The human gut is teeming with microbes, each interacting with one another in a mind-boggling network of positive and negative exchanges. Some produce substances that serve as food for other microbes, while others produce toxins …
Month: June 2018
Fox Elected to American Academy of Microbiology
IPiB faculty member Catherine Fox has been elected a Fellow to the American Academy of Microbiology. Fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology, an honorific leadership group within the American Society of Microbiology, are elected annually through a …
IPiB Announces Awards for Teaching and Mentoring, SFLC 2018-19 Officers
The Integrated Program in Biochemistry (IPiB) is excited to announce its 2018 awards that celebrate teaching and mentoring. The awards were given out at the IPiB Summer Reception on Friday, June 8. Kasia Dubiel, a …
Romero Receives Shaw Scientist Award to Support Innovative Biochemistry Research
University of Wisconsin–Madison biochemistry assistant professor Philip Romero and neuroscience assistant professor Ari Rosenberg are the recipients of 2018 Shaw Scientist Awards from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. The awards come with $200,000 in seed funding to support innovative research …
Students, Researchers Push Boundaries of Computational Biochemistry
The complexity of life makes it difficult to study. In biochemistry, there are often just too many processes and reactions taking place in a cell for humans to wrap their heads around. What helps biochemists …