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The official account of the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research at UW-Madison, the first #basicscience #cancerresearch academic center in the U.S.

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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Congratulations to McArdle grad student Carstyn Joiner (Xu lab) on being awarded a Kirschstein-NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) from the National Cancer Institute! cancerbiology.wisc.edu/2026/08/27/c...
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A HUGE Congratulations to the 2025-26 McArdle Trainee Seminar Prize winners (Junior Division): Colin Sterling (Cryns Lab) and Lily Wenger (Johannsen Lab)! This award recognizes excellence in science communication and presentation skills .
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Best wishes to #mcardlelab graduate student Rhiannon Abrahams (Majumder Lab) as she defends her dissertation tomorrow!
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
McArdle Monthly for July2026: mcardle.wisc.edu/2026/08/10/m.... McArdle Monthly is a selection of exciting new publications highlighting the latest resarch in @mcardlelab.bsky.social
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Wishing all the best to @mcardlelab.bsky.social graduate student Stephan Darodda (Loeb Lab) as he defends his thesis today!
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
McArdle Monthly for June 2026: mcardle.wisc.edu/2026/07/13/m... McArdle Monthly is a selection of exciting new publications highlighting the latest resarch in @mcardlelab.bsky.social
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McArdle Monthly: May 2026
Deming DA, Kraus SG, Brand J, Johnson KA, Abbott D, Kratz J, Turk AA, Emmerich P, Carchman E, Lubner SJ, LoConte NK, Uboha NV, Chaudhuri S, Shah R, Field A, Field E, Pasch CA, Kim …
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Former Cancer Biology graduate student Nate Wlodarchak is collaborating with @morgridgeinstitute.bsky.social scientists to find new drugs to treat tuberculosis. Read about it here: morgridge.org/story/unlock...
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Unlocking new strategies to disarm tuberculosis - Morgridge Institute for Research
A new study tests the power of machine learning-driven drug discovery to fight against the world's oldest infectious disease, tuberculosis.
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
McArdle Monthly for May 2026: mcardle.wisc.edu/2026/06/03/m... McArdle Monthly is a selection of exciting new publications highlighting the latest resarch in @mcardlelab.bsky.social
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McArdle Monthly: May 2026
Deming DA, Kraus SG, Brand J, Johnson KA, Abbott D, Kratz J, Turk AA, Emmerich P, Carchman E, Lubner SJ, LoConte NK, Uboha NV, Chaudhuri S, Shah R, Field A, Field E, Pasch CA, Kim …
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Best wishes to Cancer Biology graduate student Somak Chaudhuri (Deming Lab) as he defends his dissertation this week!
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
In the past school year, students at Freedom High School raised and donated over $14,000 for cancer research at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research: mcardle.wisc.edu/2026/05/26/f...
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Wishing all the best to Cancer Biology graduate student Alexa Schmitz (Deming Lab) as she defends her dissertation this week!
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Tomorrow at 11 am CST: join in-person for the last #cancerbiologyseminar of the semester. Sponsored by #mcardlelab
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
McArdle Monthly for April 2026: mcardle.wisc.edu/2026/05/11/m... McArdle Monthly is a selection of exciting new publications highlighting the latest resarch in @mcardlelab.bsky.social
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McArdle Monthly: April 2026
McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research April 2026 Publications Abrahams RR, Larsen CIS, Ha R, Majumder K. The interaction between virus-bound KLF4 and host-bound PARP1 directs the localization of wild...
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Miranda Garcia-Dove (granddaughter of Bill and Alexandra Dove) Receives Prestigious Truman Scholarship: mcardle.wisc.edu/2026/05/07/m...
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Miranda Garcia-Dove Receives Prestigious Truman Scholarship
Alexandra and Bill Dove spent over 50 years carrying out research at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research. In addition to their scientific accomplishments, they leave behind a legacy of outreach...
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Best wishes to Cancer Biology graduate student Cristina Paz (Kimple Lab) as she defends her dissertation this week!
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
We are pleased so share the new McArlde Monthly for April, 2026. This will be a monthly list of new publications with brief descriptions submitted by McArdle faculty. Read the first McArdle Monthly here: mcardle.wisc.edu/2026/04/14/m...
