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, …
Genetics News
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 …
Genetics Professor John Pool and colleagues investigate 200-year-old fruit fly DNA
Genetics Professor Ahna Skop and collaborators suggest midbody remnants may promote cancer spread
Once thought to be the trash can of the cell, a little bubble of cellular stuff called the midbody remnant is actually packing working genetic material with the power to change the fate of other …