From tropical tomato viruses to stressed-out pre-med students, about 25 undergraduate research projects from the UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences will be presented at a symposium on Saturday, April 30, at the J. F. Friedrick Center, 1950 Willow Drive, from 8 until noon.

Just as people clean up after dinner by running food scraps down the garbage disposal, cells get rid of proteins they no longer need by breaking them down with a special chemical pathway. Although it’s a simple concept a cell’s ability to clean house is very important, and it may hold the key to problems ranging from rotten tomatoes to cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.

A three-year, $3.7 million grant from the Department of Energy will fund a major computational biology center with the goal of advancing knowledge of how […]

A cellular structure discovered 125 years ago and dismissed by many biologists as “cellular garbage” has been found to play a key role in the process of cytokinesis, or cell division, one of the most ancient and important of all biological phenomena.

Kent Weigel, a dairy geneticist and extension genetics specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has won the Agway, Inc. Young Scientist Award for 2003 and the 2003 ADSA Foundation Dairy Production Award. Weigel received the awards during the awards ceremony at the ADSA annual meeting in Phoenix.

As a student in the UW-Madison?s bacteriology department, Scott Hunter wasn?t afraid to ask a lot of

Doug Maxwell, emeritus professor of plant pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has won this year”s Chair”s Award for Scientific Excellence from the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development.

The stories appear all too often. E. coli-contaminated beef causes sickness across a multistate region. Cryptosporidium in water sickens thousands in Milwaukee.

Plants have never impressed anyone with their intelligence, but they do measure the seasons and tell time. After all, a Christmas cactus blooms only in winter and an evening primrose opens just at dusk.

Wisconsin has long been a leading producer of cows’ milk in the nation. Now a new niche dairy industry is continuing the tradition: Wisconsin is the country’s top producer of sheep milk for cheese. The state’s sheep dairy industry, although small, is growing. And a University of Wisconsin-Madison expert predicts that, with continued research and outreach support, the state will remain a leader.