Faculty
Gamm, David
Lab Profile: Harrison Lab
How do specialized egg and sperm cells come together to generate a new organism? Following fertilization, how is gene expression regulated to direct development and differentiation? These fundamental questions drive the research of the Harrison Lab.
CMB trainer Paul Ahlquist on stopping the next pandemic
After more than a year of struggling against COVID-19, vaccines have been developed and deployed in record time and we are starting to see a rational path out of the pandemic. As momentous as this …
Drerup, Katie
Sousa, Andre
CMB trainer John Yin helps develop workshops on pandemic prevention
John Yin is part of a National Science Foundation-funded team leading workshops on predictive intelligence for pandemic prevention. The COVID-19 pandemic may still be raging on, but scientists from dozens of disciplines are already looking …
Viral sequencing being done at UW-Madison catches mutations, guides effective public health response
As COVID-19’s effects have mounted to a dizzying scale, a team of UW–Madison scientists has kept its focus on the tiniest shifts in the virus’s genetic material. Beginning with the first known case of the virus …
CMB Trainer Kristyn Masters part of call for NIH to address racial funding disparities
University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineer Kristyn Masters is among 19 women faculty at major research universities around the country to co-author a commentary published today (Jan. 26, 2021) in the journal Cell that forcefully calls upon the National Institutes …
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 …