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BTP trainee Jose Martinez was selected as a fellow of the National Institutes of Health-funded Yale Ciencia Academy (YCA) for Career Development. Last month, he and fifteen other young science leaders from across the US and Puerto Rico kicked off their year as fellows. YCA is a year-long program that equips biomedical or health sciences …
Recent BTP trainee and Department of Chemistry graduate student Erin Birdsall has received a 2022 Wisconsin Initiative for Science Literacy (WISL) Award for Communicating Ph.D. Research to the Public for including a chapter in her dissertation to describe her research to non-science audiences. The chapter appeared in her thesis titled, “2D infrared spectroscopy for the …
Congratulations to BTP mentor Nate Sherer, who was named a 2022-23 Romnes Fellow. The Romnes Fellowships recognize faculty with exceptional research contributions within their first six years from promotion to a tenured position. The award is named in recognition of the late WARF trustees president H.I. Romnes and comes with $60,000 that may be spent …
The Joshua Coon Lab has united the power of two major tools in biotechnology. In research published April 27 in Nature Communications, the lab describes a game-changing advance that marries mass spectrometry and electron microscopy (EM). “This work is the culmination of a nearly five-year effort to couple mass spec technology to EM,” says Coon, …
In 2020, chemistry graduate student Erin Birdsall received a unique opportunity — to the live the life of a conservation chemist as an intern at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA). “I’ve always been interested in art history, and when I was an undergrad at Middlebury College, I learned that you could work as a …
Two graduate students in the Biotechnology Training Program have received National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) awards. The five-year NSF GRFP program supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited institutions in the United States. The GRFP includes three years of financial …
While working as a health care administrator in Santa Cruz, California during the 2015 Zika virus outbreak, Jose Martinez realized his background in chemistry and pharmacology could be harnessed to set policies that are grounded in science. He then decided to go back to school for not one but two degrees. “A lot of medicine …
Aldo Arellano, a Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) trainee and PhD candidate in the Microbiology Doctoral Training Program, and Kerri Coon, assistant professor of Bacteriology, have received Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). HHMI Gilliam Fellowships have a twofold mission: to support underrepresented PhD students to pursue scientific research and …
When Maya Venkataraman, a third-year chemical and biological engineering graduate student in the Biotechnology Training Program (BTP), started grad school, she knew she wanted to study something related to synthetic biology, a field that combines elements of engineering, mathematics, chemistry, and biology to create new systems from known biological components. But apart from that? “I’m …
Biochemistry Professor and BTP mentor James Ntambi was recently re-elected to the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Council. Ntambi has served as a member of the ASBMB Council since 2018. “I feel proud to be a member of an international scientific and educational organization that supports an inclusive and diverse membership of …