2023’s Outstanding Senior Awards
Congratulations to this year’s Genetics and Genomics Outstanding Senior Award winners!
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences | School of Medicine and Public Health
Congratulations to this year’s Genetics and Genomics Outstanding Senior Award winners!
The Laboratory of Genetics welcomes its newest faculty member in the Department of Medical Genetics, Dr. Justin Wolter, currently at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research uses a cell culture-based approach to understand neurodevelopmental disease. Through this work he was awarded a 2021 Young Investigator Award by the Brain & Behavior …
We are thrilled to announce our 2023 Outstanding Senior Award winners – Raya Nahlawi and Mae Hurtado-Thiele! These students were chosen out of a competitive pool of our graduating students, and were picked based on their academic and extracurricular achievements. Congrats Raya and Mae, and good luck in all your future endevours! Raya Nahlwai is …
2023 Genetics and Genomics graduate Robert Hall is one of this year’s recipients of the Outstanding Returning Adult Student awards, a program that recognizes returning adult undergraduate students whose exceptional determination and perseverance have enabled them to pursue their academic work and to contribute to the community as demonstrated by their leadership and service. Robert …
Five current Genetics PhD students and two incoming Genetics PhD students were awarded the NSF GRFP Fellowship in April 2023. Congratulations! Current students: Erin Alberts, Angel Banuelos, Myron Child, Angelica Lang, Ryan Martinez Incoming students: Harrison Estes and Megan Guyer.
Professor Chris Hittinger and his lab has been awarded a Hatch Grant for their work on genomic investigation of agricultural traits in a versatile wild yeast on the edge of domestication. Torulaspora delbrueckii is a ubiquitous yeast with global distribution that is frequently isolated from both environmental substrates, such as soil and bark, and anthropic …
Professor Daniela Drummond-Barbosa was recently featured in an interview with eCALS, the weekly newsletter for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Professor Drummond-Barbosa discusses her path to UW–Madison, how her lab contributes to the Wisconsin Idea, and the research that her group conducts. To read the full interview, click here.
Professor Ahna Skop recently received the Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator award, a prestigious award recognizing research and teaching excellence for faculty in the middle of their careers. Through the generosity of the Vilas Trust, the University of Wisconsin–Madison is able to provide an array of named professorships and awards to recognize the outstanding achievements of …
Christine Guthrie, a brilliant RNA biologist, beloved mentor and UW–Madison Genetics alumnus, passed away on July 1, 2022, at age 77, after a protracted illness. Among the most influential RNA biologists of her time, Christine and her research group at UCSF made fundamental discoveries that laid the foundation for our understanding of the process by …