Tag: Bacteriology
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Posted on April 20, 2018
CALS’ Robert Landick among three from UW–Madison elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced April 18 that three faculty from the University of Wisconsin–Madison were elected to the 2018 class of […]
- Posted on March 20, 2018
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Posted on February 20, 2018
The new bioenergy research center: Building on ten years of success
Building on the success of 10 years of investigation into the production of renewable fuels from plants, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), led […]
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Posted on January 2, 2018
Beyond antibiotics: How slumping performance is spurring treatment innovations
Since the beginning of their widespread adoption in the 1940s, antibiotics — the antimicrobial drugs we use to treat bacterial infections — have saved millions […]
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Posted on November 20, 2017
Wading through Mendota’s mysteries: Trina McMahon and her team explore the lake’s microbial dark matter
It was a silly question, so Trina McMahon laughed. What’s more important: a lab coat or a Twitter handle? “Twitter handle, for sure. We don’t do anything […]
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Posted on October 12, 2017
Safer native foods: Bacteriologist works with Alaska Natives to keep botulism out of traditional favorites
At the edge of a remote Alaskan peninsula, 30 miles north of the Arctic Circle, lies the city of Kotzebue. Snow-covered in winter and starless […]
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Posted on October 3, 2017
UW wins $7 million grant to wean crops from nitrogen fertilizers
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Florida will use a $7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to study […]
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Posted on August 28, 2017
Microbes compete for nutrients, affect metabolism, development in mice
“Gut bacteria get to use a lot of our food before we do,” says Federico Rey, a professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Then […]
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Posted on August 21, 2017
Shaping the future of farming: The Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center to serve as an incubator for agricultural improvement
Thirty-five years ago, when CALS bacteriologist Winston Brill and his colleagues set out to exploit science’s newfound ability to manipulate genes to confer new traits […]
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Posted on August 10, 2017
Gut reactions: A Q&A with Garret Suen
Garret Suen, an assistant professor in the Department of Bacteriology and an Alfred Toepfer Faculty Fellow, focuses on microbiomes and how microbes convert biomass into […]