• UW–Madison tenure track faculty, clinical health sciences track (CHS) faculty, or research professors are eligible.
• Nominees should have (or recently have had) responsibility for mentoring and working closely with UW–Madison graduate students in an independent learning environment.
• Nominees may come from any discipline, provided they mentor graduate students in a scholarly activity.

• The Dairyland Initiative recently sponsored a dairy welfare roundtable here in Madison. The two-day event featured a SWOT analysis of the U.S. dairy industry, as well as presentations about lameness, social housing, and calves.
• A team led by Adel Talaat (Dept. of Pathobiological Sciences) was recently awarded funding by the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to pursue a project focused on avian influenza nano-vaccines in collaboration with researchers at Iowa State University. Another NIH project from the Talaat lab, focused on developing a vaccine to combat tuberculosis in humans, also received approval to move forward.
• The lab of Masatoshi Suzuki (Dept. of Comparative Biosciences) recently received an anonymous donation to support its ALS research through the UW Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center and the UW Foundation. Great news!
• Congratulations to Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program Coordinator Susan Thideman, who retired last month. And welcome to Sara Hladilek, who started in the role in January.
• A team led by Gillian McLellan (Tim and Nancy Speaker Chair in Canine Health, Dept. of Surgical Sciences) was awarded a Shaffer Research Grant by the Glaucoma Research Foundation. The funding, which is awarded to support innovative and novel projects, will support McLellan’s gene therapy study.
• The Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) has opened the application period for its TL1 Training Program. The pre- and postdoctoral awards support trainees from diverse backgrounds pursuing research in translational and clinical sciences. Predoctoral applications are due March 13, and postdoctoral applications are due April 1. More details are available on the ICTR website; questions can be directed to Program Manager Katrina Bell.

• Keith Poulsen (’00 DVM’04 PhD’12; Dept. of Medical Sciences; Director, Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory) spoke to AVMA News about a recent H5N1 “spillover event” that resulted in the disease being detected in a Wisconsin dairy herd. A spillover event occurs when the virus is transmitted by wildlife to dairy cows.
• Mechanical Loading Induces the Longitudinal Growth of Muscle Fibers via an mTORC1-Independent Mechanism, a paper by a team led by Troy Hornberger (Dept. of Comparative Biosciences), was recently accepted by Science Advances.
• Kristen Bernard (MS’92 PhD’95; Chair, Dept. of Pathobiological Sciences) spoke with Block Club Chicago about a recent canine rabies case in Chicago, outlining how a nationwide public health initiative dating back to 1947 has dramatically curbed the disease’s presence in pets.
• A team of researchers from the Dept. of Pathobiological Sciences led by Thomas Friedrich (’97 PhD’03), Yoshihiro Kawaoka, Peter Halfmann (‘01, PhD’08) recently had Pathology and viral evolutionary dynamics in a hamster model of persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection published in Communications Biology.
• Kavi Mehta (‘06; Dept. of Comparative Biosciences) and a team of researchers recently had Viruses and the host replisome: discovering oncogenic mechanisms of small DNA tumor viruses published in the Journal of Virology.
• Johanna Elfenbein (Dept. of Pathobiological Sciences) and a team of researchers recently had YeiE regulates YeiH to implement sulfite stress resistance in Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium published in the Journal of Bacteriology.