Lactose Tolerant

Wisconsin now has a state microbe. The new state honor goes to… Lactococcus lactis, the bacterium used to make cheese. Read More

Kim Kamer Earns Accolades

Congratulations to Kim Kamer of the Raines lab for earning a Henry and Eleanor Firminhac Award for Excellence in Chemistry, a Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship and a Goldwater Scholarship! Read More

Professor Raines and GLBRC in the news

A University of Wisconsin-Madison research team has developed a promising new chemical method to liberate the sugar molecules trapped inside inedible plant biomass, a key step in the creation of cellulosic biofuels. See the article …

Professor Weibel Awarded Sloan Fellowship

The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise.  These two-year fellowships are awarded in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions …

Scientists Create Super-Strong Collagen

“It’s by far the most stable collagen ever made,” says Ron Raines, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of chemistry and biochemistry who led the study, published in the Jan. 12 issue of the Proceedings of …