Dr. Mary Rodgers and Dr. M. Josie Corby are joining us on Friday, October 7th from Abbott. Dr. Rodgers is a principal scientist who manages the Global Surveillance Project, which works to monitor global epidemics and watch for the next... Read More

Dr. Jessica Silvaggi, C.L.P. Vice President of the UWM Research Foundation, will present a talk entitled, "UWM Research Foundation: Who are we, how can we support you, what is IP?" The UWM Research Foundation was formed in 2006 to foster... Read More

Dr. Ryan Newton, Assistant Professor at UWM's School of Freshwater Sciences, will present a talk about his work entitled, "Small Life Considered: Tracing our Understanding of the Most Abundant Lake Bacterium." Read more about Dr. Newton's work here. The bacteria... Read More

Dr. Troy Skwor, Assistant Professor and Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program Coordinator in UWM's Department of Biomedical Sciences, will present a talk about his work entitled, "Comparing antimicrobial resistance between clinical and wastewater isolates: A local and global perspective." Read more... Read More

Dr. Zac Freedman, Assistant Professor of Soil Microbiology at UW-Madison, will present a talk about this work entitled, "It's the little things that count: Illuminating the microbial "black box" of soil ecology." Read more about Dr. Freedman's work here. Understanding... Read More

Shashini Welmillage, current graduate student in the Department of Biological Studies at UWM, will present a talk about her work entitled, "Beyond the Crop Legumes: Mechanisms of symbiosis between Mimosa pudica and Paraburkholderia phymatum." The nitrogen-fixing symbiosis between legumes and rhizobia plays a... Read More

Dr. Gopal Iyer, Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Oncology at UW-Madison, will present a talk about his work entitled, "Heterotrimeric-G protein subunit is a determinant for lung-brain metastasis." Read more about Dr. Iyer's work here. Dissemination of tumor... Read More

Hemanth Singuluri, current Ph.D. student in the Department of Biological Sciences at UWM, will present a talk about his work entitled, "Regulation of nuclear localization of yeast Snf1/AMPK." The abstract is as follows: Dr. Kuchin’s lab is interested in the... Read More

Dr. Quan Zeng, UWM Alumni and current Associate Scientist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, will present a talk about his work entitled, "How Flower Microbiome Influences Host-Pathogen Interaction in Fire Blight." Read more about Dr. Zeng's work here. The... Read More

Dr. Vera Strogolova, CTO, scientist at Strong Microbials, will present a talk about her work entitled, "Business of Bacteria." Read more about Strong Microbials here. As researchers debate whether to reduce the number of biology graduate students, biology graduates nonetheless... Read More