Current Employer: University of Minnesota Job Title: Teaching Associate Professor Home Town: Greensboro, NC Current Location: Duluth, MN Short Description of your Graduate School Research: I studied enzymes in the ubiquitin-proteosome system and their role …
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Alumni Spotlight- Jon Houtman
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 …
Alumni Spotlight: Joy Barnitz
“From the lab bench to the corporate boardroom and at the bedside.” Current Employer: Self-employed Job Title: Chaplin Home Town: Near Chicago, Illinois Current Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California Short Description of your …
New way to alter DNA, affect health circumvents gut bacteria
Our gut microbiome helps us out every day by processing the fiber we can’t digest. The bacteria ferment the fiber into key chemicals known as short-chain fatty acids, or SCFAs, that are essential for human …
2020 Raymond L. Erikson Exceptional Thesis Awardees
We are excited to announce that Sid Jain and Amelia Haj are the inaugural recipients of the Raymond L. Erikson Exceptional Thesis Award. This annual award honors CMB students who have written and defended an exceptional thesis. A fund to support the award was …
CMB alumnus Timothy Catlett named one of the winners of the 2021 Cool Science Image Contest
The yellow connecting arms, called axons, of diseased human brain cells grow willy-nilly across boundaries of inhibitory chemicals (the red stripes). Healthy axons would precisely follow the dark lanes, giving researchers the opportunity to test the effects of disease-causing mutations on axon growth.
2020 Alumni Newsletter
To say that this has been an unusual year would be an understatement! Despite everything, CMB has had a successful year, and we hope you enjoy reading about the great strides in research and education …
CMB Alum Christina Carlson at the Center of the COVID-19 Response
As a CDC scientist, Christina Carlson (CMB PhD ’13) uses her cellular and molecular biology expertise to help manage the coronavirus pandemic While most of us have been doing our best to avoid contact with …
Kirchdoerfer Lab Featured in Wisconsin State Journal Article about Coronavirus
In his UW-Madison lab, Robert Kirchdoerfer studies proteins from six different types of coronaviruses, including SARS and MERS, which caused deadly human outbreaks in recent years. Within two weeks, he expects to get proteins from …
CMB alum Kevin Cope’s photo selected for Cover of The Plant Cell
Congratulations to Kevin Cope, whose photo was recently selected for the cover of The Plant Cell, October 2019. Check out Kevin’s recent publication “The Ectomycorrhizal Fungus Laccaria bicolor Produces Lipochitooligosaccharides and Uses the Common Symbiosis Pathway to Colonize Populus RootsRoots.” …