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  • Posted on August 24, 2010
    Amin Fadl

    Fadl studies the molecular pathogenesis of salmonella bacteria, looking for ways to prevent the initial phase of infection in animals. Contact information can be found […]

  • Posted on August 19, 2010
    Lyme disease increases as deer tick spread
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    Phil Pelliteri on Lyme disease

  • Posted on August 16, 2010
    The Catch

    Fish are good for you—except when they’re bad. How a legacy of environmental contamination continues to haunt one of our healthiest foods, and what we can do to fix it.

  • Posted on August 3, 2010
    Scott Rankin

    Scott Rankin is a member of the state’s Raw Milk Policy Working Group. He is an expert on dairy foods processing and chemistry, key fields […]

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    GardenFit helps kids pare summer weight gain

    After spending the morning spreading hay mulch and bark at Madison’s East High Youth Farm, a group of middle-schoolers lined up for a well-deserved lunch. […]

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    The Pathogen Path: Scientist tracks how bacteria hitch ride on plants to get to humans

    To dine with Jeri Barak is to take a lesson in applied food safety. Barak, an assistant professor of plant pathology, begins by sorting through […]

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    Confronting toxic blue-green algae in Madison lakes

    Harmful algal blooms, once considered mainly a problem in salt water, have been appearing with increasing severity in the Madison lakes, and a team of […]

  • Posted on July 19, 2010
    ‘Condor’ brings genome assembly down to Earth

    Borrowing computing power from idle sources will help geneticists sidestep the multimillion-dollar cost of reconstituting the flood of data produced by next-generation genome-sequencing machines. A […]

  • Posted on July 12, 2010
    Jack Newman

    As senior vice president of research at Amyris Biotechnologies, Jack Newman PhD’01 is focused on some of the world’s biggest problems. He co-founded the company […]

  • Posted on July 10, 2010
    Kathy Glass

    As head of the Applied Food Safety Lab at the UW-Madison Food Research Institute, Glass helps food companies from Wisconsin and around the nation deal […]