The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters awarded Genetics Professor Ahna Skop the 2024 Fellows Award. She is the first woman to receive this award in the history of the Genetics Department, following Jim …
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UW-Madison Genetics and Genomics program ranked as #1 in the country by College Factual
College Factual, an online portal that applies data-driven insights to rank university programs nationwide, has ranked the UW-Madison Genetics and Genomics program as the 2024 #1 genetics school in an overall category. College Factual also …
Jake Brunkard awarded the Vilas Early-Career Investigator Award
Congratulations to Jake Brunkard, Genetics Assistant Professor, on being awarded the Vilas Early-Career Investigator Award. The award recognizes research and teaching excellence in faculty who are in the early stages of their careers. Dr. Brunkard, …
Research co-authored by Ahna Skop sheds new light on mysteries associated with infertility
Research from the Drummond-Barbosa Lab questions obesity as the leading cause of infertility
Genetics assistant professor Jake Brunkard and colleague received the 2023 Alfred Toepfer Faculty Fellow Awards
Odette Herrand, from the Drummond-Barbosa Lab, highlighted in Morgridge Institute article
Genetics student discovers unexpected evolutionary process in yeast
Genetics PhD graduate engineers bacteria to make two valuable products from plant fiber
Recent genetics Ph.D. graduate Ben Hall and colleagues engineered a bacteria that can produce two chemical products simultaneously from underutilized plant fiber – without any loss in efficiency. The study, published in the journal Applied …
In Memoriam – Robert “Bob” DeMars, Professor Emeritus
Shortly before Thanksgiving of 2023, Robert “Bob” DeMars passed away peacefully at age 95. Bob joined the Department of Medical Genetics (School of Medicine and Public Health) in 1959, where he stayed until retiring in …