Department of Oncology
Monday, May 19, 2025 12:00 PM Precision Medicine Seminar: Clinical interpretation of variants in the BRCA2 cancer predisposition gene; Speaker: Fergus J. Couch, PhD, Prof. of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, Mayo Clinic. Join in person: 2798 WIMR West Wedge Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94806573353?pwd=p2JDBPbelaAIDgQw6LvIZbv6TTOA8p.1 (Meeting ID: 948 0657 3353, Passcode: 013032) 3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: …
Monday, May 12, 2025 3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: CARM1 and PARP1: Unraveling the molecular interactions governing DNA repair and genomic stability; Speaker: Mason McGuire (Advisor: Wei Xu, PhD); Microenvironmental factors that influence metastasis in High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer (HGSOC); Speaker: Larkin Clem (Advisor: Pam Kreeger, PhD). Join in person: 6571 WIMR II Tuesday, …
The UW–Madison Office of the Provost has announced that McArdle Professor Wei Xu is one of 14 UW–Madison professors to receive the 2025 Vilas Mid-Career Investigator Award. This prestigious award recognizes research and teaching excellence and provides research funding (through the generosity of the William F. Vilas Estate) for three years. Dr. Xu, the Marian …
Monday, May 5, 2025 3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: Towards DNA-free synthetic biology: Protein circuits and RNA sensors; Speaker: Xiaojing Gao, PhD, Asst. Prof. of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University. Join in person: 1211 DeLuca Biochemical Sciences Join via Zoom: https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq 3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: Mechanisms of Pirtobrutinib Resistance in B Cell Lymphoma; Speaker: Qinyu Ni …
Monday, April 28, 2025 3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: Phase separation, emergent properties of condensates and effects on selected disease processes; Speaker: Tanja Mittag, PhD, Dept. of Structural Biology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Join in person: 1211 DeLuca Biochemical Sciences Join via Zoom: https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq 3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: Temporal dynamics of …
Monday, April 21, 2025 3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: Molecular kinetics of gene regulation during embryonic development; Speaker: Mustafa Mir, PhD, Asst. Prof. of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania. Join in person: 1211 DeLuca Biochemical Sciences Join via Zoom: https://go.wisc.edu/bio_colloq 3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: Exploiting the EBV latent/lytic switch for the treatment of …
Monday, April 14, 2025 3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: Structure and function of NMDA receptors – from neuropharmacology to immunology; Speaker: Hiro Furukawa, PhD, Prof., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Join in person: 1211 DeLuca Biochemical Sciences 3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: Creating new lab models for male breast cancer: Studying hormone-dependent tumorigenesis using the ACI rat; …
Monday, April 7, 2025 12:00 PM Problems in Precision Medicine and Genomics Seminar: Many brain disorders have sex-biased prevalence. Why is it so challenging to find sex-differential genomic signals in brain?; Speaker: Donna Werling, PhD, Asst. Prof. of Genetics, UW–Madison. Join in person: 2798 WIMR Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/99776513436?pwd=E7uqjiCYLmJ0OvoXLGwq6OEtF4eCpe.1 3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: Natural Product …
McArdle alum Tim Schedl, PhD, has been elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). AAAS, the world’s largest general scientific society, has presented this honor annually since 1874 to recognize distinguished achievements in science and engineering. Schedl, now a Professor of Genetics at Washington University in St. Louis, …
Monday, March 31, 2025 3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: DNA repair mechanisms involved in bacterial resistance to genotoxic natural products; Speaker: Brandt Eichman, PhD, Prof. and Chair of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University. Join in person: 1211 DeLuca Biochemical Sciences 3:30 PM McArdle Trainee Seminar: Versican status in the tumor microenvironment impacts inflammatory pathway expression and immune …