• Biological Sciences Colloquium: Battle of the Organisms

    Lapham Hall, N101 3209 N Maryland Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Please join us for this special colloquium event: Battle of the Organisms! Participating labs from Biological Sciences each chose a lab member to represent the organism they study. Presenters have 5-minutes to convince you that their organism is the greatest. …

  • Biological Sciences Colloquium: Dr. Kyle Leistikow

    Lapham Hall, N101 3209 N Maryland Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Dr. Kyle Leistikow, research manager at Microbial Discovery Group (MDG), will present a talk about his work entitled, "From Soil to Solution: Discovering Bacillus subtilis Peptides That Battle Biofilm-Forming Superbugs." The abstract is as follows: "Multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus auerus poses a …

  • Biological Sciences Colloquium: Dr. Mingzi Xu

    Lapham Hall, N101 3209 N Maryland Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Dr. Mingzi Xu from the University of Minnesota will present a talk about her work entitled, "The evolution and genomics of sexual signals and mating preferences." The abstract is as follows: "Sexual signals and mating preferences are key to sexual …

  • Biological Sciences Colloquium: Dr. Ethan Degner

    Lapham Hall, N101 3209 N Maryland Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Dr. Ethan Degner of Wisconsin Lutheran College will present a talk about his work entitled, "Chronicling a mosquito's sex life from intromission to oviposition." The abstract is as follows: "Each year, mosquito-borne infections kill hundreds of thousands and sicken hundreds …

  • Graduate School Open House

    Union Wisconsin Room East 2200 East 51ÁÔÆæ, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Join us at the Graduate School’s In-Person Open House event to learn more about Biological Sciences! The Graduate School will also pay the application fee for all applicants who attend the Open House (fee waiver eligibility requirements outlined here). Click …

  • Biological Sciences Colloquium: Dr. Eillen Tecle

    Lapham Hall, N101 3209 N Maryland Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Dr. Eillen Tecle, Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Medical College of Wisconsin, will present a talk about her work entitled, "Purine nucleotide salvage enzymes regulate epithelial cell resistance to infection in C. elegans." The …

  • Biological Sciences Colloquium: Dr. Chris Quinn

    Lapham Hall, N101 3209 N Maryland Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Dr. Chris Quinn of UW-Milwaukee will present a talk about his work entitled, "Harnessing human genetics to investigate the development and degeneration of axons in C. elegans." The abstract is as follows: "Genome sequencing studies have generated a list of …

  • Biological Sciences Colloquium: Claudia Rodriguez

    Lapham Hall, N101 3209 N Maryland Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Claudia Rodriguez, graduate student of Biological Sciences at UW-Milwaukee, will present a talk about her work entitled, "An alternative mode of signal transduction by the EGL-15 FGF receptor in Caenorhabditis elegans." The abstract is as follows: "How is an animal body …