October 2019
WN@tL: Soil – A Precious Resource under Threat
Speaker: Jo Handelsman Speaker Bio: Dr. Jo Handelsman is the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Vilas Research Professor, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. She previously served…
Find out more »WN@tL: Fighting Antibiotic Resistance with Broken Scissors
Speaker: Jason Peters Speaker Bio: Dr. Jason M. Peters is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he uses CRISPR tools to investigate the genetics of pathogenic bacteria that are associated with antibiotic resistance…
Find out more »WN@tL: “Exploring the Deep: Investigations of three new Great Lakes shipwrecks with ROVs”
Speaker: Caitlin Zant Speaker Bio: Caitlin Zant joined the Wisconsin Historical Society as a Maritime Archaeologist 4.5 years ago, after attending the Maritime Studies Program at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina for graduate school.…
Find out more »November 2019
WN@tL: Drivers of Megadiversity in the Orchids, the Largest Family of Flowering Plants
Speaker: Thomas Givnish Speaker Bio: Thomas J. Givnish is a plant evolutionary ecologist and holds the Henry Allan Gleason Chair in Botany at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1976,…
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