Seminar list for this week: May 1-5

Monday, May 1, 2023 12:00 PM        Precision Medicine Interest Group:  From human genetics to stem cell and blood cancer mechanisms and applications; Speaker:  Emery Bresnick, PhD, Director, UW–Madison Blood Cancer Research Program. Join in person:  2798 WIMR West Wedge Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98552755473?pwd=OVVvazJ2Z3VLMzlUN1krdm1RTXBvZz09&from=addon 3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  CANCELLED  3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Copanlisib enhances …

Seminar list for this week: April 24-28

Monday, April 24, 2023 3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  T cell immunometabolism in cancer and inflammation; Speaker:  Jeff Rathmell, Vanderbilt University Join in person:  1211 HFD Biochemical Sciences Bldg. Join via stream:  https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq  3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Topological conformation of adeno-associated virus 2; Speaker:  Clairine Larsen (Advisor:  Kinjal Majumder, PhD). Join in person:  6571 WIMR …

Seminar list for this week: April 17-21

Monday, April 17, 2023 12:00 PM        Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine Seminar:  Challenges and opportunities to paving the path toward broad and equitable implementation and clinical adoption of precision medicine; Speaker:  Emily Mrig, PhD, Assistant Professor, UC-San Francisco Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Center for Translational and Policy Research on Precision Medicine. Join …

Seminar list for this week: April 10-14

Monday, April 10, 2023 3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  How microsporidia pathogens use ballistic organelles to invade host cells; Speaker:  Gira Bhabha, New York University. Join in person:  1211 HFD Biochemical Sciences Bldg. Join via stream:  https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq  3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Investigating the conditionally essential role of AZIN1 in human cells; Speaker:  Aysiah Jaeke (Advisor:  …

Seminar list for this week: April 3-7

Monday, April 3, 2023 12:00 PM        Precision Medicine Interest Group:  Title:  TBA; Speaker:  Jomol Mathew, PhD, Chief of Biomedical Informatics; Associate Dean for Informatics and Information Technology for SMPH; Director of the UW Clinical & Health Informatics Institute. Join in person:  Room 2798 WIMR West Wedge 3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  (Gene Yeo) **CANCELLED**  3:30 PM          …

McArdle Laboratory Students Awarded Prestigious National Science Foundation Fellowship

Three McArdle graduate students recently received recognition from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for their research in Dr. Kinjal Majumder’s laboratory. MegAnn Haubold (Cancer Biology Graduate Program) and Clairine Larsen (Cellular and Molecular Biology Graduate Program) have been awarded 2023 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recognizes and supports “outstanding …

McArdle Director Named a 2023 Hilldale Award Winner

McArdle Director Dr. Paul Lambert is one of four University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty members honored with the 2023 Hilldale Award. “Each year, the secretary of the faculty honors four University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty members with the Hilldale Award to recognize their contributions to teaching, research and service.” View the recording on the award announcement here. …

Seminar list for this week: March 27-31

Monday, March 27, 2023 3:00 PM     Biochemistry Colloquium:  Mechanism of insulin granule biogenesis; Speaker:  Julia von Blume, Yale. Join in person:  1211 HFD Biochemical Sciences Bldg. Streamed here:  https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq 3:30 PM     McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Investigating potential therapeutic targets in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma; Speaker:  Somak Chaudhuri (Advisor:  Dustin Deming, MD).  Determining the mechanism of HCMV circularization during infection; …

Seminar list for this week: March 20-24

Monday, March 20, 2023 12:00 PM        Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine Seminar:  Precision oncology research and practice at the Gundersen Health System; Speaker:  Paraic Kenny, PhD., Director, Kabara Cancer Research Institute of the Gundersen Medical Foundation; Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, UW–Madison. Join in person:  2798 WIMR West Wedge Join via Zoom:  …

Seminar list for this week: March 6-10

Monday, March 13, 2023 3:30 PM     McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Progress toward a mouse model of recurrent respiratory papillomatosis; Speaker:  Renee King, PhD, CCC-SLP (Lambert lab). Understanding Mad1 upregulation in cancer; Speaker:  Sarah Copeland (Weaver lab). Join in person:  6571 WIMR Tuesday, March 14, 2023 N/A Wednesday, March 15, 2023 8:00 AM     Oncology Grand Rounds:  Tobacco cessation in …