Gage Bonner develops tools to understand microglia in the aging brain. It’s the latest chapter in a career seeking to expand what we know about the world: “If you want to know the truth, you’ll find your way to science.”
Author: Morgridge Institute for Research
Morgridge Institute co-founder brought a public service vision to Wisconsin science
Tashia Morgridge, co-founder of the Morgridge Institute for Research and philanthropist devoted to education and public engagement across Wisconsin, passed away last week at age 93.
Discuss: What is scientific knowledge, anyway?
Morgridge’s latest Fearless Science Forum, held on Oct. 13, asked four scientific leaders how scientists know what they know.
Rising Sparks: Christian Tentellino, biomedical imaging
Morgridge Postdoctoral Fellow Christian Tentellino’s academic journey brought him to Madison, Wis. to develop imaging tools aimed at revealing why solid tumors stymy immune cell treatments: “The hope of doing something relevant in the clinical field in the future is what moves me daily.”
Proteomics Maps Eye-Infecting Acanthamoeba Mitochondria Across Oxygen Levels
Acanthamoeba can survive without oxygen, which is part of what makes infections from the amoeba dangerous. By mapping the organism’s mitochondrial proteins, researchers are now probing the machinery behind its survival and searching for more selective therapeutic targets.