Rohith Rajasekaran, a recent PhD graduate, has received the @fredhutch.org Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award. The award recognizes outstanding research achievement during graduate studies in the biological sciences. Read more: biochem.wisc.edu/2026/02/27/r...
Join us for Biochem Colloquium on March 9. Shiv Grewal, Chief of the NCI Laboratory of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, focuses on understanding how the genome is regulated within cells through the formation & maintenance of heterochromatin. More info: today.wisc.edu/events/view/...
Meet Brian Fox, professor of @uwbiochem.bsky.social, who studies enzymes and their functions, using synthetic biology techniques to discover new enzymes that can break down recalcitrant polysaccharides for use as biofuel feedstock.
Huge congratulations to my student Rohith Rajasekaran @born2raisecell.bsky.social (now a postdoc in Kole Roybal's lab at UCSF) on being selected for a Weintraub award! Super proud of you and all the work you've done!
Research from the Raman and Henzler-Wildman Labs points to potential targets for combating drug-resistant pathogens. Their study, published in @pnas.org, looked at how bacterial cells balance energetic needs to expel antibiotics. Read more: biochem.wisc.edu/2026/02/18/r...
Congratulations to Emeritus Professor Judith Kimble, who received the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal awarded by @genetics-gsa.bsky.social.
Join us on March 2 for Biochemistry Colloquium! Joel McManus @cmu.edu studies the mechanisms that regulate mRNA translation. More info: today.wisc.edu/events/view/...
Brielle and Paige representing the Hoskins Lab undergrads at the @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social poster session at #BPS2026!
Join us on Monday, February 23 for Biochemistry Colloquium with Traci Hall. Hall leads the Macromolecular Structure Group
at the NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and their lab focuses on mRNA stability and translation. More info: today.wisc.edu/events/view/...
Join us on Feb. 16 for Biochemistry Colloquium with Willow Coyote-Maestas. The @willowcoyote.bsky.social Lab builds and applies technologies to learn about membrane proteins in health and disease. More info: today.wisc.edu/events/view/...
Join us for Wenbo Lu's Ph.D. thesis defense on February 12! Lu's research in the Landick & Venturelli Labs examined how patterns of gene expression in gut microbiota influence the metabolites produced. Learn more: ipib.wisc.edu/2026/02/09/i...
Join us on February 9 for Biochemistry Colloquium with Sara Nowinski @vai.org. The Nowinski Lab is working to understand mitochondria in detail, focusing on the mitochondrial fatty acid synthesis pathway. More info: today.wisc.edu/events/view/...
Join us for Sarah Evert's Ph.D. thesis defense on February 5! Evert's research in the Raman Lab explored the function of a bacteriophage receptor binding protein. Learn more: ipib.wisc.edu/2026/01/15/i...
Designing a space-bound experiment requires researchers to stick to specific materials in a limited amount of space. Learn how the Raman Lab designed an experiment fit for space travel, to investigate how bacteria and phages change in space: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j94C...
Join us for Rahul Vivek's Ph.D. thesis defense on January 28! Vivek's research in the Butcher Lab investigated the interaction between poly(UG) RNA and a protein implicated in multiple neurodegenerative disorders. Learn more: ipib.wisc.edu/2026/01/16/i...
In 2020, researchers in Raman Lab launched bacteria and phages into space. Now, those microbes have returned to Madison with hints at how space travel may impact the gut microbiome and clues about how to treat antibiotic-resistant infections on Earth. news.wisc.edu/microbes-mut...
In 2020, researchers in Raman Lab launched bacteria and phages into space. Now, those microbes have returned to Madison with hints at how space travel may impact the gut microbiome and clues about how to treat antibiotic-resistant infections on Earth. news.wisc.edu/microbes-mut...
Sierra's paper is out! Thanks to our collaborators @danglab.bsky.social & Melissa Jurica's lab! Also to the Evans Foundation for funding1
A Yeast-Based High-Throughput Screening Platform for the Discovery of Novel pre-mRNA Splicing Modulators | ACS Chemical Biology pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
New in ACS SynBio: led by Dennis Bolshakov, we used the awesome power of yeast to define how expression levels, noise, and sequence program the dynamics of synthetic protein waves, allowing us to genetically encode new cellular timescales stable over generations!
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New preprint! We found that the flavin-dependent halogenase RebH catalyzes sequence-tolerant Trp bromination in peptides 🧪https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.17.694899v1
Wei Wei, who joined @uwbiochem.bsky.social's faculty this summer, is among 13 new and early-career faculty selected as STRIDE scholars by the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Pathway Program. Learn more: biochem.wisc.edu/2025/11/21/w...
Join us on Monday, Dec. 8 for Biochemistry Colloquium with Eric Greene. The Greene Lab @columbiauniversity.bsky.social studies homologous-recombination-associated proteins using in-vitro and in-vivo biochemical techniques. More info: today.wisc.edu/events/view/...
New from the Butcher Lab—defining the RNA binding mechanism of TDP-43. Happy to have played a small part in this amazing work!
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Join us for Ross Soens' PhD thesis defense on Friday, Dec 5! Soens' research in the Coon Lab explored post-translational modifications, and modifications made during translation, to proteins. More info: ipib.wisc.edu/2025/11/17/i...
A new herbicide system from Paige Henning, Benjamin Minkoff and Michael Sussman uses a natural plant peptide, SPH, to suppress and kill a wide variety of weeds. @uwbiochem.bsky.social #WisconsinInnovates
Join us on Monday Dec. 1 for Biochemistry Colloquium with Brandt Eichman @vanderbilt.edu. The Eichman Lab investigates the molecular details of how proteins repair damaged DNA and maintain integrity of the genome during replication. More info: today.wisc.edu/events/view/...
As an experiment to combat/come-to-terms-with AI use in homework assignments, I'm incorporating arts and crafts. Here a student used Lucky Charms for an exercise on the prochirality of citrate.
Join us for David Rivera-Kohr's PhD thesis defense on Tuesday, Nov. 25! Rivera-Kohr's research in the Brian Fox Lab explores biochemical mechanisms used to degrade waste products and convert municipal waste into biofuel. More info: ipib.wisc.edu/2025/10/15/i...
Our newest #WisconsinIngenuity essay explores how @uwmadison.bsky.social and Stellenbosch University are co-creating solutions to urgent challenges, from epidemic surveillance to sustainable materials. #WARF100 @uwbiochem.bsky.social
How do cells adapt morphology to function? In a 🔥 preprint by @zjmaggiexu.bsky.social , with @dudinlab.bsky.social and @amyweeks.bsky.social , we identify a self-organizing single-cell morphology circuit that optimizes the feeding trap structure of the suctorian P. collini. 🧵 tinyurl.com/4k8nv926