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McArdle Monthly: March 2026
McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research  March 2026 Publications Fahl WE, Goesch HR, Goesch SR, Fahl BL. A Defined Patho-Mechanism for Acute Radiation Syndrome Death and a Three-Drug Regimen to Prevent...
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
@mcardlelab.bsky.social Assistant Professor Megan Spurgeon and members of her laboratory were featured in a recent article in SPARK, where she describes her research on Merkel Cell Polyomavirus: morgridge.org/story/megan-...
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Megan Spurgeon: How a mild-mannered virus becomes a cancer culprit - Morgridge Institute for Research
Merkel cell carcinoma is the most recently discovered example of a cancer triggered by exposure to a virus. Morgridge Investigator Megan Spurgeon discusses how this rare and deadly form of skin cancer...
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Tomorrow at 11 am CST: join in-person for the latest #cancerbiologyseminar of the semester. Sponsored by #mcardlelab
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Wishing all the best to Cancer Biology student Donna Li (Miyamoto lab) as she defends her dissertation this week!
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Best wishes to Cancer Biology student Amanda Shea (Morris lab) as she defends her dissertation this week!
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Tomorrow at 11 am CST: join in-person for the latest #cancerbiologyseminar of the semester. Sponsored by #mcardlelab and @warfnews.bsky.social
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WARF (Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation) @warfnews.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Join WARF Therapeutics and @mcardlelab.bsky.social March 25 at the Health Sciences Learning Center for a cancer biology seminar featuring @megeblad.bsky.social of @jhu.edu.
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Microenvironmental Plasticity: Inflammation Shaping Metastatic Fate
Mikala Egeblad, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Tumor Microenvironment at Johns Hopkins University, is an internationally recognized cancer researcher who studies how the tumor microenvironment…
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Tomorrow at 11 am CST: join in-person for the latest #cancerbiologyseminar of the semester. Sponsored by #mcardlelab
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Best wishes to Cancer Biology gradaute student Zach Kauffman (Lang lab) as he defends his dissertation this week!
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Tomorrow at 11 am CST: join in-person for the latest #cancerbiologyseminar of the semester. Sponsored by #mcardlelab
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
@mcardlelab.bsky.social Professor Wei Xu and Department of Medicine Professor Lixin Rui were selected recently to receive an ICTR Translational Basic and Clinical Research Pilot Award: ictr.wisc.edu/news/ten-int...
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Ten interdisciplinary translational research teams receive catalyst pilot awards
ICTR is pleased to support ten Translational Basic and Clinical Research Pilot projects through NCATS support and co-funding from sponsoring UW–Madison schools, departments, or centers.
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
@mcardlelab.bsky.social researcher Dustin Deming and Immuto Scientific to Collaborate on Colorectal Cancer Treatments: www.med.wisc.edu/news/uw-immu...
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UW–Madison and Immuto Scientific to collaborate on novel cancer target discovery - School of Medicine and Public Health
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Tomorrow at 11 am CST: join in-person for the latest #cancerbiologyseminar of the semester. Sponsored by #mcardlelab
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Best wishes to Cancer Biology gradaute student Maddi Bandini (Sherer lab) as she defends her dissertation tomorrow!
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The 50th Anniversary Temin Nobel Prize Symposium was hosted by @mcardlelab.bsky.social in partnership with the UW Carbone Cancer Center and the Morgridge Institute for Research in Sept, 2025. Read @morgridgeinstitute.bsky.social's summary of the symposium here: morgridge.org/story/celebr...
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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Nobel laureate Howard Temin - Morgridge Institute for Research
The scientific community celebrated the 50th anniversary of Howard Temin receiving the Nobel Prize for the discovery of reverse transcriptase with a daylong symposium event at UW–Madison.
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
McArdle Student Organizes Goodman Center Thanksgiving Basket Food Drive: mcardle.wisc.edu/2026/02/10/m...
