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.

Click here for this week's seminar list as a PDF suitable for printing (updated each Monday morning; additional seminars may be added throughout the week to the list below).

Monday, November 16, 2009

12:00 PM  TBA; Speaker:  Corinne Vokoun (Basso lab).  MCP Student Seminar, 140 Bardeen.

12:00 PM Relaxation Strategies for Graduate Students.  Professional Development Event for Grad Students, Red Gym – On Wisconsin Room C.  Registration required at:  www.grad.wisc.edu/education/gsc/registration/

3:30 PM Lipid Raft Organization and Dynamics in Cell Membranes; Speaker:  Anne Kenworthy, Vanderbilt School of Medicine.  Contemporary Biochemistry Seminar, Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Building.

4:00 PM Another View of Tuberculosis:  Studies in a Nonhuman Primate Model; Speaker:  JoAnne L. Flynn, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh.  Wisconsin National Primate Research Center Infectious Disease Seminar, WNPRC – Large Conference Room, 1220 Capitol Court, Room 219 B.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

12:00 PM Of Mice and Women:  New Insights in Mammary Development and Breast Cancer; Speaker:  Zena Werb, Professor and Vice-Chair, Dept. of Anatomy, UC-San Francisco.  Frontiers in Pharmacology Seminar, Genetics/Biotech Center Auditorium.

12:00 PM DNA Methylation Dependent Regulation of Mouse Behavior and Adult Neurogenesis; Speaker:  Hongda Li (Chang lab, Genetics).  Campus Stem Cell Lab Meeting, 1360 Genetics/Biotech Center.

2:00 PM Lessons from Ice Cube:  Managing Large Collaborative Projects; Presenter:  Bob Paulos, Ice Cube Project.  Graduate School Responsible Conduct of Research Seminar, Genetics/Biotech Center Auditorium.  For details and registration information, please click here

3:30 PM EBV Protein Kinase (PK) Plays an Important Role in Viral Pathogenesis and Ganciclovir/Acyclovir Mediated Inhibition of EBV Replication; Speaker:  Qiao Meng, Ph.D. (Kenney lab).  Investigating Cellular Factors Involved in Early Steps of Infection by HPVs; Speaker:  Hao-Shun Huang (Lambert lab).  Cancer Biology Student/Postdoc Seminar, Temin Room (11th floor), McArdle Lab.

4:00 PM Publishing Your Research and Managing Your Copyright:  Engineering.  Professional Development Event for Grad Students, 108 Wendt Library.  Registration required at:  www.grad.wisc.edu/education/gsc/registration/

5:00 PM Perspective on Pandemic Influenza:  Views from Microscopic to Global; Speaker:  Christopher Olsen, DVM, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean, SVM, UW-Madison.  Global Health Seminar, 1345 HSLC.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

8:00 AM Update on Livestrong Global Cancer Summit; Speaker:  James Cleary, M.D., Associate Professor, UWSMPH, Dept. of Medicine.  UWCCC Grand Rounds, G5/119 CSC.

10:30 AM Virus-induced Chaperone-Enriched (VICE) Domains Function as Nuclear Protein Quality Control Centers during HSV-1 Infection; Speaker:  Christine M. Livingston, Dept. of Molecular, Microbial and Structural Biology, University of Connecticut Health Center (Sandra Weller lab).  Special Virology / McArdle Seminar, Bock Labs Penthouse.  (Ms. Livingston is a postdoc candidate in the Kalejta lab.)

12:00 PM Turning a Clinical Question Into a Testable Hypothesis; Speaker:  Lauren Trepanier, DVM, PhD, Professor, UW SVM and Director, Clinical Scientist Training Programs.  UW ICTR Research Learning Series, 1325 HSLC.

12:00 PM  Genetic and Genomic Studies of Type 2 Diabetes; Speaker:  Alan Attie, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, UW-Madison.  Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Seminar, 516 SMI.

12:00 PM Signaling Mechanisms in Cortical Axon Branching, Growth and Guidance; Speaker:  Kate Kalil, Dept. of Anatomy, UW-Madison.  Physiology Seminar, 281 MSC.

1:30 PM The Adenovirus E1B-55K and E4orf6 Proteins Limit PKR-mediated eIF2α Phosphorylation during the Late Phase of Infection; Speaker:  Megan Spurgeon, Molecular Genetics and Genomics Program, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC.  McArdle Laboratory Special Seminar, Temin Room (11th floor) McArdle Laboratory.  (Ms. Spurgeon is a postdoc candidate in the Lambert lab.)

3:30 PM Mapping QTL to a Phylogenetic Tree; Speaker:  Karl Broman, Professor, Dept. of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, UW-Madison.  Genetics Colloquium, Genetics/Biotech Center Auditorium.

