College of Agricultural and Life Sciences | School of Medicine and Public Health
Professor Pelegri was recently interviewed by Wisconsin Public Radio, discussing the need for genetic banks to preserve the DNA of the world’s endangered species. Professor Paul Robbins, Director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, also joined the conversation. The interview aired on Thursday, October 14th at 8AM, and will air again Friday the 15th …
Come join on the 21st for Rebecca Salamon’s colloquium talk, mapping cardiac innervation during development, regeneration, and disease, starting at 3:30 PM CST, at this Zoom link.
The Laboratory of Genetics seeks an enthusiastic applicant with a commitment to undergraduate student support and services. The Laboratory of Genetics has a century-long, prestigious history and a strong commitment to education. We are part of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences as well as the School of Medicine and Public Health at the …
Faculty Associate and Undergraduate Program Director Katie Vermillion Kalmon has been awarded this year’s Robert R. Spitzer Teaching Excellence Award, highlighting her contributions to undergraduate studies in Genetics and Genomics. This award recognizes an individual who has significantly enhanced the quality and impact of undergraduate or graduate instruction in CALS through outstanding teaching practices, pedagogical …
Congratulations to this years Genetics and Genomics Outstanding Senior Award winners Rachel Kabara and Emma McKeel. Rachel Kabara has been doing research in Dr. Xuehua Zhong’s lab for the last four years and has been awarded the Hilldale Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Cora I Jayne Academic Merit, Dorothy Strong Scholarship and the Ferdinand Plaenert Scholarship. She …
The CALS Senior Award is a yearly award for outstanding students in the Genetics and Genomics major who are graduating. We like to honor students’ achievements inside and outside the classroom. Holistic reviews were given to all students, with a keen look at GPA and academic records, student organization participation, research, leadership, professional development and …
Professor Zhong is highlighted in this issue of Grow, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences quarterly magazine. In the article, professor Zhong talks about her research with the plant Arabidopsis thaliana and how epigenetics changes individual plants through gene regulation: The epigenome, it turns out, is very responsive to environmental cues not only in …
Laboratory of Genetics is hiring for a tenure-track faculty position