Bacteria are single-cell organisms w amazing biotech uses. Brian Pfleger @UWMadEngr discusses in today's #BlueSkySci https://t.co/91TzaakLAY
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Harrison Receives Vallee Foundation Award
Boston, MA – August 2016 – The Bert L and N Kuggie Vallee Foundation is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2016 Young Investigator Awards. This year, the Foundation has chosen four young scientists from a pool of international early career researchers. The Vallee Foundation’s goal to fund originality, …
Pagliarini and Coon on Morgridge Institute web
https://morgridge.org/newsarticle/mitochondrial-maps-reveal-new-connections-poorly-understood-diseases/
Tom Crenshaw, Guilerme Rosa honored by American Society of Animal ScienceZhong receives Toepfer Faculty Fellow Award
Xuehua Zhong selected to receive an Alfred Toepfer Faculty Fellow Award.
Lewis named Pew Trusts Biomedical Scholar
Peter Lewis named Pew Trusts Biomedical Scholar. http://wid.wisc.edu/featured-science/epigenetics-researcher-named-pew-scholar-in-biomedical-sciences/ …
UW-Madison seeks to capitalize on push to harness helpful microbes
Now, seeking to further harness microbes’ many uses, the federal government has launched the National Microbiome Initiative (NMI) to “foster the integrated study of microbiomes across different ecosystems.
Vatsan Raman earns Shaw Scientist Award
Vatsan Raman, a CALS assistant professor of biochemistry, is one of two University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists selected to receive a 2016 Shaw Scientist Award from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. more…
Panda poop study provides insights into microbiome, reproductive troubles
Understanding how animals and their microbes break down fibrous plant materials could aid in more efficient production of biofuels. It could also lend insights into human digestive diseases.