Seminar list for this week: January 12-16

Monday, January 12, 2025 N/A Tuesday, January 13, 2025 N/A Wednesday, January 14, 2025 11:00 AM       Cancer Biology Seminar:  Dissecting Tumor-Adipose Crosstalk in Cancer-Associated Cachexia; Speaker: Andrea Galmozzi, PhD, Asst. Prof., Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Dept. of Medicine, UW–Madison. Join in person:  1345 HSLC Thursday, January 15, 2025 12:00 PM        Pathology Grand Rounds:  Prehopsital blood …

McArdle Postdoctoral Researcher Dr. Umar Sheikh Awarded Research Award from the Wisconsin Partnership Program

McArdle postdoctoral researcher Dr. Umar Sheikh (Lambert Lab) has been awarded a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship from the Wisconsin Partnership Program to study how the female sex hormone estrogen affects immune responses after infection with cancer-causing papillomaviruses. Papillomaviruses are DNA tumor viruses that infect epithelial cells and are a leading cause of cancers that include cervical …

Seminar list for this week: January 5-9

Monday, January 5, 2025 N/A Tuesday, January 6, 2025 N/A Wednesday, January 7, 2025 8:00 AM         Oncology Grand Rounds:  SABCS Updates – Part 1, Presenting: HER2+, AR+ TNBC and Surg Onc; Speakers: Marina Sharifi, MD, PhD, Asst. Prof., Dept of Neurology, UW–Madison; Julia Knight-Shefner, MD, Asst. Prof., Endocrinology, Dept. of Medicine, UW–Madison; Anna Beck, MD, …

Seminar list for this week: December 15-19

Monday, December 15, 2025 3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  The ABCs of Chromatin Hijacking in Disease; Speaker: Nada Jabado, MD, PhD, Prof., Dept.  of Pediatrics, Div. of Clinical and Translational Research, McGill University. Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences Join via Zoom:  https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq  Tuesday, December 16, 2025 N/A Wednesday, December 17, 2025 8:00 AM         Oncology Grand …

Seminar list for this week: December 8-12

Monday, December 8, 2025 3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Regulatory control of homologous recombination by Rad54; Speaker: Eric Greene, PhD, Prof. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University. Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences Join via Zoom:  https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq  3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Optimizing the efficacy of standard-of-care anti-microtubule therapies; Speaker: Caleb Carlsen (Advisor: Beth Weaver, …

Seminar list for this week: December 1-5

Monday, December 1, 2025 10:00 AM       Cancer Biology, Dissertation Defense:  Defining the Role of Histone-modifying Enzymes in the Development of Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer; Speaker:  Tanaya Purohit (Advisor: David Jarrard, MD). Join in person:  1325 HSLC Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96383109996  (Meeting ID: 963 8310 9996) 12:00 PM        Problems in Precision Medicine and Genomics:  Adding dimensions: How …

Seminar list for this week: November 24-28

Monday, November 24, 2025 3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Investigating Nonsense-Mediated Decay as a Restriction Factor for EBV Reactivation; Speaker: Emilie Greene (Advisor: Eric Johannsen, MD); Characterizing SIV latency with a novel in-vitro model; Speaker: MegAnn Haubold (Advisor: Matt Reynolds, PhD). Join in person:  6571 WIMR II Tuesday, November 25, 2025 12:00 PM        Stem Cell …

Seminar list for this week: November 17-21

Monday, November 17, 2025 12:00 PM        Precision Medicine Seminar:  Turning harmful inborn errors of metabolism into benign biochemical abnormalities; Speaker: Sander Houten, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Join in person:  2798 WIMR West Wedge Join via Zoom:  https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94806573353?pwd=p2JDBPbelaAIDgQw6LvIZbv6TTOA8p.1 3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Synthetic Lethality …

Seminar list for this week: November 10-14

Monday, November 10, 2025 3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Leveraging dose heterogeneity from radiopharmaceutical therapy enhances Lutetium-177 anti-tumor efficacy via increased immune response; Speaker: Maya Takashima (Advisor: Zach Morris MD, PhD); Spatial and Epigenetic Mechanisms of AAV2 Persistence; Speaker: Rhiannon Abrahams (Advisor: Kinjal Majumder, PhD). Join in person:  6571 WIMR II Tuesday, November 11, 2025 …

Seminar list for this week: November 3-7

Monday, November 3, 2025 3:00 PM          Biochemistry Colloquium:  Beyond the active site: Structure guided insight into function, mechanism and evolution in bacterial glycoconjugate biosynthesis; Speaker: Karen Allen, PhD, Prof. of Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering, Boston University. Join in person:  1211 Biochemical Sciences Join via Zoom:  https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq  3:30 PM          McArdle Trainee Seminar:  Combining tumor-specific …