Assistant professor of biochemistry Vatsan Raman was recently named to a list of 44 young researchers featured in Biochemistry’s “Future of Biochemistry” special issue. “It’s exciting to be invited to be part of this group, but what’s more exciting …
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Biochemistry’s State-of-the-Art Imaging Facilities Benefit Campus Researchers and Students
The phrase seeing is believing doesn’t just apply to supernatural phenomenon; biochemists often say the same thing when imaging proteins or other molecules for the first time. Imaging is a powerful tool in many biochemists’ …
Cracking the Code of Coenzyme Q Biosynthesis
Coenzyme Q (CoQ) is a vital cog in the body’s energy-producing machinery, a kind of chemical gateway in the conversion of food into cellular fuel. But six decades removed from its discovery, scientists still can’t …
Chimpanzee Deaths in Uganda Pinned on Human Cold Virus
In the wild, chimpanzees face any number of dire threats, ranging from poachers to predators to deforestation. That’s why scientists, investigating an outbreak of respiratory disease in a community of wild chimpanzees in Uganda’s Kibale …
Biochemistry, Energy Researcher Named to 2017 “Highly Cited” List
John Ralph, biochemistry professor and researcher with the Wisconsin Energy Institute (WEI), has been named to Clarivate Analytics’ 2017 list of “Highly Cited Researchers.” Ralph’s research areas include biofuels and other bioproducts, as well as plant genetics and …
New Model Reveals Possibility of Pumping Antibiotics into Bacteria
Researchers in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Biochemistry have discovered that a cellular pump known to move drugs like antibiotics out of E. coli bacteria has the potential to bring them in as well, opening new …
Merrins Selected for VA Research Program
Matthew Merrins, assistant professor, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism — and affiliate of the Department of Biomolecular Chemistry and the Integrated Program in Biochemistry (IPiB) — has been selected for the Veterans Administration (VA) Non-Clinician Intramural Program. …
Graduate Alum Takes Ph.D. to Vaccine Development
For biochemistry Ph.D. alumnus Frederick Porter, graduate school was a start to a second phase in his career. After beginning a career in the pharmaceutical industry, he came to the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Biochemistry in …
Crystallizing Science, One Protein at a Time
It’s square one. It’s step one. It puts the “basic” in basic science. How ever you describe it, understanding protein structure and function through what’s called X-ray crystallography is an important approach in many areas …
IPiB Student Receives HHMI Fellowship Supporting Diversity in Science
Integrated Program in Biochemistry (IPiB) graduate student Sébastien Ortiz recently earned a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellowship. He is one of just 39 other students across the United States to receive the award to support …