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 2, 2009

11:30 AM Completion of the Ph.D.:  Step-by-Step Guidance from the Graduate School.  Professional Development Event for Graduate Students, 260 Bascom Hall.  Registration required at:  www.grad.wisc.edu/education/gsc/registration

12:00 PM Cardiac L-Type Ca2+ Channels:  Mechanisms of Trafficking and Its Role in Arrhythmia; Speaker:  Jabe Best (Kamp lab).  MCP Student Seminar, 140 Bardeen.

3:30 PM How Do Lipids Organize Membrane Proteins?; Speaker:  William Dowhan, University of Texas.  Contemporary Biochemistry Seminar, Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Building.

4:00 PM Neural Control of Non-Homeostatic Food Intake – Introduction (Brian Baldo).  Neuroscience 900 Faculty Research Presentation, 140 Bardeen.

4:30 PM Creating Your Individual Development Plan:  Strategic Advice for Getting Your Degree and the Career You Want.  Professional Development Event for Graduate Students, 260 Bascom Hall.  Registration required at:  www.grad.wisc.edu/education/gsc/registration(Same workshop will be given on Thursday, Nov. 5 at 12:45 PM)

 

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

12:00 PM Biomaterials That Regulate Stem Cell Phenotype; Speaker:  William L. Murphy, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, UW-Madison.  Frontiers in Pharmacology Seminar, Genetics/Biotech Center Auditorium.

12:00 PM Campus Stem Cell Lab Meeting - CANCELLED.

12:00 PM Immunology of Hibernation and Its Clinical Implications; Speaker:  Hjalmar Bouma, University Medical Center, Groningen, The Netherlands.  MMI Seminar, 2255 School of Veterinary Medicine.

12:00 PM Progesterone Action in the Male Brain; Speaker:  Catherine Auger, Ph.D.  NeuroDegeneration and NeuroRegeneration Seminar, T-216 Waisman Center.

2:00 PM Record Keeping in Research Laboratories; Presenter:  Cheryl Scadlock, WARF’s Information Specialist.  Grad School Responsible Conduct of Research Seminar, Tong Auditorium, Engineering Centers.  Click here for details and registration

3:30 PM Defining the Role of the Btf Protein in Human Cytomegalovirus Gene Expression; Speaker:  Song Hee Lee, Ph.D. (Kalejta lab).  Regulation of Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor 1 (TNFR1) Expression by EBV Protein BZLF1 and Cellular C/EBP; Speaker:  Jillian Bristol (Kenney lab).  Cancer Biology Student/Postdoc Seminar, Temin Room (11th floor) McArdle Laboratory.

4:00 PM Rapid Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI):  Using Numerical Methods to Move from Anatomy to Physiological Function; Speaker:  Walter Block, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, UW-Madison.  Computation and Informatics in Biology and Medicine Seminar, Genetics/Biotech Center Auditorium.

4:00 PM Propagation of Stable Human Embryonic and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in Controlled Microenvironments; Speaker:  Prof. Raj R. Rao, Virginia Commonwealth University.  Engineering Seminar, 1800 Engineering Hall.

5:00 PM Prelim Prep and Strategies for Reading List Compilation.  Professional Development Event for Graduate Students, 126 Memorial Library.  Registration required at:  www.grad.wisc.edu/education/gsc/registration

 

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

8:00 AM Inactivation of Tumor Suppressors, Patched and p53 in the Pathogenesis of Basal Cell Carcinoma, Rhabdomyosarcoma and Medulloblastoma; Speaker:  Mohammad Athar, Ph.D., Co-Director of the Skin Diseases Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham.  UWCCC Grand Rounds, G5/119 CSC.

12:00 PM All Nitric Oxide Is Not Equal:  NOS Signaling within Cardiac Myocytes; Speaker:  Dr. Mark Ziolo, Dept. of Physiology and Cell Biology, Ohio State University Medical Center.  Physiology Seminar, 281 MSC.

12:00 PM Answering Challenging Questions Well; Speaker:  Heidi Bissell.  Teaching Evolution, 110 CBE.

3:30 PM Regulation of RecA Protein; Speaker:  Michael Cox, Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, UW-Madison.  Genetics Colloquium, Genetics/Biotech Center Auditorium.

