Month: July 2017

Congratulations to Vege (Wenxuan Cai) on receiving an American Heart Association predoctoral fellowship! Vege is a graduate student in Ying Ge’s lab.

Welcome to our newest faculty member, Ricki Colman. Ricki joined the CRB faculty in March and will continue her groundbreaking research on nutrition and longevity at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center.

Congratulations to the students of CRB faculty and affiliates who gave research presentations yesterday in the Undergraduate Symposium 2017. These students are Brenna Bomkamp and Ryan Gigstad (Patti Keely lab); Cayla Guerra (Grace Boekhoff-Falk lab); …

Congratulations to Beth Weaver on receiving the H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship.

Congratulations to Dan Greenspan and his group on their publication in Nature Communications: “α3 Chains of type V collagen regulate breast tumour growth via glypican-1”

Congratulations to Joe Kemnitz and Ricki Colman on their publication in Nature Communications: “Caloric restriction improves health and survival of rhesus monkeys”

Phillip Newmark is the first recipient of the Burnell R. Roberts endowed chair in Regenerative Biology. Phil and his eight-person team are working to better understand stem-cell-based regeneration processes, an important step toward potential therapies …

Professor Phillip Newmark , who has recently joined the Morgridge Institute and the Zoology Department, will have an affiliate appointment with CRB.

Assistant Professor Darcie Moore has recently joined the Department of Neuroscience, and she will have an affililate appointment with CRB. Welcome Dr. Moore!

Four undergraduates working with CRB faculty have received a Hilldale Faculty/Undergraduate Research Award for the 2016-17 academic year. They are: Cayla Guerra (Prof. Boekhoff-Falk) Cyrus Colah (Prof. Ge) Jaime Brown and Cesar Martinez (Prof. Sridharan)