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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).

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Monday, May 12, 2008

3:30 PM Novel Approaches Toward Cross-Coupling Reactions; Speaker:  Dr. Aiwen Lei, Professor of the College of Chemistry & Molecular Sciences and Executive Director of the Green Catalysis Institute, Wuhan University, China.  Seminars in Pharmaceutical Sciences, 1116 Rennebohm Hall.

4:00 PM The Evolution of Molecular Tricks Used by Neisseria gonorrhoeae to Co-Exist with the Human Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses; Speaker:  Hank Seifert, Ph.D., Microbiology-Immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University.  Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Responses Group Seminar, Ebling Symposium Center, 1220 Microbial Sciences.

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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

12:00 PM CANCELLED Conversations Among the Unseen:  Molecular Signaling in Microbial Communities; Speaker:  Jo Handelsman, Professor, Departments of Bacteriology and Plant Pathology, UW-Madison.  Frontiers in Pharmacology Seminar, Biotechnology Center Auditorium. CANCELLED

3:30 PM Cellular Regulation of Epstein-Barr Virus Lytic Reactivation; Speaker:  Amanda Robinson (Kenney lab).  Impact of the Chymotrypsin-like Activity of the 26S Proteasome on Estrogen Receptor Alpha Signaling; Speaker:  Ginny Powers (Alarid lab).  Cancer Biology Student/Postdoc Seminar, Temin Room (11th floor) McArdle Laboratory.

3:30 PM Diversity and Domestication in Rice; Speaker:  Dr. Barbara Schaal, Washington University.  Women in Plant Science Seminar, Ebling Symposium Center, 1220 Microbial Sciences.

4:00 PM The Art of Cell Division and Polarity:  Using Spinning Disc Confocal Microscopy to Uncover the Mysteries of Embryonic Development; Speaker:  Ahna Skop, Genetics, UW-Madison.  Biological Imaging Lecture, 341 Bardeen.

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

8:00 AM Myeloproliferative Neoplasms:  New Information on Classification, Diagnosis, Pathogenesis and Treatment; Speaker:  Andrew Tefferi, M.D., Professor of Hematology and Medicine, Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.  UWCCC Grand Rounds, G5/119 CSC.

9:30 AM Functional Connectivity of Affective Face Processing Networks in Autism; Speaker:  Daniel J. Kelley.  Neuroscience Training Program Doctoral Defense, T216 Waisman Center, 2nd Floor Conference Center.

12:00 PM Eosinophilic and Mast Cell Disorders; Speaker:  Ayalew Tefferi, M.D., Professor, Medicine, Mayo Clinic.  Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Seminar, 516 SMI.

3:30 PM  Well Actually There ARE Strings Attached:  The Molecular Biology of Meiosis; Speaker:  R. Scott Hawley, Investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO.  Genetics Colloquium, Genetics/Biotech Auditorium.

4:00 PM Understanding and Improving Nutrition Environments in Grocery Stores and Restaurants; Speaker:  Dr. Karen Glanz, PhD, MPH, School of Public Health, Emory University.  Nutritional Sciences Seminar, 1335 Health Sciences Learning Center.
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Thursday, May 15, 2008

11:00 AM Synergistic Effect of Supplemental Enteral Nutrients (SEN) and a Low-Dose of Glucagon-like Peptide-2 (GLP-2) on Intestinal Adaptive Growth in Parenterally-Fed Rats; Speaker:  Xiaowen Liu, IGPNS/Dept. of Nutritional Sciences, UW-Madison.  Nutritional Sciences Seminar, 290 Nutritional Sciences.

3:30 PM Undergraduates Learning Genomics Through Research; Speaker:  Dr. Malcolm Campbell, Davidson College.  Distinguished Lectures in Microbiology, Faculty Meeting Room (6201) Microbial Sciences.

4:00 PM Hippocampus and Spatial Memory in Avian Navigators:  An Adaptationist’s Perspective; Speaker:  Verner Bingman, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University.  Neuroscience Training Program Seminar, Genetics/Biotech Auditorium.

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Friday, May 16, 2008

12:00 PM Acute Myocardial Infarction – Novel Approaches in Diagnosis and Repair; Speaker:  Ming Zhao, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biophysics and Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin.  Stem Cell Lab Meeting, 1360 Biotechnology Center.

1:00 PM Robustness of Lepidopteran Midgut Microbial Communities; Speaker:  Courtney J. Robinson (Handelsman lab).  Microbiology Doctoral Training Program Ph.D. Thesis Defense Seminar, 1420 Microbial Sciences.

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