Our campus is offering free flu shots over the next few weeks. Apart from preventing the misery of coming down with the flu, widespread vaccination protects the most vulnerable among us; children, pregnant women, people with a compromised immune system, and people who are unable to get vaccinated due to allergies. It creates a bubble of protection, termed “herd immunity”. Please seriously...
Please join Catalysts for Science Policy (CaSP), for our fall student mixer next Thursday, 9/12, at The Sett at Union South at 5pm.
This mixer brings together many graduate students and post-doc groups on campus that focus on STEM or policy issues including SciMed, Graduate Women in Science, the Teaching Assistant Association, and the Post-doc Association. We hope to see you there!
The Graduate Leadership and Development Committee is happy to host Tea Time this Thursday, September 12 at 2:00 PM in the H. F. DeLuca Biochemical Sciences Building Atrium. Coffee, tea, and refreshments will be provided for your enjoyment. Take a break and mingle with your colleagues — all faculty, staff, and trainees in IPiB affiliated labs are invited!
Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Jo Handelsman
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
Prof. Jeff Tabor
Rice University
A recurring workshop that brings together synthetic biology researchers, especially undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs, and companies from institutions in the Central US.
2019 Integrated Program in Biochemistry Retreat
The event will be held from 8:30am to 7:00pm on Friday, September 6th at the Discovery Building. Registration will close at 11:59PM on Thursday, August 22nd.
If you would like to attend, please use this link to register:
Annual IPiB welcome picnic, starting at 4:00 pm on Friday, August 30! This is a wonderful opportunity to get to know our new class of graduate students while enjoying great conversations, fresh air, Vilas Park’s beautiful scenery, and our traditional kickball game (I wonder who will win?).
Graduate students, postdocs, faculty, staff, and spouses/family are all welcome. We will meet at...
Mechanisms regulating the highly conserved transcription factor Grainy head during Drosophila melanogaster development
The critical role of kinesin-1 autoinhibition in the regulation of intracellular transport in neurons
Structure of Escherichia coli H-NS and mixed H-NS filaments and their effect on transcription elongation by RNA polymerase
The Role of Acetyl-CoA and Acetyl-CoA synthesis pathways in regulation of nuclear acetylation