Biochemistry Assistant Professor Tim Grant, also an investigator at Morgridge Institute for Research, has teamed up again with a former colleague to update their software program cisTEM. The software program helps turn the literally millions …
Cryo-EM
Cryo research featured in Grow magazine
The Department of Biochemistry is home to two new facilities conducting groundbreaking work in Cryo-EM and Cryo-ET. The UW–Madison Cryo-EM Research Center (CEMRC) is set to open in spring 2021, and the opening of the Midwest Center for …
New national imaging center has potential to transform medicine
A national research initiative announced today will place the University of Wisconsin–Madison at the forefront of a revolution in imaging fostered by cryo-electron microscopy and cryo-electron tomography — technologies that can illuminate life at the …
Tim Grant joins (joined) biochemistry faculty, Morgridge Institute for Research
You may have missed Tim Grant’s arrival on campus earlier this year: he joined the Biochemistry faculty and the Morgridge Institute for Research at a historic time, on the brink of campus-wide shutdown due to COVID-19.
Ci Ji Lim joins biochemistry faculty
Ci Ji Lim’s first impression of UW-Madison’s campus: “amazing!” He was struck not only by the surrounding lakes – in stark contrast to the mountains in Colorado he was used to – but even moreso …
Wright Lab member serves on Microscopy Society Student Council
Graduate students attend multiple conferences during their educational careers. But after his first successful trip to the Microscopy Society of America (MSA) conference, Joseph Kim decided to get more involved and was recently named Communications …
Kirchdoerfer joins department, campus virology community to utilize cryo-EM technologies
Robert Kirchdoerfer is returning to UW–Madison as an assistant professor. His position in the Institute for Molecular Virology is part of a cluster hire. Kirchdoerfer studies coronaviruses.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin takes in ‘locally sourced science’ at Pagliarini Lab in Morgridge Institute
Forward-thinking science and childhood memories came full circle on Wednesday for U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, who visited a lab at the Morgridge Institute for Research that is carrying on the inspired legacy of her grandfather, David E. Green.
Major microscopy project coming to life with new talent, technology additions
The UW–Madison effort to launch a shared cryo-electron microscopy facility for the bioscience community is gathering momentum, with two new faculty hires and key technology investments this summer.
Cryo-EM expert Elizabeth Wright joining biochemistry to direct new facility
The biochemistry department will welcome Elizabeth Wright in July 2018 as a faculty member and director of the department’s newly established cryo-electron microscopy facility.