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 …
Faculty
Researchers may have found a new way to fight skin-burrowing schistosomiasis parasite
“Lead author and University of Wisconsin–Madison graduate student Jiarong Gao [CMB Student] placed SPF in various concentrations in water and demonstrated that the compound immobilized the cercariae, which promptly sank to the bottom of the …
Going Viral: Sherer Lab Sets Their Sites on Viruses
Sherer, who has been a member of the UW Carbone Cancer Center since 2011, and his team use advanced microscopy techniques to watch how viruses interact with living cells in order to better understand the machinery …
Single Protein Plays Important Dual Shipping Role in Brain
CMB Trainer, Edwin Chapman, was featured in a story By David Tenenbaum, University Communications for his recent paper published in Nature Communications.
Remembering Heidi Dvinge
With great sorrow, we share the news of the untimely death of Prof. Heidi Dvinge, assistant professor of Biomolecular Chemistry and CMB faculty trainer. Heidi passed away on Friday, September 20. We will miss her enthusiasm …
Landick Lab: Dissecting the Central Dogma of Bacterial Biology
Lab Profile by Christi Binkley, CMB Graduate Student What relates the fields of synthetic biology and transcriptional mechanisms? Answer: gene regulation. The Landick lab studies prokaryotic gene regulation to answer basic and applied research questions, …
2019 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 …
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 …
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 …