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, radio wave propagation, microwaves, microwave ablation, wireless communications, 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; director, Genome Center of Wisconsin
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

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

Xinyu Zhao
Professor, neuroscience
Regulation of stem cells and development in brain health and diseases, including autism and fragile X syndrome.

Kris Saha
Associate professor, biomedical engineering; Retina Research Foundation Kathryn and Latimer Murfee Chair; WID
Expert on human biotechnologies, gene editing, CRISPR, stem cell biology, tissue engineering, science policy, human disease modeling and bioethics

Simon Gilroy
Professor, Botany
Expert on plant responses to stressful environments, plants and spaceflight, plant cell biology

Adel Talaat
Professor of Microbiology; Department of Pathobiological Sciences
Infectious diseases expert with focus on tuberculosis in humans, bovine tuberculosis and Johne's disease in cattle. Expert in food animal vaccines.

Cody Wenthur
Assistant Professor, Divisions of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Expert on addiction, abused drugs, opioids, naloxone, psychoactive substances, psilocybin, psychedelics, stress and reward learning, vaccine design, drug development, glutamate

Christian Franck
Grainger Institute for Engineering Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Expert on mechanics of materials, biological cells and tissues, traumatic brain injury, concussions
Robert Kirchdoerfer
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry, Institute for Molecular Virology, Laboratory of Cell and Molecular Biology
Expert on coronavirus entry into host cells and replication of viral RNA genomes. Structural biology and molecular aspects of protein machines.

Mostafa Zamanian
Associate Professor, Pathobiological Sciences
Expert on parasitic diseases of humans and animals

Brian Pfleger
Jay and Cynthia Ihlenfeld Professor
Expert on synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, applied microbiology.


Elizabeth Wright
Professor, Biochemistry
Expert on the development and use of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) as applied to viruses, bacteria, and human cells.

Lauren Schmitz
Assistant Professor, La Follette School of Public Affairs
Expert on the interplay between social experiences, genetics, and disparities in health and aging; early life adversity and aging; ethical use of genetic data

Quanyin Hu
Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences Department; Department of Material Sciences & Engineering
Interested in developing new cell therapy approaches and new drug delivery systems for better disease treatments.