School of Medicine and Public Health
Congratulations to several new PhD graduates! Zach Gregorich (Ying Ge’s lab) and Adriana Rodriguez (Karen Downs’ lab) both completed their PhDs in August. Earlier this year (May 2017), Lucas Tomko completed his PhD with Patti Keely.
Welcome to our new Department Administrator, Jacalyn McHugh! Jackie has been working as the Research Operations Manager for the Regenerative Medicine Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA since 2010. Prior to that time, she worked for Clive Svendsen’s Laboratory at UW–Madison from 2003 – 2009, Karen Downs’ Laboratory (2000-2003) and Fred Blattner’s …
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); Rachel Acevedo and Veronica Porubsky (Pam Kreeger lab); Cesar Martinez (Rupa Sridharan lab); Lindsey Waite and Maddie Kruk (Joe Kemnitz …
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 to repair or replace damaged human tissue.
Professor Phillip Newmark , who has recently joined the Morgridge Institute and the Zoology Department, will have an affiliate appointment with CRB.