Students
The winners: Cool Science Images 2020
Congratulations to Tiaira Porter, a Physiology graduate student in the Department of Neuroscience, and Chris Morrow on being two of the UW-Madison 2020 Cool Science Image Contest winners for a video capturing the movement of …
Aicha Quamine Wins NSF-GRFP Award!
Congratulations to CMB student Aicha Quamine who was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for 2020! The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP) recognizes and supports outstanding, early-career graduate students who are pursuing …
CMB student Charlotte Kanzler takes top prize in Ethics Cartooning Contest
Four prizes were awarded in the third annual Morgridge Institute for Research Ethics Cartooning Contest, which invites participants to make a cartoon on any ethical issue related to biomedical research. The competition drew 72 entrants from more than 39 different departments …
BADGRS Fosters Supportive Community Through Student-Led Discussions
Graduate students are six times more likely than the general population to experience depression and anxiety, according to a 2018 study published in Nature Biotechnology. At UW–Madison, a new student group has developed a way to complement university resources …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Student Spotlight: Zach Morrow
Hometown: Beaver Falls, PA Year entered CMB program: 2017 Lab: JD Sauer Lab Brief Summary of Research: I work to understand immune signaling pathways that are responsible for generating robust responses to tumors. Awards …