Postdoctoral trainees at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have an opportunity to refine their professional leadership skills through a six-session course starting in fall 2016.
Author: Brian Mattmiller
Mitochondrial maps reveal new connections to poorly understood diseases
Mitochondria are the engines that drive cellular life, but these complex machines are vulnerable to a wide range of breakdowns, and hundreds of their component parts remain a functional mystery.
Plumbing the possibilities of ‘seeing around corners’
The Morgridge Institute for Research and University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers are working to optimize a camera capable of a slick optical trick: Snapping pictures around corners.
John Durant helping light science festival fireworks nationwide
Durant is director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Museum, where he began in 2005 after decades of leadership at major British science museums. This summer, Durant joined the scientific advisory board of the Morgridge Institute for Research, where he will give guidance to an outreach program that attracts more than 30,000 people annually to the Discovery Building.
Jing Fan joins Morgridge Institute metabolism theme
Can we fight cancer by targeting its metabolism, essentially starving tumors of the nutrients they need to survive? It’s one of the intriguing big-picture questions in the research field of Jing Fan, a new investigator in the Morgridge Institute for Research metabolism theme.