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June 23, 2009
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Carb synthesis sheds light on promising tuberculosis drug target
A fundamental question about how sugar units are strung together into
long carbohydrate chains has also pinpointed a promising way to target
new medicines against tuberculosis.
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June 16, 2009
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Chris Mayne Earns Young Investigator Award
Dr. Chris Mayne, from the Hayes laboratory, won the Young Investigator Award at the recent international ACTRIMS (Americas Committee for treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis) meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Congratulations Chris!
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May 21, 2009
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Tom Record Recepient of the 2009 Hugh M. Huffman Award
To be awarded at the 64th Calorimetry Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 28-July 2. Congratulations Dr. Record.
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May 13, 2009
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Joe Binder Recognized for Biofuels Advance
In recognition of the earth-friendly biofuel technology he helped
develop, Joe has been
selected to receive a prestigious national award from the American
Chemical Society.
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April 15, 2009
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Kamaluddin Ahmad Distinguished Graduate Scholarship
Gift aims to build bridge to Madison for Bangladeshi scientists
There was no well-worn path leading the late Kamaluddin Ahmad to the University of Wisconsin-Madison's biochemistry department, but come he did. Born and raised in a family of modest means in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Ahmad excelled at the University of Dhaka and then traveled to Madison for his graduate studies, receiving his Ph.D. in 1949. He then returned to Bangladesh, where he tackled some of the country's worst nutrition problems, founding and developing the University of Dhaka's biochemistry and pharmacy departments and its Institute of Nutrition and Food Science along the way.
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April 13, 2009
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2009 CALS faculty and staff awards
Congratulations to Biochem recipients:
Excellence in Research
Fariba Assadi-Porter
WALSAA Outstanding Advisor Award
David Nelson
Excellence in International Activities Award
James Ntambi
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April 10, 2009
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Professor Weibel earns service award
Douglas Weibel is the recipient of the 2009 UW-Madison Research-Service Grant Award.
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April 10, 2009
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John Leonard awarded Herfurth Kubly Award
Congratulations to John Leonard, Biochemistry undergrad and member of the Ansari Laboratory, for runner-up honor in the Theodore Herfurth and Teddy Kubly Awards for Initiative and Efficiency.
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April 2, 2009
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Sean McMaster named Goldwater Scholar
A Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship has been awarded to Sean McMaster, a junior Biochemistry major, on the basis of academic merit.
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February 26, 2009
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Ron Raines receives Kellett Mid-Career Award
Dr. Raines has provided fundamental insight into the stability of collagen and other proteins; discovered an RNA-cleaving enzyme that is a clinical anti-cancer agent; and developed processes to synthesize proteins and convert biomass into fuels and chemicals.
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February 23, 2009
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Faculty recognized by American Academy of Microbiology
Two members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty are among 72 scientists from around the world who have been elected fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology.
Elected as fellows are Ann Palmenberg, a virologist and UW-Madison professor of biochemistry, and M. Thomas Record, a UW-Madison professor of chemistry and biochemistry.
Professor Emeritus William Reznikoff has also been named a fellow.
American Academy of Microbiology fellows are elected annually through a highly selective peer-review process. Election is based on scientific achievement and a record of original contribution that has advanced the field.
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February 13, 2009
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In an effort to confront our most familiar malady, scientists have deciphered the instruction manual for the common cold.
A multi-institutional team of researchers has deciphered the complete
genetic sequences of all of the world's 99 known strains of human
rhinovirus, the viruses responsible for the common cold. The sequences
provide a detailed blueprint for the virus, showing how new strains
develop and revealing pressure points that may lead to new antiviral
drugs. Here, a rhinovirus particle at atomic resolution is superimposed
over a representation of the RNA molecule that encodes the virus genome.
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February 11, 2009
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Two-step chemical process turns raw biomass into biofuel
Taking a chemical approach, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a two-step method to convert the cellulose in raw biomass into a promising biofuel. The process, which is described in the Wednesday, Feb. 11 issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, is unprecedented in its use of untreated, inedible biomass as the starting material.
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