WHRP Seminar & Interactive Group Discussion

The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology offers a seminar and interactive group discussion on women’s health. Each group discussion offers a speaker with a new topic. Refreshments are served.

Dates

Our seminar and interactive group discussion typically meets every 3rd Wednesday of the month.

Location

Unless otherwise noted, the seminars take place in the OBGYN Delfs/Klieger Conference Room.

OBGYN Delfs/Klieger Conference Room
Wisconsin Diagnostics Lab Building, Room 252

Upcoming Speakers
Past Speakers

Upcoming Speakers

Date	Speaker	Topic	Location
February 22, 2023	Hallgeir Rui, MD, PhD	Precision Pathology and PDX Models for Breast Cancer Drug Response Prediction	OBGYN Delfs/Klieger Conference Room, Lab Building Room 252

Past Speakers

Date	Speaker	Title
February 19, 2020	Paul Campagnola, PhD	Analysis of Collagen Alterations in Human Ovarian Cancer by High Resolution Optical Microscopy
January 2020	Xiaowen Bai, MD, PhD	Alcohol-Induced Developmental Brain Injury
December 2019	Stephanie Olivier-Van Stichelen, PhD	Investigating Sugars and Artificial Sweeteners Exposure in Pregnancy and Lactation
November 2019	Manish Patankar, PhD	Developing Novel Biomarkers and Therapies Against Ovarian Cancer
October 2019	Mark Santillan, MD, PhD, FACOG, FAHA	Diagnosing and Treating Preeclampsia: What Does The Brain and Urine Have To Do With It?
September 2019	Curt Sigmund, PhD	Role of Vascular Smooth Muscle RhoBTB1/Cullin-3 in Hypertension: A Role in Preeclampsia?
May 2019	Jennifer McIntosh, DO	Novel Role for Placental Endothelial Mitochondria in Preeclampsia
April 2019	Brian Smith, PhD	Discovering and Exploiting Selectively in BET Bromodomains in the Context of Type I Diabetes
March 2019	Magdalena Chrzanowska-Wodnicka, PhD, FAHA	Novel Mechanisms of Endothelial Homeostasis
February 2019	Nicole Lohr, MD, PhD, FACC	Use of Far Red Light to Stimulate Vasodilation in Models of Endothelial Dysfunction
January 2019	Marja Nevalainen, MD, PhD	Stat5 and Anti-Androgen Resistance of Prostate Cancer
December 2018	Amanda Johnson, MD	Altered Neural Calcium Signaling in HCMV Infection is Mitigated with Viral Kinase Inhibition
November 2018	Marcelo Bonini, PhD	SOD2 Acetylation as a New Mitochondrial Pathway for Breast Cancer Stem Cell Reprogramming
October 2018	Shahram Eisa-Beygi, PhD	Characterization of endothelial cilia distribution during cerebral-vascular development in zebrafish (Daniorerio)
May 16, 2018	Blake Hill, PhD	Towards Drugging Mitochondrial Fission Protein Fis1 in Diabetic Endothelial Dysfunction
April 18, 2018	Nita Salzman, MD, PhD	Antimicrobial Peptides and Intestinal Homeostasis: Contributions of Both Host and Microbe
March 21, 2018	Sunila Pradeep, PhD	Macrophages Facilitate Resistance to Anti-VEGF Therapy by Altered VEGFR Expression
February 21, 2018	Alison Kriegel, PhD	microRNAs: Small Molecules With a Big Impact
January 17, 2018	Sridhar Rao, MD, PhD	Cohesin Mutations in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
December 20, 2017	Pamela Kreeger, PhD	Mechanisms that Alternatively Activated Macrophages Exploit to Enhance Ovarian Cancer Progression
November 15, 2017	Aron Geurts, PhD	Accessing the Genome: Tools and Approaches for Editing Genes and Their Functions
