UW scientists, students give a boost to science education in local schools
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UW–Madison researchers study plant aging, gain insights into crop yields
Xuehua Zhong and her colleagues describe how an epigenetic protein complex acts as a link between the environment and the genome to promoting the onset of aging in plants.
“Super yeast” has the power to improve economics of biofuels
It took 10 months and hundreds of generations of “directed evolution” for Sato and his colleagues, including co-corresponding authors Robert Landick, a UW–Madison professor of biochemistry, and Audrey Gasch, a UW– Madison professor of genetics, to create a strain of S. cerevisiae that could ferment xylose.
Beyond genes: Protein atlas scores nitrogen fixing duet
The atlas is possibly the most exhaustive proteomic inventory of any kind to date.
Yeast knockouts peel back secrets of cell protein function
Instead of exploring proteins one at a time, the study shows the efficacy of looking at them by the hundreds.
Fruit flies help explain differences between males and females
John Pool featured in CALs news: Fruit flies help explain differences between males and females.
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/