Six projects across four UW schools and colleges have received annual State Economic Engagement and Development funding, totaling $550,000. The funded projects largely address issues that affect Wisconsin and its residents, including reducing fertilizer use, improving disease outcomes through better screenings and treatments and developing more secure navigation systems.
CMB Student Daniel Sam, Class of 2020, Weaver Lab, published the paper “Mad1 facilitates α5 integrin trafficking from the Golgi to promote abscission during cytokinesis” in Nature Communications. Congratulations, Daniel!
For children born with a rare form of inherited blindness called Leber congenital amaurosis type 16 (LCA16), the genetic culprit can be a single miswritten instruction in their DNA — a so-called “nonsense mutation” that tells the cell to stop building a critical protein before it’s finished. The result is a truncated, nonfunctional protein, a …
Jue Wang, professor of bacteriology, has been awarded the 2026 Steenbock Professorship in Microbiological Sciences. The Steenbock Professorship provides research funds to recipients annually for 10 years and honors those faculty who have made major contributions to the advancement of knowledge, primarily through their research endeavors at UW–Madison, but also as a result of their teaching …
Rebecca Smith uses genetic tools to develop plants that can be digested more easily. The outcomes could be greater efficiency for biofuel production and lower methane emissions from dairy cows.
The death of a six-year-old inspired a UW researcher to investigate a rare brain cancer. Using human oncogene DNA, he and his team induce brain tumors in embryonic zebra fish. They can then observe the development of tumors because a fertilized zebra fish egg is transparent, and the animal will remain transparent through its juvenile …
The UW–Madison Postdoctoral Association recognized six postdocs and three faculty with the Postdoc Excellence Award last month. The award acknowledges excellence in mentoring, teaching and service.
CMB Student Ruida Li, Class of 2024, Wei Lab, published the paper “Tissue-dependent enzymatic control of N-acetyl-β-alanine by PTER” in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Congratulations, Ruida!
Jake Brunkard, associate professor of genetics, received 2026 Outstanding Student Parent Support Award from the UW–Madison Office of Child Care and Family Resources. Brunkard was selected for his proactive mentorship and collaborative approach to working with parenting students. When his graduate student nominator shared news of their pregnancy, Brunkard responded with enthusiasm. “Professor Brunkard responded with genuine, …
The Program for Advanced Cell Therapy, or PACT, a collaboration between UW Health and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, will test the use of a patient’s own mesenchymal stromal cells. In this approach, cells taken from the patient’s lip are used to treat a specific type of organ rejection called …