September 20, 2017	Andreas Beyer, PhD	Mitochondrial Contribution to Regulation of Microvascular Function in Health and Disease
March 15, 2017	Akiko Mammoto, MD, PhD	Angiogenesis in Development, Regeneration, and Pathology
February 15, 2017	Stephanie Cossette, PhD	The Role of Sucrose Non-Fermenting Related Kinase in Cardiovascular Development
January 18, 2017	Pradeep Chaluvally-Raghavan, PhD	Non-Coding Genetic Aberrations in Ovarian Cancer
October 19, 2016	Tamjid Chowdhury, PhD	Function of Tie-1 Antisense Long Non-Coding RNA in Vascular Development
September 2016	Matthew Scaglione, PhD	New Insight Into Protein Homeostasis
May 18, 2016	Carmen Bergom, MD, PhD	Utilizing Novel Genetic Tools to Identify Targets to Enhance Radiation Therapy in Cancers
April 20, 2016	Bryon Johnson, PhD	Can Immunotherapy with Cancer-Killing T Cells be Improved through Genetic Engineering?
March 16, 2016	Michael J. Flister, PhD	NextGen Strategies for Mapping Cancer Risk in the Tumor Microenvironment
February 17, 2016	Allison D. Ebert, PhD	Stem Cells and Human Disease Modeling
January 20, 2016	Sandra Hunter, PhD and Meredith Cruz, MD	Strength and Fatigability of the Trunk Flexor and Lumbar Stabilizing Muscles in Postpartum Women
November 18, 2015	Weiguo Cui, PhD	A Multi-pronged Immunotherapy to Treat Ovarian Cancer
October 21, 2015	Ling Wang, MD, PhD	Role of Astrocyte in Breast Cancer Brain Lesion
September 16, 2015	Cheryl L. Stucky PhD	Mechanisms of Sickle Cell Pain
May 20, 2015	Christopher R. Chitambar, MD	Iron and Iron Proteins in Breast Cancer Development and Prognosis
April 15, 2015	Amit Joshi, PhD	Image Guided Photothermal Therapy of Breast Cancer
March 18, 2015	Paula Traktman, PhD	The Role of VRK1 Protein Kinase in Female Fertility
February 18, 2015	Tina W. F. Yen, MD, MS	Variations in Breast Cancer Care by Hospital Volume
Janaury 21, 2015	Magdalena Chrzanowska-Wodnicka, PhD	Novel Molecular Mechanisms of Endothelial Function
October 15, 2014	Srividya Kidambi, MD, MS	Role of Adiposity Distribution in Disease and Health
September 17, 2014	Carol Williams, PhD	New Approaches to Inhibit Metastasis by Targeting Small GTPases in Cancer Cells
May 21, 2014	Rashmi Sood, PhD	Thrombomodulin-Protein C Pathway: An Essential Role in Placental Development and Function
April 16, 2014	Sandra Kay Hunter PhD, FACSM and Sarah M. Eickmeyer, MD	Neuromuscular Function in Women Postpartum
March 19, 2014	Qing Robert Miao, PhD	Nogo-B Receptor is a New Partner of Estrogen Receptor for Promoting Estrogen Signaling
February 19, 2014	Yan Lu, PhD	Somatic Gene Mutations Predict Outcome of Ovarian Carcinoma
January 15, 2014	Timothy Klatt, MD	Specifics why Pregnant Women Decline Vaccination against Influenza
November 20, 2013	Ramani Ramchandran, PhD	Metastasis of Cancer Cells – Unexpected Role of Astrocytes!
October 16, 2013	Yi-Wen Huang, PhD	Chemoprevention of Endometrial Cancer by Black Raspberries
September 18, 2013	MCW is hosting a Research Day for all scientists and clinicians at MCW and its affiliated institutions to showcase their basic, clinical, population health, and translational research and to identify new possibilities of collaboration.	We encourage you to attend. View the Flyer
