December 2020

Meranda has won 2nd place in the 2021 Chemistry Department Holiday Baking Context. Way to go, Meranda, on this delicious achievement!   Valeria was selected to give an oral presentation at the 2021 Midwest Chaperone and Stress …

November 2020

First-year graduate students Shaneen-Britton-Acevedo and Clayton Mickles join the Cavagnero group. Welcome to our team, we are delighted to have you on board!!!  Meranda and Rachel’s abstracts have been selected for oral presentations of their research  on …

October 2020

Matt and Andrew accepted fantastic job offers at CATALENT (R&D scientist, catalent.com) and the University of Milwaukee (postdoc with Prof. Erica Young), respectively. Congratulations!

July 2020

Rayna and coworkers published a cover article in the Jounal of Physical Chemistry B showing that the bacterial ribosome enhances nascent-protein solubility but it is not sufficient to guarantee full structural accuracy of de-novo synthesized (and …

May 2020

Chelsea and Wanting are the recipients of the prestigious UW-Madison Biochemistry Summer Research Awards!!! We are so proud of you, girls!! We are excited to announce that Kevin has received a Chemistry Summer Research Scholarship and the …

March 2020

I am excited to announce that Hanming was awarded the 2020 Paul J. Bender Memorial Award for his research on laser-assisted NMR and Miranda was awarded the 2020 Robert C. Doban Mentorship Award for mentoring …

February 2020

Meranda  has been chosen to receive a Research Poster Presentation Award at the Biophysical Society (BPS) Annual Meeting in February 2020 in San Diego, CA. Congratulations on receiving this special honor, Meranda!!!