Despite the challenges of 2020, researchers in BMC and across the university continued to make breakthroughs and publish new findings. As the year concluded, the Research Communications team from UW’s Office of University Communications highlighted …
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BMC Chair Patricia Kiley Named 2020 AAAS Fellow
BMC Chair Patricia Kiley was among six UW-Madison Scholars elected as 2020 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). According to AAAS, Dr. Kiley is being recognized for her distinguished contributions …
Galen Hess joins the faculty of Biomolecular Chemistry as new assistant professor
The Department of Biomolecular Chemistry and the Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine are pleased to announce that Galen Hess of Stanford University will be joining our faculty as an assistant professor in January …
BMC Faculty Josh Coon and Melissa Harrison honored with 5-year UW awards
BMC faculty members Dr. Joshua Coon and Dr. Melissa Harrison were among the 2020-2021 winners of prestigious UW-Madison awards in recognition of significant achievement and strong trajectories in their respective careers. Dr. Coon received the …
Deleting a gene prevents Type 1 diabetes in mice by disguising insulin-producing cells
Removing a gene from the cells that produce insulin prevents mice from developing Type 1 diabetes by sparing the cells an attack from their own immune system, a new UW–Madison study shows. The cellular sleight …
A Trojan Horse? Immune cells ferry deadline fungus from mouse lung into the blood
A report today (June 27) in PLOS Pathogens shows how inhaled fungal spores exit the lung and trigger a fatal infection in mice. The study solves a mystery of mycology: Why are spores of a certain fungal strain deadly while the yeast form of that same fungus is harmless? Study leader Christina Hull, professor of biomolecular chemistry and medical microbiology and immunology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, focuses on Cryptococcus, the most deadly inhaled fungus. The short answer, she says, is that lung macrophages abandon their posts as bodyguards and begin smuggling spores into the bloodstream.
Blockages in nerve-cell protein ‘factory’ ipmlicated in neurodegenerative disease
A molecular basis underlying the neurodegenerative condition hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) has been identified in a study by University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health researchers. The research, published in Cell Reports, shows how a mutation in the TFG gene – one of several linked to HSP – impairs neurons from forming the structures needed to transmit signals properly.
Butcher/Brow Labs Piecing Together the Spliceosome Puzzle One Subunit at a Time
BMC’s Heidi Dvinge featured in “New Faculty Focus”
Harrison Featured in Local Media Story on Senate Passage of 21st Century Cures Act 94-5
Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Chemistry Melissa Harrison was interviewed and her lab featured by local television station WKOW as part of its story on U.S. Senate passage of the 21st Century Cures Act 94-5. You can read the …