Professor Hiroshi Maeda and Michigan State University researcher Berkley Walker were awarded a $1.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study how plants compensate when they “overspend” carbon in the process of photosynthesis.
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Award funds Muir lab work to identify genetic and developmental changes during adaptive radiation
Chris Muir, an assistant professor in the Department of Botany, is part of a team that received a three-year $1.3 million award ($352,9997 to UW-Madison) from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The project, Evolutionary and functional …
Herbarium Collections Manager Mark Allen Wetter retires after 39 years of service
By Mary Ann Feist On February 1, 2024, Mark Wetter retired from the Wisconsin State Herbarium (WIS) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, after 39 years of service. The Botany Department held a gathering with …
175th Anniversary edition of the Science Expeditions!
This year the UW campus held its Science Expeditions Open House in conjunction with the UW’s 175th Community Open House for a truly special event. There were a host of activities that ranged from visiting …
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…
Botany professor first to receive new Rebecca Blank Professorship
Kate McCulloh has been awarded the inaugural appointment for the newly established Rebecca Blank Professorship.
Pringle lab probes death cap mushroom’s toxin genes
A collaborative paper published by the Pringle and Keller labs, led by newly independent scientist Mickey Drott, establishes each death cap mushroom as having its own unique suite of toxin genes.
Student profile: Ashley Cheung
Ashley Cheung is a Conservation Biology and Community & Environmental Sociology major graduating in spring 2024. She is also Campaign Coordinator for ASM Sustainability, a Posse Scholar and member of the BIPOC Coalition. This past …
Sowing interest in Botany at Science Expeditions
The Gilroy, Maeda, and Spalding labs participated in the 2023 campus-wide Science Expeditions outreach event on April 16. They joined five other plant cell and molecular biology labs from different UW departments to create a …
Department launches mentor appreciation week
The Botany and Conservation Biology Newsletter interviews Mark Connolly, Curriculum & Graduate Program Coordinator, about the department’s mentor appreciation initiative: Who are you? For a little more than a year now, I’ve been the Curriculum …