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November 2, 2006
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Biochem Postdoc receives NIH award
Matt Allen from the Raines and Kiessling labs is one of the first 58
recipients of the new NIH Pathways to Independence award.
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November 1, 2006
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Faculty named AAAS fellows
Professor Judith Kimble is among the 449 scientists and engineers to be
awarded a fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS), which were announced this week (Nov. 23).
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October 1, 2006
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Professor receives prestigious award for contributions to chemistry
Laura
Kiessling has won the 2005 Harrison Howe Award, a prize that annually
honors outstanding contributions to the field of chemistry.
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September 30, 2006
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Department mourns loss of faculty member
The death of Jack Gorski on August 30, 2006 took a brilliant but modest investigator, an effective teacher, and a practical dairyman from this community.
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September 1, 2006
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Newly admitted Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Professor Ronald R. Raines has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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July 1, 2006
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Professor Palmenberg elected President of the American Society for Virology
ASV, the largest virology society in the World, has elected Dr. Palmenberg as their president. Her term will begin July 2007.
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May 6, 2006
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Biochemist earns research award
Mary Rabaglia, researcher in the Department of Biochemistry,
Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research (Research Support).
Rabaglia, a nationally known expert in pancreatic beta cell biology,
has served as a well-respected researcher in the Department of
Biochemistry for the past eight years.
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May 5, 2006
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Department welcomes Professor Doug Weibel
Douglas
B. Weibel received his B.S. (Chemistry) degree from the University of
Utah, a M.S. (Organic Chemistry) degree form Cornell University and
then completed his Ph.D. (Organic Chemistry) work with Jerrold Meinwald
at Cornell University. Since 2002 he has been a postdoctoral fellow at
Harvard University with George M. Whitesides. Doug's research interests
are in the area of organic chemistry and micro- and nano-fabricated
materials to explore microbiology and cell biology.
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May 4, 2006
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Professor Laura Kiessling to be appointed as a Hilldale Professor
We are delighted to announce that Laura Kiessling will be appointed
Hilldale Professor effective July 2006. A Hilldale Professor is one of
the highest honors that a faculty member at UW can achieve, and
Hilldale Professors are selected through an extremely competitive
University wide process. This appointment is fitting and wonderful
recognition for Laura's outstanding contributions to the Department,
the College of Letters and Science, and the University, through her
seminal research in chemical biology, her spectacular teaching and
mentoring, and her many extramural activities including Editor-in-Chief
of the ACS journal Chemical Biology and service on a number of advisory
boards and panels.
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May 3, 2006
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Aseem Ansari earns young scientist award
Ansari is one of two recipients of the 2006 Shaw Scientist Award.
Designed to help young scientists explore novel research directions,
the $200,000 prize is annually awarded to Wisconsin researchers working
in the fields of biochemistry, the biological sciences and cancer
research.
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May 2, 2006
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Scientists find gene in obese mice that increases type 2 diabetes
In a painstaking set of experiments in overweight mice, scientists from
the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered a gene that appears
to play an important role in the onset of type 2 diabetes.
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April 7, 2006
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Faculty elected to prestigious academy
Professor Amasino, who was recently named a Howard Hughes Medical
Institute Professor, is a professor of biochemistry. His lab focuses on
studies of how plants respond to seasonal cues to prompt flowering.
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April 6, 2006
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UW-Madison improves patent ranking
The University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005 was the nation's fifth most
productive intellectual property setting among U.S. universities, the
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) announced.
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April 5, 2006
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Dave Nelson has received the Alliant Energy Underkofler Excellence in Teaching Award
The award pays tribute to Professor Nelson's impressive dedication as a
teacher, and his ability to communicate his subject matter and inspire
students enthusiasm for learning.
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April 3, 2006
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William S. Reznikoff to receive Arthur J. Maurer Extra Mile Award
The Arthur J. Maurer Extra Mile Award recognizes faculty and staff who
have demonstrated unusual concern for and provided exceptional service
to students over and above their regular responsibilities. It was
established in honor of the late Arthur Maurer, a professor of poultry
science for 28 years who passed away unexpectedly in 1998, by his wife
Ellen.
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April 2, 2006
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Biochemist to cultivate a novel approach to teaching genetics
Just as a non-musician savors the resounding strains of a Beethoven
symphony, University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemist Richard Amasino
believes that non-scientists can appreciate the role of science in
their lives.
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March 1, 2006
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Julie Mitchell wins 2006 Sloan Research Fellowship
Julie C. Mitchell, assistant professor of biochemistry and mathematics.
Mitchell's research will develop an integrated analytical platform for
the functional discovery of novel neural peptides.
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February 1, 2006
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Raines lab finds a way to make human collagen in the lab
A
team of scientists from UW-Madison, writing this week (Feb. 13, 2006)
in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), reports
the discovery of a method for making human collagen in the lab.
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January 3, 2006
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Using form to explain function
University
of Wisconsin-Madison biochemists have developed an approach that allows
them to measure with unprecedented accuracy the strengths of hydrogen
bonds in a protein. The scientists were then able to predict the
function of different versions of the protein based on structural
information, a novel outcome that was published recently in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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January 2, 2006
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Scientist Named to American Association for the Advancement of Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemist Mike Sussman has been
elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science.
The AAAS Council elected 376 members as Fellows of AAAS. These
individuals will be recognized for their contributions to science at
the Fellows Forum to be held on 18 February 2006 during the AAAS Annual
Meeting in St. Louis.
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January 1, 2006
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Professor Future President of the American Society of Plant Biologists
University
of Wisconsin-Madison biochemist Richard Amasino has been elected by his
peers to lead the American Society of Plant Biologists. Amasino became
president-elect of ASPB Oct. 1, 2005. ASPB is a non-profit science
society of nearly 6,000 members from the United States and nearly 60
other nations.
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