April 17, 2013	Jane Kotchen, MD	Lessons Learned from the Women’s Health Initiative
March 20, 2013	Cecilia Hillard, PhD	Sex Differences in Responses to Stress: Role of the "Body's Own Cannabis"
February 20, 2013	Erika Peterson, MD and Aimee Welsh, MD	Preeclampsia and Future Cardiovascular Risk - Is Endothelial Dysfunction the Common Link?
January 16, 2013	Nuananong Seal, PhD, RN	Nicotine Exposure during Fetal Development and Infant Outcomes
November 13, 2012	Joan Neuner, MD, MPH	Measuring Adverse Effects from Breast Cancer Therapies
October 17, 2012	Scott Terhune, PhD Human Cytomegalovirus-a Silent Pathogen in Our Community	Microbiology and Molecular Genetics in Association with Women
September 19, 2012	Bhavna P. Sheth, MD	Ocular Changes in Pregnancy
August 15, 2012	William Bradley, MD	"Preliminary Validation of a Patient Specific Risk Profile in Ovarian Carcinoma"
April 18, 2012	Jian Huang, MD	“Estrogen Receptor Alpha 36 Activates HER2 Signaling Breast Cancer”
March 21, 2012	Andrea Dunaif, MD	"Genes and Environment in the Pathogenesis of PCOS"
February 15, 2012	Kate Temme, MD	“The female athlete triad: research updates”
January 18, 2012	Pippa Simpson, PhD	"Don't miss out in dealing with missing data"
November 16, 2011 12 pm - 1 pm	Sandra Pfister, PhD	“Sex Differences in Pulmonary Vasoconstriction to Arachidonic Acid: Implications for Female Predominance in Pulmonary Hypertension”
October 19, 2011	Girija Ganesh Konduri, MD	“Translational Studies in Neonatal Pulmonary Hypertension: Bench to Bedside”
September 21, 2011	Felicia Vastalo, MCW Libraries	“RefWorks”
July 20, 2011	Terrie Cowley of the TMJ Association Carol Drury of the Endometriosis Association	“Comorbid Chronic Pain Conditions in Women”
June 15, 2011	Aoy Mitchell, PhD	“Genetic risk factors in congenital heart disease- etiology, early detection, and outcome”
June 1, 2011	Ann Nattinger, MD, MPH	"Assessing Outcomes of Breast Cancer Care"
May 18, 2011	Eduardo Lau, PhD	"Whole Genome Amplification and its Applications in Cancer Management"
May 11, 2011	Eleanor Delfs' lecture by Laurence Cole, PhD	"Multiple Forms of hCG, Molecules with Numerous Functions in Pregnancy, Cancer and Menstrual Cycle”
April 20, 2011	Cheryl Stucky, PhD	“Pain mechanisms: Sex and gender differences”
April 6, 2011	Ulrich Broeckel, MD	“Copy Number Variation and Clinical Diagnostics in Pediatric Diseases”
March 16, 2011	Rashmi Sood, MD	“Thrombophilia-associated pregnancy disorder: Lessons from murine models”
March 2, 2011	Ahmed Kissebah, MD, PhD	“The Search for Obesity Genes: Roads Less Travelled”
February 16, 2011	Fredrik Broekhuizen, MD, Christina Ellis	“Discussion: HWPP proposals II”
January 19, 2011	Steve Leuthner, MD	“National Children’s Study (NCS) – what we have done so far, and the future”
January 5, 2011	Denise Uyar, MD, Fredrik Broekhuizen, MD	“Discussion: HWPP proposals”
December 1, 2010	Vanessa Barnabei, MD	"Aromatase Inhibitors in Breast Cancer Prevention-The MAP.3 Trial"
November 17, 2010	Raj Narayan, MD	“Offspring Meconium: The optimal bio-matrix for human intrauterine toluene & trichloroethylene biomonitoring?”
November 3, 2010	Timothy Klatt, MD	“Maternal outcomes after anterior and posterior lacerations from childbirth”

Contact

Kristin Rose

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