Upcoming Events
Speaker: Janet Wood, University of Guelph, Ontario Canada
Title: Concentration at the Cell Poles Modulates Osmoregulation by Osmosensory Transporter ProP in Escherichaia Coli
Location: Ebling Symposium Center, MSB, 1550 Linden Dr.
Title: Proteins that cannot make up their mind: Dual-Topology and Anti-Parallel Membrane Proteins
Location: Ebling Symposium Center, MSB, 1550 Linden Dr.
News
Visions of biological imaging drive researcher
Nov. 18, 2009
by Jill Sakai
As a young microbiology graduate student, Kevin Eliceiri met a professor just recruited to UW–Madison, a highly regarded geneticist and imaging expert named John White, now professor emeritus of anatomy and molecular biology. “Though John was well-known for being a biologist, he was equally well-known for being a microscopist and imaging innovator. He’s a researcher who can speak with depth and breadth to computer scientists, physicists and biologists alike,” Eliceiri says. Inspired, he joined White’s lab the next day. Read the full news article here: http://www.news.wisc.edu/17378
FDA-approved drugs eliminate, prevent cervical cancer in mice
Nov. 9, 2009
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health have eliminated cervical cancer in mice with two FDA-approved drugs currently used to treat breast cancer and osteoporosis.
Now hear this: Mouse study sheds light on hearing loss in older adults
Nov. 9, 2009
Becoming "hard of hearing" is a standard but unfortunate part of aging: A syndrome called age-related hearing loss affects about 40 percent of people over 65 in the United States, and will afflict an estimated 28 million Americans by 2030.
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