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Tomorrow at 11 am CST: join in-person for the latest #cancerbiologyseminar of the semester. Sponsored by #mcardlelab
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Tess Woodring, former Cancer Biology Training Grant Medical Oncology Fellow receieved a presitigious NIH Pediatric Scientist Development Program (PSDP) award: www.pediatrics.wisc.edu/department-o...
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Department of Pediatrics fellow, Therese (Tess) Woodring, selected for Pediatric Scientist Development Program
In a historic first for the department, Therese (Tess) Woodring, MD, was selected for the Pediatric Scientist Development Program (PSDP). She is the first-ever fellow from the Department of Pediatrics...
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Congratulations to our most recent McArdle Trainee Seminar award winner: Caleb Carlsen from the Weaver lab (awarded in December 2025)! mcardle.wisc.edu/2026/02/06/m...
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WARF (Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation) @warfnews.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Meet Wei Xu, professor of oncology at @mcardlelab.bsky.social, whose research investigates two primary areas of epigenetic regulation in cancer biology.
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Meet UW-Madison’s Wei Xu
“Prof. Xu is an expert in breast cancer biology. We are excited about the novel targets and mechanisms coming from her research.”
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The Night of Hope committee is excited to bring back the in-person event this week--February 5th at the Seminole Tap in Fitchburg. There will be a trivia and raffle prizes. All proceeds will benefit the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research. We hope to see you there!
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Tomorrow at 11 am CST: join in-person for the latest #cancerbiologyseminar of the semester. Sponsored by #mcardlelab
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Tomorrow at 11 am CST: join in-person for the first #cancerbiologyseminar of the semester. Sponsored by #mcardlelab
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Congrats to #mcardle Postdoctoral Researcher Dr. Umar Sheikh for receiving the Research Award from the Wisconsin Partnership Program! Read more here: mcardle.wisc.edu/2026/01/05/m...
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Nate Sherer @natesherer.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
New work led by Madison Bandini out in @pnas.org using live cell imaging to show how HIV targets the cell cycle to double viral genomes and increase transcription. Awesome collaboration with cell cycle heroes in Suzuki lab @mcardlelab.bsky.social @uwmadison.bsky.social. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Image of HeLa cells expressing mCherry-Tubilin used to track various states of the cell cycle.
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Tomorrow at 11 am CST: join in-person for the last #cancerbiologyseminar of the semester. Sponsored by #mcardlelab
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Read #mcardlelab Emeritus Professor Dick Burgess's Q&A with Far Biotech during which he discusses his scientific career journey: www.farbiotech.com/news/dick-bu...
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Wishing Cancer Biology student Tanaya Purohit all the best as she defends her dissertation next week!
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Tomorrow at 11 am CST: join in-person for the latest #cancerbiologyseminar of the semester. Sponsored by #mcardlelab
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WARF (Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation) @warfnews.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Aussie Suzuki focuses on kinetochore functions in faithful chromosome segregation to study how the loss of kinetochore integrity causes cancer. #WARF100 @uwchancellor.bsky.social @mcardlelab.bsky.social www.warf.org/commercialize/uw-madis…
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Tomorrow at 11 am CST: join in-person for the latest #cancerbiologyseminar of the semester. Sponsored by #mcardlelab
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
We are very sad to report that a cherished, long-time member of the McArdle community, Kristin Yelinek, recently passed away. McArdle colleagues share their fond memories of Kristin: mcardle.wisc.edu/2025/10/21/r...
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Remembering Kristin Yelinek
Kristin Yelinek January 26, 1962 — September 17, 2025 We are very sad to report that a cherished, long-time member of the McArdle community, Kristin Yelinek, recently passed away. A Celebration of Kri...
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Tomorrow at 11 am CST: join in-person for the latest #cancerbiologyseminar of the semester. Sponsored by #mcardlelab
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McArdle Laboratory @mcardlelab.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Tomorrow at 11 am CST: join in-person for the latest #cancerbiologyseminar of the semester. Sponsored by #mcardlelab
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UW–Madison @uwmadison.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Be part of a legacy of generosity and service at UW–Madison by participating in Partners in Giving. University employees can make a gift to the charities of their choice now through December 2: giving.wi.gov
Partners in Giving: Build a Better Tomorrow Together. Oct 6 - Dec 2, 2025
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