Hometown: Crystal Lake, Illinois Year entered CMB program: 2015 Lab: Lisa Arendt Lab Brief Summary of Research: My lab studies obesity associated breast cancers. I am specifically investigating how obesity alters the breast microenvironment …
Year: 2018
Student Spotlight: Katarina Braun
Hometown: South Wales, New York Year entered CMB program: 2017 Lab: Thomas Friedrich Brief Summary of Research: I study the evolution of influenza viruses by applying the principles of population genetics to deep sequencing …
Alumni Spotlight: Matthew Clay
Current Employer: Thermo Fisher Scientific Job Title: Scientist III Home Town: Grand Ledge, MI Current Location: Madison, WI Research Topic: Molecular characterization of zebrafish neural crest cell epithelial to mesenchymal transition Faculty Advisor: Mary Halloran …
Vatsan Raman and Darcie Moore Win New Innovator Award
The National Institutes of Health has awarded 89 grants that will provide funding to extraordinarily creative scientists proposing highly innovative research to address major challenges in biomedical science. The grants are part of the NIH …
Alumni Spotlight: Thomas Yeager
Current Employer: Victoria University Job Title: Senior Lecturer Home Town: Portland, OR Current Location: Melbourne, Australia Research Topic: The role of tumor suppressor genes in bladder cancer Faculty Advisor: Catherine Reznikoff CMB Degree Received in: …
Cynthia Czajkowski Appointed Associate Vice Chancellor for Research in the Biological Sciences
Cynthia Czajkowski, CMB trainer and professor of neuroscience in the School of Medicine and Public Health, has moved from interim to permanent status as the associate vice chancellor for research in the biological sciences.Dr. Czajkowski’s OVCRGE …
CMB Alumna Jessica TeSlaa to help launch Public Service Graduate Fellows program
Jessica TeSlaa, CMB alumna and assistant faculty associate with WISCIENCE, will collaborate with campus and community partners to launch the Public Service Graduate Fellows program following a $500k NSF Grant. Read more here: https://grad.wisc.edu/2018/09/24/wiscience-receives-innovations-in-graduate-education-grant/
Lab Profile: Newmark Lab brings planarians into the molecular age
Top, members of the Newmark lab. Bottom left, members of the lab at a local elementary school talking about planarians. Bottom right, lab mascot, Schmidty, aliquoting cells. Story by Rosa Mejia Sanchez and Umair Khan; …
Daniel Amador-Noguez receives Early Career Research Award
Congratulations to CMB Trainer, Daniel Amador-Noguez! He has received a 2018 Early Career Research Program Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. He is among 84 young faculty nationwide to receive the award, …
Cell therapy is the future, and Wisconsin is the place, Jacques Galipeau tells Technology Council
Less than two years after CMB trainer Jacques Galipeau was hired to start the Program for Advanced Cell Therapy at the School of Medicine, PACT has obtained an FDA Investigational New Drug (IND) permit to …