Dvinge and Patti Keely Cancer Trainee Network aims to bring cancer researchers from the basic to the clinical domains under one umbrella and foster interactions, support and networking opportunities. As part of this mission, it recognizes outstanding graduate and medical students/ residents/ clinical and research fellows/ postdocs with the semi-annual …

Seminar list for this week: December 18-22

Monday, December 18, 2023 3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Deciphering the role of osteoclasts in prostate cancer bone metastasis: a novel approach to FACs enrichment and transcriptomic profiling of osteoclasts; Speaker:  Adeline Ding (Advisor: Josh Lang, MD); Utilizing the HiBiT system to identify CARM1 degraders in high-throughput screens; Speaker:  Megan Bacabac (Advisor: Wei Xu, PhD). …

Seminar list for this week: December 11-15

Monday, December 11, 2023 3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  The HCMV Pentamer inhibits viral IE transcription during latent and lytic infections; Speaker:  Mike Ohman (Advisor: Rob Kalejta, PhD); The effects of versican on cytotoxic lymphocyte infiltration and function in colorectal cancer; Speaker:  Sean Kraus (Advisor: Dustin Deming, MD). Join in person:  6571 WIMR II Tuesday, …

Seminar list for this week: December4-8

Monday, December 4, 2023 1:30 PM          UW SMPH HPP Frontiers in Proteomics Seminar:  High throughput single-cell proteomics and multiomics; Speaker:  Dr. Yu (Tom) Gao, Assoc. Prof. Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Illinois-Chicago. Join in person:  HSLC 1306  3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Radical SAM: How nature generates and controls reactive radical intermediates; Speaker: Joan Broderick, …