Doctoral Studies Funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
By creating a miniscule device that translates brain activity into radiowaves, University of Wisconsin-Madison neuroengineers have taken a key step toward enabling injectable sensors for wireless, localized recording in the brain. The work, detailed in the May 2023 issue of the journal Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, is essentially a proof-of-concept for using minimally invasive …
The Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) at UW–Madison is one of the oldest and largest biotechnology training programs in the United States. Over the past 34 years, it has provided approximately 250 trainees with training and research opportunities that bridge the biological sciences, physical sciences, and engineering. When BTP trainees graduate, they join a strong network …
BTP trainee Liz Appelt helped develop COVID-19 mRNA vaccine during internship at Afrigen, the first vaccine and biologics biotechnology company on the African continent.
BTP mentor Vatsan Raman is "supercharging evolution" to create an army of bacteria-killing phages that can combat antibiotic-resistant microorganisms.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $178 million for bioenergy research to advance sustainable technology breakthroughs that can improve public health, help address climate change, improve food and agricultural production, and create more resilient supply chains. This funding supports cutting-edge biotechnology R&D on bioenergy crops, industrial microorganisms and microbiomes. Recipients of the biotechnology …
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 …