Assistant professor of biochemistry Ophelia Venturelli was recently named to a list of 34 young researchers featured in the journal Biochemistry’s “Future of Biochemistry: The International Issue” special issue. “I am excited to be included in this list of outstanding new investigators,” says Venturelli, who is also an affiliate of the Department of Bacteriology and Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. …
Month: February 2019
Two IPiB Faculty Members Receive Funding for Cancer Research from The Ride
On a beautiful September Sunday, hundreds of bicyclists pedaled the roads of eastern Dane County on The Ride to raise money for cancer research. This weekend, their fundraising came home to support cancer research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as scholarships totaling $365,488 were awarded at Friday’s Badger hockey game. Two Integrated Program in Biochemistry (IPiB) faculty members were among …
The Director’s Cut: Heidi Dvinge Looks at RNA Splicing With a Film Critic’s Eye
After filming a movie, scenes are cut and rearranged to tell the director’s story. A similar editorial process occurs in our cells in a process called RNA splicing. Before the DNA code is translated into a protein, it must first be converted into RNA, its single-stranded mirror image. The resulting strand of RNA is spliced …
Metabolism Scientist Wins Prestigious AAAS Fellowship
For Danielle Lohman, her passion for science policy began when she heard a Ph.D. chemist speak at a career conference about the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellowship at the State Department in Washington, D.C. Lohman, recently a postdoctoral fellow in Dave Pagliarini’s Department of Biochemistry lab at the Morgridge Institute for Research, was in her …
Simcox Joins Biochemistry to Study Lipid Signaling, Cold Exposure as IPiB’s Newest Faculty Member
In high school, Judith Simcox pored over scientific literature to try to understand the link between her sister’s Down Syndrome and type 1 diabetes. It was the first time she asked a question that didn’t have an answer yet — and it led her down the path of answering unknown questions as a metabolism researcher …