2020 Outstanding Senior Award Winners Announced

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 …

The Laboratory of Genetics makes a Pledge

The Laboratory of Genetics is committed to diversity and equality. We stand for all students and staff and strongly condemn racism, sexism, and all other forms of discrimination. Black lives matter. Please see our attached statement, and click the image to download the statement in PDF form.

Professor Zhong gets deep in the weeds

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 …

Genetics PhD student Christina Hansen has been selected as a Wiki education ambassador on behalf of the National Science Policy Network

“Christina Hansen is a developmental biologist and Genetics PhD student at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She uses zebrafish and closely related fish species to study maternally-inherited factors responsible for key events, such as germ cell specification, during early embryonic development. Since her work incorporates aspects of molecular biology, genetics/genome editing, and reproductive/developmental biology, …

Ahna Skop named science ambassador to girls and young women

Genetics Professor Audrey Gasch named interim director of new Center for Genomic Science Innovation

The Genetics Summer 2019 Newsletter is here!

Genetics Professor Ahna Skop selected to be UW Diversity Liaison

Gabriela Chen and Alyssa Fleischman receive “Outstanding Senior Award”

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 …

Genetics Assistant Professor Xuehua Zhong honored with Vilas Mid-Career Investigator Award