Christopher Gisriel and Judith Simcox were awarded the Distinguished Faculty and Staff Postdoc Mentoring Award from the UW–Madison Postdoctoral Association.
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McLester-Davis becomes UW’s First Director of Indigenous Science Advocacy
McLester-Davis, a scientist in the Simcox Lab, will research aging-related diseases among Indigenous populations and other groups often underrepresented in research.
Palmer Earns USDA Grant to Explore Sustainable Alternative to Fertilizer
Palmer will study interactions within the community of microbes living around the roots of corn plants and how these interactions impact the nitrogen available to the plant.
Daniel Parrell, a Biochemistry Postdoctoral Fellow, Wins GLBRC Outreach and Service Award
Daniel Parrell, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biochemistry’s Wright Lab, was awarded the 2023 Outreach and Service Award.
Freeman Lan Receives Burroughs Wellcome Fund 2022 Career Award
Postdoctoral researcher Freeman Lan has received a 2022 Career Award at the Scientific Interfaces distributed by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
Jae Yang receives 2022 Boyer Award
The Department of Biochemistry is pleased to announce Jae Yang as the winner of the 2022 Boyer Award for Postdoctoral Excellence in Biochemistry. The award recognizes and rewards excellence in research accomplishments in the Department …
WARF Accelerator Award given to advance lab-on-a-chip, single-cell analysis method
Scientists around the world may soon use a method developed by postdoctoral researcher Leland Hyman to study cell-to-cell variability in diverse cell populations. Hyman’s method, which he developed during his time as a graduate student, …
David White of Hoskins Lab receives NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship
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 …
Henderson earns 2019 Paul Boyer Award for Postdoctoral Excellence in Biochemistry
Biochemistry postdoctoral scholar Kate Henderson has received the 2019 Paul Boyer Award for Postdoctoral Excellence in Biochemistry.
Former postdoc collects accolades as professor at Penn State
For Pennsylvania State University professor Squire Booker, scientific inspiration comes from elucidating the “new chemical language” behind novel biochemical reactions. It’s inspiration he picked up during this time as a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Biochemistry working with now-Emeritus Professor Perry Frey in the 1990s.