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Weekly Seminar List - Next 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, November 30, 2009

3:30 PM Proteins That Cannot Make Up Their Mind:  Dual-Topology and Anti-Parallel Membrane Proteins; Speaker:  Gunnar von Heijne, Stockholm University.  Contemporary Biochemistry Seminar, Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Building.

 

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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

12:00 PM Dendritic Depolarization Alters Axonal Neurotransmitter Release; Speaker:  Jason Christie, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University.  Physiology Faculty Candidate Seminar, 281 MSC.

12:00 PM Biological Regulation of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Three-Dimensional Culture; Speaker:  Wan-ju Li, Assistant Professor, Orthopedics.  Campus Stem Cell Lab Meeting, 1360 Genetics/Biotech Center.

1:00 PM Mentor/Trainee Responsibilities; Presenters:  Chris Pfund, Delta; Jim Wells and Eileen Callahan, Grad School.  Graduate School Responsible Conduct of Research Seminar, G5/119 CSC.  For details and registration information, click here

4:00 PM An Abductive Approach to Explaining Genome-Wide Experimental Observations; Speaker:  Deborah A. Chasman (Craven lab, Computer Sciences).  Computation and Informatics in Biology and Medicine Seminar, Genetics/Biotech Center Auditorium.

5:00 PM Primary Sources:  Government Documents, Newspapers and Archives.  Professional Development Event for Grad Students, 126 Memorial Library.  Registration required at:  www.grad.wisc.edu/education/gsc/registration/

 

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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

3:30 PM DNA Repair and Aging in Drosophila; Speaker:  Bill Engels, UW-Madison.  Genetics Colloquium, Genetics/Biotech Center Auditorium.

3:30 PM Bat White-Noise Syndrome:  Infectious Disease and Wildlife Conservation; Speaker:  David Blehert, USGS Research Scientist.  Biotechnology Training Program Student Seminar, 1420 Microbial Sciences.

 

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Thursday, December 3, 2009

11:00 AM Risk Factors and Consequences of Iron Deficiency in the Infant Primate; Speaker:  Christopher Coe, Dept. of Psychology, UW-Madison.  Nutritional Sciences Seminar, 290 Nutritional Sciences.

12:00 PM Morphological and Molecular Phylogenetics in Difficult Species Groups – An Example in Wild Potatoes; Speaker:  David Spooner, Horticulture.  Evolution Seminar, 1360 Genetics/Biotech Center.

12:10 PM Novel Insights Into the Recognition of Incoming Pathogens; Speaker:  Karen Mossman, Associate Professor, Dept. of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University.  Molecular Virology Seminar, Genetics/Biotech Center Auditorium.

3:30 PM Microbial Single Cell Genomics; Speaker:  Tanja Woyke, DOE Joint Genome Institute.  Distinguished Lectures in Microbiology, Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Building.

3:30 PM On the Receiving End:  Nitrogen in Wisconsin Streams; Speaker:  Emily Stanley, The Center for Limnology, UW-Madison.  Biology Colloquium, B302 Birge.

4:00 PM Alzheimer’s Disease and the Ups and Downs of Amyloid-Beta; Speaker:  David Holtzman, Washington University.  Center for Neuroscience Lecture, Genetics/Biotech Center Auditorium.

 

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Friday, December 4, 2009

12:00 PM Effects of Social Capital on Child Outcomes:  First-Year Results from an Experimental Study; Speaker:  Adam Gamoran, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Education Policy Studies; Interim Dean, School of Education, UW-Madison.  Waisman Center Seminar, Wiley Conference Center, Room T216, Second Floor, North Tower.

1:00 PM Regulation of Myocardial Cross-Bridge Cycling Kinetics by Myosin Binding Protein C:  Structural Insights from X-Ray Diffraction Studies; Speaker:  Brett Colson (Moss lab).  Physiology Thesis Defense, 281 MSC.

3:30 PM Evolution of Anion Relay Chemistry (ARC):  Construction of Architecturally Complex Natural and Unnatural Products; Speaker:  Amos B. Smith III, Ph.D., Dept. of Chemistry, Pennsylvania Center for Molecular Discovery and the Monell Chemical Senses Center.  Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar, 2006 Rennebohm Hall.