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 …
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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 of biochemistry, including drug design. And it’s a technique many researchers in the Department of Biochemistry at UW–Madison specialize in.
Students find passion in labs as Undergraduate Summer Research Scholars
Hannah Poe peers into a large microscope in the Hector F. DeLuca Biochemical Sciences Building, seeing not just florescent molecules of RNA, but also a future career in biochemistry research. Poe is about to start …
Cellular Machine Assembly Process Yields New Insight into Disease, Evolution
Think of the cellular machine known as the spliceosome as being like a car. For a car to function properly, its parts have to be assembled in a particular order. Additionally, many of the car’s …
Pike Lab Deciphers Final Pieces of Vitamin D Regulatory Pathway
Biochemists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have deciphered the molecular mechanisms that underpin how the synthesis of the active form of vitamin D is regulated in the kidney, summing up decades of research in this …
Undergrad alum’s career combines biochemistry, agriculture
An upbringing on a Wisconsin dairy farm, combined with an interest in biochemistry, led 2008 biochemistry undergraduate alum Jacob Karlen to a career overseeing technology used to chemically analyze agricultural forage. During the first semester …
Biochemistry Labs, Staff Mentor High School Youth Apprentices
Jenna Amro is a productive member of a scientific research laboratory in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She can pipet, accurately measure scientific compounds, make agar plates that cells can grow …
Keller Earns Prestigious Distinguished Scientist Title
Staff scientist Mark Keller’s long and successful career in the Department of Biochemistry has received some much-deserved recognition. He recently earned the prestigious University of Wisconsin–Madison “Distinguished” job title — one of only a handful …
Biochemistry Undergraduates Mentor Elementary Students through Engagement Program
Every student in the Department of Biochemistry was inspired to pursue science at some point in his or her life. Some students enjoy paying that inspiration forward. By getting involved in the Adult Role Models …
Palmenberg Study Shows Men Garner Most Coveted Speaking Slots at Virology Meetings
Ann Palmenberg and Rob Kalejta heard complaints at one too many virology conferences about the perceived lack of women among the invited and keynote speakers. So, they did what all good scientists do: They tracked …