Bacteria with a taste for an inflammatory compound could help protect against heart disease
Discovery Fellow, Federico Rey and colleagues identified bacteria able to break down uric acid in the low-oxygen environment of the intestines and the specific genes that enable the process.
Roy Lab Members Jiaxin Li and Zhiwei Song Initiated into Phi Kappa Phi
Phi Kappa Phi is the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honor society that is open to students across disciplines, recognizes the achievements of the most outstanding students in every school and college at UW–Madison.
Karan Srivastava earns 22-23 Teaching Assistant Award
“I aim to create an environment where students can ask questions, make mistakes, and learn to move past them.”
WID Welcomes Michelle Wildgen as 2023 Writer-In-Residence
She will host a hands-on workshop to improve academic, creative, or professional writing practices, leaving participants more productive and less stressed.
El Zoominario: giving a voice to Latinx scientists and inspiring the next generation
With the goal of highlighting Latinx scientists for other scientists as well as Latinx children, Solís-Lemus co-created El Zoominario, an online seminar series aimed at the general public.
New nanoparticles deliver therapy brain-wide, edit Alzheimer’s gene in mice
Shaoqin “Sarah” Gong and her lab have developed a way to move therapies across the brain’s protective membrane to deliver brain-wide therapy with a range of biological medications and treatments.
Yin is part of a grant to create and study a “digital twin” of the urinary tract
Yin and collaborating researchers are building the model to investigate how the nervous system and urinary tract are connected.
Drying process could be key step in the development of life
PhD student Hayley Boigenzahn and professor John Yin can explain how one of the potentially crucial early steps on the path of life could have happened. They published their findings in the Dec. 2022 issue of the journal Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres.
Where Electronics and Biology Merge: Eleboeba E. May Receives NSF SemiSynBio-III Award
May’s work will focus on developing computer models of electrical and cellular interactions to establish metrics for efficient data flow through these systems.
Jo Handelsman Named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
UW–Madison’s three new fellows–Susan Hagness, Jo Handelsman, and Justin Wilson–bring the university’s total representation to 15.
WID Graduate Student is December Graduation Student Speaker
From high school dropout to PhD: The unlikely journey of student commencement speaker and Saha Lab member Kirstan Gimse
Karen Schloss earns promotion to Associate Professor
Dr. Schloss has earned tenure in the Department of Psychology. She studies color cognition, color preferences, visual reasoning, and information visualization.
Ashton lab spinoff safeguards developing brain, spinal cord from toxic threats
Randolph Ashton, an associate professor of biomedical engineering, is co-founder of Neurosetta, a startup company built around technology for modeling human brain and spinal cord development that emerged from his research lab.
How Zombies Can Help Prevent the Next Pandemic
Incomplete viral genomes can quell disease and, with further research, could be turned into treatments. An opinion by John Yin for Scientific American.
Madison startup developing chemical health testing platform
WID’s Randolph Ashton is developing a method for “scalable and cost-effective screening” of various chemical compounds on the brain and spinal cord. The new company is Neurosetta.
How Does Life Begin?
PhD student Lena Vincent pursues the biggest question in her research on the chemical origins of life.
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