Congratulations to CMB students Zena Jensvold, Justin Mabin, and Zach Morrow who each were awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships for 2019, and to Morgan Giese who received Honorable Mention! The National Science Foundation Graduate Research …
Month: April 2019
Research led by CMB Trainer Ying Ge: Novel approach promises ready access to hard-to-study proteins
DNA and the genome, we know, provide the blueprint for life. But it is the proteins made according to the genome’s instructions that are the nuts and bolts of living organisms, providing the molecular building …
Ani Michaud and Dan Tremmel win UW Cool Science Image Contest
CMB students Ani Michaud and Dan Tremmel were both winners of the 2019 UW-Madison Cool Science Image Contest. Only ten images and two videos by University of Wisconsin–Madison students, faculty and staff have been named …
Ed Chapman (CMB trainer) wins prestigious Sir Bernard Katz Award
Chapman is an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), and a Ricardo Miledi Professor of Neuroscience in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health; he received the prize for his …
An Interview with CMB Trainer, Judith Kimble
Judith Kimble is Vilas Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator (since 1994). Her lab is interested broadly in the molecular regulation of animal development, with a …
Alumni Spotlight: Emily Vaughan
Current Employer: Affinergy, LLC Job Title: Senior Scientist Home Town: Fort Wayne, IN Current Location: Cary, NC Research Topic: I studied the regulation of actomyosin contractile rings in cellular wound repair and cell division. Faculty …