SFLC Becomes Graduate Leadership and Development Committee (GLDC)
To better describe its purpose and mission, the Student Faculty Liaison Committee (SFLC), has changed its name to the Graduate Leadership & Development Committee (GLDC).
As the group has evolved over the years, its goals have grown beyond just serving as a student voice on faculty committees to include career and professional development events, scientific outreach to the community, departmental social events, recruiting the next class of Integrated Program in Biochemistry (IPiB) students, and more.
IPiB Thesis Defense Oct. 28: Jessica Cardenas
Plants go through different stages of development that are modulated by different types of signals. Some signals come from within the plants themselves, while others, such as environmental stressors, a plant can only respond to. Phytohormones, “plant hormones” that arise from a plant’s metabolic activities, help integrate external signals into a plant’s growth and development. …
Budding Mycologists
Mycology — the scientific name for the study of fungi — has no single home on campus. Instead, fungal researchers are spread across nearly every college and school. Although this organization extends the reach of fungal science, it makes community building more challenging. Enter the Budding Mycologists, a new graduate student group formed in the …
Amy Weeks Named Packard Fellow
Amy Weeks, a University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of biochemistry, has been selected as a Packard Fellow for Science and Engineering. The fellowship is awarded annually to early-career scientists from across the United States and provides $875,000 of funding over five years. Weeks is one of 20 members chosen for the honor by the David and …
Resilience: How COVID-19 Challenged the Scientific World
Over the past 18 months, the COVID-19 pandemic unleashed a seemingly untold human, social, and economic wave of devastation. For a longform feature, Resilience: how COVID-19 challenged the scientific world, researchers at the Morgridge Institute for Research and the University of Wisconsin-Madison reflected on what has collectively happened and how it impacted their science. Biochemistry …
Venturelli R21 to Provide Major Advance for Personalized Microbiome Therapies
Clostridioides difficile, an antibiotic-resistant intestinal pathogen, is the leading cause of hospital-acquired infections in the United States. Treatment of a Clostridioides difficile, also known as C. difficile, infection may include courses of antibiotics or fecal transplants in which the fecal sample of a healthy donor is transplanted into a patient with C. difficile. These treatments …
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Events
- October
- October 22
- IPiB Seminar: Wamiah ChowdhuryElucidating the mechanism of transcription regulation by a global regulator in E.coliOctober 22, 12:00 pm, Khorana Auditorium, Room 175, DeLuca Biochemistry Laboratories
- October 28
- Thesis Review: Jessica CárdenasElucidate the role of PUX1 in GA signaling through its interaction with the GA receptor, GID1, to control cell growthOctober 28, 2:00 pm, Online
- November
- November 2
- Gladys J. Everson Lecture in Biochemistry: Margaret Werner-WashburneWhat Thermodynamics Taught Me About Diversity & InclusionNovember 2, 3:00 pm, Online
- November 8
- Biochemistry Colloquium: Darleen SandovalGLP-1 as a critical link in immunometabolismNovember 8, 3:00 pm, Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences
- November 15
- Thesis Review: Kanika JainElucidating the role of the E.coli RarA protein in DNA recombination and repair processesNovember 15, 11:30 am, 1111 Genetics-Biotechnology Center Building