2017 UW-Madison Epigenetics Symposium
October 5, 2017 Featuring research talks from UW-Madison colleagues in the morning, resource-focused session following lunch, and an afternoon poster session with concurrent social. The …
UW wins $7 million grant to wean crops from nitrogen fertilizers
Researchers including Sushmita Roy and Jean-Michel Ané will study how legumes — alfalfa, beans, and their cousins — evolved the ability to cooperate with bacteria to turn the nitrogen that is so abundant in the air into a form usable by plants.
By far, men garner most coveted speaking slots at virology meetings
Ann Palmenberg and Rob Kalejta heard complaints at one too many virology conferences about the perceived lack of women among the invited and keynote speakers. So, they did what all good scientists do: They tracked down the data.
34 faculty honored with Vilas professorships
Rick Eisenstein is among those honored with a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship.
Finding useful chemicals from fungi, faster
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Northwestern University, and the biotech company Intact Genomics have developed technology that uses genomics and data analytics to efficiently screen for molecules produced by molds to find new drug leads — maybe even the next penicillin.
From mice, clues to microbiome’s influence on metabolic disease
The community of microorganisms that resides in the gut, known as the microbiome, has been shown to work in tandem with the genes of a host organism to regulate insulin secretion, a key variable in the onset of the metabolic disease diabetes.
Gut’s Microbial Community Shown to Influence Host Gene Expression
The upshot of the study from researchers in the Epigenetics theme at WID is another indictment of the so-called Western diet, high in saturated fats, …
Aging Leaves: How Epigenetic Regulation Gives Rise to the Signature Colors of Fall
Xuehua Zhong describes an epigenetic mechanism behind plant aging for the first time in a ground-breaking new paper in eLife. Zhong, an assistant professor of genetics …
Beyond genes: Protein atlas scores nitrogen fixing duet
The atlas is possibly the most exhaustive proteomic inventory of any kind to date.
Yeast knockouts peel back secrets of cell protein function
Instead of exploring proteins one at a time, the study shows the efficacy of looking at them by the hundreds.