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, February 6, 2012
9:30 AM Role of Developmental Pathways in Lung Cancer; Speaker: Kwon-Sik Park, Ph.D., Dept. of Pediatrics and Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA. McArdle Seminar in Cancer Biology, Genetics/Biotech Center Auditorium. (Dr. Park is a candidate for an Assistant Professor position in Oncology.)
12:00 PM Organ Specification and Morphogenesis: Decisions of the Mammalian Foregut; Speaker: Xin Sun, Dept. of Medical Genetics, UW-Madison. Cell and Regenerative Biology Seminar, 341 Bardeen.
12:00 PM Economic Self-Sufficiency, Complex Families and the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty; Speaker: Timothy M. Smeeding, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Research on Poverty, School of Public Affairs. Population Health Sciences Seminar, 1309 HSLC.
3:30 PM Mechanisms Regulating Synaptic Transmission in C. elegans; Speaker: Josh Kaplan, Harvard Medical School. Biochemistry Colloquium, Ebling Symposium Center, MSB.
4:00 PM The Role of Host Innate Immune Cells in Streptococcal Disease Pathogenesis of Zebrafish; Speaker: Elizabeth Harvie (Huttenlocher lab, MMI). Microbes in Health & Disease Seminar, 6201 MSB.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
12:00 PM Direct Conversion of Fibroblasts to Neuronal Cells; Speaker: Marius Wernig, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University. Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Seminar, DeLuca Forum, Town Center, WID.
12:00 PM Role of p62-Keap1-Nrf2 Pathway in AD-Like Disease Progression in APP/PS1 Mice; Speaker: Gururj Joshi. Phosphorylated TDP-43 Aggregation in APP/PS1 Mice: Relationship to Alzheimer’s Disease; Speaker: Michael Gitcho. NeuroDegeneration & NeuroRegeneration Seminar, Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 Waisman Center.
3:30 PM A Journey with NEMO: From Cytoplasm to Nucleus upon DNA Damage; Speaker: Byounghoon Hwang, Ph.D. (Miyamoto lab). Altered Normal Colonic Epithelium and Tumorigenesis; Speaker: Jennifer Pleiman (Dove lab). Cancer Biology Student/Postdoc Seminar, Temin Room (11th floor) McArdle Laboratory.
4:00 PM Persistent Homology and Its Application to Brain Network Modeling; Speaker: Moo K. Chung, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dept. of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, UW-Madison. CIBM Seminar, Genetics/Biotech Center Auditorium.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
8:00 AM ASH Update; Speakers: Dan Frank, M.D. and Lisa Lepeak, M.D. UWCCC Grand Rounds, G5/119 CSC.
9:30 AM Susceptibility Genes and Immune Signaling in Liver Cancer; Speaker: Andrea Bilger, Ph.D., Associate Scientist, Dept. of Oncology, McArdle Lab, UW-Madison. McArdle Seminar in Cancer Biology, Genetics/Biotech Center Auditorium.
12:00 PM Src Family Kinases, Nuclear EGFR and Resistance to Cetuximab Therapy: Strategies for Improving Cetuximab Therapy in Cancer; Speaker: Deric L. Wheeler, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Human Oncology, UW-Madison. Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Seminar, K6/120 CSC.
3:30 PM Small RNA Regulation of Embryonic Stem Cells and Early Mammalian Development; Speaker: Robert Blelloch, Associate Professor, Dept. of Urology, UC-San Francisco. Genetics Colloquium, Genetics/Biotech Center Auditorium.
3:30 PM Plant Organellar Genetics: The Cucumber Case; Speaker: Angel Del Valle-Echevarria (Havey lab, Plant Breeding & Plant Genetics). Biotechnology Training Program Student Seminar, 1420 Microbial Sciences.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
8:00 AM Mutant T Cells in Melanoma Patients: Probes for Immunological Responses; Speaker: Mark Albertini, Dept. of Medicine, UW-Madison. Cancer Pharmacology Seminar, 7001A WIMR.
11:00 AM Estrogen and Vitamin D Hormone Activity on Skeleton; Speaker: J. Wes Pike, Dept. of Biochemistry, UW-Madison. Nutritional Sciences Seminar, 290 Nutritional Sciences.
12:10 PM Quantitative Studies of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Protein Translation and Innate Antiviral Responses; Speaker: Emily Voigt, Ph.D student (Yin lab, Chemical and Biological Engineering). Molecular Virology Seminar, 1211 Biochemical Sciences Auditorium. **NOTE NEW LOCATION**
3:00 PM Reactive Metabolites of Trichloroethylene: Covalent Modification and Nephrotoxicity; Speaker: Roy Irving (Elfarra lab). MET 800 Seminar, 125 McArdle.
Friday, February 10, 2012
12:00 PM Therapeutic Approaches for Lysosomal Storage Diseases; Speaker: Mark Sands, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine and Genetics, Washington University. Wiley Seminar, 2nd Floor Conference Center, North Tower (T216) Waisman.
3:30 PM Neuroendocrine Control of Developmental Timing, Body Size, and Behavior in Drosophila; Speaker: Michael B. O’Connor, Ph.D., Dept. of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota. Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar, 2006 Rennebohm Hall.