3:30 PM The Role of the Extracellular Matrix Composition and Stiffness on Breast Cancer Progression:  Ductal Carcinoma in situ to Invasive Ductal Carcinoma; Speaker:  Sara Montañez-Sauri (Beebe lab, Materials Science Program).  Biotechnology Training Program Student Seminar, 1420 Microbial Sciences.

7:00 PM The Making of the Fittest:  Natural Selection and the DNA Record of Evolution; Speaker:  Sean B. Carroll, Author and Evolutionary Biologist.  Special Darwin Anniversary Public Lecture, Ebling Auditorium, Microbial Sciences Building.

 

Thursday, November 5, 2009

10:00 AM Ownership of the Results of Research; Presenter:  Steve Harsy, Assistant Dean, SMPH.  Grad School Responsible Conduct of Research Seminar, G5/119 CSC.  Click here for details and registration

11:00 AM Corticostriatal-Hypothalamic Circuitry and Food Motivation; Speaker:  Brian Baldo, Dept. of Psychiatry, UW-Madison.  Nutritional Sciences Seminar, 290 Nutritional Sciences.

12:00 PM Population Structure and Coevolution in the Fungus-Growing Ant (Apterostigma dentigerum) Quadripartite Symbiosis; Speaker:  Eric Caldera, Zoology & Bacteriology.  Evolution Seminar, 1360 Genetics/Biotech Center.

12:10 PM I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends’ – Cellular Chaperones and Viral RNA Replication Complex Assembly and Function; Speaker:  David J. Miller, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Michigan.  Michael Janda Memorial Seminar, Genetics/Biotech Center Auditorium.

12:45 PM Creating Your Individual Development Plan:  Strategic Advice for Getting Your Degree and the Career You Want.  Professional Development Event for Graduate Students, 260 Bascom Hall.  Registration required at:  www.grad.wisc.edu/education/gsc/registration

1:30 PM Analyzing Genomes and Regulatory Information Using Omics Technologies; Speaker:  Michael Snyder, Ph.D., Stanford.  Genomics Seminar, Genetics/Biotech Center Auditorium.

3:00 PM The Challenge of Multiple Sclerosis:  How Do We Cure a Heterogeneous Disease?; Speaker:  Howard L. Weiner, M.D., Dept. of Neurology, Harvard University.  Zu Rhein Lectureship in Neuropathology, Waisman Center Auditorium, Second Floor, North Tower (T216).

3:30 PM Pseudomonas aeruginosa:  An Ideal Playground to Study Type II Secretion; Speaker:  Dr. Romé Voulhoux, CNRS Marseilles.  Distinguished Lectures in Microbiology, Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Building.

4:00 PM TCDD Impairs Mouse Prostate Development by Inhibiting b-Catenin Signaling in the Fetal Urogenital Sinus; Speaker:  Chad Vezina, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Comparative Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine.  Current Research in Molecular and Environmental Toxicology Seminar, 140 Bardeen.

 

Friday, November 6, 2009

10:15 AM-5:00 PM What’s New with NIH Peer Review?  Special Event with Antonio Scarpa, M.D., Ph.D., Director, NIH Center for Scientific Review.  Health Sciences Learning Center (750 Highland Ave.) and Microbial Sciences (1550 Linden Drive).

10:15 AM Q&A Session with Postdocs and New Investigators; 1345 HSLC.

11:30 AM Challenges and Opportunities in Peer Review:  A Vision for Ensuring Its Strategic National Value; Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences.

2:45 PM Q&A Session with Department Chairs, Administrators, and Grant Administrators, 1325 HSLC. (*NOTE ROOM CHANGE*)

4:00 PM Q&A Session with Grantees and Reviewers, 1325 HSLC. (*NOTE ROOM CHANGE*)

12:00 PM Estimation of Covariate Effects in Generalized Linear Mixed Models with Informative Cluster Sizes; Speaker:  John Neuhaus, Ph.D., Division of Biostatistics, UC-San Francisco.  Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Seminar, G5/113 CSC.

12:00 PM Combination Stem Cell Transplantation Therapy for Ischemic Stroke; Speaker:  Shan Ping Yu, M.D., Ph.D., Anesthesiology, Emory University School of Medicine.  John D. Wiley Seminar, Wiley Conference Center, 2nd Floor, North Tower (T216).