On a rainy day last fall, chemist Scott Wildman left his office on the UW–Madison campus and drove to a retirement community on the city’s west side to bring 40 years of scientific work out of the …
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Dynamic Modeling Helps Predict the Behaviors of Gut Microbes
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 …
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 …
Nylon Halts Fatal Fungal Infections
Antifungal resistance is a real and growing problem. According to an innovative new study, nylon polymers may help to tackle fungal species that currently defy treatment. Although it is less well known than antibiotic resistance, …
IPiB Faculty Members Head UW2020 Awarded Projects
Integrated Program in Biochemistry (IPiB) faculty members Anjon Audhya, Baron Chanda, and Michael Sussman are the principal investigators on recently awarded UW2020 Round 4 projects. Numerous other IPiB faculty members are serving as co-principal investigators or collaborators on theirs and …
Landick Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Biochemistry professor Robert Landick has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of three faculty from the University of Wisconsin–Madison that make up the 2018 class of members. Founded in 1780, the American Academy …
Hoskins Earns CALS Pound Research Award
Assistant professor of biochemistry Aaron Hoskins has received the 2018 Pound Research Award from the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The award is supported by an educational development fund created to honor …