Saving the honeybee
This video features CALS entomology professor Christelle Guedot and bacteriology professor Cameron Currie discussing the issue of Colony Collapse Disorder and scientific efforts at CALS to understand...
View ArticleWisconsin team to search for new antibiotics from untapped microbes
Facing an imminent global public health crisis, a University of Wisconsin-Madison research team has been awarded up to $16 million from the National Institutes of Health to find new sources of...
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Richard Gourse elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Madison bacteriologist Richard L. Gourse is among leaders from academia, business, public affairs and the arts and humanities elected to membership in the American Academy of...
View ArticleTwo CALS teams among winners of Wisconsin Energy and Sustainability Challenge
Two CALS-based teams took silver in the 2014 Wisconsin Energy and Sustainability Challenge. Second place in The Dvorak Energy Innovation Prize contest – and $1,500 – went to Team Drsti. Vitamin A...
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Mining bacterial blueprints yields novel process for creation of fuel and...
Tim Donohue, UW-Madison bacteriology professor and director of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, supervised the lab that identified the makeup of 19Fu-FA — a compound with promising potential...
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Daniel Amador-Noguez engineers better bacteria for biofuels
In high school,” Daniel Amador-Noguez recalls, “I took a science class where one of the lectures was all about the future – where the research was taking us, what were some potential future discoveries...
View ArticleDay in the life of a microbiology grad student
Meet Gina Lewin, a graduate student in the Microbiology Doctoral Training Program. She conducts research in Cameron Currie’s bacteriology lab where she studies microbial communities and leafcutter ant...
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Exploring bugs and bioenergy: Gina Lewin’s path to the Currie Lab
For many college students, summer provides a chance to test-drive future career paths. When Gina Lewin took advantage of such an opportunity, her test drive hit the jackpot. In the summer of 2009,...
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“Happy Days Study” meets the microbiome
Members of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study class of 1957 during a 50th reunion held in 2007. The WLS has evolved to become one of the longest-running social science studies ever undertaken and now...
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Ancestors of land plants were wired to make the leap to shore
Liverwort plants, pictured here with moss and a fern, are an ancient lineage of land plant. Fossils suggest they may have been some of the first plants to colonize land 450 million years ago. Photo:...
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Mycologist says our close relatives break the bounds of biology
The mushroom nicknamed “death cap” made headlines this summer when it poisoned Syrian refugees fleeing through Eastern Europe. But it was cooperation, not toxicity, that attracted Anne Pringle to...
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Scientists: Harnessing microbes could help solve hunger, health, chemical and...
While scientists learn more with each passing study about the way the invisible lives of fungi, bacteria, viruses and other microscopic organisms intersect with much larger plants and animals as well...
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Drugs from bugs – Audio
Ant worker covered in white bacterium. The bacterium produces antibiotics that protect the colony from pathogens. Photo by Don Parson Heidi Horn, Research Assistant Department of Bacteriology...
View ArticleBugs to biofuels – Audio
Bugs to biofuels Gina Lewin, Research Assistant, Currie Lab Department of Bacteriology UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences glewin@wisc.edu Phone (608) 262-7538 3:05 – Total Time 0:17 –...
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Researchers collaborate to break down lignin and advance biofuels
To tackle what many consider the next frontier in biofuels research, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) recently joined forces with the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) in Emeryville,...
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Tim Donohue, the power of microbes and the pull of Rockaway Beach
Tim Donohue, director of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) and UW-Madison professor of bacteriology, says microbiology is enjoying a renaissance period: “Innovation in biology and...
View ArticleMicrobiomes new research frontier – Audio
Microbiomes new research frontier Garret Suen, Assistant Professor Department of Bacteriology UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences gsuen@wisc.edu (608) 890-3971 3:03 – Total Time 0:14 –...
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For Theo Loo, an unintimidated, humble approach to solving global problems
Big problems don’t intimidate UW-Madison senior Theo Loo. And big ideas, it seems, come naturally. One of eight undergraduate Wisconsin Idea Fellows at the Morgridge Center for Public Service this...
View ArticleUW expert at White House summit
On Friday, May 13, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy will host an event on microbiomes – communities of microorganisms that live on and in people, plants, soil, oceans and the...
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