3:30 PM Modeling Protein Flexibility Using Normal Mode Analysis; Speaker:  Jennifer Losaw (Mitchell lab, Math).  Biotechnology Training Program Student Seminar, 1420 Microbial Sciences.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

8:00 AM-8:00 PM 2nd Annual Symposium on Integration of Mathematical & Biological Sciences – MathBio 2:  IMAGE.  Keynote Speaker:  John Anderson, Pixar, Academy Award recipient and former Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at UW-Madison.  Fluno Center for Executive Education.  To register, visit:  WiscMathBio.org  (continues tomorrow)

9:00 AM Research Administration 102:  Agreement Types; Presenters:  Tammy Kuhn Martin, Dawn Herrick, Steve Harsy.  Graduate School Research Administration Seminar, 1003 Engineering Centers.  For details and registration information, please click here

11:00 AM Assessing Lipid Oxidation of Cooked Meat in Stomach and Vascular Environments:  Effect of Different Dietary Antioxidants; Speaker:  Mark Richards, Dept. of Animal Sciences, UW-Madison.  Nutritional Sciences Seminar, 290 Nutritional Sciences.

12:00 PM Genetic Inference on Ecological Time Scales:  A Case Study Based on a Threatened Sea Bird; Speaker:  Zachariah Perry, Forestry and Wildlife Ecology.  Evolution Seminar, 1360 Genetics/Biotech Center.

12:05 PM Nanomedical Technologies for Early Diagnosis, Imaging, and Targeted Therapy; Speaker:  Mansoor M. Amiji, R.Ph., Ph.D., Professor and Acting Chair, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Co-Director, NERC, Northeastern University, Boston.  Seminar in Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2002 Rennebohm Hall.

12:10 PM Function of the HCMV pp71 Protein:  Ubiquitin-Independent Proteasomal Degradation; Speaker: Jiwon Hwang (Kalejta lab). Molecular Virology Seminar, Genetics/Biotech Center Auditorium.

1:00 PM Research Misconduct; Presenter:  Bell Mellon, Institutional Official, Professor of Pharmacy, and Associate Dean of Research Policy.  Graduate School Responsible Conduct of Research Seminar, G5/119 CSC.  For details and registration information, please click here

1:30 PM Modular Biology:  The Function and Evolution of Regulatory Networks; Speaker:  Aviv Regev, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, Broad Institute, MIT.  Genomics Seminar, Genetics/Biotech Center Auditorium.  **NOTE DIFFERENT TIME AND ROOM**

3:30 PM Adventures in the Human Microbiome; Speaker:  Dr. George Weinstock, Washington University.  Distinguished Lectures in Microbiology, Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Building.

3:30 PM Morphology and the Mechanics Impacting Zebra and Quagga Mussel Invasions; Speaker:  Suzanne Peyer, Dept. of Zoology, UW-Madison.  Biology Colloquium, B302 Birge.

4:00 PM Is Molecular Imaging Ready for Its Prime Time in the Clinics?; Speaker:  Robert Jeraj, Ph.D.  Molecular Imaging Interest Group Seminar, 7001A WIMR.

4:00 PM The Study of Hedgehog Signaling in Prostate Development; Speaker:  Min Yu (Bushman lab).  Understanding Hepatocellular Carcinoma; Speaker:  Ly Pham (Sandgren lab).  MET 800 Seminar, 140 Bardeen.

Friday, November 20, 2009

8:00 AM-4:45 PM 2nd Annual Symposium on Integration of Mathematical & Biological Sciences – MathBio 2:  IMAGE.  Keynote Speaker:  John Anderson, Pixar, Academy Award recipient and former Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at UW-Madison.  Fluno Center for Executive Education.  To register, visit:  WiscMathBio.org

12:00 PM The Social Life of Bacteria; Speaker:  E. Peter Greenberg, Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology, University of Washington.  Medical Microbiology and Immunology Seminar, 1520 Microbial Sciences Building.

12:00 PM Causal Inference for Quality of Life Data in the Presence of Progression and Death; Speaker:  Mike Daniels, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Dept. of Statistics, University of Florida.  Biostatistics & Medical Informatics Seminar, G5/113 CSC.

4:00 PM Pumping Ions:  From Cardiac Arrhythmias to Na,K-ATPase Structure; Speaker:  David Gadsby, Laboratory of Cardiac and Membrane Physiology, The Rockefeller University.  Paul F. Cranefield Lecture in Physiology, Genetics/Biotech Center Auditorium.

4:00 PM Making Science Policy in Washington; Speaker:  David Goldston, Chief of Staff, Science Committee, US House of Representatives.  Neuroscience and Public Policy Seminar, 341 Bardeen.