By Charu Mehta, CMB graduate student Grit and resilience are the most paramount traits for graduate students pursuing a PhD, especially in Biology where experiments can often be time-consuming and unpredictable. Among the many students …
Students
Student Spotlight: Jose Martinez
Hometown: Watsonville, CA Year entered CMB program: 2018 Lab: Anita Bhattacharyya Lab Brief Summary of Research: We work with human pluripotent stem cells (trisomy 21 iPSCs) to study different aspects of cortical development in …
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 …
Student Spotlight: Ellen Wagner
Hometown: Cincinnati, OH Year entered CMB program: 2017 Lab: Audrey Gasch Lab Brief Summary of Research: I am studying how the enzyme Protein Kinase A is regulated and targeted to its substrates, and how …
Study led by CMB alum Mitch Biermann finds new way to wind the development clock of cardiac muscle cells
By Kelly Tyrrell (CMB MS 2011) These days, scientists can collect a few skin or blood cells, wipe out their identities, and reprogram them to become virtually any other kind of cell in the human …
2018 CMB Exceptional Thesis Award Winner: Diya Binoy Joseph
We are excited to announce that Diya Binoy Joseph is the recipient of the 2018 CMB Exceptional Thesis Award. This annual award honors a CMB student who has written and defended an exceptional thesis. Diya will receive $250 as well as a …
CMB students win NSF fellowships!
Congratulations to CMB students Zena Jensvold, Justin Mabin, and Zach Morrow who each were awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships for 2019, and to Morgan Giese who received Honorable Mention! The National Science Foundation Graduate Research …
Ani Michaud and Dan Tremmel win UW Cool Science Image Contest
CMB students Ani Michaud and Dan Tremmel were both winners of the 2019 UW-Madison Cool Science Image Contest. Only ten images and two videos by University of Wisconsin–Madison students, faculty and staff have been named …
CMB Student Drew Doering published in the Journal Cell
Yeasts reach across tree of life to domesticate suite of bacterial genes February 21, 2019 By Eric Hamilton An insect’s gut might seem an inhospitable place to settle in, but diverse microbes nonetheless make their …