Wisconsin now has a state microbe. The new state honor goes to... Lactococcus lactis, the bacterium used to make cheese.
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!
A Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship has been awarded to Sonia Trevino-Dopatka, a Biochemistry major and member of the Weibel Lab, on the basis of academic merit.
Congratulations Biochemistry Graduate Students:
2010 Fellowship Awards:
Amelia Still (Pagliarini Lab)
Rachel Kubiak, (Holden Lab)
2010 Honorable Mentions:
Darryl Wesener, (Kiessling Lab)
Elise Wagner, (Denu Lab)
James Ntambi has been selected to receive a 2010 Distinguished Teaching Award from the Wisconsin Alumni Association.
Ntambi teaches a number of classes for the biochemistry and nutritional sciences departments, helping to run a large intro-to-biochem course and leading an advanced seminar in nutrition and metabolism.
Since 1987, the Hilldale Awards have honored professors who excel in teaching, research and service. The university's top honor for faculty members. Congratulations Dr. Palmenberg.
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 in the New York Times.
Ron Raines, GLBRC
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 to their field. Congratulations Dr. Weibel.
Dr. Hayes has studied nutrition and the immune system for more than 25 years, and vitamin D and MS for almost 20 years. She has many friends with MS. Dr. Hayes is a recipient of numerous National Multiple Sclerosis Society grants, and was notified in October that she would receive another award to continue her vitamin D studies.
"There is very good scientific evidence correlating low levels of vitamin D with a high risk of MS and with high disability in people with MS," said Colleen Hayes, PhD, a professor and researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
"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 the National Academy of Sciences.
See the story here
Writing in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week (Jan. 11), scientists from UW-Madison and the University of California-Irvine present a new model of stem cell regulation.
Michael Cox, Professor of Biochemistry, will receive the Regents' 17th annual Teaching Excellence Award. It is the highest recognition bestowed on members of UW System's faculty and academic staff for outstanding career achievements in teaching.
Dr. Takashi Higurashi from the Craig lab was awarded the best poster award and an oral presentation opportunity at the Stress Responses in Biology and Medicine Congress held in Sapporo, Japan. Congratulations Takashi!
Professor Hazel Holden and Edgewood Campus School middle-school science teacher Daniel Toomey are bridging the gap between middle-school science and groundbreaking research, and get young adolescents excited about chemistry before high school. Project Crystal
James Ntambi has been inducted as a Fellow of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences (FUNAS) in recognition of his excellent contribution to science and his commitment to promoting science in Uganda.
For more information on the Uganda National Academy click FUNAS
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