Kenneth B. Raper Symposium

40th Annual Kenneth B. Raper Symposium

Showcasing Microbiology in Wisconsin

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Thank you for attending!

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2026 Nancy Gouker Best Graduate Student Poster:

Sely Peña-Rivera
An Integrase-Based Tool for Sequential Delivery of DNA Cargoes into Alphaproteobacterial Genomes

Kira Ruiz-Houston
Listeria monocytogenes Requires Phosphate Acetyltransferase (Pta) to Facilitate Virulence ex vivo and in vivo

Kenneth B Raper at a microscope
Kenneth Raper working in the laboratory in 1949. Professor Raper had dual appointments in bacteriology and botany. During World War II, he conducted research at a USDA lab in Peoria, Illinois, and identified a better strain of penicillin-producing mold. He later joined the faculty at UW–Madison. UW-Madison Archives