Current Employer: University of Iowa Job Title: Professor of Microbiology and Immunology Home Town: Canby, MN Current Location: Iowa City, IA Short Description of your Graduate School Research: Examination of the role of epidermal growth factor and growth hormone in adipocyte differentiation and proliferation. Faculty Advisor: Paul Bertics CMB Degree Received in: 1999 What …
We hope you enjoy reading more about the changes and growth of the CMB program and the success of CMB students, faculty, and alumni throughout the past year! The 2025 Alumni Newsletter is available online here.
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research has awarded 11 postdoctoral trainees UW Distinguished Research Fellowships, designed to support interdisciplinary research areas related to RISE-AI, RISE-THRIVE and RISE-EARTH. The intent of the program is to support exceptional emerging scholars from around the world in collaborative research that takes place at UW–Madison and spans two …
When H5N1 avian influenza made an unprecedented jump into dairy cattle in early 2024, the development prompted concern on multiple fronts. How would herds with infections fare? Would dairy workers be at risk? Could the virus potentially infect consumers through milk and other dairy products? Led by a team of virologists at the Influenza Research …
In Jake Brunkard’s lab in the Genetics-Biotechnology Center, you’ll find plants everywhere. The space is filled with grow carts containing tomatoes and Arabidopsis thaliana, a member of the mustard family that Brunkard calls “the lab rat” of the plant genetics world. You’ll also see Nicotiana benthamiana, a tough survivor of the Australian Outback, where it flourishes in rocky …
In the same way that sheet music shows musicians what to play, DNA shows the body how to function. But what if a violinist’s pages got jumbled out of order, or the melodies marked mute? The instructions would still be there, but they wouldn’t make sense to the player.
Eleven faculty have been honored with Kellett Mid-Career Awards to support those promoted to tenured positions seven to 20 years ago and who have made key research contributions in their fields. The award, named for the late William R. Kellett, a former president of the WARF board of trustees and president of Kimberly-Clark Corporation, provides …
Eleven faculty have been honored with the H.I. Romnes Fellowships to recognize faculty with exceptional research contributions within their first six years from promotion to a tenured position. The award is named in recognition of the late WARF trustees president H.I. Romnes and comes with $60,000 that may be spent over five years.
Ten faculty have been awarded WARF Named Professorships, which come with $100,000 and honor faculty who have made major contributions to the advancement of knowledge, primarily through their research endeavors, but also because of their teaching and service activities. Award recipients choose the names associated with their professorships.