Weekly Seminar List - This Week

This list is derived from seminar notices sent to the McArdle departmental office. Please refer to original seminar announcements to verify information. If you know of additional seminars that should be posted, please contact typists@oncology.wisc.edu.

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Monday, October 6, 2008

12:00 PM TBA; Speaker:  Chao Qi (Kalin lab).  Pharmacology 901 Student Seminar, 140 Bardeen.

3:30 PM Developing a Toolbox for the Modification of Plant Cell Wall Biosynthesis; Speaker:  Clint Chapple, Purdue University.  Contemporary Biochemistry Biofuels Seminar, Ebling Symposium Center, MSB, 1550 Linden Drive.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

12:00 PM  Signaling Phagocytosis:  Role of Phospholipids and Surface Charge; Speaker:  Sergio Grinstein, Ph.D., Professor, Division of Cell Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Univ. of Toronto.  Frontiers in Pharmacology Seminar, Genetics/Biotech Center Auditorium.

12:00 PM  Vilas Travel Grant Workshop.  Graduate Student Professional Development Workshop, 260 Bascom Hall.  Registration is required for all workshops.  Register at:  www.grad.wisc.edu/gsc/registration

12:00 PM The Aging Program and Alzheimer’s Disease; Speaker:  Luigi Puglielli, M.D., Ph.D.  Two ER/ERGIC-based Lysine Acetyltransferases Post-Translationally Regulate BACE1 Levels; Speaker:  Mi Hee Ko, Ph.D.  NeuroDegeneration and NeuroRegeneration Seminar, T-216 Waisman Center.

3:30 PM Membrane Shaping Reticulon Proteins Play a Role in Maintaining and Stabilizing a Viral Replication Compartment; Speaker:  Arturo Diaz (Ahlquist lab).  The Role of the Dioxin Responsive Element Cluster between the Cyp1a1 and Cyp1a2 Loci in Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Biology; Speaker:  Manabu Nukaya, Ph.D. (Bradfield lab).  Cancer Biology Student/Postdoc Seminar, Temin Room (11th floor) McArdle Laboratory.

4:00 PM  Extracting Quantitative Information from Biological Images; Speaker:  Anne Carpenter, Imaging Platform, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.  Biological Imaging Lecture, 341 Bardeen.

4:00 PM  Using Mathematical Tools to Gain Insight Into Binding Specificity in Protein-Protein and Protein-DNA Interactions; Speaker:  Julie Mitchell, Ph.D., Asst. Prof., Depts. of Biochemistry and Mathematics, UW-Madison.  Computation and Informatics in Biology and Medicine Seminar, Genetics/Biotech Center Auditorium.

4:00 PM From Biomolecular Networks to Multicellular Dynamics; Speaker:  Anand R. Asthagiri, Ph.D., Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology.  Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar, 1800 Engineering Hall.

5:30 PM  Creating Community Within Your Department.  Graduate Student Professional Development Workshop, 260 Bascom Hall.  Registration is required for all workshops.  Register at:  www.grad.wisc.edu/gsc/registration

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

8:00 AM  The Rising Tide of Cancer.  National and Global Perspectives; Speakers:  James Cleary, M.D., Associate Professor, Section of Hematology-Oncology, Dept. of Medicine, UWSMPH and Patrick Remington, M.D., MPH, Professor, Dept. of Population Health Sciences, UWSMPH.  UWCCC Grand Rounds, G5/119 CSC.

9:30 AM The Role of RNA Polymerase II Stalling in Innate Immunity; Speaker:  Karen Adelman, Ph.D., PI, Lab of Molecular Carcinogenesis, NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, NC.  McArdle Seminar in Cancer Biology, Genetics/Biotech Center Auditorium.

11:30 AM  Interviewing for Faculty Positions.  Graduate Student Professional Development Workshop, 260 Bascom Hall.  Registration is required for all workshops.  Register at:  www.grad.wisc.edu/gsc/registration

12:00 PM Structural Basis for Activation and Inactivation Gating in K+ Channels; Speaker:  Eduardo Perozo, Professor and Chief, Biophysics and Protein Dynamics, Inst. for Molecular Pediatric Sciences, Univ. of Chicago.  Physiology Seminar, 281 MSC.

