Upcoming Events

Jul
30

Synthetic Genes to Synthetic Life

7/30 8:00 am - 8/2 12:00 pm

33rd Steenbock Symposium in honor of Gobind Khorana
On the Exploration and Synthesis of Biological Systems
UW-Madison
Organizers: Aseem Ansari, Uttam L. RajBhandary
http://steenbock33.biochem.wisc.edu

Aug
24

CMB Advising & Orientation Week

8/24 8:00 am - 8/28 4:00 pm
Welcome new CMB graduate students, Class of 2009!  This is a week full of orientation to CMB, the UW campus and the surrounding Madison area.  Faculty rotation talks will occur this week, as well as various program activities. 

News

"Inside the Image" - Ahna Skop highlighted on Apple.com

As colorful as a Venetian glass bead, a Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell hovers on a field of black. Created by professor Ahna Skop's lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the image provides a window into cytokinesis, the process by which a eukaryotic cell divides into two daughter cells.

Dr. Raines and Dr. Hardin receive Kellett Mid-Career Awards

Congratulations to Dr. Ronald Raines and Dr. Jeff Hardin!  To read the full news story click here http://www.news.wisc.edu/16338

Genetic change prevents cell death in mouse model of Parkinson’s disease

Feb. 2, 2009
by Dave Tenenbaum

By shifting a normal protective mechanism into overdrive, A University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist has completely shielded mice from a toxic chemical that would otherwise cause Parkinson's disease.

Research

Features of replication suggest viruses have common themes, vulnerabilities

Read the full research arcticle at http://www.news.wisc.edu/13995

Dr. Paul Ahlquist is a faculty trainer in the CMB Program.

Ahlquist Lab Research Description: We are studying the novel, RNA-based pathways and virus-host interactions underlying replication, gene expression and evolution by positive-strand RNA viruses, the largest class of viruses. Positive strand RNA viruses include many important human pathogens such as hepatitis C virus, which chronically infects nearly 3% of the world population, causing progressive liver damage and liver cancer, and the new SARS coronavirus. We are also studying selected replication processes of a reverse-transcribing virus, hepatitis B virus, which is also a major human tumor virus. Our studies integrate molecular genetics, genomics, biochemistry and cell biology to address fundamental questions in virus replication and virus-cell interactions. See more at the Ahlquist Lab website