Spotlights

Martin Zanni's Lab

Martin Zanni's lab and their work with lasers in the study of Type II diabetes is currently being featured on UW-Madison's homepage. The page features a great video on their lab. Check it out!
For the feature on the homepage visit: UW-Madison's homepage or their YouTube video

Dr. Tim Cordes "How I See It"

Dr. Tim Cordes, an alumnus of the Biophysics Training Grant Program in the Forest Lab, received an MD/PhD degree from UW-Madison and is currently a resident in psychiatry at the UW-Madison Hospital and Clinic.  Cordes, who has been blind since childhood, wrote a computer program creatively called Tonal Interface for MacroMolecules (TiMMol) that replicates 3D images using a range of audio tones and spatial cues, allowing proteins to be visualized via sound.  This past June, Dr. Cordes relayed his journey in a keynote presentation at a CIC Accessibility Conference called, "How I See I.T."

To view the video visit: Here

Raashi Sreenivasan Selected to Represent UW-Madison in National Competition

Congratulations to Raashi Sreenivasan, a Biophysics graduate student in Record lab, for being selected as one of the students to represent University of Wisconsin-Madison in the competition for HHMI's International Student Fellowship.

The new three-year HHMI fellowship program provides support for international student's in their third, fourth and fifth years of a Ph.D. program who are studying in the United States and are ineligible for training grants and fellowships through U.S. federal agencies.

Project Crystal

Project CRYSTAL, housed in Biophysics trainer Hazel Holden's lab, is an innovative program for Middle School students which brings science minded students into a lab setting and allows them to get hands on experience with graduate level research.  Project Crystal hopes to both foster interest in the field of science and chemistry as well as lead to healthy life choices by learning the inner workings of nutrition. 

For more information, visit their website where you can see their research and watch an interesting video on their work: www.projectcrystal.org/index.html

Johnnie Walker Awarded NSF Grant

Johnnie Walker, a Biophysics graduate student in the Brian Fox lab, has been awarded an NSF grant.

Johnnie's research in Fox lab focuses on a limited number of cellulases that provide complementary enzyme activities needed to completely hydrolyze crystalline cellulose. They are trying to understand the constraints of this minimal system so as to have a better basis for improving it.

Congratulations to Johnnie on this fantastic honor.

Dr. Meyer Jackson Wins Kenneth S. Cole Award

Dr. Meyer Jackson, Chair of the Biophysics Degree Program and professor of neuroscience was awarded the Kenneth S. Cole award by the Biophysical Society. The prestigious award is given annually to an investigator who has made substantial contributions to understanding cell membrane biophysics. He will be presented with his award in February at the 56th annual meeting of the Biophysical Society in San Diego.

Dr. Jackson and his group focuses on how neurotransmitter-filled vesicles inside synapses fuse with the cell membrane and how the entry of calcium triggers membrane fusion. They also study the nerve circuits that surround synapses.

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