University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
UW-Madison Scientists have discovered a new antibiotic from a Brazilian fungus-farming ant, naming it cyphomycin. Cyphomycin was effective in lab tests against fungi resistant to most other antibiotics and combatted fungal infections without causing toxic side effects in a mouse model. School of Pharmacy Professor and MCP Trainer, Dr. Tim Bugni collaborated with Dr. Cameron …
Five questions with Su-Chun Zhang, forger of brain cells
Lucas Tomko, PhD, was recently published in Nature Scientific Reports. He is a graduate of the MCP Program in 2017 from the Keely Lab.
Dr. Xinyu Zhao, Professor of Neuroscience and MCP Faculty, recently received a research award from National Fragile X Foundation. They give one award every two years at their national meeting attended by scientists, clinicians, and families. Read more about her exciting research here.
UW–Madison assistant professor of medical microbiology and immunology John-Demian Sauer has been awarded a 2018 Burroughs Wellcome Award for Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH). The Burroughs Wellcome Fund supports biomedical scientists who are early in their careers and advancing fields in the basic biomedical sciences that are undervalued or underfunded. Sauer was …
Dr. Brian Hoffmann, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He graduated from the MCP Program in 2010 from the Mosher Lab. Recently, he presented his research at the 2018 Experimental Biology meeting on “Why zero-calorie sweeteners can still lead to diabetes, obesity: Common artificial sweeteners shown to …
Qiang Chang, MCP Faculty and a longstanding member of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Waisman Center’s leadership team, has been named the new director of the center following a nationwide search.
Ying Ge, Associate Professor of Cell and Regenerative Biology and Chemistry and MCP Trainer, studies molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying cardiac diseases and regeneration via systems biology approaches featuring high-resolution mass spectrometry-based top-down proteomics. Ge teaches proteomics approaches for biologists. She also serves as director of mass spectrometry in UW-Madison’s Human Proteomics Program. Faculty recognized …
Gail Robertson, professor of Neuroscience and trainer in the MCP Program, studies how excitable cells of the heart and brain produce coordinated electrical activity. Her research led to the development of drug safety tests used worldwide to reduce the risk for life-threatening cardiac side effects. Robertson has had teaching and leadership roles in medical education …
Congratulations to Dr. Ed Chapman, HHMI Investigator, Professor in the Dept of Neuroscience, and MCP Trainer, on publishing “Dynamics and number of trans-SNARE complexes determine nascent fusion pore properties” in Nature. View the full text paper here.