Anthony Meger, an IPiB graduate student, will be defending his Ph.D. research on May 10. As a member of the Raman Lab, Meger has worked on protein engineering, with a focus on split-protein systems.
Year: 2023
IPiB Thesis Defense May 8, 2023: Thuong Ho
Thuong Ho, an IPiB graduate student, will be defending his Ph.D. research on May 8. Ho, who is a member of the Merrins Lab, has focused his research on identifying the mechanism for insulin secretion …
Hoskins, Hull Labs Receive Badger Challenge Award
The Hoskins and Hull Labs will be joining forces in the fight against life-threatening fungal infections common among leukemia and lymphoma patients thanks to funding from the Badger Challenge Award.
2023 Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Awards
Nine professors received Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Awards this year. Among them, biomolecular chemistry associate professor Melissa Harrison. Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Awards recognize research and teaching excellence at UW–Madison and provide flexible research funding …
2023 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Awardees Announced
Several Integrated Program in Biochemistry (IPiB) graduate students received a 2023 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GFRP) award or honorable mention. Jess Davidson, a second-year graduate student in the Simcox Lab, received …
Pathways to Immunity
In the search for better ways to fight disease, Jing Fan is pushing the boundaries of immunometabolism.
‘Deep Proteome’ Project Provides Atlas for Human Complexity
A major puzzle of biology is that while the human genome contains roughly 20,000 genes, many comparatively primitive organisms — including the universally-studied worm C. elegans — have almost the same number of genes. If not …
IPiB Faculty Named Vilas Associates
Biomolecular chemistry associate professor Feyza Engin and biochemistry professor Elizabeth Wright were named 2023-2024 Vilas Associates.
IPiB Thesis Defense March 21: Alexander Duckworth
Alexander Duckworth joined the Integrated Program in Biochemistry (IPiB) with the goal of learning more about how scientists ‘solve biomolecular structures’ — that is, how they figure out what essential components to life, such as …
Mass Spectrometry Fueling New Explorations at the Carbone Cancer Center
When biomolecular chemistry professor Josh Coon, also an investigator at the Morgridge Institute, first started developing scientific instruments to measure molecules in living systems, his criteria for finding partners on the UW–Madison campus were simple …