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, May 14, 2012
12:00 PM Genetic Control of Hormone and Cell Death in Drosophila; Speaker: Arash Bashirullah, College of Pharmacy, UW-Madison. Cell and Regenerative Biology Seminar, 341 Bardeen.
1:00 PM In Vitro Voltage Imaging of Circuit Dynamics within the Superior Colliculus; Speaker: Corinne Vokoun (Basso lab). Neuroscience Thesis Defense Seminar, 281 MSC.
1:00 PM Eating in the Absence of Hunger and the Development of Obesity in Children; Speaker: Lori Francis, Ph.D., Biobehavioral Health, Pennsylvania State University. 2012 Obesity Prevention Lecture, 1345 HSLC.
3:30 PM Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases: Their Roles in Health and Disease; Speaker: Jack Dixon, UC-San Diego. Harry Steenbock Lectures in Biochemistry, Ebling Symposium Center, MSB.
5:00 PM The Worst Hospital in the Healthiest Community? Provider- vs. Population-Based Quality of Care Measures; Speaker: Stephen Jencks, MD, MPH, Former Assistant Surgeon General of the U.S. and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement. SMPH Seminar, 1306 HSLC.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
10:00 AM Characterizing the Role of Endocytic Recycling in the Maintenance of Polarity in the Caenorhabditis elegans Embryo; Speaker: Jessica Shivas (Skop lab). Genetics Thesis Defense, Genetics/Biotech Center Auditorium.
12:00 PM Gene Therapy for Ocular Diseases; Speaker: Curtis R. Brandt, Ph.D., Professor, UWCCC. UW Eye Research Institute Candidate for Director Seminar, 1309 HSLC. (Town Hall Meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 16 at 12:00 p.m. in 1345 HSLC.)
2:00 PM Engineered Probes of Synaptic Functions; Speaker: Dongsheng Wang (Jackson lab). Neuroscience Thesis Defense Seminar, 281 MSC.
3:30 PM Establish Cellular Assay to Screen Chemical Activators of CARM1 for Breast Cancer Therapy; Speaker: Hao Zeng (Xu lab). Identifying Factors that Inhibit IE1 during Establishment of HCMV Latency; Speaker: SongHee Lee, Ph.D. (Kalejta lab). Cancer Biology Student/Postdoc Seminar, Temin Room (11th floor), McArdle Laboratory.
3:30 PM Are You Kidding Me: A New Kinase Family?; Speaker: Jack Dixon, UC-San Diego. Harry Steenbock Lectures in Biochemistry, Ebling Symposium Center, MSB.
4:00 PM Calcium-Activated Potassium Channels: Functional Roles in Cardiac Arrhythmias; Speaker: Nipavan Chiamvimonvat, MD, Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine, UC-Davis. Cardiovascular Research Conference, 1325 HSLC.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
8:00 AM The Evolving Role of Post-Prostatectomy Radiation Therapy; Speaker: Tim Kruser, M.D., Dept. of Human Oncology. DcR3 Inhibits Intratumoral Lymphocytic Infiltration by Inhibiting Light-Induced Chemokine Production in Ovarian Cancer; Speaker: Nonyem Onujiogu, MD, Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynecology. UWCCC Grand Rounds, G5/119 CSC.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
11:00 AM Iron-Dependent Post-Transcriptional Control of Mitochondrial Aconitase Expression; Speaker: Macy Shen. Nutritional Sciences Seminar, 290 Nutritional Sciences.
12:10 PM Translation Mechanisms of Plant Viruses; Speaker: Professor Aurelie Rakotondrafara, Dept. of Plant Pathology, UW-Madison. Molecular Virology Seminar, 1211 Biochemical Sciences Auditorium. (Postponed from last week.)
Friday, May 18, 2012
12:00 PM Optimality in Metabolic Systems?: From 50K Generations Alone to Learning or Share (or Cheat); Speaker: Christopher Marx, Associate Professor, Dept. of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University. MDTP Seminar, 1520 MSB.
12:00 PM Looking at Autism Through a Neurobiological Lens; Speaker: Pat Levitt, Ph.D., Director, Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, USC. Waisman Center John D. Wiley Seminar, Wiley Conference Center, 2nd Floor (North Tower, T216) Waisman Center.
12:00 PM Critical Illness and Cognitive Decline… and Dementia?; Speaker: William J. Ehlenbach, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, UWSMPH. ADRC Seminar, GRECC Conference Room, VA Hospital.
3:30 PM Modulation of Tumor Barriers to Improve Drug Delivery in Cancers; Speaker: Robert M. Straubinger, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Seminars in Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2339 Rennebohm Hall.