Tag biotechnology

Dominique Brossard
Professor and Chair, Department of Life Sciences Communication
Expert on media, science and policy; science and social media; public understanding of science; risk communication; science and fake news

Robert Streiffer
Professor, philosophy and bioethics
Expert on ethics and policy issues arising from agricultural and medical biotechnology

Frank Rath
Program director, Engineering Professional Development
Expert in applying engineering concepts and tools in biotechnology, build-to-demand/make-to-order manufacturing strategies, risk and hazard analysis

Richard Amasino
Professor, biochemistry; member, Genome Center of Wisconsin
Expert in plant biochemistry, bioenergy, regulation of flowering, and genetically modified organisms (GMO).

Nader Behdad
McFarland-Bascom Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering; H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellow
Expert on antennas, phased array antennas, wireless devices, microwaves, microwave ablation, wireless communications, medical applications of electromagnetic fields, radio-direction finding and localization, cell phone geolocation.

Chris Brace
Associate professor: Radiology, Biomedical Engineering
Expert on interventional oncology, interactions of energy with tissue, microwave engineering, thermal tumor ablation

Xudong Wang
Grainger Institute for Engineering Professor, Materials Science and Engineering; Grainger Institute for Engineering
Expert on nanomaterial piezoelectric nanostructures, biomechanical energy harvesting, wearable and implantable medical devices, self-powered electrostimulation and electronics

John Yin
Professor, chemical & biological engineering; Cellular & Molecular Biology Program
Expert on systems biology, computational biology, quantitative virology and biochemical engineering

Andrew Bent
Professor, plant pathology; science adviser to dean of International Studies
Expert in plant molecular biology and biotechnology, especially in relation to agriculture

Jean-Michel Ané
Professor, Bacteriology and plant and agroecosystem sciences
Expert on plant-microbe symbioses, nitrogen-fixation, mycorrhizae and legume genetics

Shawn Kaeppler
Professor, plant and agroecosystem sciences
Expert in maize, corn, genetics, biofuel, epigenetics, plant breeding, plant biotechnology, transgenic plants, crops for underdeveloped countries, plant roots

Lloyd Smith
Professor, chemistry
Developer of new technologies at the interface of biology and chemistry

Richard Burgess
Professor emeritus, oncology
Expert on protein purification, regulation of gene expression, history and development of biotechnology business in Madison
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Jae-Hyuk Yu
Professor, bacteriology, genetics, Food Research Institute
Expert on fungi, molds, mycotoxins, Detoxification of aflatoxin, patulin, and ochratoxin A. Natural antimicrobials using GRAS fungi, Human hair restoration using fermented products

Peter Lalley
Emeritus professor, physiology
Expert in brain and spinal cord control of respiration; autonomic nervous system; neurotransmitters and control of respiration, effects of ageing on respiratory nervous system.


Garret Suen
Assistant professor, bacteriology
Expert in genomics, next-generation sequencing, bioinformatics, functional genomics, metagenomics, microbiology, rumen microbiology, systems biology, biofuels, microbial ecology, evolutionary ecology

Chris Hittinger
Assistant professor, genetics
Expert on the evolution of yeast carbon metabolism, evolutionary genomics/genetics, molecular evolution, phylogenetics, population genetics, evolutionary systems biology

Edmund Elder
Director, Lachman Institute for Pharmaceutical Development / Director, Zeeh Pharmaceutical Experiment Station
Expert in drug delivery, formulation development, manufacturing and patents; FDA regulations, generic drugs, nanotechnology; pharmaceutical analysis

Thomas Jeffries
USDA professor, microbiology
Expert on bioconversion, biorefining, advanced cellulosic biofuels, unconventional yeasts, yeast physiology, metabolic engineering and bioprocess engineering