Hometown: Beaver Falls, PA Year entered CMB program: 2017 Lab: JD Sauer Lab Brief Summary of Research: I work to understand immune signaling pathways that are responsible for generating robust responses to tumors. Awards …
Year: 2019
Exceptional Thesis Award 2018
By Charu Mehta, CMB graduate student Grit and resilience are the most paramount traits for graduate students pursuing a PhD, especially in Biology where experiments can often be time-consuming and unpredictable. Among the many students …
Student Spotlight: Jose Martinez
Hometown: Watsonville, CA Year entered CMB program: 2018 Lab: Anita Bhattacharyya Lab Brief Summary of Research: We work with human pluripotent stem cells (trisomy 21 iPSCs) to study different aspects of cortical development in …
Announcing New CMB Focus Group in Physiology
We are excited to announce that CMB’s Coordinating Committee recently voted to add a new focus group in Physiology to serve as the home for physiology studies on campus going forward. This will bring CMB’s …
A Groundbreaking Study Is Good News for Cats—And People
Photo by Goran Tomasevic / Reuters Original story by Ed Yong, featuring work by CMB trainer Laura Knoll and CMB student Sarah Wilson, was published by the Atlantic Of the many parasites known to control …
Student Spotlight: Ellen Wagner
Hometown: Cincinnati, OH Year entered CMB program: 2017 Lab: Audrey Gasch Lab Brief Summary of Research: I am studying how the enzyme Protein Kinase A is regulated and targeted to its substrates, and how …
CMB Trainers Ophelia Venturelli and Brian Pfleger Receive Gates Grand Challenges Grant
With a Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, University of Wisconsin–Madison scientists Ophelia Venturelli and Brian Pfleger are working to further research on how to use human-associated intestinal microbes to …
Study led by CMB alum Mitch Biermann finds new way to wind the development clock of cardiac muscle cells
By Kelly Tyrrell (CMB MS 2011) These days, scientists can collect a few skin or blood cells, wipe out their identities, and reprogram them to become virtually any other kind of cell in the human …
UW team finds key to common cancer pathway in discovery that could unlock new therapies
Scientists have long known that the protein p53, when mutated, is a critical factor in the onset of many different kinds of cancer. In its unmutated form, however, it is known to protect against cancer. …
Darcie Moore and Zachary Morris honored with Shaw Scientist Awards to support innovative research
Congratulations to the two recipients of this year’s Shaw Scientist Awards from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Darcie Moore and Zachary Morris, who are also both CMB trainers! The awards come with $200,000 in seed funding …