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: …
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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/
Xinyu Zhao’s lab looks towards new therapies for fragile X syndrome
Fragile X is a genetic condition that affects one in 4,000 males and one in 6,000 females. It’s linked to variations in the gene that makes a protein called FMRP. Symptoms may include intellectual disability, …
2018 Alumni Newsletter
We’ve had a busy year, and we’re excited to share some of the highlights with you. A big thank you to all who have donated their time, money, and stories to the CMB Program. You …
Congratulations to CMB Alumnus Adam Bayless
Congratulations to Adam Bayless, CMB Alumnus, whose paper was recently published at PNAS. Adam is currently working as a Post-Doc at Tufts University. He is working with the Mike Levin and Kelly McLauglin Labs which study …
Alumni Spotlight: Kim Schultz
Current Employer: US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Job Title: Biologist Home Town: Buffalo, NY Current Location: Baltimore, MD Research Topic: Virus-induced apoptosis Faculty Advisor: Paul Friesen CMB Degree Received in: 2008 Describe your current …
Alumni Spotlight: Saheed Imam
Current Employer: Synthetic Genomics, Inc. Job Title: Scientist II Home Town: Lagos, Nigeria Current Location: San Diego, CA Research Topic: Transcriptional and metabolic network analyses of Rhodobacter sphaeroides (a photosynthetic microbe) Faculty Advisor: Timothy Donohue …
Alumni Spotlight: Laura Runyen-Janecky
Current Employer: University of Richmond Job Title: Professor of Biology Home Town: San Antonio, TX Current Location: Richmond, VA Research Topic: My dissertation research focused on characterizing the vfr gene and its role in the …
Alumni Spotlight: Kate Cooper
Current Employer: Loras College Job Title: Associate Professor of Biology and Chair of the Division of Molecular, Life, and Health Sciences Home Town: Dubuque, IA Current Location: Dubuque, IA Research Topic: Investigation of the role …
2017 CMB Exceptional Thesis Award Winner
Congratulations to Sarah Neuman, the 2017 Exceptional Thesis Award Winner! Sarah carried out her thesis research with Dr. Arash Bashirullah in the School of Pharmacy. Her thesis is titled “Characterization of Hobbit, a novel and …