Biochemistry Professor James Ntambi was recently re-elected to the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Council.
A WARF Accelerator Award will help commercialize a droplet microfluidics-based cell characterization method developed by graduate student and postdoctoral researcher Leland Hyman.
Listen to the Deeper Than Data with Ben Rush podcast to catch Assistant Professor Judi Simcox’s insights on mentorship, inclusivity in science and more.
Biochemistry Assistant Professor Ophelia Venturelli spoke with the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center about her lab's research developing generalizable, model-driven framework to predict microbiome growth and metabolic capabilities.
Congratulations to David S. White, postdoc in the Hoskins Lab, who was recently awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32) from the NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). David’s award begins in December 2021 in the amount of $197,994 across three years.
Biochemistry Assistant Professor Tim Grant, also an investigator at Morgridge Institute for Research, is part of a new project supported by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) that hopes to create a three-dimensional map that aligns these molecules in their proper neighborhoods within a cell. This knowledge can be essential in understanding how different protein molecules work together and illustrate pathways that are used both in normal biological function and in disease.
Several Biochemistry faculty are part of two inaugural WARF Research Forward Grants. The Research Forward initiative is supported by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) and will provide funding for 1–2 years, depending on the needs and scope of the project. This initiative replaces the now retired UW2020 WARF Discovery Initiative.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison will join a first-of-its-kind collaborative network for nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, which researchers use to probe large biological molecules like proteins and RNA.
The National Science Foundation announced a $40 million award to establish the Network for Advanced NMR (NAN) linking three institutions: UConn School of Medicine, the University of Georgia and UW–Madison’s National Magnetic Resonance Facility at Madison.
The Department of Biochemistry is pleased to announce recipients of its 2021 undergraduate and graduate student departmental awards and fellowships. The department celebrates the work and talent of its students, and these awards and fellowships are made possible by generous gifts to Biochemistry to fund research conducted by notably outstanding graduate and undergraduate students.
“These awards represent the excellence of our students and generosity of our supporters,” says chair Brian Fox. “We are proud to present these awards that help support undergraduates and graduate students...
Please tell us a little about yourself. Where did you grow up? Where did you go to school?
I grew up in Huntly, Montana: a small town of less than 500 people. I went to college at Carroll College in Helena, Montana where I started my research career studying sympatric speciation in black fly populations.
Where did you carry out your postdoctoral researchUniversity of Utah Department of Biochemistry, studying the contribution of lipids to thermogenesis
Researchers have developed the capability to predict and design the metabolic activities of microbial communities, which has broad implications for human health, agriculture and bioprocessing.
In a paper released May 31st in Nature Communications [link], Biochemistry Assistant Professor Ophelia Venturelli and Ryan Clark, formerly a postdoc in the Venturelli lab and now of Nimble Therapeutics, present a new computational model that predicts the community dynamics and production of the metabolite, butyrate, to explore a vast landscape of possible human gut communities.
At the conclusion of each spring semester, the Integrated Program in Biochemistry (IPiB) Steering Committee is tasked with the challenging honor of selecting nominated graduate students and postdocs for the Sigrid Leirmo Memorial Award in Biochemistry and the Denton Award for Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring. The IPiB Steering Committee is pleased to continue the programs' commitment to teaching and mentorship by announcing the 2021 graduate student awards that celebrate these important aspects of the program. IPiB is the joint graduate program of the Department of...
Where did you grow up? Go to school?
I grew up in the small town of Oregon, WI where I graduated from high school. I then took the short trip up to Madison to attend the UW as an undergraduate. After I finished my bachelors degree I moved out to San Diego to attend graduate school at The Scripps Research Institute in Ian Wilson’s laboratory, using structural biology to study how influenza virus replicates its genome.
Where did you grow up? Go to school?
I was born in Providence RI and raised in Durham, NC. Went to undergrad at UC Berkeley, grad at CU Boulder
Where did you carry out your postdoctoral research?Cambridge University, UK
As a child, who was your biggest influence?As a kid, my parents. As a teen, Bob Dylan.
Why did you decide to study science?I found animal development amazing and wanted to understand how it worked.
Biochemistry Professor Michael Cox was recently named a fellow of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB). The 2021 fellows, the inaugural class, are a distinguished group of scientists who have contributed to multiple missions of ASBMB over a sustained period of time and enriched the world through their efforts and accomplishments.
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