Silas Miller, a student in the Cellular and Molecular Biology Graduate Program and a member of the Raman Lab, has been awarded a F31 grant from the National Institutes of Health. The prestigious grant will support Miller’s research and stipend... 

Biochemistry professor Vatsan Raman has been selected as a 2025-2026 Vilas Associate, awarded by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes “new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance.” ..

Research area Developing technologies at the intersection of biochemistry, microbiology, computation and engineering to understand the fundamental principles...

Research from the Raman Lab in the Department of Biochemistry paves the way for scientists to explore the mechanisms driving potentially dangerous mutations in cells — possibly hundreds of mutations — with a single experiment...

Vatsan Raman, Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, has earned a 2023 NSF CAREER Award. The award recognizes early-career faculty who are building a strong foundation to integrate education and research...

When I entered Assistant Professor Vatsan Raman’s office to talk about his group’s latest research study, I didn’t expect that our conversation about proteins would turn toward...

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded $2.5 million in grants to 12 institutes around the world to...
 

by David Wahlberg ​

A UW-Madison scientist’s experiment at the International Space Station, scheduled to be launched by rocket...

Host Larry Meiller

We talk about what a biorefinery would look like and learn just how microbes can convert plant matter into products we use every day.

by Max Witynski

A major goal of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center is to harness the power of microbes to create biofuels. But...

Assistant professor of biochemistry 
Vatsan Raman was recently named to a list of 44 young researchers featured in Biochemistry’s “Future of Biochemistry” special issue.

Bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics are one of the biggest problems facing public health today. About 800,000 children worldwide die before their fifth birthday from diarrheal diseases that evade treatment. The concentration...

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) and Nexus NeuroTech Ventures have awarded $100,000 in development funding to three innovative research projects aimed at transforming the diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders. The winning teams...

MADISON, Wis. - University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemists have developed a new method that could help detect harmful chemicals and toxins quickly. Approached by the U.S. Army...

Congratulations to Professor Vatsan Raman, who has been named as the first S.C. Fang Professor. The professorship, which provides $90,000 annually over five years, was established to support a faculty member in the University of... 

New research from the Raman Lab in the Department of Biochemistry decodes the evolutionary pathway of regulatory proteins. Here’s the rundown on their recent research and paper, which is published in Cell Systems:...

Vatsan Raman is "supercharging evolution" to create an army of bacteria-killing phages that can combat antibiotic-resistant microorganisms.

During a 2015 trip to Egypt, Tom Patterson suffered a gallstone...

A new way to alter the genome of bacteriophages helps produce large libraries of variants, allowing these bacteria-killing viruses to be designed to target species harmful to human health...

by Jill Sakai

A new computational tool allows custom engineering of split protein systems for studying or controlling biological function.

Split protein systems are....

by Chuck Quirmbach

A rocket scheduled to go to the International Space Station on Sunday will carry a Wisconsin...

Northrop Grumman is targeting Sunday, Feb. 9, at 5:39 p.m., for the launch of its Cygnus spacecraft on an Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s pad 0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on...

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By Meghan Chua

Twenty-seven students from the University of Wisconsin–Madison have been awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from  the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The Human Microbiome in Health and Disease

We are not alone in the little universe we call our body; rather we share it with complex communities of...

Biosensors are powerful tools in synthetic biology for engineering metabolic pathways or controlling synthetic and native genetic circuits in bacteria. Scientists have had difficulty developing a method to engineer "designer" biosensor proteinsl...

When Nate Novy joined the University of Wisconsin–Madison as a graduate student in 2021, he hoped to find his niche in the biochemical sciences and learn more about the diversity of possible careers, from academic research...

MADISON — University of Wisconsin–Madison biochemists have developed a new, efficient method that may give first responders, environmental monitoring groups, or even you, the ability to quickly detect harmful and health-relevant substances in...

Vatsan Raman, associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry, is among thirteen faculty to be honored with the H.I. Romnes Fellowships which recognize faculty with exceptional research contributions in the first...

Vatsan Raman, Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, and postdoctoral researcher Phil Huss have been awarded funding from the WARF Accelerator for their proposal, “Using...

The CALS Awards recognize faculty and staff with different awards for their accomplishments and service to the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. This year, biochemistry...

Researchers have developed a new method that reveals the molecular code governing bacteriophage-bacteria interactions. Bacteriophages (phages)...

by Brian Sandalow ​

Advances in biotechnology and medicine are typically limited by the time, cost, and effort required...

by Rachel Clark

A major goal of the Great Lakes Biofuels used in industry have shown promising signs of advancement in bioproducts—The Wisconsin Energy Institute held...

by Francis Collins

In 1953, Francis Crick famously told the surprised customers at the Eagle and Child pub in London that he and Jim Watson had discovered the secret of life. When NIH’s....

Biochemistry assistant professor Srivatsan “Vatsan” Raman has received a Director's New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The $2.2 million-grants fund high-risk...

Vatsan Raman, a CALS assistant professor of biochemistry, is one of two University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists selected to receive a 2016 Shaw Scientist Award from the Greater Milwaukee...