A multi-disciplinary approach to fighting human disease and viruses, work rooted in a private research institute on the UW-Madison campus, will be on display at the Sept. 24 Tech Council Innovation Network luncheon in Madison.
Researchers from the Morgridge Institute for Research, a private biomedical research body housed within the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, will talk about their work during a presentation at the Sheraton Hotel on Madison’s John Nolen Drive.
Registration and networking begin at 11:30 a.m., lunch at noon and the presentation at 12:30 p.m. The cost is $10 for students and returning veterans, $25 for individual members, $35 for non-members and included for Tech Council corporate members.
Morgridge Institute for Research panelists are Danielle Desa, a post-doctoral fellow researching optical engineering to study new ways to grow heart cells, and Peter Ducos, a biophysics doctoral student who collaborates helps researchers across campus with complex and varied biological questions, including work on cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). That’s a technique used to study the structure of biomolecules at molecular resolution. It allows scientists to make detailed 3D images of DNA, RNA, proteins, viruses, cells and the tiny molecular machines within the cell, revealing how they change shape and interact in complex ways.
Brad Schwartz, director of MIR, will overview the institute’s work and its internal “Rising Stars” program. The Morgridge Institute for Research was born of Wisconsin’s BioStar initiative, which involved state investment, a major contribution from UW-Madison alumni John and Tashia Morgridge, and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
“This is part of the larger ‘Rising Sparks’ program within the Morgridge Institute, which is a collaborative hub for the work of 500 or so UW-Madison scientists who want to better understand biomedical imaging, virology and metabolism, to cite some examples,” said Tom Still, president of the Wisconsin Technology Council.
This luncheon is sponsored by the Dane County Regional Airport. The
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