Our mission is to discover, maintain, and transmit knowledge concerning basic plant biology and provide leadership in the biological sciences.
Diversity Statement
The Department of Botany at UW-Madison aspires to advance the educational and professional development of all its members, regardless of their cultural backgrounds or manners of personal identification. This department commits to make every student, staff, and faculty member feel recognized, respected, safe, and empowered.
In the News
These tomatoes are out of this world… or they will be soon
Simon Gilroy and his lab are no strangers to sending plants into space. And, at the end of January, his team will be doing it again for their sixth experiment with NASA on the International Space Station, this time with tomatoes...
Events
- September
- September 12Biology Colloquium: Erica GlasperThe interplay between early-life adversity, social behaviors, and immune function: Adaptive or maladaptive outcomes?3:30 PM, B302 Birge Hall
- September 15Slow BotanyFriends of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve field trip1:30 PM, Picnic Point entrance kiosk, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000 University Bay Drive, Madison WI 53705
- September 19Biology Colloquium: Bill BementA conserved circuit that patterns the cell cortex during cell division and cell polarization3:30 PM, B302 Birge Hall
- September 26
