Department of Oncology
Monday, March 6, 2023 3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: Microfluidics for high-throughput and quantitative biophysics and biochemistry; Speaker: Polly Fordyce, Stanford. Join in person: Room 1211, HFD Biochemical Sciences Bldg. Streaming here: https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq 3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: Live cell imaging reveals HIV-1 Vpr-mediated suppression of Vif-induced cell cycle arrest; Speaker: Maddi Bandini (Advisor: Nate Sherer, …
Former McArdle gradaute student Thomas Lentz (Loeb Lab) was a guest on the podcast “Science Lives,” a show about lesser-known careers that rely on a science education and scientific way of thinking. On this episode, Lentz discusses his career path from being a graduate student at UW Madison to a Scientific Instructional Designer at Promega …
Tuesday, February 28, 2023 10:00 AM Faculty Candidate Seminar: Deciphering the molecular basis of embryogenesis across space and time; Speaker: Ehsan Habibi, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Register for Zoom streaming: https://go.wisc.edu/seminar_0228zoom_habibi 12:00 PM Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar: Turning back the clock on aging mesenchymal stromal cells; Speaker: Dr. Wan-Ju Li, …
The McArdle Laboratory is very proud to announce that Wei Xu, Professor of Oncology and Marian A. Messerschmidt Professor of Cancer Research, has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. Since 1874, the AAAS has bestowed this prestigious honor each year on …
Monday, February 20, 2023 12:00 PM Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine Seminar: Multi-dimensional interactions modulate pancreatic tumor microenvironment; Speaker: Subhajyoti De, Associate Professor, Dept of Pathology, Rutgers University. Join in person: 2798 WIMR West Wedge Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96732897260?pwd=ODdKV05LYlNmVHV5T0NOdHZsa05sQT09 3:00 PM The David Green Lecture in Enzyme Chemistry: Deep mutagenesis studies of a …
Monday, February 13, 2023 10:00 AM Faculty Candidate Seminar: Time-resolved cryo-EM visualizes snapshots of dynein’s activation pathway; Speaker: Aga Kendrick, UC-San Diego. Join in person: 1211, HFD Biochemical Sciences Bldg. 3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: ATRX promotes the initial chromatinization of human cytomegalovirus genomes to restrict viral transcription and productive replication; Speaker: Ryan Walter (Advisor: Rob Kalejta, …
Dr. Alexandra Shedlovsky, or as we knew her in McArdle, Alex Dove, moved from the study of light transmission in photoreceptors to mouse genetics in 1975. She, Bill, and their three children began this transition by a sabbatical year in Paris with Francois Jacob, one half of the pair of Jacob and Monod, famous for …
Monday, February 6, 2023 10:00 AM Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dynamics and disruption of human translation initiation; Speaker: Chris Lapointe, Dept of Structural Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine. Join in person: 1211 HFD Biochemical Sciences Bldg. 12:00 PM Precision Medicine Interest Group: Targeting JAK-STAT signaling in B cell lymphoma; Speaker: Dr. Lixin Rui, PhD. …
Monday, January 30, 2023 3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: Dietary fatty acids fine-tune neuronal and non-neuronal cells mechanical response; Speaker: Valeria Vasquez, University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Join in person: 1211 HFD Biochemical Sciences. Streamed here: https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq 3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: Immune checkpoint blockade in colorectal cancer; Speaker: Sean Kraus (Deming lab). Understanding the …
Monday, January 23, 2023 3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: “PD-1 blockade at the time of T cell activation enhances anti-tumor responses;” Speaker: Jena Moseman (McNeel lab). Join in person: 6571 WIMR 5:30 PM Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium: Speaker: Benjamin Jealous, Former NAACP President. Join in person: Shannon Hall, Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St. Register …