Seminar list for this week: February 28 – March 4, 2022

Monday, February 28 3:30 PM         McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Androgen deprivation therapy and targeted radionuclide therapy as an effective treatment combination for advanced prostate cancer; Speaker:  Anusha Muralidhar (Advisor:  Douglas McNeel).  Investigating the role of ATRX in epigenetic regulation of human cytomegalovirus lytic infections; Speaker:  Ryan Walter (Advisor:  Rob Kalejta). Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97191237717 (PASSCODE:  374167) …

Seminar list for this week: February 21-25, 2022

Monday, February 21 3:00 PM         Biochemistry Colloquium:  Building patterning-dependent chromatin states during embryogenesis; Speaker:  Shelby Blythe, Northwestern University. Attend in person:  Room 1211, HFD Biochemical Sciences Building.  Streamed here:  https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq  3:30 PM         McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Defining the pentamer’s mechanism of silencing the major immediate-early promoter in human cytomegalovirus latent infections; Speaker:  Mike Ohman (Advisor:  Rob …

Seminar list for this week: February 14-18, 2022

Monday, February 14 3:00 PM         Biochemistry Colloquium:  Back to the basics:  studying the structures of RNA viruses offer clues on how to inhibit them; Speaker:  Blanton Tolbert, Case Western. Virtual Seminar; Register here:  https://go.wisc.edu/bc_tolbert 3:30 PM         McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Role of mesenchymal stromal cells in radiation-induced xerostomia; Speaker:  Cristina Paz (Advisor:  Randy Kimple).  Determining the …

Seminar list for this week: February 7-11, 2022

Monday, February 7 3:00 PM         Biochemistry Colloquium:  Engineering promiscuous enzymes for the synthesis of non-standard amino acids; Speaker:  Andrew Buller, UW–Madison. Join in person:  Room 1211, HFD Biochemical Sciences Building Join the livestream:  https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq 3:30 PM         McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Nuclear to cytoplasmic NF-kB signaling in CD8+ T cells and anti-tumor immunity; Speaker:  Donna Li (Advisor:  …

Seminar listings this week: January 31 – February 4, 2022

Monday, January 31 3:00 PM         Biochemistry Colloquium:  Coordination of -1 programmed ribosomal frameshifting by structural features within the transcript and nascent polypeptide chain; Speaker:  Jonathan Schlebach, Indiana University. Join in person:  Room 1211, HFD Biochemical Sciences Building Join the livestream:  https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq 3:30 PM         McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Understanding Mad1 upregulation in breast cancer; Speaker:  Sarah Allen …

Seminar listings this week: January 24-28, 2022

Monday, January 24 9:30 AM         Biomolecular Chemistry Faculty Candidate Seminar:  Maintaining chromosome fidelity:  novel mechanisms and perturbations; Speaker:  Dr. Jacob Herman, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Join via Zoom:  https://go.wisc.edu/iv569r Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences Bldg 3:00 PM         Biochemistry Colloquium:  Animating molecular mechanisms; Speaker:  Janet Iwasa, Univ of Utah (IPiB Student Invited Speaker). Join …

Seminar listings this week: Dec. 13-17, 2021

Monday, December 13 3:00 PM      Biochemistry Colloquium:  “Coronavirus novel replicase functions and targets for antivirals” Speaker:  Mark Denison, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Join in person:  Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Building  3:30 PM      McArdle Trainee Seminar:  “Tis the season:  impact of intratumoral heterogeneity for microsatellite instability on tumor development and therapeutic response” Speaker:  Santina Snow …

The Spirit of Innovation: Leading the Way in Cancer Virology

It’s estimated that roughly 15-20 percent of cancers are associated, in some way, with a virus. Whether it’s Human Papillomavirus (HPV), Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) or Hepatitis C – just to name a few – viruses and cancer frequently go hand-in-hand. Fortunately, virology researchers at the University of Wisconsin have been studying the virus/cancer relationship …

Breast Cancer Researchers Learn How to Teach an Old Drug New Tricks to Help Patients

Paclitaxel, or Taxol, is an old standby drug in the oncologist’s tool belt. Yet only about half of breast cancer patients treated with the drug see their tumors shrink or disappear, and doctors and researchers have no way of knowing which patients will benefit. But that may soon change.

Seminars listings this week: Dec. 6-10, 2021

Monday, December 6 3:00 PM      Biochemistry Colloquium:  “New insights into regulating energy metabolism in health and disease” Speaker:  Alan Saltiel, UCSD. Register to join via Zoom   (pword:  126_colloq)  3:30 PM      McArdle Trainee Seminar:  “Investigating the role of HAPLN1 in multiple myeloma bone marrow homing” Speaker:  Hae Yeun Chang (Advisor:  Shigeki Miyamoto).  “Endosome escape during HCMV …