Group News

July 2016

Miranda Mecha was awarded a Graduate Fellowship form the Molecular Biophysics Training Program. Way to go, Miranda! 

April 2016

Ani Srivastava has been awarded a UW-Madison Hilldale Fellowship to carry our experimental studies on cotranslational protein folding in the Cavagnero lab. Congrats, Ani!!! Alumnus Jung Ho Lee (now postdoc at NIH with Ad Bax) …

March 2016

Collin Goebel has been awarded a Biochemistry Fellowship to pursue research on molecular chaperones in the summer 2016. Way to go, Collin! Susanna Yaeger-Weiss won three awards: the Karen M. Telander Undergraduate Research Scholarship to …

February 2016

Rayna Addabbo wins a Student Research Achievement Award (SRAA) for her poster presentation on the kinetics of protein folding upon release from the ribosome, at the 60th Biophysical Society Meeting in Los Angeles, California. Wow, very …

December 2015

Miranda Mecha joins the Cavagnero group. Miranda: we are all really excited to welcome you to our team!

November 2015

Andrew Fuchs is a recipient of the 2016 Educational Committee Travel Award to present his research on the interaction of nascent proteins with the ribosomal surface at the 2016 Biophysical Society Meeting in Los Angeles, …

October 2015

Yusuke Okuno has been invited to deliver an oral presentation on his research in Laser-enhanced NMR at the 2015 Chicago Area NMR Discussion Group Conference (CANMRDG), which will take place on November 7 at at AbbVie …

March 2015

Yusuke Okuno is awarded A Student Travel Grant to present his research in Laser-enhanced NMR Spectroscopy at the 2015 Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference in Asilomar, California.  Great job, Yusuke!  

February 2015

Rayna Adabbo wins a Student Research Achievement Award (SRAA) in Biopolymers in Vivo for her presentation on cotranslational protein folding kinetics at the 2015 Biophysical Society Meeting.  Well done, congratulations Rayna!  

January 2015

Matt Dalphin joins the Cavagnero group as a 1st year Biophysics graduate student. Welcome to our group Matt! We look forward to fabulous science with you!