Category: Bioenergy and Bioproducts
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Posted on May 22, 2017
WN@tL this week: Randy Jackson on the bioenergy sector – May 24
Agronomy professor Randy Jackson will be the featured speaker at Wednesday Nite @ the Lab this week. His talk, titled “What are the bottlenecks of bioenergy?” will address some […]
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Tom Brock’s new book gives personal account of pioneering Yellowstone research
Above photo: In 2013, Tom Brock walks in 140 acres of restored prairie, oak savannah and woodlands that he and his wife established as the […]
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Posted on May 15, 2017
Termite gut holds a secret to breaking down plant biomass
Above photo: Hongjie Li, a UW-Madison postdoctoral researcher, was the first to observe close-up the symbiotic system that unites termites with the fungus Termitomyces. Photo: […]
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Posted on April 24, 2017
Bacterial supermachine reveals streamlined protein assembly line
There are many processes that take place in cells that are essential for life. Two of these, transcription and translation, allow the genetic information stored […]
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Posted on April 17, 2017
Spinoff that puts phosphorus in its place signs key contract
In a bit of high-tech judo, a UW–Madison spinoff has started selling a technology to transform phosphorus at wastewater treatment plants from a major headache […]
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Posted on March 21, 2017
Landick named a Scientific Director at Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center
Bob Landick, a professor of biochemistry, has been named a Scientific Director at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center. The GLBRC is a collaboration with […]
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Posted on February 27, 2017
Peter Krsko, bioinspired artist hosted by BSE, to give public talk March 1
The Department of Biological Systems Engineering may sound like an unusual host for a visiting artist, but Peter Krsko, the university’s Spring 2017 Interdisciplinary Artist […]
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Posted on February 9, 2017
Registration for 38th Steenbock Symposum is now open
The Department of Biochemistry and the Department of Biomolecular Chemistry are pleased to invite you to register for the 38th Steenbock Symposium on June 22-June […]
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Posted on February 3, 2017
Monsanto donates Middleton plant research facility to UW-Madison
A $10 million commercial biotech plant laboratory in Middleton, Wisconsin, first opened in 1982 with the help of University of Wisconsin–Madison scientists, will soon become […]
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Posted on January 23, 2017
Matt Ruark receives Vilas Faculty Early Career Investigator Award
Matt Ruark, an associate professor in the Department of Soil Science, was recently selected to receive a Vilas Faculty Early Career Investigator Award. The award provides $100,000 in […]