12:00 PM  Pin1’ing Down Signaling in the Immune System:  The Role of Peptidyl Isomerases; Speaker:  James Malter, M.D., Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UW-Madison.  Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Seminar, 516 SMI.

12:00 PM  Techniques for Extracting Contours and Merging Maps; Speaker:  Nagesh Adluru, Dept. of Computer Science, Temple University.  Special Imaging Seminar, 140 Bardeen.

3:30 PM  A Tale of Two Helicases; Speaker:  Michael R. Culbertson, Professor, Laboratories of Genetics and Molecular Biology, UW-Madison.  Genetics Colloquium, Genetics/Biotech Center Auditorium.

3:30 PM Characterizing Polyglutamine-containing Apomyoglobin Mutants as a Model for Polyglutamine Disease; Speaker:  Matthew Tobelmann (Murphy lab, Chem. & Biol. Engineering).  Biotechnology Training Program Student Seminar, 1420 Microbial Sciences, 1550 Linden Drive.

Thursday, October 9, 2008

8:00 AM  Molecular Imaging of Angiogenesis:  Cancer and Beyond; Speaker:  Weibo Cai, Depts. of Radiology and Medical Physics, UW-Madison.  Cancer Pharmacology Seminar, K4/618 UW Hospital and Clinics.

11:00 AM  Chicken Egg Yolk Antibody – A Nutraceutical:  Strategies in Vaccinology; Speaker:  David Trott, UW IGPNS Grad Student.  Nutritional Sciences Seminar, 290 Nutritional Sciences.

12:00 PM  Understanding Prokaryotic Ecological Niches Using Protein Domains; Speaker:  Garret Suen, Bacteriology.  Evolution Seminar, 1360 Genetics/Biotech Center.

12:00 PM  Tales from the Wisconsin Badgers; Speaker:  Justin Doherty, Director of Athletic Communications, UW-Madison.  Fall Authors@HSLC Series, 1335 HSLC. **NOTE DATE CHANGE**

12:10 PM  No Molecular Virology Seminar.

1:30 PM  The Cimple Project on Community Information Management; Speaker:  AnHai Doan, Ph.D., Computer Sciences, UW-Madison.  UW Technology Forum, 1360 Genetics/Biotech Center.

3:30 PM  Environmentally-Regulated Protein/Protein Interactions:  A Versatile Way to Build a Biological Switch; Speaker:  Kevin Gardner, UTSW.  Distinguished Lectures in Microbiology, 1520 MSB.

4:00 PM  Epigenetic Regulation of Aspergillus Toxin Clusters; Speaker:  Nancy Keller, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of Medical Microbiology & Immunology and Dept. of Bacteriology.  Current Research in Molecular and Environmental Toxicology Seminar, 133 SMI.  **NOTE NEW LOCATION**

6:00 PM Christopher Reeve’s Efforts in Advancing Stem Cell Research.  Student Society for Stem Cell Research (SSSCR), 1360 Genetics/Biotech Center.  (Open to members and non-members; Potluck – bring something to share.)

Friday, October 10, 2008

12:00 PM  Stem Cell Patents 101; Speaker:  Paulanne Chelf, Senior Intellectual Property Manager, WARF.  Stem Cell Campus Laboratory Meeting,  1360 Genetics/Biotech Center.

12:00 PM  Neurodevelopmental Consequences of Childhood Chronic Illness and Its Treatment:  Implications for Intervention and Prevention; Speaker:  Daniel Armstrong, Ph.D., Univ. of Miami.  John D. Wiley Seminar, Conference Center – 2nd Floor, North Tower (T216) Waisman Center.

3:30 PM  Exploring Neuropeptidomes via Novel Mass Spectral Techniques; Speaker:  Mingming Ma, Grad Student, Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, UW-Madison.  Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar, 2006 Rennebohm Hall.