The Vilas Trustees have made possible this form of recognition for faculty in the Biological Sciences Division and will provide research support during 2003-04 and 2004-05
Marv Wickens has received a WARF-named Professorship: Max Perutz Professor of Molecular Biology. Prof. Wickens research has always focused on how genes work in animal cells. He has concentrated on events after DNA has been transcribed into RNA, en route to being translated into protein. He has analyzed both how mRNAs are born in the nucleus and how they are controlled in the cytoplasm. He has served extensively with the National Institutes of Health, as a member of the N.I.H. Center for Scientific Review Advisory Committee, and as member and Chairman of the N.I.H. Molecular Biology Study...
Materials will be handed out on March 14th. Winners will be determined by surviving all three drops, landing the closest to the target, and using smallest number of items on the list.
This years' winners were from the Pike Lab. Second place went to the Friesen lab.
Poster session in the west atrium - "Current advances in HIV/AIDS therapeutics and research findings that may open up new avenues for alternative approaches to treating HIV/AIDS" that may open up new avenues for each of the 11 groups in the class would be presenting a recent paper on a topic that touches HIV/AIDS therapeutics. This is a good opportunity to be updated on how far along research in this important field has gone in the last two years and how much more it would take to finally defeat HIV.
Ivan Rayment has an international reputation in structural biology. In establishing a state-of-the-art X-ray crystallography laboratory at Wisconsin, Rayment has created a campus resource that also contributes to research training and teaching.
KELLETT MID-CAREER AWARD
This award is intended to recognize and support mid-career faculty, five to twenty years past their first promotion to a tenured position. The Mid-Career award was created to provide needed support and encouragement to faculty at a critical stage of their careers.
Kimberly A. Dickson was selected to receive the first Marcia Moss Graduate Award in Biochemistry.
Leaf senescence is a developmental program in which nutrients are recycled from leaves at the end of their lifespan. In annual plants, these recycled nutrients often support seed development. In deciduous trees, the nutrients can be stored in Autumn to support the growth of new tissues in the Spring. Thus leaf senescence is of great practical value to plants, and the cover photograph of a maple tree by Jordan Hall at Indiana University illustrates the aesthetic value of this process. To further understand this nutrient-recycling program at a molecular level, Bhalerao et al. (pp. 430-442)...
Fat cells may hold the key to predicting type 2 diabetes, a major cause of kidney failure, limb amputations, blindness, heart disease and stroke.
The disease, also called adult-onset diabetes, affects 8 percent of the U.S. population age 20 or older. While more than 80 percent of diabetics are overweight, only 10 percent of obese individuals develop the disease. Knowing your risk is a key to prevention.
Knowing what to expect: "Currently, we have no markers to tell who among these overweight individuals is going to become diabetic," says Alan Attie, a College biochemist who...
The 2003 Recipients will present their talks at 3:30 pm in B1118 Biochemistry.
Scott Michaels
Memories of winter: the central role of FLOWERING LOCUS C in the regulation of flowering time in Arabidopsis
Christian Eckmann
Mining for Gold - Cell Fate Decisions in the C. elegans Germline
Michelle Soltero has been chosen to receive this year's Sigrid Leirmo Memorial Award in Biochemistry
The award, provided by funds given in memory of Dr. Leirmo by her husband, consists of $250, and will be awarded at the departmental poster session on February 7. The award is designated for a graduate or postdoctoral student who best exemplifies the spirit of Sigrid Leirmo, who received her Ph.D. degree in the Department of Biochemistry in 1989 and was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Bacteriology when she died tragically in an accident in October 1990. Dr. Leirmo was widely acknowledged among her fellow students and colleagues both as a promising researcher and as...
John Suttie, emeritus professor of biochemistry at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, has received the 22nd annual Bristol-Myers Squibb/Mead Johnson Award for Distinguished Achievement in Nutrition Research. He was honored for outstanding experimental work that has defined the molecular action of vitamin K and its function in blood clotting. Suttie accepted the award Oct. 10 in Madison, following a symposium held in his honor on vitamin K-dependent proteins and their clinical use.
A novel form of vitamin D has been shown to grow bone in the lab and in experimental animals, a result that holds promise for the estimated 44 million Americans, mostly post-menopausal women, who suffer from or are at risk for the bone-wasting disease osteoporosis.
The research, conducted by a team of scientists led by biochemist Hector F. DeLuca at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was reported this week (Sept. 30) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a leading scientific journal.
By subtracting a single gene from the genome of a mouse, scientists have created an animal that can eat a rich, high-fat diet without adding weight or risking the complications of diabetes, according to a new study published this week.
Writing in the online editions of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), James M. Ntambi, a professor of biochemistry and of nutritional sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and colleagues report that mice lacking a gene known as SCD-1 can eat a rich high-fat diet and avoid the consequences of fat deposition and excess...
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